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Auchinleck

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Auchinleck

Coalmining town in East Ayrshire unitary authority, Scotland, 22 km/14 mi east of Ayr; population (2001) 3,500. Auchinleck House, situated within the town, is the former family seat of James Boswell, the Scottish biographer and diarist.



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On the footing of unreserved communication which the Author has established with the reader, he may here add the trifling circumstance, that a roll of Norman warriors, occurring in the Auchinleck Manuscript, gave him the formidable name of Front-de-B
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
Boswell was a Scotch gentleman, born in 1740, the son of a judge who was also laird of the estate of Auchinleck in Ayrshire, near the English border.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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