On 2 Oct 2008, Gibbons, John wrote: > It also stretched higher up the social scale than some people like to > think. The picture (of Dixon himself?) in the Dixon MS is of a > gentleman in a rather snazzy coat.
William Dixon was a churchwarden of his (admittedly very rural) parish. One of his many sons became Vicar of Aldermaston for 40 years (something impossible without establishment patronage at that time). He loaned money to the Shaftoe family. Percival was a freeman of Newcastle (made in 1696) He bought Fenwick Tower when Fenwick himself was dispossesed. Another of the sons moved away to Glasgow and became an ironmaster (google Willam Dixon, coalowner, Glasgow) which is possibly how the MS reached Perth. In haste Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
