!>*"•<* ' '?iOO^ iU&er Collegtt Jlosrre Bomtne REGISTRUM ECCLESIE B. V. MARIE ET S. ANNE INFRA MUROS CIVITATIS GLASGUENSIS MDXLIX , ACCEDUNT jftlummmta jfratjum ||retucatojum fce <£la*gu DOMUS DOMINICANE APUD GLASGUENSES CARTE QUE SUPERSUNT MCCXLIV-MDLIX GLASGUE MDCCCXLVI VOCA^- PRESENTED THE MAITLAND CLUB THE MARQUIS OF BUTE. THE MAITLAND CLUB. M.DCCC.XLVI. THE MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUIS OF BUTE, K. T. PRESIDENT. HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ARGYLL. JOHN BAIN, ESQ. DAVID BALFOUR, ESQ. SIR DAVID HUNTER BLAIR, BART. JAMES BOGLE, ESQ. BERIAH BOTFIELD, ESQ. M.P. THE MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE, K. T. SIR THOMAS MAKDOUGALL BRISBANE, BART. G.C.B. 10 HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY, K. G. ANDREW BUCHANAN, ESQ. WALTER BUCHANAN, ESQ. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, ESQ. SIR ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, BART. HUMPHRY WALTER CAMPBELL, ESQ. THE HONOURABLE HENRY COCKBURN, LORD COCKBURN. THE MAITLAND CLUB. JAMES T. GIBSON-CRAIG, ESQ. JAMES DENNISTOUN, ESQ. JAMES DOBIE, ESQ. 20 THE MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUIS OF DOUGLAS AND CLYDESDALE. RICHARD DUNCAN, ESQ. TREASURER. WILLIAM JAMES DUNCAN, ESQ. WILLIAM EUING, ESQ. JAMES EWING, ESQ. LL.D. JOSEPH WALTER KING EYTON, ESQ. JAMES OGILVIE FAIRLIE, ESQ. ALEXANDER S. FINLAY, ESQ. THE REVEREND WILLIAM FLEMING, D.D. WILLIAM MALCOLM FLEMING, ESQ 30 JOHN FULLARTON, ESQ. JOHN GORDON, ESQ. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS GRENVILLE. JAMES HAMILTON, ESQ, LAURENCE HILL, ESQ. LL.B. JAMES HUNTER, ESQ. THE HONOURABLE JAMES IVORY, LORD IVORY. JOHN CLARK KENNEDY, ESQ. JOHN KERR, ESQ. ROBERT ALEXANDER KIDSTON, ESQ. 40 GEORGE RITCHIE KINLOCH, ESQ. JOHN GARDINER KINNEAR, ESQ. JOHN LEADBETTER, ESQ. THE VERY REVEREND PRINCIPAL LEE, FOR THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. THE REVEREND MATTHEW LEISHMAN, D.D. JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, ESQ. LL.D. THE MAITLAND CLUB. THE REVEREND LAURENCE LOCKHART. WILLIAM LOCKHART, ESQ. M.P. JAMES LUCAS, ESQ. ALEXANDER MACDONALD, ESQ. 50 THE VERY REVEREND DUNCAN MACFARLAN, D.D. PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, VICE-PRESIDENT, ANDREW MACGEORGE, ESQ. ALEXANDER MACGRIGOR, ESQ. GEORGE MACINTOSH, ESQ. JOHN WHITEFOORD MACKENZIE, ESQ. ROBERT MACLACHLAN, ESQ. ARCHIBALD MACLELLAN, ESQ. ALEXANDER MACNEILL, ESQ. JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ. THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ. M.P. 60 SIR JOHN MAXWELL, BART. WELLWOOD MAXWELL, ESQ. WILLIAM MEIKLEHAM, ESQ. WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, ESQ. JAMES PATRICK MUIRHEAD, ESQ. WILLIAM MURE, ESQ. WILLIAM SMITH NEILL, ESQ. ALEXANDER OSWALD, ESQ. M.P. JOHN MACMICHAN PAGAN, ESQ. M.D. WILLIAM PATRICK, ESQ. 70 HENRY PAUL, ESQ. ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ. JAMES CORBETT PORTERFIELD, ESQ. HAMILTON PYPER, ESQ. THE QU^STOR OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. THE MAITLAND CLUB. JAMES CAMPBELL REDDIE, ESQ. JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ. LL.B. THOMAS RISK, ESQ. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, ESQ. ROBERT RODGER, ESQ. 80 ANDREW RUTHERFURD, ESQ. M.P. ROBERT SAWERS, ESQ. THE REVEREND HEW SCOTT. JAMES T. SIMPSON, ESQ. M.D. JAMES SMITH, ESQ. ' JOHN SMITH, ESQ. LL.D. SECRETARY. WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ. WILLIAM SMYTHE, ESQ. MOSES STEVEN, ESQ. DUNCAN STEWART, ESQ. 90 SYLVESTER DOUGLAS STIRLING, ESQ. WILLIAM STIRLING, ESQ. WILLIAM STIRLING, ESQ. THE YOUNGER. JOHN STRANG, ESQ. ARCHIBALD SWINTON, ESQ. THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ. DAWSON TURNER, ESQ. ADAM URQUHART, ESQ. PATRICK WARNER, ESQ. THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. JL HE ecclesiastical records, whieh are brought together in the following sheets, have little or nothing in comnion, beyond their relation to the city which claims the filial regard of The Maitland Club. The Register which takes the first place in the volume, The Book of i. THE COLLEGIATE ChURCH OP THE BlESSED VlRGIN MaRV AND SaINT }* ° ©ur Ua&BT^ 1 Anne, or (as it seems to have been commonly called ) Our Lady Col- College. lege, is printed from the more perfect of two contemporary copies, duly authenticated by the subscriptions of the notaries by whom they were tran- scribed, under the authority of the Official General of Glasgow. Both records are preserved in the archives of the city, where they appear to have been deposited before the end of the sixteenth century. 