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Haddington, town (1991 pop. 8,842), East Lothian, SE Scotland. It has a large corn exchange. Farm machinery and textiles are manufactured, flour is milled, and grain is malted in the town. Hides are also traded. Haddington was burned by raiding English armies in 1216, 1244, and 1355. Giffordgate, a suburb, was the birthplace of the Protestant reformer John Knox Knox, John, 1514?–1572, Scottish religious reformer, founder of Scottish Presbyterianism .
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85) East Lothian Justices of the Peace (a layer of local government introduced into Scotland in 1609) complained in the early 1770s that putting lunatics in Haddington tolbooth was "turning the county gaol into a madhouse. The Treaty of Haddington, signed in 1548, not only arranged the marriage of Mary Stewart and the dauphin but also made Scotland a "protectorate" of France. In the town of Haddington, Indiana, many folks are living tragic or disappointing lives. |
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