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Burgh Burgh A burgh was an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burgh status was broadly analogous to borough status, found in the rest of the United Kingdom. Following local government reorganization in 1975 the title of "royal burgh" remains in use in many towns, but now has little more than ceremonial value. The first burgh was Berwick. By 1130, David I (r. 1124–53) had established other burghs including Edinburgh, Stirling, Dunfermline, Haddington,
Hospitals in medieval Scotland BURGH RECORDS SOCIETY. and MARWICK, J. D., Charters and documents relating to the Collegiate Church and Hospital of the Holy Trinity and the Trinity Hospital, Edinburgh. A.D. 1460-1661 (Edinburgh: Scottish Burgh Records Society, 1871). SIMPSON, J.Y., On leprosy and leper hospitals in Scotland and England. WALCOTT, MACKENZIE EDWARD CHARLES, 'Scoti-Monasticon. The ancient Church of Scotland: a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland ... With ... engravings, ground plans, and a map', (London, 1874). Hospitals in medieval Scotland From c. 1144 to about 1650 many hospitals, bedehouses and "Maisons Dieu" were built in Scotland. There