When was whisky first made

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A boll was an old Scottish measure of not more than six bushels. One bushel is equivalent to The earliest reference to a distillery in the Acts of the Scottish Parliament appears to be in , when mention is made of the famous Ferintosh distillery owned by Duncan Forbes of Culloden. There is also a reference to distilling in a private house in the parish of Gamrie in Banffshire in An unpublished letter of February , written by Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy to the Earl of Mar, reported that certain officers sent to Glenorchy by the King had been given the best entertainment that the season and the country allowed.

Another writer affirms that aquavitae occasionally formed part of the rent paid for Highland farms, at any rate in Perthshire, but no actual date is given for this practice.