Baptie, Diane 2000 'Project Pont Newsletter Issue 7, June 2000,
National Library of Scotland

Burleigh, J. H. S .  1983 'A Church History of Scotland'

Nisbet, Alexander 
1772 'A System of Heraldry'


Stone, Jeffrey ' Illustrated Maps of Scotland from Blaeu's Atlus Novus of the 17th century'

Stone, Jeffrey 'The Pont Manuscript Maps of Scotland, sixteenth cenutury origins of a Blaeu atlas'

Project Pont Newsletters, National Library of Scotland

Warwick, John Rev. 'History of Old Cumnock'

MAPS

Blaeu, Johan 1645 Atlus Novus, (1645)

Blaeu,  Willem and Blaeu , Johan  1635 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum '(1635)

Moll, Hermann 1725 'The south part of the Shire of Air'

Pont, Timothy ca. 1590-1600 'Manuscript 35, Nithsdale ; part of Teviotdale'

Speed, John 1630 'The Kingdome of Scotland'

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland for their kind
permission to reproduce images from Pont's manuscript 'Nithsdale; part of Teviotdale ' .

My thanks also to the Staff of the Map Department of the National Library of Scotland for
their assistance in providing the images and for their encouragement.

I would also like to thank Dr. Jeffrey Stone ( ' a true Pont champion' ) for his kind permission to
reproduce extracts of text from his wonderful works on Pont's manuscripts


LINKS


National Library of Scotland


National Library of Scotland - Map Collection


National Library of Scotland - Pont Maps, Pont 35 'Nithsdale'


National Library of Scotland -Blaeu Atlas, 'Coila Provincia'


Royal Scottish Geographical Society



 

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History of the parish of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

© Robert Guthrie

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