Inverkip Table
| Name | Value | Date | Grid Ref | Map Sources | Other forms, comments etc |
| Finnart-Stewart | 40m | 1629 | That part of Finnart which belonged to the Stewarts of Castlemilk. See below. | ||
| Greenoch Stewart | £26-13-4 | = 40m, Purves p 161. This is probably a transcription error for Finnart Stewart. See next entry. | |||
| Ffinnart Stewart | £26-13-4 | = 40m, Stewart f 50r. | |||
| Finnart | 20m | 1580 | Roy(PC)
Ainslie(1796) |
Laing Charters (1004) 1580 refers to the 20 merklands of Finnart. (See also in Laing Charters (2102) 1632). These are definitely part of Finnart-Stewart so it may be that there was a’greater’ (40m) and a ‘lesser’ (20m) definition of these lands. | |
| Ravenscraig
|
3m 6s 8d
(i.e. 3½m) AE |
1528 | NS 2575
NS 2374/2474 |
Roy(PC)
Ainslie(1796) |
Ravinniscrag in RMS III (584) 1528; Ravenscraig 46s 8d (i.e. the same) in ER XXI p 539 1587.
The modern location seems to have shifted slightly from 1857. OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet I, 1857. |
| Branchton | 3m 6s 8d
(i.e. 3½m) AE |
1528 | NS 2475 | Roy(PC)
|
Branschtoun in RMS III (584) 1528; Brankisholme 46s 8d (i.e. the same) in ER XXI p 539 1587. Brainstown in Roy. |
| Bownstoun & Smeithistoun | 5m AE | 1528 | Bownstoun & Smeithistoun in RMS III (584) 1528; Bodenstoun & Smeithstoun in ER XXI p 539 1587. For Smithston see next entry but I cannot locate Bodenstoun although it was probably close. For place-name cf Boden Boo in Inchinnan. | ||
| Smithston | NS 2575 | Roy(PC)
Ainslie(1796) |
See under Bownstoun above. | ||
| Penny Fern | 40d AE
(i.e. 3s 4d) |
1528 | NS 2575 | Roy(PC)
Ainslie(1796) |
Pennyferme in RMS III (584) 1528; Pennyfarne in ER XXI p 539 1587. Ainslie gives High and Low. See below. |
| Bardevenock | 15s AE | 1528 | Roy(PC)
|
Bertefennok in RMS III (584) 1528; Bartyfynnok in ER XXI p 539 1587. This is located on Roy’s map W. of Achiniach and S. of Gourock. | |
| North Auchneagh
Auchneagh Ho. Mid Auchneagh |
£4 | 1533 | NS 2576
NS 2575 NS 2576 |
Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Gordon(55) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796) |
Ac(??)ihaich (Pont). OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet II, 1857.
Achinnaich (Blaeu). OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet II, 1857. Achihaich (Gordon). OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet I, 1857. Achiniach (Roy). Aughnagh (Ainslie). See below under Gorroicht, Aithinnycht, Aichinmad. 13s 4d AE Auchinnaucht in warranty in Renfrew Retours (85) 1631. |
| East Auchmade (to N)
West Auchmade (to S) |
£4 AE | 1533 | NS 2375
NS 2375 |
Roy(PC)
Ainslie(1796) |
OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet I, 1857.
OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet I, 1857. E & W in Ainslie. See below under Gorroicht, Aithinnycht, Aichinmad. |
| Auchnearn | 20s AE | 1631 | NS 2475 | OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet I, 1857. See below. | |
| Auchinfin | 6s 8d AE
(i.e. ½m) |
1631 | c. NS 2475? | See below. | |
| Gourock | £2 AE | 1533 | NS 2477 | Blaeu(Renfrew)
Roy(PC & FC) Ainslie(1796) |
Gourok Toune & Gourock Castel in Blaeu.
See below under Gorroicht, Aithinnycht, Aichinmad. |
| Gorroicht, Aithinnycht, Aichinmad | £10 AE | 1523 | See below. | ||
| Diverts | £5 AE | 1542 | NS 2376 | Roy(PC & FC)
Ainslie(1796) |
Dowart in RSS II (4867) 1542.
OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet I, 1857. See below. |
| Kelloche
Kellochend |
8s 10⅔d | 1641 |
NS 2672 |
Roy(PC)
Ainslie(1796) |
Probably near each other but only the latter name survives on the map. Perhaps 1m together? See below. |
| Auchinfour & Kirkpennyland | £20 | 1529 | This £20 (Auld Extent) (30m) estate appears in RSS II (359) 1529, RMS III (831) 1529, (2124) 1539-40, (2991) 1543-4, RSS IV (2271) 1553, RMS IV (2104) 1572, GD3/1/3/16/1 1572, RMS IX (41) 1634. | ||
| Auchinfour | £10? | See below. | |||
| Langhouse | NS 2171 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC & FC) |
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| Hill (of Auchinfour?) | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC & FC) |
North of Langhous.
Between Kelly and Daff River. West of Langhouse. See below. |
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| Innyrkyp (Inverkip) | 1d | 1173 x 1177 | NS 2072 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC & FC) Ainslie(1796) |
See below. |
| Kirkpennyland | £10 | 1510 | = Inverkip. | ||
| Chrisswell | 40d or ¼m | NS 2274 | Roy(PC)
Ainslie(1796) |
Carswell in Roy and Ainslie. Cresswell Chapel (Ruins) in OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet I, 1857. See below. | |
| Spango | £12 (18m) | NS 2374 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Gordon(55) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796) |
As in Purves and Stewart.
See below. |
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| Spango-Wester estate | £6 | 1542 | See below under Spango. | ||
| Spango-Cunningham | 40s | 1522-3 | See below under Spango. | ||
| Drumillan (Hill) | 11s | 1522-3 | NS 2374 | Roy(PC)
Ainslie(1796) |
See below under Spango. |
| Spango-Campbell | £4 | 1658 | See below under Spango. | ||
| Levan | £10 | 1541 | NS 2176 | Roy(PC & FC)
Ainslie(1796) |
Easter Living in Roy.
