Hugh Allan, weaver and poet manuscripts Two manuscripts believed to be in the hand of Hugh Allan, an early 19th-century North-East Scotland weaver poet. The first is a manuscript concerning the Rev John Skinner, (1721 - 1807) episcopal minister at Longside in Banff for 65 years, and father of Bishop John Skinner of Aberdeen. The second contains a transcript of 'Peter Barnet' a poetic parody of Robert Southey, composed by the Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg, as well as an unattributed ballad, 'The Kirk O'Lora's Testment' [sic]. c 1807-1829