The History of Dumbartonshire, civil, ecclesiastical, and territorial. ... Second edition

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THE HISTORY OF DUMBARTONSHIRE. THE HISTORY OF DUMBARTONSHIRE, CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND TERRITORIAL; WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL FAMILIES IN THE COUNTY: THE WHOLE BASED ON AUTHENTIC RECORDS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. By JOSEPH IRVING. SECOND EDITION. DUMBARTON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. MDCCCLX THIS WORK CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS IN LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND GLASGOW. BELL AND BAIN, PRINTERS, GLASGOW. TO ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, ESQ OF BARNHILL ♦ Dear Sir. 'I You were pleased to permit the Writer to dedicate to you the First Edition of the History of Dumbartonshire. That it may he not less worthy of your countenance in its new and enlarged form, is the sincere wish of Your most obedient Servant, JOSEPH IRVING. Dumbarton, November, 1859. h cjjje baits, throujjlj (rihirj) ntg fatarg sirps $ 9UE*>< gn ibis [realm of olb antiqutfg], girt sa mcebing spations anb togbe, §mb sprituhltb fcith suth stotei barietg 01 all tl^ai pleasant is to tare or tge, Ebai |, nigb rabisbt toitb rare thoughts belig^t, gfln tciious trabell boe forget ihercbn ; §lnb, fallen | 'gin to fecit btrag of might, gt sirtngtlj to mt supplies anb tgms mg bulleb sprigs. Sj)t <f aerie (SJiietite.

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. On the completion of the first Edition of the History of Dumbarton shire, and incited, no doubt, by the favourable manner in which it wai received, the Author set about making new collections relating to the County, devoting special attention to the municipal and ecclesiastical records connected with the Burgh of Dumbarton, and to such details illustrative of the transmission of property and the history of the old families in the district as had been necessarily excluded by the limited design of his first volume. In all this he was so successful, that by the time the first Edition became exhausted he was in possession of a mass of local gleanings which would of themselves have been a useful contribution to topographical literature. It was judged advisable, however, to incorporate the whole in a " History of Dumbartonshire," which would be so extended and remodelled as to embrace the new matter without incongruity.

The result is the present volume. It bears a title similar to the first, but almost every page has been re-written. The first twelve chapters embrace what may be called the history of the County generally, from the earliest period to the middle of the eighteenth century; the next three bear more particularly on the burgh and parish of Dumbarton. The following section, relating to the parishes in the County, contains such details as appeared to merit the attention of a local historian regarding origin and boundaries, remarkable events and interesting antiquities, the transmission of property and succession in families. The Appendix is composed in a great measure of extracts from the old municipal records of the Burgh of Dumbarton ; but certain of the other documents following these extracts will be found to throw light on various events alluded to in the text, and all, without exception, were thought to possess such interest as warranted

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. VIII their insertion in that portion of the volume. The " Garland," if a new feature in a County history, will, it is hoped, not be unacceptable to those interested in the old literature of the Lennox. The Index — without which books of reference are useless — has been constructed on the most comprehensive prin ciple, embracing as it does the name of every person, place, or occurrence referred to in the text. The principal sources from which the materials of this History have been derived are referred to in notes throughout the book; but it may not be considered improper to state here generally, that beside the more evident helps existing in the shape of printed collections of Histories, Cartularies, and Memoirs, a careful examination has been made of the numerous records, municipal, legal, and ecclesiastical, in possession of the Burgh of Dumbar ton ; several volumes of State Papers relating to Scotland, preserved in Her Majesty's State Paper Office, London, have been gone over, and much curious information gleaned from them relating to the County and Castle of Dumbarton ; certain of the national records preserved in the Register House, Edinburgh, have also been consulted, and freely used — sometimes from copies printed by authority, not unfrequently from well authenticated transcripts.