See below. |
| Leitchland | NS 2274 | Ainslie(1796) | Part of Levan in 1659. See below. | ||
| Brousterland | 1456 | See below. | |||
| Lunderston
Low Lunderston |
£5
|
1553 | NS 2174
NS 2073 |
Roy(PC & FC)
Ainslie(1796) |
16s in RMS I (673) 1379. A more likely figure is 16s 8d (1¼ merks) which may only have represented 1/6th of the town. £5 (7½ merks, which is 6 x 16s 8d) in RSS IV (2271) 1553.
Probably part of £10 Levan. See below |
| Haucslande | 6s 8d | 1379 | RMS I (673) 1379. Adjacent to Lunderston. Probably included in the £5 Lunderston and £10 Levan. | ||
| Holmstown | c. NS 2173/2273 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796) |
? Hoo(m)ston in Pont – by Banksid.
? Haochstoun in Blaeu. Holmstown in Roy. Holmston in Ainslie. Part of Wester Spango estate. See below. |
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| Braeton House | NS 2173 | Roy(PC & FC) | Braes in Roy – just west of Holmstown. Part of Wester Spango estate. | ||
| Flatterton | NS 2274 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Gordon(55) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796) |
Fl(a)(?)terto(??) in Pont
Flantertow in Blaeu Flattertoun in Gordon Flattertown in Roy Flatterton in Ainslie. Part of Wester Spango estate. See below. |
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| Cloch | NS 2075/2074 | Blaeu(Renfrew)
Roy(PC & FC) Ainslie(1796) |
Blaeu gives Cloch Ston. Roy gives Little, Meickle & Nether Cloch or Cloich + Cloichmuir. Ainslie gives Old Cloach, Cloach Moor, Cloach Point, New Cloach Ferry, Big Cloach and Wee Cloach. Part of Wester Spango estate. | ||
| Dunrod | £10 | 1528 | NS 2273 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC & FC) Ainslie(1796) |
Pont shows castle with drawbridge/bridge.
See below. |
| Clocherlee | NS 2272 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796) |
Located in OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet V, 1857. (S. of Kip Water). Clochryly in Pont & Blaeu.
? Clochery in Roy(PC) Clochrelie in Ainslie. Part of Dunrod estate. |
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| Ardgowan | £5 | 1539-40 | NS 2072/2073 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC & FC) Ainslie(1796) |
See below. |
| Finnock Bog Farm
Fennok |
£5 |
1539-40 |
NS 2070 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC & FC) NLS Acc.10086 |
In addition Pont gives N Fen(n)ah (Nether Finnock?) to the north, and O: Fennock (Over Finnock?) to the south.
Roy(PC) gives North Finnock and South Finnock. See below. |
| Kelly Mains
Kelly Bank |
£5 | 1509 | NS 1968
NS 2068 |
Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC & FC) Ainslie(1796) NLS Acc.10086 |
£5 AE Kelle RSS I (1892) 5 June 1509.
£5 Kelle in GD3/2/2/23 6 June 1509; also in Fraser, Memorials of the Montgomeries, No 84. Pont(33) gives Kelly, Kelly B(urn?), Kelliba(n)ck and Kelly Moore. See below. |
| Garvock | 5m | 1542 | NS 2571 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796) |
See below. |
| Total
Subtract 3m Spango |
>145m
>142m |
Actually 145m 1s 6⅔d.
3m of Spango was reckoned in new parish of Greenock. |
Finnart
In early times Finnart was a very large property of 60m. 40m Finnart-Stewart remained in Inverkip. 20m Finnart-Shaw (or Schaw) went to Greenock (q.v.).
ER IX p 664 1455 gives a sasine to James, formerly earl of Douglas, of the lands of Fynnert.
ER IX p 669 1463 gives a sasine to Archibald Steuart of Fynnard.
ER IX p 676 1474 gives a sasine to John Steuart of Wester Fynnert.
ER X p 771 1495 gives a sasine to James, Lord Hamilton, of Fynnart.
ER X p 771 1495 gives a sasine to Alexander Steuart of Westir Fynnart Stewart.
Finnart-Stewart
RSS III (350 & 462) 1543 refer to the lands of Fynnart-Stewart which formerly belonged to the late Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk.
ER XVIII p 496 1550 refers to 26m 8s 4d AE of Fynart-Steward.
ER XX pp 410-11 1570 also gives 26m 8s 4d AE of Fynnart-Stewart.
Some of the constituent farms are given in RMS III (584) 1528 (all AE) and in ER XXI p 539 1587 but these only account for part of the estate. A more comprehensive list is given in Renfrew Retours (77) 1629 but, unfortunately, without individual valuations. It is repeated in Renfrew Retours (160) 1661. I have entered all these in the table above.
Laing Charters (1004) 1580 refers to the 20 merklands of Finnart. (See also in Laing Charters (2102) 1632). This is Finnart-Stewart. The 1580 document refers to a piece of land called the Houndhill, within the land called Stewart’s tenement, in the parish of Innnerkip. Renfrew Retours (85) 1631 also refers to a piece of land called Hundhill within the lands called Stewart’s tenement. I am not sure where this is. See also RS53 ff 4r-4v 1641.
The list in Renfrew Retours (77) 1629 is given below. I have added variant spellings from Renfrew Retours (160) 1661 (in round brackets), modern names [in square brackets] and valuations where known:
40m AE of Fynnairt-Stewart comprehending the lands of : (40m AE Fynnart-Stewart comprehending the lands of)
Ravenscraig (Raveinscraig) [Ravenscraig] 3½m AE
Bauchtoun (Bruchtoun) [Branchton] 3½m AE
Pennyfairne (Peinnyfarne) [Penny Fern] ¼m AE
Boderstoun & Smeithstoun (Boydenstoun & Steuthstoun) [? & Smithston] 5m AE
Auchinnache (Auchinnaucht) [Auchneagh] £4 or 6m AE
Auchmaid (Auchinmadie) [Auchmade] £4 or 6m AE
Bartyfinnok (Bartyfinnock) [? Bardevenock] 15s (1⅛m) AE
Auchinairne (Auchnairne) [Auchnearn] 20s (1½m) AE
Over & Nether Gowcokis (Ovir & Nether Gowrockis) [Gourock] 40s (3m) AE
Eister & Wester Divartis (Eister & Wester Divertie) [Diverts] 7½m (£5) AE
Killoch & Killochend (Kelloch & Kellochend) [Killochend] 8s 10⅔d
Mill of Ellen (Mill of Ellen)
The lands listed above come to just over 38m + the ½m Auchinfin, so the figure of 40m is probably correct.
