Inchinnan Table

Inchinnan Table

 

Name	Value	Date	Grid Ref	Map Sources	Other forms, comments etc
Inchinnan	£40 (60m)	1567			£40 AE in GD220/6/1991/1&2 1567.
Newshot Island			NS 4870	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Ainslie(1796)	Neushot in Pont & Blaeu. RMS VII (1327) 1615 gives ‘island of Inchschynnane called Newschott, lying within the flude-mark (flood-mark, i.e. high-tide mark) next to Inchynnane’.
Freeland Freeland	(5m)	16thC?	NS 4769 NS 466689	Roy(PC) Ainslie	There is another Freeland in Erskine parish. OS 6” 1st edition Renfrewshire Sheet VIII, 1857. NSA p 120 says Freeland was formerly Freeland Stewart, then Freeland Brisbane, according to ownership. See below.
Sandieland Wood Sandieland			NS 4869 NS 4869	Pont(33)? Blaeu(Renfrew)? Ainslie(1796)	?= Sandifur(d) in Pont; Sandifury in Blaeu. Glasgow Street Atlas, Geographia Sandyland in Ainslie.
Florish	1m	1511-12	NS 4868	Roy(PC) Ainslie	Fluris, 1m AE in RMS II (3712) 1511-12. = Elwres in GD220/2/1/99 1496. See under Craigown and Elwres below.
Inchinnan	10m AE	1496	NS 4768	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	10m AE in Lennox II, No 99, 1496. 10m AE in RMS II (3712) 1511-12. Inchinnen (x2) + K. of Inchinnen (Pont). Ainslie marks Kirk at NS 4968.
‘Causewayhead’				Roy(PC)	Roy marks ‘Cau(s)weyhead’ ESE of Inchinnan
East Fulwood (Little Fulwood) Litill Foulwod	20s	1532	NS 4567	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	Litil Foolwood(Pont), Litil Feulwood(Blaeu), Little Fullwood(Roy), Fulwood Townhead & Fulwood Mill(Ainslie). For Meikle Fulwood see under Houstoun parish. 20s AE. See below
Southbar Nether Southbar E(a)st Southbar	20s	1532	NS 4569 NS 4568	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	Pont & Blaeu both give N. & O. (i.e. Nether & Over). Blaeu marks N. to W of river, O. to E of River. Half ‘Southbarr’ in Fraser, W., Lennox Vol II, No 45 1432 but with no valuation. 20s AE. RMS III (1203) 1532 – see below under Fulwood.
Turnyland	½m	1532	NS 4669	Roy(PC)	OS 6” 1st edition Renfrewshire Sheet VIII, 1857. This ½m included Commonside and Newward
North Commonside South Commonside			NS 4568 NS 4568	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	Comonsid(Pont) OS 6” 1st edition Renfrewshire Sheet VIII, 1857.   Mickle Commonside, Little Commonside(Ainslie). See below.
Newward					Unlocated. But with Turnyland and Commonside as ½m AE.
Craigend Hill W Craigend E. Craigend			NS 4570 NS 4570 NS 4670	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)
Craigton	2m	1506-7	NS 4470	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	Kraigton B.(urn) in Pont & Blaeu, Craigton(Roy), Craigton & Little Craigton(Ainslie). RMS II (3023) 1506-7 2m of Cragtoun of Inchinnane. 2m AE Cragtoun of Inchenane in RMS II (3712) 1511-12. Although Craigton now shows under Erskine parish it may once have been in Inchinnan parish.
Craigown and Elwres	3m AE	1496			GD220/2/1/99 1496. See also under Craigton & Florish above.
Whitehill	20s	1506-7			RMS II (3023) 1506-7 20s of Quhitehill. 20s AE in RMS II (3712) 1511-12. Unlocated.
Rashielee		1496	NS 4670	Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	Raichselle in RMS II (2212) 1494. Roscheille in RSS I (3963) 1528. Rauchely in RSS IV (2295) 1553. See entry for Wrightlands. See below.
Wrichtland and Rassele	3m AE	1496			GD220/2/1/99 1496.
North Barr			NS 4671	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	Roy(PC) has Old Barr & Bar hill. Roy(FC) has Nether Bar. Ainslie has North Barr. See below.
Park (Mains)	4m AE 40s (3m)	1496 1546	NS 4670/4770	Roy(PC)	GD220/2/1/99 1496. RMS III (3269) 1546 has 40s AE Park of Inchynnane. Roy has Park, High Park & Parkhill.
Garnieland	1m	1545	NS 4869	Roy(PC)	Glasgow Street Atlas, Geographia. See below.
Greenhead			NS 4768	Roy(PC)	Glasgow Street Atlas, Geographia.
Wrightlands		1496	NS 4769	Roy(PC)	OS 6” 1st edition Renfrewshire Sheet VIII, 1857. Form of name is plural on OS map but often singular in early documents. Linked with Rashielee as 3m in 1496. See below.
Easter Mains	10m	1521			GD220/1/F/6/4/1 1521; GD220/1/F/6/4/2 1522. I am not sure how Easter Mains relates to Old Mains.
Old Mains			NS 4968	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	Mains(Pont & Blaeu). Old Mains(Roy & Ainslie). For a raid on the Mains of Inchinnan see Lennox II, No 154, 1565
New Mains	20s	1612	NS 4668	Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	Renfrew Retours (209) 1612 has 20s AE Newmanes of Inchinnane. Newmains(Roy & Ainslie)
‘Grange & New Manis’	40s	1567			RSS VI (1663) 1572 (No 11 original 1567).
Sub-total	33m +				This only totals valuations which are not emboldened – including 1 (only) figure of 10m for Mains.
Barns, Barnhill & Aulands	£10 (15m)	1635			See below.
Barnsford Bridge Barnsford Road			NS 4667 NS 4667	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)	Barns(Pont & Blaeu) Roy marks Newbarns, Barns (x2), Barnhill. 1 x Barns (Roy) = Barnhill (OS Explorer 342) NS 4567/4667 1 x Barns (Roy) = Brownsfield (OS Explorer 342) NS 4667
Allans			NS 4768	Roy(PC)	OS 6” 1st edition Renfrewshire Sheet VIII, 1857. = Aulands.
Barnhill			NS 4567/4667	Pont(33) Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796)
Brownsfield			NS 4667	Ainslie(1796)	= one of the ‘Barns’ in Roy.
Linkinstane				Roy(PC)	S of South Barr(Roy)
Temple Lands					See below.
Ladyacre					NSA, Inchinnan, pp 131-132, writes that the minister was superior of a piece of land called Ladyacre, which anciently supported an altar to the Virgin Mary in Inchinnan kirk.
Ferry-boat lands		1497			On east side of church, referred to in Laing Charters (232) 1497.
Total	£50/75m (+5m) = 80m				This is based on summary figures in 1567 and 1635 plus deduced 5m Freeland. It is not a sum of total surviving valuations.

