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.  …

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 ?  …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Were there carucates and bovates in Renfrewshire?   The contention here is that carucates and bovates were not part of the earliest land-assessment system in this part of Scotland. We have carucates (Englished from Latin carrucata or carucata) and bovates…

Early Christian Renfrewshire   This summary does not pretend to be an exhaustive discussion of Early Christian Renfrewshire. It merely draws attention to a number of place-names and dedications that enhance our picture of the religious situation prior to the…

Crukysfu etc   We have three assessments of major units of land in Renfrewshire. We learn of the 100m unit of Eaglesham, the (possible) 100m unit of Erskine and the £100 (150m) unit of Crukysfu. These estates would have been…