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the county of Fife, on the sea-cost, there stands a little town, inhabited by few but fishers, called Buckey harbour,

because of sea buckies and shells to be found so plenty on the rocks about that place. There is little mention made of this town by historians, to know its original extraction and antiquities, but in their own Burges-ticket, which was partly truth, but more of it by way of lampoon. This Ticket was dated the