 

Purves p 161 and Stewart f 49v give Cruxfie and Inchinnan together as £100 (150m) land. See separate text file for this estate.

 

RMS II (1136) 1473 King confirmed to the Earl of Lennox, lands of Dernle (Darnley) and Inchinnane, amongst others.

RMS II (2212) 1494 King confirmed a charter which granted 18m AE of Inchenane, viz., Inchenane, Floris, le Wrychtland, Raichselle & Park of Inchenane.

 

GD220/2/1/99 1496 (a bond of reversion) gives 10m [AE] the town of Inchenan, 4m [AE] the park of Inchenan, 3m [AE] Wrichtland and Rassele, 3m [AE] Craigown [Craigtown] and Elwres [Flwres – i.e. Florish], in parish of Inchenan, lordship of Cruksfew. Printed in Fraser, W., Lennox Vol II, No 99 1496 – whence I have marked additions and corrections in square brackets. The full version, printed by Fraser, is interesting because it tells us what sums the Earl of Lennox had to pay Lord Lyle in order to secure the reversion of these properties. They were

Park of Inchenan [4 merklands] 300 merks

Wrichtland & Rassele [3 merklands] 240 merks

Cragtown & Flwres [3 merklands] 240 merks

Town of Inchenan [10 merklands] 420 merks

The ‘redemption rate’ ran at 75 merks per merkland for Park; 80 merks per merkland for Wrichtland, Rassele, Cragtown and Flwres; but only 42 merks per merkland in the ‘Town of Inchenan’.

 

RMS II (3023) 1506-7 King confirmed to the Earl of Lennox, 2m of Cragtoun of Inchinnane with mansion and garden called Hall of Inchinnane, town of Inchinnane extending to 10m, 20s of Quhitehill, 1m of Fluris. (14½m in total). This is repeated in RMS II (3712) 1511-12 where they are all stated to be AE.

 

GD220/1/F/6/2/5 1511-12 refers to 2m Craigton of Inchinnan, 10m of the town of Inchinnan, 20s Whitehill, 1m Florish.

