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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 QUÆSTOR OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF

GLASGOW.

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 Y. 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.

THE ecclesiastical records, which are brought together in the following sheets, have little or nothing in common, beyond their relation to the city which claims the filial regard of THE MAITLAND CLUB.

The Book of
Our Lady

The Register which takes the first place in the volume, THE BOOK OF THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AND SAINT 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 transcribed, 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. They bear the

1 P. 138.

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which The Book of Our Lady College was adduced in evidence. In the accounts of the treasurer of the city for the year 1575, the following entries occur: 'Item, the xij. daye of December, to Alexander Lindsaye, at the provost and baillies command, to ryn to Edinburght withe the Fundation Buik of the New Kirk, in Schyr Johne Withirspwnes caus, x. schillingis. Item, for ane skyn to beir it in to hald it dry, iiij. schillingis." (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

2 "Actioun and caus persewit be Sir Patrik Houstoun of that Ilk, knycht, aganis Sir Mathow Stewart of Mynto, knycht, provest, William Cunnynghame, Hector Stewart, and Robert Rowat, baillies of Glasgow," June 1598; printed in the Appendix to the Preface, No. II., from the Register of Acts and Decreets, vol. clxxv. ff. 222, 239, in Her Majesty's General Register House at Edinburgh.

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The Founder.

same date, that of the year 1549, when the erection and endowment of the church (which was contemplated as early, at least, as the year 15233) would seem to have been completed.

The memorials which have been preserved of the chief founder, James Houstoun, Subdean of Glasgow, although somewhat scanty, embrace, probably, 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 of her decease'; and, from a judicial proceeding which will hereafter be 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

sented to the Maitland Club, by John Smith, LL.D.,
of Crutherland, Esq.). Sir John Withirspowvne
appears as one of the prebendaries of Our Lady
College in the year 1549, (p. 137.).

On a leaf at the beginning of the book which
has been taken as the text of these sheets, the
following lines are written in a contemporary
hand:

"Hic liber pertinet

To beir it veil in mynd
Ad me Magistrum Vardlav
Baith courtas and kynd
Si quisquis inuenerit

To giue it him again
Habebit pecuniam

The quhilk sal make him fain."
The same page bears this memorandum: "This

buik ressauit be me fra Mr James Wardlaw con

tenand fyftie ane leyffis of parchment to be dely
uerit be me to him agane the morne Subscryvit
with my hand at Edinburgh the xxj day of
December fourscoir twelff yeris [1592] JAMES
STRIUILING." The volume still contains the same
tale of fifty-one folios.

3 Pp. 79, 80, 83. The first deed of erection was executed in the year 1528, (pp. 50, 51.). The church itself would appear to have been built before the following summer, when the community of Glasgow endowed it with a portion of their lands in the Gallow-moor, (pp. 131, 132.). The year 1532 is the date of the next considerable benefaction which the College received, (pp. 10, 107.). Of the subsequent grants, one series belongs to the year 1539, (pp. 57, 60); another, to the year 1542 (pp. 6, 18, 22, 52, C1, 63); and a third, to the year 1549, (pp. 38-44, 108-118, 134-136, 141-143.). The latest deed engrossed in the Register is dated on the thirteenth of August, in the year last mentioned.

4" Item volo vt fiant exequie annuatim vltimo die mensis Maii pro anima quondam Jonete Lundy matris mee cum cantu / que obiit die decimatercia mensis Junii anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo vigesimonono," (p. 52.).

5 Appendix to the Preface, No. II.

6 Pp. 80, 81; Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis, vol ii. p. 540. Edinb. 1843. Presented

benefice and cure, the name of which may be familiar to the members of the Club, as the scene, two centuries afterwards, of the pastoral labours of the zealous Wodrow, namely, the vicarage of Eastwood, in the deanery of Rutherglen. About the year 15277 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 of Glasgow in the year 1534, and filled the office, by successive re-elections, until 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 munificent churchman, of whose confidence and affection 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 ornaments, which the Archbishop wished to bequeath to his metropolitan church.'

to the Maitland Club, by James Ewing, LL.D., of sheets, until his death, in the middle of the Strathleven, Esq. century.

7 Roland Blacader appears as Subdean of Glasgow on the twenty-second of April, 1524, (pp. 81, 82) having held that dignity so early as the year 1503. (Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis, vol. ii. p. 506.). He is recorded in the Obituary of Glasgow to have survived the year 1540, (id. p. 615); but, if there be not a mistake in this date, he must have resigned the Subdeanery many years previously. James Houstoun appears as Subdean in May 1527, (below, pp. 85, 87); and continues to be so designated, throughout the long series of deeds which fill the subsequent

8 Annales Universitatis Glasguensis, 14511558. (MS. in archivis ejusdem.).

9" Archbishop Dunbar died on the thirtieth of April 1547, and was interred in the chancel of the cathedral church, in the tomb he had caused to be built for himself, but is now removed, and so quite taken away, that there is not the least vestige of it remaining, nor can so much as the place be shown where it stood." (Crawfurd's Lives of the Officers of the Crown and of the State in Scotland, p. 77. Edinb. 1726.).

1 The Archbishop's will is preserved in the

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