In the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, a collection, known as the Dennistoun MSS., compiled by the late James Dennistoun, Esq. of Den nistoun, has been of essential service, particularly in reference to local family history and the changes in the ownership of property. This portion of the Work is not only based upon Mr. Dennistoun's researches, but it is in a great measure the work of this accomplished antiquarian. In arranging and com bining these materials together, it is hoped something has been done towards completing the design announced in the prospectus, of adding to topo graphical literature a volume which, while it would be interesting in an especial degree to Dumbartonshire people, would at the same time commend itself to those whose studies take a wider range, and who are not indisposed to look with regret upon the little that has been done towards arranging and illustrating the provincial annals of Scotland. While carrying on single-handed an arduous undertaking of this kind, the Author has been frequently obliged to private parties for the communi-

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. IX cation of documents which tended not only to lighten his labour, but to enlarge his knowledge. Among those to whom he is thus indebted he records with much pleasure the names of Alexander Smollett, Esq., Cameron House; A. J. Dennistoun Brown, Esq., Balloch Castle; David Laing, Esq., Signet Library, Edinburgh; and Mrs. Dennistoun of Dennistoun. To Dr. Syme, East Kilpatrick, Clerk of the Presbyter}' of Dumbarton, the Author is indebted for such information from the Presbytery records as enabled him to complete the succession of ministers in certain parishes. He has to acknowledge the kindness of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Dumbarton, for the freedom allowed in examining and transcribing numerous records belonging to that burgh ; and to renew his thanks to H. W. Campbell, Esq., Croslet, for many communications, oral and written, relating to Dumbartonshire; to Samuel Halkett, Esq., Advocates' Library, Edinburgh; to John Denny, Esq., Town-Clerk of Dumbarton; to John Buchanan, Esq., Glasgow; and to Dr. Buchanan, Knoxland.

For cour tesies at H. M. State Paper Office, the Author is under great obligations to William Noel Sainsbury, Esq. ; and for the permission (readily given) to sketch certain Roman remains from the " Caledonia Romana," the writer begs to return his warmest thanks to Mrs. Stuart, Glasgow. To Messrs. Virtue, London, the Author is indebted for the use of the plates of Dumbarton Castle and Loch Lomond; and to Mr. H. G. Bohn, London, for the portrait of Dr. Tobias Smollett. The following remarks from the preface to the first Edition of the His tory of Dumbartonshire are not out of place with reference to the volume now submitted to the reader : — " In the general portion of the History it will readily be observed that the events, though admitted to be important enough in themselves, are not exhibited in that harmonious and connected manner — springing, as it were, out of each other — which is so desirable where history is really intended to teach.

Looking at the matter in a purely literary light, the defect is one which it would be unbecoming either to palliate or defend ; and in ordinary historical works it could not be indulged in without serious detriment to their usefulness. With local histories, however, the case is somewhat different.

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. X The field here is limited, while the incidents are so varied and multifarious, that, paradoxical as it may appear, the only course by which unity could be secured would be to break up the narrative into numerous distinct compart ments, under which the different events might be classified. In a work so extremely limited in design as a local history, this plan was open to numerous grave objections. The chapters relating to distinct departments of history would have been so numerous, and the transition from one tc another in some instances so violent, that the plan could hardly be said to be an improvement on the one adopted; and it is not improbable that, comprehensive as it seems, a strict adherence to it might have led to the exclusion of certain incidents altogether. Defective, therefore, as his scheme may appear, it was not without serious consideration that the Author judged it advisable to sacrifice mere unity in design to fulness and completeness in the aggregate, and arranged his narrative of events with a greater regard to its chronologic than strict historic sequence.

" Regarding the difficulties under which his design has been accomplished, it becomes an author to speak briefly and modestly — in a manner that, while it will not lay him open to the charge of egotism on the one hand, will not, on the other, by magnifying these difficulties, seek to disarm sound and legitimate criticism. So far as difficulties were concerned, the Author had to encounter those of a character which made it something like presump tion in him to undertake the work at all. In the first place, he was unconnected with the County either by birth or relationship, — was indeed a comparative stranger ; and then his previous studies, though probably tending in the right enough direction, had not been carried to such a point as gave him much confidence in undertaking the arduous and responsible task.

Before he had proceeded very far in his labour, however, he received such encouraging tokens of approval from those whose good opinion he most valued, that the work was continued and completed with more confidence than it had been commenced. To what extent he has succeeded he leaves the reader to determine ; nor has he any desire to warp his judgment by a further detail of personal matters which have no very direct bearing upon this publication.