 

Fraser, Lennox Vol II, No 128, 1514, is an exchange of the lands of Duchal (Kilmacolm parish) for Raschelie, Wrychtlande and the Park of Inchynane (all Inchinnan parish). Unfortunately we have no valuations. See Lennox Vol II, No 132, 1520, for another proposed exchange.

 

GD220/1/F/6/4/1 1521 10m called the Easter Mains of Inchinnan. Also in GD220/1/F/6/4/2 1522.

 

RSS III (1491) 1545-6 £4 land of the toun of Incheynnane – paying £4 rent p.a.

 

Renfrew Retours (208) 1608 refers to east half of the Eist Maynes of Inschynnane extending to 5m AE.

 

RSS IV (2295) 1553 concerns the non-entrance of many lands including ‘all and hale the landis of Inschynnane, baith propirte and tenandre, the manis of Inschynnane, the toun of Inschynnane, the myln of Inschynnane, the park of Inschynnane, Dargawell, the landis of Rauchely, the Bar, Barscube, the Fluris … the New-manis, the landis of Quhithill, Wrichtland …’. Dargavel is just inside Erskine parish but I do not know if that has always been the case.

 

ER XIX pp 559-560 1567 gives ‘manor and palace of Inchinnen, its gardens, orchards, woods, parks, the lands of Mains of Inchinnen with its mill, lands of Quhithill and the town of Inchinnen, lands of Rascheley and Wrichtlandis, lands of Flures, Craigtoun and Gardnarland, with their common … extending to … £20 AE’.

This is one of a number of documents which describe a £20 unit in Inchinnan as part of the estate of Crukysfu. For other examples and further discussion see text file for ‘Crukysfu’.

RMS IV (2042) 1572 details £20 lands in Inchinnan: ‘manor and palace of Inchennane with parks and meadows, Mains of Inchennane, lands of Quhithill, town of Inchennane, Rachelie, Wrychtisland, Fluris, Cragtoun and Gardenarland … extending to £20 AE’. (For more on the ‘Place’ of Inchinnan see Fraser, W., Lennox Vol II, No 168).

 

Lennox II, No 168, c. 1570, gives a very interesting description of the furnishings of the ‘Place’ of Inchinnan. In some documents the ‘Place’ of Inchinnan is described as the ‘Palace’ of Inchinnan.

 

RMS IV (2868) 1579 gives Inchinnan but with no breakdown of the lands.

 

Freeland

Purves p 162, under the heading ‘The Temple Lands’, gives ‘The two Freelands’ as £5 (7½m).

Stewart f 50r, under the heading ‘The tempillands’, gives ‘The twa Frelands’ as £5 (7½m).

There was a Freeland at NS 4472 in Erskine parish and another at NS 4668/4769 in Inchinnan parish. The Freeland in Erskine was 2½m in 1535. I do not have a valuation for the Freeland in Inchinnan. However, we can deduce from the figures in Purves and Stewart that it was 5m.

 

East Fulwood (Little Fulwood)

RMS III (1203) 1532 grants John Symple of Foulwod, 86m 9s 8d of ‘100 marcatis terrarum moderni extentus’. ‘Moderni extentus’ must mean ‘new extent’ but, confusingly, the text goes on to describe several properties in Inchinnan in terms of ‘antiqui extentus’ (old extent). They are:

20s of Litill Foulwod

20s of Est Southbar

½ merkland of Trunyland, Commonside and Neward. (ER XVIII p 499 1550 shows these three should be read together as a ½ merkland).

Unfortunately there is no indication as to how Old Extent (AE) was computed to New Extent.

 

ER XVIII p 499 1550 gives

20s Litill Fulwod,

20s Eistir Southbar AE

½ merkland AE Trunyland, Commounsyid & Neward.

ER XVIII p 535 1551-2 gives Litill Fulwod, Eister Southbar, Turnyland, Commounsyid & Neward extending to 46s 8d AE. This matches with the total given above in ER XVIII p 499 1550.

ER XVIII p 545 1552 repeats this data.

 

Commonside (see also under Fulwood above)

RSS VI (1663) 1572 (No 8 original 1523) – Commounsyd and New Ward.

Commonside is referred to in RMS III (1203) 1532 as part of the lordship of Crukisfe & Inchynnane.

RMS IV (2134) 1573, on original of 1572, gives Littill Fulwode, Eist Subar (East Southbar), Commonesyde and Newwaird, along with other lands in Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire.