Gorroicht, Aithinnycht, Aichinmad
There are two entries in the Exchequer Rolls which give us a bit more detail about three of the above properties. ER XV p 606 1523 refers to the £10 (15m) land (AE) of ‘Gorroicht, Aithinnycht, Aichinmad’ as part of the lands of Fynnart Stewart. These are probably Gourock, Auchneagh and Auchmade. ER XVI pp 563-4 1533 tells us that Auchinnaicht extended to £4 AE, that there were 40s lands AE in Gowrok and £4 AE of Auchinmaid. These come to a total of £10 as indicated in the reference for 1523.
Renfrew Retours (85) 1631 gives 13s 4d AE Auchinnaucht in warranty for the lands of Kelloche.
In Laing Charters (2297-8) 1641 this place is spelled Auchinmathe which invites comparison with Auchmade instead.
RS53 ff 4r-4v 1641 gives 13s 4d of what looks like Auchinmathe. Since this is the warranty it is likely to be the same as Auchinnaucht in Retours (85) above. The Retours are not always reliable with spellings so Auchmade may be correct.
Auchnearn
Renfrew Retours (85) 1631 gives David Craufurd, heir to his grandfather, David Craufurd of Cartisburne, in 20s AE of Auchinhairne. In Laing Charters (2297-8) 1641 there is a precept of clare constat and instrument of sasine to the same effect. The lands are there spelled Auchinnarne.
RS53 ff 4r-4v 1641 gives 20s Auchinnarne.
Auchinfin
Renfrew Retours (85) 1631 gives David Craufurd, heir to his grandfather, David Craufurd of Cartisburne, in 6s 8d AE of Auchinfin in the parish of Innerkippe. In Laing Charters (2297-8) 1641 there is a precept of clare constat and instrument of sasine to the same effect. The lands are there spelled Auchinfynne. RS53 ff 4r-4v 1641 gives 6s 8d AE Auchinfynne (this and Auchinnarne appear to have been part of the 20m Fynnart).
These are the only references I have to this land and although the place-name appears lost it was likely in the vicinity of Auchnearn.
Kelloche and Kellochend
Renfrew Retours (85) 1631 gives David Craufurd, heir to his grandfather, David Craufurd of Cartisburne, in 8s 10½d AE of Kelloche. In Laing Charters (2297-8) 1641 there is a precept of clare constat and instrument of sasine to the same effect – although Kelloche is also spelled Kelloch. In Renfrew Retours (77) 1629 it is spelled Killoche and accompanied by Killochend – but with no valuation. In Renfrew Retours (160) 1661 the spellings are Kelloch and Kellochend – again without valuation.
RS53 ff 4r-4v 1641 gives 8s 10⅔d Kelloche. This appears a strange figure but it represents exactly two-thirds of a merk. (Here we meet a recurring problem with expressing land-values within a currency-based system. A merk was 13s 4d, or 160d, which doesn’t divide exactly by 3 but arithmetically each third would be 4s 5⅓d (53⅓d). Two-thirds would be 8s 10⅔d (106⅔d). Pennies were divided into halves and quarters, not thirds, so it is probable that the 8s 10½d mentioned in 1631 was just an approximation of the 8s 10⅔d it should have been). Arithmetically, the balance of a 1 merkland unit would be 4s 5⅓d so perhaps this was the valuation of Killochend?
Diverts
Dowart in RSS II (4867) 1542 which might suggest Dubh + Ard (Black Point or Headland) – perhaps to match the Finnart (Finn + Ard = White Point or Headland) on the opposite side of the bay. Devert or Dwert in Roy. Divert in Ainslie.
Penny Fern
Penny Fern is unusual. At first glance we might think it was a Norse pennyland like the Kirkpenny at Inverkip or the other pennyland names in Renfrew. However it has a very low valuation at 40d or 3s 4d which seems unlikely for a pennyland farm. Another possibility is that it was once called ‘Forty-penny fern’ but has lost the number prefix. The reason for offering this suggestion is that exactly this happened with a farm in Kilbarchan parish which was once called ‘Fourty Shiling Worth’ but now just ‘Shillingworth’. If so, then what is here, is a Scots, not a Norse, unit.
Auchinfour
ER IX p 671 1466 gives a sasine to William Levingstoun of Auchinfour.
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 1, Paisley 1885, No 77, is a fuller version of the document calendared in RMS III (831) 1529. This gives £20 AE Auchinfour & Kirkpenniland.
The lands of Auchinfour are named alongside the lands of Lecheland in a charter of alienation by William, Lord Sympill (Semple), to Donald Campbell of Ardyntynny (Kilmun & Dunoon parish, Cowal) given in RSS IV (407.5) 1549. The document states ‘ac monte lie hill’ (i.e. ‘with the hill’ – in Latin and English) so the hill was obviously a significant feature of Auchinfour. Auchinfour seems to have been lost centuries ago but can be roughly located by its hill (see next entry below).
RSS IV (2271) 1553 gives £20 AE Achinfour which probably means the £20 of Achinfour and Kirkpennyland. This estate is mentioned on numerous occasions (see table above) and always with a value of £20 AE. Since Kirkpennyland was £10 it seems that Auchinfour was also £10.
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 2, pp 165-168 gives the Innerkip properties contained in the Semple Rental of 1644. Auchinfour totals £9 13s 5d. The holdings varied from 2s 6d to 40s in value. Named units are Langbankis and Knox (Knocks?).
Hill (of Auchinfour)?
This is probably the ‘Hil’ marked on Pont’s map.
ER X p 770 1495 gives a sasine to William Mur of ‘Hill de Auchinfour, Littilbettokburne, Barfarn, Kirkpennyland’.
ER XII p 712 1503 gives a sasine to Margaret Mure of ‘Hill, Auchinfoure, Litil Bettokburn, Barfarn, Kirkpennyland’. (Hill & Auchinfour are here split).
RMS II (3651) 1511 refers to lands called ‘Hill de Auchinfure, Litill Bethburn (Bethokburn), & Berferne’.