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. XI " Till the appearance of the present volume there was absolutely no ' Histoiy of Dumbartonshire ' in existence, nor any single compilation which even indirectly supplied such a want. Not that there was any lack of materials ; for, to his astonishment, the Author found that their abundance was the principal difficulty he had to contend with; nor could it be said that the County was in any sense unimportant in a historical point of view, as he is vain enough to believe that the following pages will be a sufficient refutation of that idea. The field being thus almost untrodden, the Author of the present volume had not only to pioneer a path for himself as he proceeded, but was called upon to make that path so marked and attractive, that to the student of local or general history it might furnish at some portion of its route a well-defined starting-point for fresh discoveries.

" Of the ample stores of information placed at his disposal by private parties, the Author hopes he has availed himself with a fulness tempered by discretion. With documents relating to famdy history, it was particularly requisite to observe a principle of this kind; but still, while giving due weight to such a consideration, the Author, in every case where the claims were antagonistic, chose rather to forego the advantages wliich might be supposed likely to ensue from suppression, than to cripple in any way details of real historic interest. " Though very far from having exhausted the sources of information, the Author has carefully examined such as were known to him, and as the Notes will show, numerous illustrations of Dumbartonshire history have been gleaned from quarters where such information could hardly be expected to be found.

" In returning his thanks to the noblemen and gentlemen of the County generally for the countenance they have given to ' The History of Dumbar tonshire,' the Author is proud to have this opportunity of recording the particular obligation under which he hes to Alexander Campbell, Esq. of Barnhill (to whom this volume is dedicated); to H. W. Campbell, Esq. of Croslet, for the numerous illustrations furnished by him of the ancient and modern history of a County in which for a long lifetime he has taken a warm

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. XII interest; to the late Very Reverend Principal Macfarlan, D.D., Glasgow, for his promptness in according permission to consult such books and manuscripts in the University Library as might be supposed likely to throw fight upon the history of Dumbartonshire; to Samuel Halkett, Esq., Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, for his courtesy and attention to the Author when consulting books and manuscripts in that noble collection; to John Denny, Esq., Town- Clerk of Dumbarton, for the freedom with which he granted permission to examine the numerous important documents connected with the Burgh of Dumbarton, of which he is the custodier; to the shipbuilders of Dumbarton for their kindness in furnishing the Statistics comprising the twentieth chapter of this volume; to the different manufacturers in the County for information furnished by them concerning their estabbshments; and also to Mark Napier, Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh; Joseph Robertson, Esq., Register House, Edinburgh; John Buchanan, Esq., Glasgow; Robert Napier, Esq., Shandon ; Peter Denny, Esq., Dumbarton ; Dr. R. Buchanan, Knoxland ; Alexander Denny, Esq. ; James Denny, Esq. ; W. S. Daniel, Esq. ; R. G. Mitchell, Esq. ; and William Paterson, Esq., — Dumbarton." Dumbarton, November, 1859. CONTENTS.

Chapter I

Roman Period — a.d. 81 to a.d. 446. Introductory Observations — Situation, Boundaries, and Division of the County — South- Eastern portion occupied by the Romans under Agricola — The Native Tribes — Disturbed state of the County during this period — The Wall of Antoninus — Antiquities discovered along its route — Roman province of Valentia — Theodosia — Honorius withdraws the Roman troops from Britain — Ancient Inhabitants of Dumbartonshire — Their Customs, Government, and Religion. Page 1 — 22.

Chapter II

The Kingdom of Strathclyde — 450 to 975. Obscurity in which the history of this period is involved — Extent of the Strathclyde kingdom — Dr. Jamieson's theory as to the termination of the Roman Wall — Dumbarton the Alcluid of the Britons — Early rulers of Strathclyde — Caunus — Hoel — Arthur and Merlin — Rydericb and Kentigern — Dunwallon — The Britons subdued by the Scots ■under Kenneth III.— Progress of Christianity — Laws and learning during the period. Page 23— 4L