 

The issue of pasture rights in the common of Inchinnan has a long history. GD220/2/1/108 1505 or GD220/1/F/5/7/10 1505 (old catalogue number) give, in abbreviated form, descriptions of the indenture printed in full in Lennox II No 108, 22 July 1505. There is no need to follow the detail byond noting the use of the word ‘sowmys’ (soums). A soum was a unit of grazing, based on the pasture required by 1 cow with its ‘followers’ or calves at foot. The grazing requirements of other animals (horses, sheep etc) were described as fractions or multiples of soums. The term was widely used in Scotland although there were some variations (e.g. with regard to the age-range of ‘followers’). The policing of soums was often an issue. The indenture of July 1505 was followed by a bond (GD220/1/F/5/7/12) in August, designed to maintain the agreement.

 

However, continuing disagreements about the common of Inchinnan resulted in documentation which Fraser prints in Lennox Vol II, No 143, 21 April 1530. This deals with the appointment of arbiters to disputes concerning:

the landis of the comon syd [now Commonside] of Inchynnan, that is to say, the maling [mailing – i.e. a tenant farm, held for mail or rent] that Jhon of Schaw duellt [dwelt] in, and the maling that Rob Tenklar duelt in, and the vard [ward] of the said new comon

 

Lennox Vol II, No 144, 23 April 1530, is the Deposition of Gilbert Legzeit in this action

concerning the landis of the Comon of Inchinnan callit Schawistoune, Tynkellaris Maling, and the Newward of the Comoun … togidder with the Newmanis of Inchinnan, examyt be me Maister Jhone Lok, curet to the said Gilbert, befor Archibald Vilsoune, noter.

Gilbert Legzeit, of age iiii ^xx xi zeris, wedow, haill into mynd … deponis … that the landis abone expremit, that is to say, Schawis Maling, Tynkellaris Maling, the Newvard of the Comon, and the Newmanis is of the ten merk land of the towne of Inchinnan, and at the saidis landis vas at the towne of Inchinnan, in the tym of the divisioune of the Comon of Inchinnane betuex my Lord of Lenex, Erle Mathew, and the Lord Erskyne, and sais he helpit to byg the housis that vas bygit on the said ground, and past fwit be fwit with my said Lord Erle Mathew, in spasing and bounding of the dyk, and knawis weill that the tenentis of the towne of Inchinnane had fre wis and pastour on the ground abone writing, fra the Ryngand Stane to Androis Quhawe, and knawis that my lord forsaid mynvrit and occupiet with his avne gudis the saidis landis abone writing ane certane tyme efter the devisione, or he set it to ony tenentis. And this examinatioun was maid be me the forsaid curet in the hous of the said Gilbert, becaus he mycht not trawell, the xxiii day of Apryll, the zeir of God ane thousand v hundretht and xxx zeiris …

(Signed by John Lok, curate of Paisley & Archibald Wilson, notary)

(concerning the lands of the Common of Inchinnan called Schaw’s Toune, Tynkellar’s Maling, and the New ward of the Common … together with the New Mains of Inchinnan, examined by me Master John Lok, curate to the said Gilbert, before Archibald Wilson, notary.

Gilbert Legzeit, of age 91 years, widower, whole in mind … deposes … that the lands above expressed, that is to say, Schaw’s Maling, Tynkellar’s Maling, the New Ward of the Common, and the New Mains is [part] of the ten merk land of the town of Inchinnan, and that the said lands were at the town of Inchinnan, in the time of the division of the Common of Inchinnan between my Lord of Lennox, Earl Mathew, and the Lord Erskyne, and says he helped to build the houses that were built on the said ground, and passed foot by foot with my said Lord Earl Mathew, in spacing and bounding of the dyke, and knows well that the tenents of the town of Inchinnan had free use and pasture on the ground above written, from the Ringing Stone to Andrew’s quagmire, and knows that my lord forsaid manured and occupied with his own cattle the said lands above written a certain time after the division, before he set it to any tenents. And this examination was made by me the forsaid curate in the house of the said Gilbert, because he could not travel, the 23 day of April, the year of God 1530).

 

As was often the case in a conservative rural environment, great store was laid on the opinions of older men, provided they were regarded as ‘worthy’. Gilbert must have been so reputed and, at 91 years old, he will have stood out in the local community as a repository of former knowledge. As it happened the two arbiters who pronounced their decision on 28 July 1530 (Lennox Vol II, No 145), aligned themselves with his views. Adam Colquhoun, parson of Stobo, and William Stirling of Glorat found:

that thir landis vnder writing, that is to say, Schawis Maling, Tynclaris Maling, the new vard of the Comon, and the New Manys are ane part of the said ten mark land of the towne of Inchinnan, and suld pertene to the said Dame Elezabeth [Hamilton].

