Early use of merkland terms in documents. I have inserted Arabic numerals in brackets after Roman. Scottish examples in italics. Source Date Location Text Comment Denariatas (pennylands) RRAN III (406) 1140 x 1143 Kent? ix (9)…
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Evidence for a cash economy – Scotland in the 12th century
Evidence for a cash economy – Scotland in the 12th century. Sources (full details in Bibliography) Chart. = Charters of David I, ed. Barrow, G.W.S, 1999 ESC = Early Scottish Charters prior to 1153, ed. Lawrie, A.C., 1905 Annals(F)…
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Promissory Notes
Promissory Notes There are two types of document to draw attention to here. The first has a general nature. The promise might be of land or an annual return with a guarantee to make it up (perficio) if it…
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Land-assessment
Land-assessment This overview was written to accompany the section of the blog dealing with Renfrewshire. For a fuller development of the issues see file called ‘Towards a General theory of land-assessment in Scotland’ within the General Summaries section. …
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Renfrewshire Summary Table
Renfrewshire: Summary Table Parish Merklands Pennyland names Davach names Comments and Place-name evidence Cathcart 75m 2s 6d Eaglesham 100m Possibly 1 penny kirklands? Eastwood 139¼m Erskine 100m Middle Penny Gleddoch ? …
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Renfrewshire General Sources
Renfrewshire General Sources There are a number of general sources I have used for this county and I list here some of the most important. Where a source only applies to one parish I have given it within the…
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Paisley Abbey – merklands giving merks
Paisley Abbey – merklands giving merks The table below gives more detail about Paisley Abbey properties which are referred to in the Paisley text file. The question at issue is whether we can use the abbey rent-roll to establish…
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The Paisley Abbey Rental
The Paisley Abbey Rental The Paisley Abbey Rental, printed by Cameron Lees, is one of our most important sources for the history of Renfrewshire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is printed between pages lvi & clxxvii as…
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Early information about properties held by Paisley monastery
Early information about properties held by Paisley monastery. In the following table is assembled all the early information about properties held by Paisley monastery in Renfrewshire. It is arranged by property. Within each property items are arranged in rough chronological…
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Davachs in Renfrewshire?
Davachs in Renfrewshire? The only substantial evidence for davachs in Renfrewshire comes from place-names. We have three different names which incorporate the term ‘haddock’ or ‘haddoch’ and they are Haddockston (Houstoun parish), Goldenhaddock and Cornhaddock in Greenock parish. These…
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