Chapter III

976 to 1329. The Scots occupy Dumbarton — Danes continue to ravage the west coast — Origin and succession of the early Earls of Lennox — Copy of the charter conferred by Alexander II. upon Dumbarton in 1221 — Disputes at this period between the burgesses of Dumbarton and the Bishop's men of Glasgow, as to the navigation of the Clyde — Haco, the Norwegian king, enters Lochlong and Lochlomond, and lays waste the surrounding country — Unsettled state of Scotland on the death of Alexander III. — Competition for the Crown, and subsequent struggle for independence — Allegiance to Edward I. by Dumbartonshire families — Walter de Dunfres, Parson of Dumbarton — The career of Wallace — Captured near Glasgow, and confined in Dumbarton Castle — Menteith, governor " of the Castle — Observations on the conduct of Menteith — The Wallace Sword in tho Castle— Robert Bruce crowned king — His wanderings in Dumbartonshire — Romantic occurrence on Lochlomond side — Brace's residence and death at Cardross. Page 42 — 67. <: CONTENTS. XIV

Chapter IV

1330 to 1437. Regencies of Randolph and Mar — Battle of Halidon Hill — Prince David and his consort leave Dumbarton for France — The young Stewart takes refuge in the Castle — Opportune arrival of supplies in the harbour — David's return to his dominions — The tragedy of Catherine Mortimer — Imprisonment of the Earl of Angus in Dumbarton Castle — Sir Robert Erskine — Walter de Danyelstone, the warlike Bishop — Succession of the old Earls of Lennox — Roll of Charters referring to Dumbartonshire — Extirpation of the male line of the Lennox family by James I. — The Duchess Isabella fqjinds the Collegiate Church in Dumbarton. Page 68 — 82.

Chapter V

1437 to 1542. Dumbarton Castle again annexed to the Crown — Sempill the governor slain — Narrative of the disputed succession to the Earldom of Lennox — Rebellious proceedings of John, Lord Darnley — Siege of the Castle — Surrenders to King James IV. — Dumbarton made a naval station — The Lennox men at Flodden — The Castle taken by surprise — Arrival of John, Duke of Albany — Imprisonment of the Earl of Lennox — Western tour of James V. — Arrival at Dumbarton — Calamitous overthrow of the Scottish army, and death of the king — Extracts from the Lord Treasurer's books, showing the expenses incurred by the king in Dumbarton — Death of James V. Page 83 — 101.

Chapter VI

1543 to 1567. The infant Mary succeeds to the Crown — Project of Henry VIII. to unite the two kingdoms — Arrival of the French king's supplies at Dumbarton — Proceedings of Matthew, Earl of Lennox — Is admitted into Dumbarton Castle, but afterwards ejected by the deputy-governor — the Castle besieged and taken by the Queen's party — Queen Mary embarks at Dumbarton for France — Arran obtains the governorship of the Castle — The Queen returns to her dominions — Visits Dumbarton — Restoration of the Earl of Lennox — Queen Mary's marriage to Darnley — John Elder of Dumbarton Collegiate Church — Murder of Darnley — Disturbed state of the country — The Earl of Murray holds a court of the Sheriffdoms of Dumbarton and Renfrew — Convention of the Queen's Lords at Dumbarton, aud copy of the bond agreed upon. Page 102 — 118.

Chapter VII

1567 to 1603. Queen Mary, on escaping from Lochleven, seeks to reach Dumbarton — Battle of Langside The Clan Farlane — Dumbarton Castle kept by John, Lord Fleming, on behalf of Queen Mary— Mary's letter to Queen Elizabeth regarding the governor of Dumbarton Castle— CONTENTS. XV Besieged by Murray — Obligations incurred by the Regent at the siege — Taken by surprise during the regency of Lennox — Account of the " Surprise " by Crawford of Jordanhill — Inventory of stores found — Outrage on the English Ambassador before Dumbarton Castle — Letter from Queen Elizabeth regarding the capture of Dumbarton — The Regent Morton imprisoned in Dumbarton — Conduct of Cunninghame of Drumquhassil — Changes in the Lennox succession — Trade between Dumbarton and Glasgow — Letter from King James to the burgesses of Dumbarton — Campbell of Ardkinlass attacked in Dumbarton — The king prepares to embark at Dumbarton for the Isles. Page 119 — 141.

