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Huntly. 247
property to benefit the miller's stock. Perhaps
landlords had some notion of this when they ex-
acted from every mill a fat pig yearly. Careless-
ness and dishonesty did not thrive however in
consequence of monopoly, for in this parish alone
there were four mills, one at Artloch, one at
Castletown, a third called Nethermill, now Mill
of Huntly, and a fourth called Mill of Haiche,
wherever it may have been.
POLL-BOOK NOTES.
According to the Poll-Book, in 1696 the total
population of the parish of Huntly (Dunbennan
and Kinnoir), including the Rawes, was 1528,
against 4388 in 1881. The population of the
Rawes was 189, and the population of the town
of Huntly at last census was 3519.* Dunbennan,
in 1696, had a population of 798, against 450 at
present, and Kinnoir had 541 against 419. The
landward part of the united parishes in 1696 was
1339 in population, against 869 at present. The
cottar population of Dunbennan was chiefly
grouped around Robieston, Gibston, Westertown,
and Artloch. On Gibston there was only one
principal tacksman, yet there was a population
of 116, there being on the place 20 cottar families.
* These notes on the population of Huntly refer to the
census of 1881. The census of this year (1891) gives the popu-
ation of the parish as 4581, and of the town, 3758.