Port Glasgow
| Name | Value | Date | Grid Ref | Map Sources | Other forms, comments etc |
| Newark Castle | NS 3274 | Blaeu(Renfrew)
Roy(PC & FC) Ainslie(1796) |
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| West Dougliehill
East Dougliehill |
NS 3173
NS 3173/3273 |
Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Ainslie(1796) |
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| Devol | NS 3273 | Roy(PC & FC)
Ainslie(1796) |
Deval & Devils Glen in Roy. West & East Divel in Ainslie. | ||
| Braehead | NS 3273 | Pont(33)
Blaeu(Renfrew) Roy(PC) Ainslie(1796) |
Brehead in Pont & Blaeu.
Braehead in Ainslie. |
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| Dubbs | NS 3273/3373 | Roy(PC)
Ainslie(1796) OS 6” 1857 |
OS 6” 1st Series Renfrewshire Sheet II, 1857. | ||
| Total | 20s + | See below. |
ER IX p 683 1484 gives a sasine to Patrick Maxvell of Meikle Dowald.
RMS II (1612) 1484-5 tells us that two-thirds of the lands of Dowwald-Litill, Dowwald-Mekil and Duchilhill, extended annually to 10 merks (except for the 20s lands called ‘le Wod’, within which the ‘place’ (i.e. manor-site) of Newerk (Newark) was situated’.
RMS II (2061) 1491 repeats this with a few spelling variants.
RMS II (2214) 1494, on an original of 1492, concerns the place and manor of Newerk and 1 merkland AE lying next to its wood, within the barony of Finlawstoun-Maxwell. This merkland is likely the one which is described in RMS XI (1126) 1668.
RMS XI (1126) 1668 describes, in great detail, the boundaries of a one-merkland (AE) unit sold by Sir Patrick Maxwell of Newark to the burgh of Glasgow.
For early documents which mention places in this parish see also under Kilmacolm parish.
It is difficult to draw conclusions about total extent from the above documents. We have only two firm statements of extent. The wood wherein Newark lay was 20s. The place (i.e. manor-place) lay within that 20s but I am not certain if the 1 merkland mentioned in 1494, and sold in 1668, was within that 20s or right beside it.
More problematic is the valuation of ‘Dowwald-Litill, Dowwald-Mekil and Duchilhill’. Was it the two-thirds that was worth 10m p.a. – or the whole property? Was it the case that the annual silver rent then equalled the land-assessment valuation? It is quite possible, but without further evidence we can say little more.
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