Chapter VIII

The Conflict at Glenfruin ; its Causes and Consequences — 1 G03. The Macgregors and Macfarlanes — Alliance between the Macgregors aud M'Aulay of Ardincaple — Copy of the bond drawn up between them — Origin of the feud between the Clangregor and Colquhoun of Luss — Proceedings of Archibald, Earl of Argyll — Warrant in favour of Sir Alexander Colquhoun — Preparations made by the Burgh of Dumbarton — Date of the Conflict at Glenfruin — The conference between the Macgregors and Colquhouns — Its results — Strength of the force engaged on each side — Disposition of the belligerents — The Conflict in the glen — Defeat of the Colquhouns — Excesses committed by the Macgregors — Appearance of Sir Alexander Colquhoun before the king at StirUng — Civil proceedings against the Macgregors — Execution of certain of the clan — Supplication by "the Gentlemen of the Lennox" — Escape and subsequent capture of Allester Macgregor — His confession and trial — Found guilty and executed — Heads of the Macgregors set up in Dumbarton — Condition of the Clangregor after the Conflict at Glenfruin — Letter to the king by Sir Alexander Colquhoun — Proceedings of the Privy Council against the Clangregor — Severity of the enactments against them — Overture regarding the children of the Clangregor — The " Accompt-makin" of the Earl of Argyll — Additional enactments against the Clangregor. Page 141 — 165.

Chapter IX

1604 to 1609. Effect of the Union of the Crowns upon Dumbarton — Trade connected with the burgh — The town partly destroyed by an inundation — Letter to the king by the Earl of Dunfermline, regarding the destruction of Dumbarton — Act of Parliament in favour of the Burgh of Dumbarton — Exemption in favour of the Burgh of Dumbarton — Account of the "Drowned Lands" — Extracts from Burgh Records 1603-1610 — The Pestilence, &c. — Copy of the Charter conferred on the Burgh of Dumbarton by James VI. Page 166 — 183.

Chapter X

1610 to 1660. The Earl of Orkney's attempt to escape from the Castle — Proceedings against Ogilvie the Jesuit — The Civil War — Capture of Dumbarton Castle by the Covenanting party — CONTENTS. XVI Provost Sempill, governor — Re-taken by the Royalists— Inventory of munition of war found in the Castle — Career of Montrose — Sir Charles Erskine, governor of Dumbarton Castle— Rendered to Major-General Lambert on behalf of Cromwell — Articles of agree ment — Attempt of the Earl of Glencairn — Treaty between Glencairn and Monk — Burgh life in the seventeenth century. __ Page 184 — 206.

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1660 to 1688. The Restoration — Lauderdale's Letter to the Presbyteries — Proceedings in Dumbartonshire connected with the re-establishment of Episcopacy — Ministers ejected within the Presbytery of Dumbarton — Persecution of the Covenanters — Case of John Yuille of Darleith and others in Dumbartonshire — The Earl of Dumbarton — James, Duke of York, visits Dumbarton and is created a burgess — County business — Accession of James VII. — Argyll's Expedition broken up in the County — Misgovernment of the country — Letter to the Laird of Luss for aid — Occurrences in Dumbartonshire at the Revolution. Page 207—223.

Chapter XII

1688 to 1745. Effects of the Revolution upon Dumbartonshire — Disturbed state of the north and north-eastern portion of the County — Rob Roy — The Union — Smollett of Bonhill — Proceedings of the Jacobites — Resolutions agreed to by the Town Council of Dumbarton regarding an intended French invasion — Marr's Insurrection — The Lochlomond Expedition — Proceedings of the Commissioners of Supply for the County of Dumbarton — Expenses of the Burgh of Dumbarton in connection with the Lochlomond Expedition — Proceedings of the burgesses at the Rebellion of 1745 — Means of communication in the County. Page 224—247.