Bettok and Bettok B(urn) are marked on Pont(33), Bettok and Betrok on Blaeu(Renfrew). The Beatock Burn is marked on OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet V, 1857, in NS 2171/2170. Berfern is at NS 2071 and is mapped by Pont, Blaeu and Ainslie.
Innyrkyp (Inverkip)
RMP pp 112-113, WW Scott No 111 1173 x 1177: Baldwin, sheriff of Lanark, which shire then included Renfrew, gives the church to Paisley monastery ‘cum tota illa nummata terre inter rivulos ubi ipsa ecclesia est fundata’ (with the whole pennyland between the burns where the church is founded). OPS I p 87 identifies the burns as the Kyp and Daff. All that was excluded from the gift was the ‘tenement’ (holding) of Robert, the chaplain of Renfrew, who obviously administered in Inverkip as well. His holding was kept back whilst he lived.
RMP p 88, W.W. Scott No 81, 1241 x 14 January 1247: Alexander Stewart, son of Walter, had included in his park a portion of monastic land on the west side of the ‘Espdare’ (Espedair) burn. In exchange Alexander promised the monks as much land next to their church of ‘Innyrkyp’. Perhaps this land in Inverkip was the former ‘holding’ of Robert, the chaplain? The document is also given in AHC Volume I, No 6, with an English abstract on p 33.
RMP p 113, WW Scott No 112, 14 January 1247: Alexander Stewart, son of Walter, had included in his park a portion of monastic land on the west side of the ‘Espdar’ (Espedair) burn. The monks of Paisley had agreed and in exchange Alexander gave them as much land next to their church of ‘Innyrkyp’. This charter is very similar to the first half of the one just described and was probably written not long after.
The use of the word ‘nummata’, instead of ‘denariata’, to indicate a pennyland is confined to a relatively small number of properties on the west coast. OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet V, 1857, marks ‘Halfpenny Burn’, a tributary of Kip Water, in NS 2272. The pennyland was presumably subdivided.
GD3/1/10/92/1&2 1502 mark the sale of ‘Kirkpennyland’ as £5-10s land of Auld Extent. Fraser, Stirlings of Keir, No’s 86 (1510) & 113 (1526) show that there were two £5 units of Kirkpennyland.
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 1, Paisley 1885, No 77, is a fuller version of the document calendared in RMS III (831) 1529. This gives £20 AE Auchinfour & Kirkpenniland.
Even as late as the Hearth Tax Records of 1694 we find an entry for ‘Kirkpennie Land’ in E69/20/1/58.
The survival of the name Kirkpennyland shows that the original endowment of a ‘pennyland’ to support the church was remembered for centuries. We cannot assume the Norse settlers made that endowment. It may predate them, and they just assessed the endowment as equivalent to a pennyland.
It would be satisfying to claim that 1 Norse pennyland was equivalent to a Scots £10 land – but we cannot found an exchange mechanism on a single example. This is the only certain pennyland reference in Inverkip parish although there are pennyland names in other Renfrew parishes. The only other place-name in Inverkip which may be relevant is ‘Dafferlie’ which appears on Roy’s Protracted Copy to the NE of the Daff Water and SE of Inverkip. With a single reference there is little we can infer but it is just possible that the second element is for feoirlinn (‘farthing’ in Gaelic). This would not be the only ‘black farthing-land’ in western Scotland.
Chrisswell
Robertson’s Index p 145 refers to a charter of Robert III (c. 1469-1488) ‘of ane foundation of a chappel att Chrystswell’. The sheriffdom is left blank but it seems likely that this Christ’s Well is the one referred to. RSS I (400) 1499 is ‘A Letter of gift mad to Wilzam Danzelstoun of the kingis bred hous, – of Cristis Well besid Innerkip, vacand be the deces of umquhile schir Johne Kard’. The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue gives one of the meanings of ‘bred’ as ‘a small tablet or board serving to receive offerings to an altar, church etc.’ It appears that there was a chapel at Christswell, supported by royalty, beside what was possibly an ancient holy well. The last chaplain, John Kard (Caird?), had died and was being replaced by William Danielston. The site may have been frequented by travellers, who left signs of their appreciation after taking the water.
(For further examples of the term ‘bred’, as used in Kilbarchan, see Dodds, J. (ed.), The Diary and General Expenditure Book of William Cunningham of Craigends, kept chiefly from 1673 to 1680, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1887, pp xx, 30, 31 & 149).
More details of the foundation are provided by RSS V Part II (2837) 1566 which refers to a charter by Laurence Galt, prebendary of the prebend or chapel of Christiswell. It is to James Lindesey, chaplain, Glasgow diocese, of the 40d (AE) of the said prebend located between the lands of Spango on the east, west and south and the lands of Laven [Levan] on the north, along with the acres called the ‘Chapellandis’ lying next to the chapel of Christiswell in the parish of Inverkip. (There are two components to this grant: a 40d (or ¼ merk) unit along with a few acres by the chapel. The latter was probably supposed to feed the chaplain himself, the 40d unit was the endowment for the chapel which would also need maintenance).
The same 40d and Chapel-lands are granted again in RMS V (2051) 1591-2 because Robert Lyndsay (son of James Lyndsay of Dunrod) had resigned them in favour of Robert Stewart and Elizabeth Muir (Robert Stewart’s wife). See also Renfrew Retours (173) 1675.
A court was held at Cristiswell 21 July 1529 – see RMS III (938) 1530; another in March 1531 (with further sittings in April and May 1532 – see RMS III (1227) 1532. Also in Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 1, Paisley 1885, No 83, pp 152-159.
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 2, pp 165-168 gives the Innerkip properties contained in the Semple Rental of 1644. The teind meal and ‘beir’ (barley) from Chrystwall is mentioned on p 167.
Robertson (1818) p 424 gives ‘Christwell, or Crosswell, now Langhouse’.
(There is a Langhouse in NS 2171 which appears on Pont(33) and in Blaeu and Roy but I think this is a different place).
Chrisswell Chapel is recorded under ID 41393 (NS 228740) in the Canmore database.
The well, from which it takes its name, is recorded under ID 41383 (NS 227741) in Canmore.