2 They bear the 1 P. 138. which The Book of Our Lady College was ad- 2 "Actioun aud caus persewit be Sir Patrik duced in evidence. In the accounts of the Houstoun of that Ilk, knycht, aganis Sir Mathow treasurer of the city for the year 1575, the fol- Stewart of Mynto, knycht, provest, William Cun- lowing entries occur: "Item, the xij. daye of nynghame, Hector Stewart, and Robert Rowat, Deceraber, to Alexander Lindsaye, at the provost baillies of Glasgow," June 1598; printed in the and baillies command, to ryn to Edinburght withe Appendix to the Preface, No. II., from the the Fundation Buik of the New Kirk, in Schyr Register of Acts and Decreets, vol. clxxv. ff. 222, Johne Withirspwnes caus, x. schillingis. Item, 239, iu Her Majesty's General Register House for ane skyn to beir it in to hald it dry, iiij. schil- at Edinburgh. lingis." (Burgh Records of the City of Glasgow, This was not the first judicial proceeding in m.d.lxxiii. — m.d.lxxxi., p. 60. Glasg. 1832. Pre- : xii THE PREFACE. same date, that of the year 1549, when the erection and endowment of the 3 church (which was contemplated as early, at least, as the year 1523 ) would seem to have been completed. The Founder. The memorials which have been preserved of the chief founder, James Houstoun, Subdean of Glasgow, although somewhat scanty, embrace, pro- bably, almost all that it could now interest us to know of his life. His own affectionate piety has recorded the name of his mother, with the date 4 of her decease ; and, from a judicial proceeding which will hereafter be 5 adverted to, we might, perhaps, infer that he could claim kindred, on his father's side, with the old and knightly family of Houstoun of that Ilk, in the shire of Renfrew. We find him in the year 1525,° in possession of a 3 sented to tlie Maitland Club.by Jolin Smith.LL.D., Pp. 79, 80, 83. The first deed of erection of Crutherland, Esq.). Sir John Withirspowvne was executed in the year 1528, (pp. 50, 51.). appears as one of the prebendaries of Our Lady The church itself would appear to have been built College in the year 1549, (p. 137.). before the following summer, when the com- On a leaf at the beginning of the book wbich munity of Glasgow endowed it with a portion has been taken as the text of these sheets, the of theirlands in the Gallow-moor, (pp. 131, 132.). following lincs are written in a contemporary The year 1532 is the date of the next consider- hand able benefaction which the College rcceived, (pp. " Hic liber pertinel 10, 107.). Of the subsequent grants, one series To beir it veil in mynd belongs to the year 1539, (pp. 57, 00); another, Ad me Magistrurn Vardlav to the year 15+2 (pp. 6, 18, 22, 52, Cl, 63); and Baith courtas and kynd a third, to the year 1549, (pp. 38-44, 108-118, Si quisquis inuenerit 134-130, 141-143.). The latest deod engrossed To giue it him again in the Register is dated on the thirteenth of Habebit pecuniam August, in the year last mentioned. The quhilk sal make him fain." 4 " Item volo vt fiant exequie annuatim vltimo " The same page bears this memorandura : This die mensis Maii pro anima quondam Jonete buik ressauit be me fra Mr James Wardlaw con- Lundy matris mee cum cantu ; que obiit die deci- tenand fyftie ane leyffis of parchment to be dely- matercia mensis Junii anno Domini millesimo uerit be me to bim agane the morne Subscryvit quingentesimo vigesimonono," (p. 52.). with my hand at Edinburgh the xxj day of 5 Appendix to the Preface, No. II. December fourscoir twclff yeris [1592] James c ; Episcopatus Glas- Strioiling." The volume still contains the same Pp. 80, 81 Registrum tale of fifty-one folios. guensis, vol ii. p. 540. Edinb. 1843. Presented THE PREFACE. xiii benefice and cure, the name of which niay be familiar to the members of the Club, as the scene, two centuries afterwards, of the pastoral labours ofthe zealous Wodrow, namely, the vicarage of Eastwood, in the deanery of Rutherglen. About the year 1527 7 he succeeded Roland Blacader as Subdean of Glasgow; and this dignity, to which the rectory of the parishes of Cadder and Monkland was attached, he continued to hold during his life. He was chosen Rector of the University or Glasgow in the year 1534, and filled the office, by successive re-elections, until 8 the year 1541. By the latter will of Archbishop Dunbar, who died in 1547, he was appointed one of the executors of that learned and muni- ficent churchman, of whose confidence and aflection he enjoyed a large share. To him specially was entrusted the erection of the stately sepulchre of brass which covered the Archbishop's grave in the chancel of the cathedral. He was charged also with the endowment and regulation of the obsequies and yearly commemoration to be performed for the soul's repose of the departed prelate ; as well as with the repairs of a spire or belfry, the founding of certain bells, and the purchase of the episcopal orna- ments, which the Archbishop wished to bequeath to his metropolitan church.' to the Maitland Club, by James Evving, LL.D., of sheets, until his death, in the middle of the Strathleven, Esq. century. 7 Roland Blacader appears as Subdean of Glas- 8 Annales Universitatis Glasguensis, 1451- gow on the twenty-second of April, 1 524, (pp. 81, 1558. (MS. in archivis ejusdem.). 82) baving held that dignity so early as the year 9 " Archbishop Dunbar died on the thirtieth of 1503. (Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis, vol. ii. April 1547, and was interred in the chancel of the p.