Chapter XIII

Burgh of Dumbarton — 1745 to 1800. Leven Embankment — Right of Patronage disputed — Last Execution in Dumbarton — Cheap salmon privilege — The burgh sixty years since — Provincial spirit of the inhabitants — Population and appearance of the town — The Tolbooth — The Parish Church — Municipal affairs — Constitution of the Town Council — Proceedings of that body — Opposition to Reform — Social Meetings, Clubs, &c. — The Salmon Club — The Glenhoulachin Midge Club — Means of transit— Dr. Samuel Johnson's visit— Burns in Dumbarton — Industry of Dumbarton sixty years since — The Glass-works— Influence of the French Revolution Dress of the upper and lower classes — The Martial spirit of the district — The Dumbartonshire Fencibles— Impressment and smuggling — Watching of the town — Municipal and Ecclesiastical disputes of the period — Concluding remarks. Page 248 267. CONTENTS. XVII

Chapter XIV

1790 to 1850. Career of Patrick Colquhoun, LL.D.— Henry Bell— The Comet — First Dumbarton Steamboat Company — The Reform Bill agitation — Elections — Effect of the Reform Bill — Government inquiry into the state of the burgh affairs in 1833 — The great Moor Case — Municipal and Ecclesiastical affairs — Educational Institutions — John Love, Schoolmaster of Dumbarton — The Queen's visit to Dumbarton Castle. Page 268 — 292.

Chapter XV

1850 to 1859. Dumbarton burgh improvements — Rise and progress of the Shipbuilding trade of Dumbarton — Rapid increase in population — Erection of Dennystown — Changes in the social life of the burgh — Improvement of the river Leven — Adoption of the Burgh Harbour (Scotland) Act — Burgh Improvement Act adopted — Disturbance between the shipwrights and Irish labourers — Strike among the shipwrights — Adoption of a Local Improvement Act — Closing of the parish churchyard — Embanking of the Broad Meadow — The Water-works — Concluding observations — Shipbuilding Statistics — Vessels built in Dumbarton from 1839 to 1859 — Ecclesiastical notes regarding Dumbarton parish — Succession of Ministers from 1590 to the present time. Page 293 — 325. DUMBARTONSHIRE PARISHES. BONHILL Etymology — Boundaries — Early Charters regarding Bonhill — The Lindsay family — Printworks on the Leven — Account of the family of Smollett of Bonhill — Letters written by Dr. Tobias Smollett — Bonhill lands — Transmission of property — Levenside ; Lord Stonefield — Strathleven ; James Ewing — Darleith ; Yuille — Tilbchewan — Cameron — The Auchindennans — Balloch — Barony of Haldane, &c, <fec. — Succession of Ministers in Bonhill parish from 1458 to the present time.

Page 326 — 365. KILMARONOCK PARISH. Etymology — Boundaries — Ancient Barony of Kilmaronock — Mains — The Castle — Catter — The Buchanan country — Transmission of property — Ardoch ; Buchanan — Ross ; Buchanan — Boturich; "Squire Meldram" — Parish Statistics — Ecclesiastical notes — Succession of Ministers from 1325 to the present time. Page 365 — 377. LUSS PARISH. Etymology — Boundaries — Charter regarding Luss granted by Maldowan, Earl of Lennox — Antiquities in the parish — Account of the family of Colquhoun of Luss — Colquhoun of CONTENTS. XVIII Camstradden — Ecclesiastical notes — Succession of Ministers from 1393 to the present time— Dr. Stuart, &c, &c. Page 377—396. LOCHLOMOND. Page 396—398. ARROCHAR PARISH. Etymology — Boundaries — Extent — Formation of the parish — Account of the family of Macfarlane of Arrochar — Charters granted in their favour — Succession of Ministers from 1682 to the present time.

Page 398 — 406. ROSNEATH PARISH. Etymology — Boundaries — References to Rosneath in early charters — Acquisition of lands by the Argyll family — Parish Antiquities — Transmission of property — Fernicary — Mamore — Peatoun — Barremann — Camsail ; Campbell of Carrick — Parish Statistics— Ecclesiastical notes — Succession of Ministers from 1250 to the present time — James Anderson — Matthew Stewart, &c, &c. Page 406—413. ROW PARISH. Etymology — Boundaries — Formation of the parish — Lands within the parish referred to in early charters — Transmission of property — Faselane — Blairnairn — Kilbride — Letterwald — Shandon — Ardincaple — Laggarie — Ardinconnal — The Kirkmichaels — Milligs — Helensburgh — Account of the family of MAulay of Ardincaple — Ecclesiastical notes — Succession of Ministers from 1648 to the present time.

