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 ?  
Greenock 63m Pennyfern (very doubtful) Goldinhaddok?

Cornhaddock?

 
Houstoun & Killallan 128½m   Haddockston?  
Inchinnan 80m      
Inverkip c. 142m Halfpenny Burn, Dafferlie? Spangock? ‘Halfpenny Burn’, a tributary of Kip Water.
Kilbarchan 170½m Pannell, Hairis Pennell    
Kilmacolm 146m + Pennytersal, Dippany   This is a minimum figure.
Lochwinnoch 175m 12s      
Mearns 240m     This is taken from Purves & Stewart.
Neilston 137m 8s 8d      
Paisley 326m 4s 6d      
Port Glasgow c. 15m?      
Renfrew 89½m      
Total 2125m Whole numbers added only   Includes 15m Port Glasgow.

 

What conclusions can we draw from this table?

Paisley is substantially the most valuable parish in Renfrewshire. Was there once another parish within the area of Abbey parish? We have no evidence for it but such could have been obscured by the growth of the monastery and burgh. We have other local Kil-names, (from Gaelic cille a cell or church), such as Kilbride and Kilmoluag, where no parish survives.

It is interesting how many parishes come between 100-200m. Cathcart is smaller, but we are not including the part of Cathcart that lies in Lanarkshire.

Port Glasgow and Greenock should really fall under Kilmacolm and Inverkip respectively.

 

Do we have any other figures we can use for comparison or validation?

Purves’s total, excluding Lanarkshire items, excluding also Knockmaid = £1190 0s 6d.

Stewart’s total, excluding Lanarkshire items, excluding also Knockmaid = £1235 13s 10d (>1853½m). This number aligns quite well with the total in the table above.

(The main difference between Purves and Stewart is because Purves’s source misread Finlaystoun-Maxwell as 50s rather than £50).

 

The returns to parliament in 1366 only show the ‘true value’ for Renfrewshire at £535 9s 8d. It was then part of Lanarkshire which is listed separately as £4057 9s 0d Auld Extent and £1755 19s 8d ‘true value’. The ratio of former to latter is about 2.31:1.

If we assumed that a similar ratio prevailed in Renfrewshire then a computed total for Renfrewshire’s Auld Extent would be about £1236 or c. 1854 merks. This is strikingly close to Stewart’s figure and a little under the total in the table.

 

The return to the 1366 Parliament, set beside Stewart’s total, and the figure in the table above, are mutually supportive.

 

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