Old or West Kilpatrick Text

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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