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Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark And Ill : n IS ililil : : :;! ! ' ifpl :. : • •;,:: ..-,'. V BAM R-OCHMT V U D>§§ V DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHERIFFDOMS OF LANARK AND RENFREW, COMPILED ABOUT M.DCC.X. BY WILLIAM HAMILTON OF WISHAW. WITH ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES AND APPENDICES. PRINTED AT GLASGOW, M.DCCC. XXXI. ) At a Meeting of the Council of the Maitland Club, held at Glasgow, May 8th, 182S, Resolved, That the Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew, by William Hamilton of Wishaw, be printed for the Mem- bers of the Club,—the first from a Manuscript in the Topographical Collections in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, the other from a Manuscript in the possession of Sir William Hamilton of Fingalton and Preston, Baronet; and that the printing be superintended by John Dillon, and John Fullarton, Esqs. John Wylie, Secretary. THE MAITLAND CLUB M.DCCC.XXXI. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF GLASGOW, [P R E S I D EN T.] H. R. H. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. ROBERT ADAM, ESQ. ROBERT AIRD, ESQ. 5 JOHN BAIN, ESQ. JOSEPH BAIN, ESQ. ROBERT BELL, ESQ. THE MARQUIS OF BUTE. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, ESQ. 10 LORD JOHN CAMPBELL. MAITLAND CLUB. JOHN D. CARRICK, ESQ. HENRY COCKBURN, ESQ. JAMES DENNISTOUN, ESQ. JAMES DOBIE, ESQ. li RICHARD DUNCAN, ESQ. TREASUREF JAMES DUNLOP, ESQ. JAMES EWING, ESQ. KIRKMAN FINLAY, ESQ. REV. WILLIAM FLEMING, D.D. •20 WILLIAM M. FLEMING, ESQ. JOHN FULLARTON, ESQ. JAMES HILL, ESQ. LAURENCE HILL, ESQ. JOHN KERR, ESQ. [V1CE-PRESIDEN I 25 R. A. KIDSTON, ESQ. G. R. KINLOCH, ESQ. JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, ESQ. JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ. THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ. 30 J. H. MAXWELL, ESQ. WILLIAM MEIKLEHAM, ESQ. MAITLAND CLUB. W. H. MILLER, ESQ. WILLIAM MOTHERWELL, ESQ. WILLIAM MURE, ESQ. 35 ALEXANDER M'DONALD, ESQ. THE VERY REV. PRINCIPAL MACFARLAN, D.D. WILLIAM MACDOWAL, ESQ. ANDREW M'GEORGE, ESQ. JOHN W. MACKENZIE, ESQ. 40 ALEXANDER M-GRIGOR, ESQ. DONALD MACINTYRE, ESQ. ALEXANDER M'NIELL, ESQ. ALEXANDER OSWALD, ESQ. EDWARD PIPER, ESQ. 45 JOHN M. PAGAN, M.D. ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ. J. C. PORTERFIELD, ESQ. HAMILTON PYPER, ESQ. P. A. RAMSAY, ESQ. 50 WILLIAM ROBERTSON, ESQ. SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. JAMES SMITH, ESQ. MAITLAND CLUB. JOHN SMITH, ESQ. JOHN SMITH, Ygst. ESQ. 55 WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ. GEORGE SMYTHE, ESQ. DUNCAN STEWART, ESQ. JOHN STRANG, ESQ. THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ. 60 PATRICK ERASER TYTLER, ESQ. SIR PATRICK WALKER, KNT. WILSON D. WILSON, ESQ. JOHN WYLIE, ESQ. [SECRETARY.] PREFACE. THE following Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew were compiled about the beginning of last century, and are now first printed, from two separate manuscripts. The first is contained in Sir James Balfour's Collections concerning the several Shires of Scotland, into which it appears to have been transcribed by Sir Robert Sibbald ; and who having presented the volume to the historian of the Sufferings of the Scottish Church, it now forms part (M. 6. 15.) of the Wodrow Col- lections in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. The Description of Renfrewshire (which appears never to have been fully completed by the author) is also transcribed into the same volume, but a more perfect copy having been politely communicated to the Club by Sir William Hamilton, Baronet, it was adopted in preference to Sibbald's transcript. This manuscript, which came into the possession of Sir William Hamilton at the sale of the library of the late Dr Boog, one of the Ministers of Paisley, has been ascertained to be in the author's handwriting, and has recently been presented to his descendant and representative, the Lord Belhaven and Stenton. Though affording, like many similar productions of the period, but a very scanty supply of historical research or incident, these accounts x PREFACE. nevertheless appear to be of considerable value from the many contem- porary particulars they contain, as well relative to the state of property as to the genealogy of the proprietors in the important and populous districts to which they refer ; and to whom, as well as to the local his- torian and antiquary, they may therefore prove an acceptable and useful acquisition. To the original works are now subjoined copious notatory additions and illustrations ; also two separate Appendices, consisting of original papers and authentic documents relating to the history of these Shires. The subsequent notices regarding Barochan Cross, and other ancient monuments in the neighbourhood of Paisley, have been contributed by William Motherwell, Esq. a member of the Maitland Club ; and to whom the reader is particularly obliged for the pains he has taken with these romantic tales, though it may still be reasonably enough doubted whether they owe not more to the fertile pen