Spango
Our first reference to Spango comes in a charter of Alexander III (RRS IV Part I (19) 1253) which gives a long list of lands which had been acquired by David de Graham. It includes:
Et donacionem illam quam Alexander Senescallus fecit eidem Dauid de quadam terra in Stratgrif que vocatur Spangok cum pertinenciis suis.
(And that gift which Alexander the Steward made to David of a certain land in Strath Gryffe called Spango, with its pertinents).
See also Fraser, Lennox II, No 12 & GD220/1/A/1/2/9 1253. Unfortunately we have no valuation.
ER IX p 683 1484 gives a sasine to Alison Park of Spangok, Drummulyng and Stragreif. This Alison Park was one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William Park of Park, (Erskine parish), who was crowner and mair of fee of the west ward of Strath Gryffe. He may also have held considerable lands.
The lands of Spango were later divided.
See RMS II (2649) 1502 for two Park daughters and half Spango. See also Bain, J., The Stirlings of Craigbernard and Glorat, Edinburgh, 1883, No’s 13-15, pp 73-76.
Spango-Cuningham
Laing Charters (342) 1522-3 gives 40s and 11s of Drummilling and Spangok in the lordship of Inverkip. They pertained to the Cunynghames of Achinhervie. Edward Cunynghame is being infefted. Drumillan Hill (NS 2374) lies close to Spango and the two properties were evidently linked. Despite the word-order it is probable that Spango was the more valuable of the two.
Renfrew Retours (1-4) July 27 1545 concern the division of the 51s (AE) of Drumlang and Spango-Cunynghame between four daughters of Edward Cunynghame of Auchinharvie. On 3 August 1545 these same daughters and their shares appear in ER XVIII pp 386-7. On 2 September 1545 there are sasines to these four daughters in Laing Charters (500-503).
RSS III (1741) 1546 refers to these four daughters granting their shares (each extending to 12s 9d) of Drummuling and Spango-Cunynghame to Robert Cunynghame of Auchinherwy. (4 x 12s 9d = 51s). See also Laing Charters (523) 1546.
Laing Charters (810-811) 21 October 1566 are charters by Adam Conyngham, son and apparent heir of Robert Conyngham of Auchinhervy, whereby he sold the lands of Drummulyng and Spango Conyngham to John Schaw (Shaw) of Grenok (Greenock). The reason that there are two charters is that the first excludes a 3s 4d land (40d or ¼ merk) on the east side of the lands occupied by a certain John Ewin. The second sells those 3s 4d lands just mentioned. Given the proximity between Spango and Christswell I have wondered whether these 3s 4d lands are those of Christswell but, in the absence of more data, the matter must remain unresolved. Laing Charters (1307) 1596 is a further document relating to these 3s 4d lands.
Renfrew Retours (202) 1594 gives Drummuling and Spango-Conynghame as 40s (AE).
Laing Charters (1294) 1595 gives Spangok (Schaw).
Renfrew Retours (24) 1607 gives 51s (AE) of Drummwling & Spango-Cunynghame belonging to James Schaw of Grenok, son of of John Schaw of Grenok.
Laing Charters (1918) 1623 gives John Schaw of Grenok resigning these lands in favour of himself and his heirs.
Renfrew Retours (55) 1620 gives Drummuleing & Spango-Cuninghame as 51s and also mentions 3s 4d east of house.
Renfrew Retours (56) 1620 gives Drummuleing & Spango-Cunynghame as 51s.
This 40s land of Spango-Cuningham, now sold to the Shaw family, was that part of Spango which was transferred to Greenock parish (q.v.).
Spango-Campbell
RSS IV (2271) 1553 refers to 50s land of Spangok-Campbell. The suffix indicates this was a separate property to Spango-Cunningham.
ER XX p 402 1569 refers to £3-15s of the £5 lands (AE) of Spango, Easter and Wester. The context suggests a Campbell connection.
However other evidence suggests we should keep Spango-Campbell and Wester Spango separate:
Wester Spango or Spango-Wester
RSS II (4781) 1542 refers to the 9m (AE) of:
Howmestoun, Floyteristoun, with the half myln thairof, the Clochis and the Clochtmure and the Bray and the Myllartoun, with thaire pertinentis, liand … within the parrochin of Ennerkipp, of all zeris and termes bigane that the foirnamit landis, callit commonelie Craufurds Tenement and Wester Spangok, hes bene in the handis of oure said soverane lord or his noble predecessouris … as superiouris thairof be resoun of nonentres, sen the deces of umquhile Alexander Craufurd of Cloich and the Bray.
(Howmestoun, Floyteristoun, with the half mill thereof, the Clochis and the Clochtmure and the Bray and the Myllartoun, with their pertinents, lying … within the parish of Inverkip, of all years and terms bygone that the forenamed lands, called commonly Craufurd’s Tenement and Wester Spangok, have been in the hands of our said sovereign lord or his noble predecessors … as [feudal] superiors thereof be reason of non-entrance, since the decease of umquhile [the late] Alexander Craufurd of Cloich and the Bray).
RMS III (3068) 1544-5 gives to James Craufurd, oldest ‘natural’ (i.e. illegitimate) son of James Craufurd of Spanghok, the lands of Spanghok-Wester viz.: Millertoun, Cloches & Cloch-muris, lands and mill of Flettertoun, lands of Bra & Holmistoun, extending in the whole to 9m AE.
Renfrew Retours (95) 1635 has Spangok-Wester containing the towns and lands of Millartoun, Cloches & Clochmure; Flattertoune with mill, Brae ‘de’ [read ‘and’] Holmestoune, extending in the whole to £6 AE.
Renfrew Retours (152) 1658 refers to:
the lands of Spango-wester comprehending the townes and lands of Millertoune, Cloiches, and Cloichemoores; the lands of Flattertoune; the lands of Brae and Holmestoune, extending in hail to 6 pund land of auld extent; the lands of Spango-Campbell and mylnes thereof, extending to ane 4 pund land of auld extent in the parochine of Innerkippe, all parts of the baroney of Flattertoune.
Renfrew Retours (158) 1659 is essentially the same:
the lands of Spango-Wester comprehending the tounes and lands of Millertoun, Cloichs, and Cloichmures; the lands of Flattirtoun; the lands of Brae and Holmestoun, extending to 6 pund land of auld extent, within the barronie of Renfrew; the lands of Spango-Campbell, extending to ane 4 pund land of auld extent, within the parochine of Innerkipe, parts of the baronie of Flattertoun.
