Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Guide to the Abbey of Aberbrothock

From these and various other documents, it is evident that Arbroath was first a burgh of barony, then a burgh regality, and latterly a royal or parliamentary burgh. The regality burgh ceased to exist in 1748, by virtue of the Act of Parliament which abolished here.

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