Old or West Kilpatrick
Sources
J Irving, The Book of Dumbartonshire, Edinburgh, 1879, Vol II pp 365-383
E & W Kilpatrick were one parish until 1649.
OSA Vol 5 No XV pp 229-240 1793 by Rev John Davidson
RMS II (523) 1451-2, (657) 1458-9, (871) 1466, (1383) 1478, (1868-9) 1489, (2252) 1495
RMS III (3140, 3171, 3178) 1545
RMS IV (530) 1550, (932) 1554, (1365) 1559, (2314) 1574 (original 1560), (2568) 1576
RMS V (76) 1580, (128) 1580-1 on original of 1580, (1320) 1587, (1794) 1590,(1956) 1591, (2070) 1591-2
RMS VI (825) 1598-99 on original of 1585, (1373) 1602
RMS VII (190) 1609
RMS VIII (2239) 1633
RMS IX (489) 1636
RSS II (3301) 1539-40, (4527) 1541-2
RSS III (2800) 1548
RSS IV (2271) 1573
AS I (4) 1617, (22, 29) 1618, (56) 1618, (121) 1620, (139, 182) 1621, (215, 224) 1622, (497-9) 1673, (561) 1674, (584) 1674, (619, 624-5) 1675
AS II (15) 1618, (76) 1619, (134) 1622, (249) 1628, (538) 1635, (727, 729, 730, 732-3) 1643, (737) 1644, (751, 755, 757) 1647, (761, 764) 1648, (787, 791-6, 799) 1653, (814) 1653, (839, 857, 859) 1654, (1040) 1662, (1192) 1665, (1257, 1319) 1666 (1448) 1668
Dumbarton Retours (6) 1602, (17) 1617, (24) 1621, (25) 1625, (31) 1634, (33-4) 1637, (40) 1642, (47) 1647, (49) 1653, (53) 1655, (56) 1657, (57) 1662, (63) 1665, (68) 1672, (69) 1676, (71) 1680, (78, 81) 1685, (91) 1573
GD8/145 & 146 1550, GD8/270 1577
GD45/27/142 1368-9
GD124/1/411 & 412 c. 1360; GD124/1/418 [1377]; GD124/1/427 1448
GD282/13/228 1579-80
Charter Chest of the Earldom of Dundonald, Scottish Record Society, 1910, No 143, 1587
Laing Charters (3052-4) 1710
RHP 187 Lusset Glen c. 1790
RHP 5399/1 Plan of the grounds of Duntocher & Faiffley, 1847
RHP 12366 Duntiglennan 1810
RHP 89879 Kilbowies and Boquhanran 1825
Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, Edinburgh, 1832
J Cameron Lees, The Abbey of Paisley, Paisley, 1878
J Bruce, History of the parish of West or Old Kilpatrick, Glasgow, 1893
The Old Extent valuations of Paisley’s Kilpatrick lands predate the Reformation because we find them in the Paisley Rental Book. Do these valuations also predate the time when the lands were first given to Paisley? We know that Earl Alwin II gave Gartconnel to Paisley but their other Kilpatrick possessions must have been given before that. We do not know if they were given as arachors or as davachs in the first instance but I see no problem in this. If, during some twelfth or thirteenth-century royal reform, it was stated that all arachors or davachs were to be regarded as £20 lands in Scottish monetary terms then Paisley Abbey, just like every lay proprietor, would start to think of them in terms of the new method of reckoning. The old terms might take centuries to die out but as long as the conversion rates were known people could think of them in terms of either method.
My table for Old or West Kilpatrick gives 201¾m. If a carucate was worth £20 (30m), and making allowance for the amnesia of history, this would suggest a minimum of 7 carucates.
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