From the above it appears we have three groups of properties. Spango Cunningham may have been 51s (40s Spango, 11s Drummillan). Spango-Wester (£6 or 9m AE) included Millerton, Cloch, Clochmure, Flatterton, Brae and Holmston. Spango-Campbell was a separate £4 land. (This last contradicts the evidence from 1553).
RSS VII (204) 1575 refers to £5 lands of Spango. I do not yet know how this relates to the above entries.
Purves p 161 gives Spangoks as £12 (18m).
Stewart f 50r gives Spangoks as £12 (18m).
If we count Spango-Cunningham as £2 (omitting Drummillan), and add £6 Spango-Wester plus £4 Spango-Campbell we come to £12 (18m). Spango-Wester would then be half the total and Spango was halved in or before 1502.
Levan
ER IX p 660 1447 gives a sasine to James de Mortoun of ‘Levane’.
ER XII p 712 1503 gives a sasine to Ade Mortoun of ‘Lawane’.
Levan passed from the Mortons to the Semples. Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 1, Paisley 1885, No’s 116-117, 1541, give us a glimpse of a process that seems to have started well before 1526. It is claimed that George Mortoun disponed the £10 AE land of ‘Lawane’ to William, Lord Simpill. Part of Farnyleis (Fereneze, Neilston parish) was given to George’s son, Adam Mortoun, in exchange. The dispute had a family aspect to it since it appears that George Mortoun was married to a Semple lady who had 6m of Levan in conjoint fee but had died in 1535. We learn of two parts of Levan called ‘Lavenbrais’ (Levan Braes) and ‘Lavenfeild’.
RMS III (2125) 1539-40 gives Lavane, Bargane and Lecheland.
AHC Volume II, No 141, 23 February 1552-3 has references to the lands of Laven.
RSS IV (2271) 1553 gives the lands of ‘Lavene, Bargane and Lychland’.
RMS IX (1854) 1647 on original of 1638, gives ‘Lavane, Bargaine & Leichland’.
Renfrew Retours (157) 1659 gives ‘the lands of Levaund, Bargeayne, Leitchland and Lunderstoun as pairts of the lands of Levanne’ – £10 AE.
Bargeayne is Bargane Hill in NS 2173. For Leitchland see below. Lunderstoun is now Lunderston in NS 2174 and is given as £5 in RSS IV (2271) 1553.
Castle Levan (NS 215763) is recorded under ID 41324 in the Canmore database.
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 2, pp 165-168 gives the Innerkip properties contained in the Semple Rental of 1644. Lavin’s total was £7 10s 4d and shows the property much subdivided. The units varied in size from 1s (to William Tailyor) to at least 20s. Some of the units are named: Eist Lavin, Mayneis (Mains), Litleyaird, Lavinbanks, Leitchland.
The teind meal and ‘beir’ (barley) from Bargayne is mentioned on p 167 – separately from Lavin.
Crawfurd, 1710, refers to Leven on two occasions:
Firstly, p 65, – square brackets are mine. Crawfurd often abbreviated ‘anno’ (i.e. ‘year’) to ‘an.’
Near to this lie the Lands of Easter-Walkingshaw, which went early, by Marriage of one of the Co-heiresses of that Ancient Family, to the Mortons. The First of this Family I have found mentioned is Robert Morton of Walkingshaw, who is Recorded an Arbiter betwixt the Abbot of Pasly and the Burgh of Renfrew, an[no] 1488 (l). Adam Morton obtained from Robert, Abbot of Pasly, a Charter of his Lands of Easter-Walkingshaw, an[no] 1511 (m). As another Adam Morton, whom I have found designed of Leven and Walkingshaw, alienate the 10 lib. Land of Leven in Innerkip, to William Lord Semple, an[no] 1547 (n).
Footnotes are: (l) Chartulary of Pasly [see RMP pp 406-7]; (m) Chartulary of Pasly; (n) Carta Joh. Stewart Junioris de Blackhall [i.e. Charter, John Stewart, junior, of Blackhall].
Secondly, p 93:
At Gourrock the River of Clyde taketh its Course Southward; upon the Shoar stands the ruinous Castle of Leven, an Ancient Possession of a Family of the Sirname of Morton, which failed in the Person of Adam Morton of Leven, who alienated these Lands an[no] 1547 to William Lord Semple (x). Robert Lord Semple disponed the Lands of Leven to Andrew Master of Semple, his Uncle, in the Year 1584. (y)
Footnotes: (x) Carta penes Dom. Archib. Stewart de Blackhall [i.e. Charter in possession of Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall]; (y) Carta penes Francisc. D. Semple [i.e. Charter in possession of Francis, Lord Semple].
Crawfurd’s dates for the Semple takeover of Levan are a little later than those I have given above.
Leitchland
Lecheland is named alongside the lands of Auchinfour in a charter of alienation by William, Lord Sympill (Semple), to Donald Campbell of Ardyntynny (Kilmun & Dunoon parish, Cowal) given in RSS IV (407.5) 1549. Leitchland is given as one of the components of Lavin (Levan, q.v.) in the Semple Rental of 1644, p 166. It is given as part of Levan in Renfrew Retours (157) 1659.
The first element in this place-name might suggest Gaelic léich (physician) but it could equally well be the Old English word for a doctor. The second element is the English word ‘land’. There is another place with the same name near Paisley. (The Leitchland in Inverkip is Leechtown in Ainslie’s map of 1796).
Brousterland
RH1/2/627 1283-1294 is (according to the NRS catalogue entry) a Charter by James the Steward of Scotland to Thomas, called the Brewster, of the land near Paisley called Sauserland, with pasture in the Park of Black Hall and the Rais. The original document is noted as in the possession of the Ardgowan Estate Office. Ragman Rolls notes a ‘Thomas le Brewester de la foreste de Passeleye’ (Thomas the Brewer of the forest of Paisley) in 1296. Is this the same man? Is he behind the Brousterland in Inverkip?
ER IX p 664 1456 is a sasine to William Lounders of the land of Brousterland. The surname suggests a link to Lunderston (Lunder’s toun or Londrys’ toun) and it is possible that Brousterland was near, or possibly even another name for, Lunderston.
