Campbeltown, "Royal Burgh" or "Former Royal Burgh" ?

[muppetanimal]

How to settle a pub argument ...... put it on the Forum. My contention is that he wee toon IS NOT a Royal Burgh, some local dinosaurs with zero legal knowledge contend that it is. So what follows is an extract from the Wikipedia entry on the subject ----

Royal burghs were abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. Article XXI of the Act of Union 1707, which states "That the Rights and Privileges of the Royal Boroughs in Scotland as they now are Do Remain entire after the Union and notwithstanding thereof", has been deemed by Her Majesty's Government to be abrogated by the 1973 Act. The towns are now sometimes referred to officially as "former royal burghs", for instance by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland.

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Some local property sales particulars describe Campbeltown as being a Royal Burgh. Given the source of these sales particulars one would have imagined that this "error" should not have occurred.

[Shona]

The only one created by King Billy!