Rosneath Text

Rosneath

 

Principal Sources

 

OSA Vol 4, No IX, pp 71-76, 1792, Rev. G Drummond

 

RMS I (83) 1315-21, (505) 1372, (581) 1375-6

RMS II (263) 1440-1, (861) 1465-6, (1152) 1473, (1918) 1489-90, (2545) 1500, (3334) 1509, (3421) 1509-10

RMS III (1757) 1537-8, (3140) 1545, (3300) 1546

RMS IV (245) 1548, (1315, 1327) 1558, (2132) 1572-3

RMS V (76) 1580, (1320) 1587, (2070) 1591-2

RMS VI (272) 1595, (686) 1597-8, (1413) 1603

 

RSS I (242) 1498

RSS IV (408) 1549

 

Dumbarton Retours (1) 1549, (13) 1609, (24) 1621, (25) 1625, (53) 1655, (57) 1662, (58) 1663, (69) 1676, (71) 1680, (78) 1685, (87) 1695, (94) 1573

 

RH6/2514 1579

GD1/426/1/23/19, 21, 46, 70-1, 77-9, 122

GD86/233 1571-2

GD112/1/6 1440, GD112/25/2 1440

GD198/217 1214-1248

GD220/2/1/163 1565

GD220/6/1960 No 2 1507, GD220/6/1972 No 4 1523, GD220/6/1979 No 2 1533

 

AS I (16) 1618, (103, 115) 1620, (453) 1660, (520, 575) 1674

 

AS II (223) 1627, (380-1) 1631, (597-8) 1636, (676) 1642, (996-7) 1660, (1202-3, 1208) 1665, (1280) 1666, (1490-1) 1669

 

Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes 1478-1495 p 217 (1491)

Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes Vol II pp 7-8 (1496)

Inventory of Lamont Papers No’s 258-264

 

RHP 3265 Plan of Estate of Rosneath, 1869

Pont (16)

 

W Fraser, Cartulary of Colquhoun, Edinburgh, 1873

WC Maughan, Rosneath Past and Present, Paisley, 1893

J Irving, The Book of Dumbartonshire, Vol II, Edinburgh, 1879, pp 277-288

 

 

RMS IV (1315) of 1558 confirms a charter of the late Archibald, Earl of Argyll, who had sold to his son the lands of Rosneath extending to £40 (60m) old extent. (Rosneath then included much of what is now Row parish). The total for Rosneath in my table is 98¾m which is well over the 60m referred to in 1558. Essentially the £40 that belonged to the Campbells was just an estate and did not comprise the whole of Rosneath.

 

It is striking how many farms in Rosneath, particularly at the south end, have valuations of 5m. This looks to me like a later overlay where a gross value like £20 (30m) was applied to an estate (or arachor/carucate?) and then subdivided between 6 farms.

 

I have not tried to reconstruct the older parish of Rosneath (i.e. before the formation of Row) but Fraser, Chiefs of Colquhoun, II, p 102, gives further information.

 

Rosneath marks the eastern limit of the Norse land-assessment system of pennylands.