ER VI p 152 1456 also mentions Brousterland and the sasine to William Lowndris.
The following entry shows that Lunderston was already divided into six parts by about 1500. ER XI p 466 1501 is a note of a sasine to Nicholas Knelandis of the lands of ‘Lundoris landis, with ane memoriall concerning the same’. Given that the Lounders family estate was partitioned, possibly by 1379, then perhaps this memorial explained it.
There is also a Browsterland in Lanarkshire (RMS III (670) 1528, RSS II (3883) 1540-1).
Lunderston
RMS I (673) 1379 is to Thomas de Londrys, son of John de Londrys – which family evidently gave their name to the settlement.
RSS I (644) 1500-1 refers to 1/6th of Lunderston which had belonged to the late Jonet Lunderis, one of the portioners (part-heiresses) of the town.
ER XVIII p 494 1550 refers to a 1/6th part of Lunderstoun extending to 4s AE. This would suggest a total of 24s (6 x 4s).
ER XVIII p 558 1553 refers to what looks to be a separate 1/6th part of Lunderstoun. No extent is given.
RSS IV (2974) 1555 refers to a 3s 9d share of Lundirstoun.
ER XX p 530 1578 also refers to a 1/6th part of Lundersland – apparently shared between 3 sisters.
RMS IV (2884) 1579 refers to 1/6th of Lunderstoun extending to 3s 9d AE. (On this basis the whole of Lunderstoun = 6 x 3s 9d or 22s 6d).
RMS IV (2941) 1579, on original of 12 November 1578, refers to 1/6th of Lunderstoun extending to 3s 9d AE.
RMS IV (2942) 1579, on original of 12 November 1578, refers to 1/6th of Lunderstoun extending to 3s 9d AE.
RMS IV (2943) 1579, on original of 12 November 1578, refers to 1/6th of Lunderstoun extending to 3s 9d AE.
Renfrew Retours (15) 1603 gives James Jamesoun as heir to his father, John, in 1/6th of Lunderstoun extending to 3s 9d AE.
Renfrew Retours (46) 1617 gives John Chryistiswell as heir to his father, John, in 1/6th of Lunderstoun extending to 3s 9d AE.
RMS IX (107) 1634 refers to 4/6ths (the parts lying adjacent) of Lundaristoun and Halkisland extending to 22s 8d land.
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 2, pp 165-168 gives the Innerkip properties contained in the Semple Rental of 1644. The teind meal and ‘beir’ (barley) from Lunderstoun is mentioned on p 168 – but it is noted that it was not a Semple property.
Renfrew Retours (152) 1658 refers to 4/6ths of Lunderstoune and Haulkislands extending to 22s 8d land.
Renfrew Retours (158) 1659 refers to 4/6ths of Lunderstoun and Haulkstane extending to 22s 8d land.
There is some arithmetic incongruity here between RMS IV (2884) 1579 and Renfrew Retours (152) 1658, (158) 1659. I cannot explain why 4/6ths of Lunderstoun = 22s 8d. (If that was the case then the whole of Lunderston would extend to 34s). If however the whole of Lunderstoun only came to 22s 8d then the explanation for part of the arithmetic puzzle is in the loss of a fraction of a penny. (This is not the only place where such a loss takes place). If 1/6th was actually 3s 9⅓d then the whole of Lunderstoun would be 22s 8d.
RSS IV (2271) 1553 refers to the £5 land of Lundarstoun.
Purves p 161 gives Lundrisland as £1 4s (1m 10s 8d).
Stewart f 50r gives Lundresland as 24s (1m 10s 8d).
I am not certain of the total assessment of Lunderstoun since the figure of £5 given in 1553 may have included other properties. Lunderston was itself part of the £10 of Levan.
Flatterton
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 2, pp 165-168 gives the Innerkip properties contained in the Semple Rental of 1644. The teind meal and ‘beir’ (barley) from ‘Fflattertoun’ or ‘Flattirtowne’ is mentioned on p 168 – but it is noted that it was not a Semple property.
Dunrod
ER IX p 663 1455 gives a sasine to Alexander Lindesay of Dunrod.
RSS I (2459) 1512 gives ‘the lands of Dunrod on the south side of the Water of Kip, viz. Edisholme, le Clochrety and le Quarter’. (Clochrety is likely to be Clocherlee (q.v.)).
RMS III (670) 1528 gives the lands and mill of Dunrod as £10 AE.
RSS II (3883) 1540-1 gives Dunrod as £10 AE.
RMS III (2300) 1540-1 gives Dunrod as £10 AE.
RSS III (165) 1542-3 concerns a charter of the liferent of £5 land AE of Dunrod by Robert Lindesay to Elizabeth Schaw, daughter of Alexander Schaw of Sauchy.
RMS IV (2944) 1579 (on original of 1576) concerns a charter of sale by Robert Lindesay of Dunrod to his wife Elizabeth Schaw, in liferent, of £10 AE of Dunrod. The witnesses include Sir James Schaw of Sauchy.
Renfrew Retours (204) April 1591 gives John Lindsay as heir to Robert Lindesay, his brother, in £10 AE of Dunrod.
ER XXII p 452 10 June 1591 shows Elizabeth Schaw still enjoying her liferent although she was now a widow.
Renfrew Retours (12) 1602 gives Alexander Lyndsay as heir to his father John in £10 AE of Dunrod.
Argyll Sasines II (92) 1620 refers to £10 Dunrod in Renfrewshire.
RMS VIII (725) 1621 refers to £10 AE of Dunrod.
Renfrew Retours (152) 1658 gives £10 AE Dunrod.
Renfrew Retours (158) 1659 gives £10 AE Dunrode.
Purves p 161 gives Dunrod as £10 (15m).
Stewart f 50r gives Dunrod as £10 (15m).
Ardgowan
RMS I App 2 Index A No 1798 and Index B No 52 (reign of Robert III) give John Stewart of Ardcollane/Ardcowan in barony of Inuerkip.
RSS II (3371) 1539-40 gives £5 Ardgowane with tower, park, grain and waulk mills.
ER XVIII p 556 1553 gives £5 AE Argowane in similar terms.