of the writer than to the faithfulness of traditionary record so strenuously urged. Indices of the whole names of persons and places occurring in the volume, whether in the original, the notes, or the appendices, are also subjoined ; an ad- dition which seems indispensable in a work of this nature. As will be perceived, by far the most material part of the first of these additions has been derived from the Records of the Commissariot of Glasgow—a source at once authentic, copious, and often curious ; and to facilitate the inquiries of those who may feel more immediately in- terested in these extracts, exact reference to the originals, which have lately been transferred to the General Register House, has been care- fully noted. A fragment of these Records as early as 1547— 1555 has been preserved, and from the year 1600 they are nearly though not wholly entire. But the selections now made come only to the year 1662. The more ancient Records and muniments belonging to the See of Glasgow, it is well known, were carried to France on the eve of the PREFACE. xi Reformation by Archbishop Beaton the incumbent prelate. They were afterwards deposited in the Scottish College at Paris, and were still pre- served there at the period of the Revolution in 1789.* But this Institu- tion, though at first exempted from secularization, was afterwards dis- solved, and what became of the Scottish records in its possession seems not to be known. It is not improbable that part at least of these treasures exist in some literary or other public institution may yet of France ; and if so, surely an effort should be made for their restoration to that country to whose history they relate, and to which they must be of the highest importance. Perhaps the most valuable, as it is certainly the most interesting and curious, of the different Descriptions given in Appendix I., is that, by Principal Dunlop, of the shire of Renfrew; particularly from the details which it contains of the fisheries in the Clyde, and from the use made of it by Mr Crawfurd in his accurate and valuable history of that Shire ; —whilst the ample collection of original and authentic documents comprised in Appendix II. contributes extensively to the early history of both Shires. The greater part of this collection has been obtained from the Glasgow Chartulary. The Scottish College, in the year 1748, presented to the Library of the University of Glasgow, two MS. vo- lumes, containing a faithful transcript of the Chartulary of Glasgow, in their possession. These volumes also contain copies of deeds then re- maining in the Scottish College, but not included in the Chartulary. Of these additional deeds, advantage has been taken in this publication, it being now exceedingly uncertain where the originals are to be found, or even if they exist at all. Amongst a variety of curious do- cuments, many interesting and valuable deeds from the time of Malcolm * M'Kenzie has given an account of these Records in his Lives, vol. iii. p. 464. which he says he had transmitted to him from Paris. xii PREFACE. III. down to the period of the Reformation will be found ; and besides these, extracts are given from the Books of Parliament, and of Council, and the Register of the Great Seal, lately published under authority. William Hamilton of Wishaw, the author of these Descriptions, de- rived his descent from the Ducal house of Hamilton, his father William Hamilton of Wishaw being a younger son of John Hamilton of Udston, an early branch of that noble family. He had probably the advan- tages of a juridical education, and appears to have been an accurate, industrious, and, considering the difficulties then attending the subject, a not unsuccessful inquirer into Scottish history and antiquities, particularly as regarded his own neighbourhood. In the present works, perhaps the most material which have been preserved of his writings, his au- thorities generally appear to have been derived from authentic sources, and his statements have subsequently been referred to by several distin- guished Scottish historians. That he was highly esteemed amongst his contemporaries we have the authority of Crawfurd, the most eminent genealogist of his time, who characterizes Mr Hamilton of Wishaw as " an Antiquary of no little fame," and particularly acknowledges his obligations to him. # It would certainly have been very gratifying to those now intrusted with the printing of this volume to have been able to have added something like a connected account of Mr Hamilton's literary and antiquarian pursuits, could the requisite materials have been obtained for that purpose. These, there is reason to suppose, may still exist ; and it is to be hoped may yet be made available to the public. The following interesting notice, relative to our author and the import- ant archiepiscopal relics of Glasgow before alluded to may however be here subjoined. It is contained in a letter, now in the possession of James Maidment, Esq., a member of the Maitland Club, dated London, June 23, 1719, from Mr James Oliphant, the translator of Buchanan, * Crawfurd s Peerage, voc.
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