Other sources of information on burghs are: Scottish parliament records (PA), privy council records (PC), exchequer records (E) and private papers (GD).
A small series of miscellaneous material relating to burghs is in NRS reference RH9/11. For information on new towns built after the war of 1939-45, look at the records of the Scottish Office Industry Department (NRS reference SEP).
Further reading
- Cecil J Sinclair, 'Tracing your Scottish local history' (Stationery Office, 1994), chapter 7.
'Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia: The laws of Scotland', (Stair Society), volume 14 Local Government.
- M Lynch, ed., 'The Early Modern Town in Scotland', (London, 1987)
- E Ewan, 'Town life in fourteenth century Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1990)
- G S Pryde, 'The burghs of Scotland' (Oxford University Press, 1965) lists royal burghs and burghs of barony and regality with a brief history including the charters of their erection from the Register of the Great Seal.
- Craig Mair, 'Mercat Cross and Tolbooth' (Edinburgh, 1988)
- W M Mackenzie, 'The Scottish burghs' (1949) Detailed surveys of Scottish towns are being undertaken by the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Scottish Urban History in the Department of Scottish History. Reports on Aberdeen, Coupar Angus, Cumnock, Melrose, Musselburgh and Dalkeith have already been published by Historic Scotland.
- The Burgh Record Society has published extensively from the records of the burghs of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lanark, Paisley, Peebles and Stirling.