RMS IV (2985) 1579-80, on original of 1574, gives £5 AE Ardgowane
ER XXII p 441 1590 gives £5 Argowane
Renfrew Retours (152) 1658 gives £5 Ardgowane, as does (158) 1659.
£5 Ardgowan in the Cartulary of Pollok-Maxwell, p 54 No 3 1785, p 308 No 3, 1785 & No 5, 1795.
Glasgow City Archives hold estate papers for Ardgowan (1390-1890) – see under NRAS1847 (National Register of Archives – available as an online catalogue through the National Records of Scotland).
In the above examples Ardgowan is usually listed as part of a £20 AE estate which comprised 4 x £5 units: Ardgowan, Blakhall, Aikingowyn and Fennok. Ardgowan and Fennok were in Inverkip parish, Blackhall in Paisley parish, Achingowan in Lochwinnoch parish.
Purves p 161 gives Blackhall, Argownie, Auchingown and Fermock as £20 (30m).
Stewart f 49v gives Blakhall, Argownne, Aughingowne and Fi(n)nok as £20 (30m).
Finnock
ER IX p 671 1466 gives a sasine to John Bannochtin of Fennokkelly. (This will be Finnock & Kelly – combined as one word).
ER XII p 717 1505 gives a sasine to Alexander Bannachtyn of Fennok, Kells (i.e. Finnock & Kelly).
RMS II (285) 1443-4 gives Fennok – but with no valuation.
RSS II (3371) 1539-40 gives £5 Fennok.
RSS III (2998) 1548 gives £5 AE of the two Fynnokis, viz. Ovir Fynnok and Nethir Fynnok in the barony of Ardgowane.
RMS IV (2985) 1579-80, on original of 1574, gives £5 AE Fennok
Renfrew Retours (152) 1658 gives £5 Finnocke.
Renfrew Retours (158) 1659 gives £5 AE Finnock.
Purves p 161 gives Blackhall, Argownie, Auchingown and Fermock as £20 (30m).
Stewart f 49v gives Blakhall, Argownne, Aughingowne and Fi(n)nok as £20 (30m).
We have numerous other references to these 4 properties (Blackhall, Paisley; Ardgowan, Inverkip; Auchingown, Lochwinnoch; and Finnock, Inverkip, as a £20 estate.
The evidence in the Retours suggests Finnock Bog was included in the assessment of Kelly rather than with the other parts of Finnock. See under Kelly below.
Kelly
ER IX p 671 1466 gives a sasine to John Bannochtin of Fennokkelly. (This will be Finnock & Kelly – combined as one word).
ER XII p 717 1505 gives a sasine to Alexander Bannachtyn of Fennok, Kells (i.e. Finnock & Kelly).
Renfrew Retours (21) 1606 gives 5m AE Kellie & Fynnoakbog. However, the summary gives AE £5 so I think the reference to merklands was simply a mistake.
Renfrew Retours (74) 1628 gives £5 AE Kelly & Fynnockboge.
Laing Charters (2025) 1629 gives half of £5 Kellie.
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to the County of Renfrew, Parish of Lochwinnoch: Volume 2, pp 165-168 gives the Innerkip properties contained in the Semple Rental of 1644. The teind meal and ‘beir’ (barley) from Kellie is mentioned on p 168 – but it is noted that it was not a Semple property.
Renfrew Retours (153) 1658 gives £5 AE Kellie & Finnochbog.
Purves p 161 gives Kellie Bannatyne as £5 (7½m).
Stewart f 50r gives Kellie Bannotyne as £5 (7½m).
Garvock
See Garvock under the Greenock table for an explanation of how Garvock ended up being partitioned between Greenock and Inverkip.
OSA Vol 5 No 40 (1793) p 568, in the account of Greenock parish, states Garvock was ‘partly in the parish of Innerkip’.
It was linked with the Houstoun family and our earliest reference is in 1529 where RMS III (817) gives Garvok as £10 New Extent. References to New Extent are very uncommon in Renfrew and I do not know how this valuation relates to Garvock’s Old Extent.
RSS II (4627) 1542 refers to the 5m of Garvok Ester and Wester, lying within the lordship of Houstoun. ER XVIII p 412 1547 also refers to the lands of Westir Gervok and Estir Gervok – belonging to the Houstouns. No valuation is given.
RMS IV (537) 1550 confirms to Patrick Houstoun, and his wife, Janet Cuningham, 40s AE of Garvok. (At £2 this may only have been half of Garvock).
Renfrew Retours (10) 1600 gives £4 AE of Eister & Wester Garvok.
Renfrew Retours (33) 1610 gives £4 AE of Eister & Wester Garvock.
RMS VIII (1126) 1627 gives £4 AE Eister & Wester Garvock.
RMS XI (538) 1663 purports to give a valuation but is plainly garbled.
Most documents give Garvock (composed of two parts) as £4 or 6m. The earliest document gives it as 5m. I have favoured the earliest evidence.
The NSA, Greenock, 1840, pp 454-455, states:
In 1650, the Court of Teinds and Plantation of Kirks disjoined the estate of Garvock from the parish of Houston, and annexed the lands of Lees, Duras, Darnemes, and Fallow-hills, being one-half of said estate, to Greenock, and the other half, namely, Rodgertown and Wester Garvock, to Inverkip. This decree was confirmed by another in 1669.
There is discussion of several of these names under the Greenock table. ‘Fallow-hills’ gives us a problem.
Pont(33) and Blaeu(Renfrew) mark ‘Hollouhils’; Gordon(55) gives ‘Hollowhills’; all located south of Shaws (NS 255733). Roy(PC) gives ‘Fallow hills’ south of ‘Killoch head’ (now Killochend). Ainslie(1796) gives Fallahills just east of (North) Rotten Burn and south of Killochend. It is probably c. NS 2571/2572 underneath what is now Loch Thom. The problem is that Ainslie clearly marks it in Inverkip parish, not Greenock.
Rodgertown is elusive. Pont(33) marks ‘Rogerstou’ south of ‘Hollouhils’ and north of ‘Garvok’. Blaeu(Renfrew) does likewise but calls it ‘Rocerstoun’. Gordon(55) marks ‘Rogerstoun’ south of ‘Hollowhills’. Unfortunately, after that it disappears from the map. It was probably c. NS 2571.
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