 

North Barr

Crawfurd, 1710, p 76, writes:

And West from this stands the House of Barr, the Seat of the Stewarts of Barscube, a Branch of the Stewarts of Darnly. As to the precise time of Barscube’s Descent, I cannot determine; but this much I certainly know, that they were a younger Son of that Noble Family: For I have seen a Charter granted by Matthew Earl of Lenox, dilecto consanguineo suo Thomae Stewart de Terris de North-Bar, Craigtoun, Barscube & Rashielee, apud Crocstoun 5 Julii Anno 1497 (u). (i.e. to his dear kinsman, Thomas Stewart, of the lands of ‘North-Barr, Craigton, Barscube & Rashielee’, given at Crookston, 5 July 1497)

Footnote: (u) Carta penes Jac. MacGilchrist de North-Bar, (i.e. Charter in the possession of James MacGilchrist of North Barr).

Barscube is in Erskine parish table.

 

Garnieland

RMS III (3121) 1545 has 1m AE called Gardinar-land of Inchechynnane – amongst other Inchinnan lands (no other values given). Also GD220/1/G/2/1/1 1545. RMS IV (1623) 1565 has ‘lands called the Gardneris-landis of Inchechynnane, extending to 1 merkland’.

 

Wrightlands

There was a separate Wrightland in Paisley parish, near to East Henderson and Corkerhill.

 

Barns, Barnhill & Aulands

These properties have long had rather a different history:

GD124/5/1 1375 Bernys and Auldlandis.

GD220/2/1/108 22 July 1505 Indenture concerning right of tenants of Bernys, Bernhill and Awelandis to pasture on Inchinnan common. Printed in Fraser, Lennox Vol II No 108.

RMS II (2960) 1506, on original of 7 August 1505, refers to the lands of Bernis, Bernhillis & Aldlandis, in the parish of Inchenane, lordship of Cruxfew. It gives a very interesting description of the boundaries including an ‘Elgynnis-burn’, ‘Bogfaldis’ and ‘le Crukit-stradire’. (‘Stradire’ or ‘strother/struther’ is a marshy place. See the online Dictionaries of the Scots Language at Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: DOST :: strother (dsl.ac.uk))

RMS IV (1149) 1556-7, on an original of 1556, gives Barnhill of Inchenane, Barnis of Inchenane, Awlandis of Inchenane.

ER XX p 437 1572-3 gives Barnis, Barnhillis & Auldlandis.

RMS VIII (589) 1624 on original of 1610 gives Barnis, Barnehillis & Auldlandis.

Renfrew Retours (94) 1635 gives ‘lands of Barnis, Barnehillis, and Aulandis, in the lordship of Inchennane:- AE £10’.

RMS X (94) 1653 refers to the ‘£10 land of Bornhill, Bornes and Allanes, within the parish of Inschinnane’.

RMS XI (560) 1664, on original of 1662, gives £10 AE of Barnes, Barnhill & Awlands.

 

Temple Lands

Not only had the church of Inchinnan been granted to the Templars but they owned a number of other properties in the parish.

The Cartulary of Pollok-Maxwell pp 195-196, No 4, 1726, on an original of 1637, gives ‘the lands of Freeland, House of Hill, Talquhin, Little Ferry Croft, Craigiehall, and Barns, in the parish of Inchinnan’.

The Cartulary of Pollok-Maxwell pp 197-198, No 9, 1816 gives ‘the temple lands called Greenhead or Greenend, House of Hill, Talwhinhill, Pendrieshill, and Bellscroft, temple lands of Freelands, Ferriecroft, Craigiehall, and Barns, in the parish of Inchinnan’. NSA, Inchinnan, p 129 refers to Greenend, ‘now called House of Hill’; and also makes interesting comments about Templar property being regarded as places of sanctuary. Roy(PC) marks House of Hill by Wrighland.

Cowan, I.B., Mackay, P.H.R. & Macquarrie, A. The Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland, p 21 – The Rental of 1539-1540, gives under Renfrew ‘Belliis croft and penneyshill possessit be jame widraw’, (Bell’s Croft and Penny’s Hill possessed by Jamie Woodrow). The editors give Penneyshill at NS 3371 (on p 224) presumably linking it to Pennytersal in Kilmacolm. This is miles from Inchinnan and I don’t think likely. This then raises the intriguing possibility of whether there was once a Norse pennyland name in Inchinnan. However it may simply be a form of ‘Pendrieshill’.