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royal and burgh
King William gave the Abbey independence from its mother church and endowed it generously, including income from 24 parishes, land in every royal burgh and more.
* Kirkcaldy, a town and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland
* Aberdeen becomes a royal burgh.
* Burgh of Auchterarder ( formed 1894: reinstated as a royal burgh in 1951 )
* Elgin, Moray, a former royal burgh and parliamentary burgh in Moray, Scotland, and from which all subsequent uses ultimately derive
One of the principal royal strongholds of the Kingdom of Scotland, Stirling was created a Royal burgh by King David I in 1130, which it remained until 1975, when the county of Stirlingshire was absorbed into Central Region.
The town was chartered as a royal burgh by King David in the 12th century, with charters later reaffirmed by later monarchs ( the town then referred to as Strivelyn ).
* Kyle in the centre, which included the royal burgh of Ayr, occupied the central district between the Irwine on the north, and the Doon on the south and south-west, an area that is partly mountainous.
* Cunninghame in the north which included the royal burgh of Irvine was that part of the county which lay north of the Irvine water, and was in an area that is generally level and fertile.
Cambridge became a city in 1951, again for " exceptional " reasons, as the only ancient seat of learning in the kingdom not a city or royal burgh and to coincide with the 750th anniversary of the borough's first charter of incorporation.
The nearest equivalent in pre-Union Scotland was the royal burgh.
In 1856, the burgh of Dunfermline resolved to use the title of city in all official documents in the future, based on long usage and its former status as a royal capital.
Arbroath or Aberbrothock ( ) is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has a population of 22, 785.
In 1486, King James III of Scotland elevated Kirkwall to the status of a royal burgh ; modern roadsigns still indicate " The City and Royal Burgh of Kirkwall ".
Dumfries ( ; possibly from ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland.
* Newburgh, Fife, a former royal burgh
Wigtown (, ) is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire in the Machars of Galloway in the south west of Scotland.
Wigtown was made a royal burgh in 1469 although a settlement here existed long before this.
The royal burgh was granted to Sir Malcom Fleming by David II in 1341.
In 1372 Wigtown passed to the Earls of Douglas, upon the sale of the Earldom to Archibald the Grim, but was restored to its former tenure as a royal burgh as a result of the forfeiture of the Douglases in 1455.
Its status was formally recognised be a royal charter in 1457 and from then the burgh was firmly fixed by a feud-charter at the old figure of £ 20 per annum.
Sanquhar was legally recognized by the crown as early as the 15th century and was made a royal burgh in 1598.
Stranraer became a burgh of barony in 1596 and a royal burgh in 1617.

royal and merged
In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony.
Their territory could expand by royal intermarriage or merge with another state when the dynasty merged.
Already documented earlier, were villages later merged into Bayreuth: Seulbitz ( in 1035 as the royal Salian estate of Silewize in a document by Emperor Conrad II ) and St. Johannis ( possibly 1149 as Altentrebgast ).
Received royal charter for the Island as a colony in 1849, and merged with the colony of British Columbia in 1866.
The remaining university and college were merged by Act of Parliament, 24 June 1904 ( the Victoria University of Manchester was established by royal charter 15 July 1903 ).
In 1691, the two colonies merged to become the royal Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Many pyramid-cult cities used a common orientation: a north-south axis from the royal palace and an east-west axis from the temple meeting at a central plaza where King and God merged and crossed.
The company's operations merged with those of the Gambia Merchants ' Company into the new Royal African Company, with a royal charter to set up forts, factories, troops and to exercise martial law in West Africa, in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and slaves ; Rupert was the third named member of the company's executive committee.
In 1907, the royal museum was merged with the Norsk Folkemuseum, which now manages the stave church, still nominally belonging to the reigning monarch.
* Gottorp ducal share in Holstein and Schleswig, partitioned from ducal Holstein in 1544, acquired half of Haderslev share in 1580 ( thus thereafter simply called ducal share ), merged into the royal share in 1773 with its ruler receiving in return the prior Danish-held County of Oldenburg.
The County of Holstein-Pinneberg, which had remained a separately ruled territory in Holstein until its line was extinct in 1640, was merged into the then royal share of the Duchy of Holstein.
In 1640 the Princes of Schauenburg were extinct in the male line and the County of Holstein-Pinneberg was merged into the royal share of the Duchy of Holstein.
The French view that Brittany had merged into France did not enjoy universal support, as many Bretons would have liked a return to greater traditional autonomy and other European royal houses would have liked to see France weaken her own borders.
The royal burgh merged into Kirkcaldy District, which was one of three districts within the Fife region.
When a royal charter was issued to Connecticut in 1662, New Haven's period as a separate colony ended and its towns were merged into the government of Connecticut Colony in 1665.
Although the dukedom of Lancaster merged into the Crown in 1399, it is to this day held separate from other royal lands, and managed by the Duchy of Lancaster.
Toron was later merged with the royal domain of Tyre.
In the treaty, she had to renounce her claims not only to the crown of France but also to her grandmother's estates in Brie and Champagne ( which were merged in the French royal domain ).
15 years later, the Armoury was merged with the Fiscal Yard ( the oldest depository of the royal treasures ), Stables Treasury ( in charge of storing harnesses and carriages ) and the Master Chamber ( in charge of sewing clothes and bedclothes for the tsars ).
Toron was later merged with the royal domain of Tyre, which went to a branch of Antioch, then their heirs from Montfort.
It collapsed in 1667 during the war with the Netherlands – the very war it started by having company Admiral Robert Holmes attack the Dutch African trade posts in 1664 – and re-emerged in 1672, having been merged with those of the Gambia Merchants ' Company into the new Royal African Company, with a royal charter to set up forts, factories, troops and to exercise martial law in West Africa, in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and slaves.
As a result of dynastic marriages, the descendants of the Armenian royal house of Lusignan ( Lusinian ), once ruling over Cilicia and Cyprus, merged with the representatives of the west European royal dynasty of Savoy reigning in parts of Italy.
Toron was later merged with the royal domain of Tyre which went to a branch of Antioch, then their heirs from Montfort.

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