Page 414 — 426. CARDROSS PARISH. Etymology — Boundaries — the original parish as compared with the present — Account of lands and transmission of property in Cardross parish — Kirkmichael-Stirlmg — Colgrain — Camiseskan — Keppoch — The Ardardans — Ballimenoch — Drumhead — Milndovan — Kilmahew — Kirkton — Old chapel at Kirkton — Walton — Ardoch — Castlehill — Dalquhurn — Kipperminshock — Succoth — Dalmoak — Rosruvan — Pillanflatt — Kirkton of Cardross The Ferrylands — Account of the families of Dennistoun of Colgrain — Napier of Kilmahew — Noble of Ardardan — Ecclesiastical notes — Succession of Ministers from 1480 to the present time. Page 426 — 476*. WEST (OR OLD) KILPATRICK. Etymology — Boundaries — Extent — Lands — Transmission of property Barony of Colquhoun — Dumbuck — Barnhill — Milton — Dunglass — Auchentorlie — Glenarbuck — Church lands — Dispute regarding lands attached to the Abbey of Paisley — Auchentoshan Duntocher — William Dunn— Cochno — Dalnottar — Dalmuir — Barns — Parish Statistics — Succession of Ministers from 1232 to the present time.

Page 476* 483*. CONTENTS. XIX EAST (OR NEW) KILPATRICK. Erection — Transmission of property — Maius ; Douglas — Kilmardinny — Garscube ; Campbell — Killermont ; Colquhoun — Drumry — Garscadden — Dugalstone — A ntiquities — Succession of Ministers from 1650 to the present time. Page 484* — 491.* KIRKINTILLOCH. Etymology — Boundaries — Extent — Erected into a burgh of barony — Antiquities — Parish Statistics. Page 491*— 493*. CUMBERNAULD. Erection into a distinct parish — The Fleming family — Antiquities — Parish Statistics. Page 494*— 496*. COUNTY STATISTICS. Population of Dumbartonshire Parishes from 1801 to 1851, and Births, Deaths, and Marriages in 1858, 497* Agricultural Statistics, 498* Valuation of Dumbartonshire Parishes in 1855-56, 1858-59, 498* Valuation of the County, and of each separate holding therein, in 1657, . . . 498*

Appendix

. Extracts from the Municipal Records of the Burgh of Dumbarton, 1627-1715, . 473-565 Extracts from Kirk-Session Records, 1620-1621, 566-572 Disputes regarding Clyde Privileges, with Illustrative Documents, . . . 572-582 Members of Parbament for the County and Burgh of Dumbarton from 1608 to the present time, ... ... ...... 582-584 Provosts of Dumbarton from 1625 to 1816, 585-586 A Lennox Garland, containing — The Tressoun of Dunbartane, .......... 587 Dumbriton's Castle Dolefull Commendations, ....... 590 How King Robert Brace crossed Lochlomond and met with Malcolm, Earl of the Lennox, ............ 592 The Adventure which befel Earle Malcolm on his Voyage to join King Robert, 596 Squire Meldrum's Achievements in the Lennox, ...... 597 Ane Encomiastick Character of the Famous City of Dumbrittain, . . . 600 Waldhaue, having Prophesied, saith, ORDER OF PLATES AND PEDIGREES.

Map of Dumbartonshire, to face Title. Roman Antiquities, To face page 10 Lennox Pedigree, No. 1, — 82 Do. No. 2, _115 Autographs from Supply Records, 1665-1684, — 214 Fac-Simile Oath of Allegiance to King William and Queen Mary, — 220 Dumbarton Castle, 1685, '. — 223 Obligation regarding Lochlomond Expedition, — 235 Plan of Dumbarton, — 25i Old Church of Dumbarton, — 256 Dumbarton Castle from the Clyde, . . . . . . . — 291 Fac-Simile Letter written by Dr. Tobias Smollett, .... — 334 Portrait of Dr. Tobias Smollett, — 347 Pedigree of Smollett of Bonhill, — 355 View of Lochlomond, — 397 Portrait of Walter Macfarlane of Arrochar, — 403 Pedigree of Dennistoun of Colgrain, ....... —