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 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS 
 
 IN GLASGOW.
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners 
 
 IN GLASGOW 
 
 ^V I L L I A M CAMPBELL 
 
 AN EX-DEACON OF THE INCORPORATION 
 
 WITH APPENDIX 
 
 GLASGOW 
 
 KOKERT ANDERSON, PRINTER, 22 ANN STREET 
 
 1S83.
 
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 KOIiERT ANDERSON, 22 ANN STREET, 
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 PREFACE. 
 
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 OMETIME ago the question of preparing a 
 )^^ History of the Incorporation of Cordiners 
 in Glasgow was brought before the Master 
 Court of that Incorporation. The idea having 
 been favourably entertained, it was suggested 
 that, as I had already made some inquiries into 
 various matters connected with the Craft which 
 would find a place in such a history, I should 
 undertake the additional labour which might be 
 necessary. Yielding to this suggestion, I forthwith 
 set about the requisite preliminary investigations. 
 On discovering that the Incorporation had no 
 minute books prior to 1758 I was somewhat 
 discouraged, as it appeared to me that, under 
 these circumstances, the preparation of the history 
 would not be of such a satisfactory kind as might 
 be desired. However, having once entered upon 
 the v/ork, I was very unwilling to give up and
 
 vi Preface. 
 
 admit a failure. Determined to avert such a 
 result, I put my hand to the plough, entered upon 
 the task of ferreting out old Acts of Parliament 
 and historical works, and then proceeded with the 
 compilation, which, I trust — keeping in view the 
 scanty materials I had at my command — may not 
 fail to accomplish the object contemplated. 
 
 In the course of arranging the work on proof, 
 it appeared to be expedient to incorporate several 
 of the chapters mentioned in the prospectus with 
 others, thus lessening the number of chapters with- 
 out shortening the number of pages. Since the 
 prospectus was issued, a new chapter has been 
 added dealing with the union between Scotland 
 and England, a subject which at the time very 
 much engrossed the attention of the craftsmen of 
 Glasgow and other towns. 
 
 I have here to express my indebtedness to the 
 old Burgh Records, Mr. Crawfurd's " Sketch of the 
 Trades' House," Dr. Strang's " Glasgow and its 
 Clubs," and other works, for many facts appearing 
 in the following pages. I often wished, during the 
 compilation, that I had had the faith of the shoe- 
 maker who, during the reign of a King of Persia, 
 removed a mountain by a holy harangue. Not
 
 Preface. vii 
 
 being possessed of this rare gift, I nevertheless 
 trust I have, in a measure, been successful in dis- 
 persing the mists which, to a considerable extent, 
 obscured the view of the past history of the 
 Incorporation. The present state of its affairs 
 has been given with as much fulness of detail as 
 will be thought necessary or desirable. 
 
 No claim of a literary kind is put forth on behalf 
 of the work, my sole object having been to give a 
 plain and unvarnished history of the Cordiner crafts- 
 men, and in some measure, of the other craftsmen. 
 If the following pages should accomplish this 
 desirable end, and form a guide or handbook to 
 the Cordiners, as well as to the other craftsmen, no 
 one Avill be more pleased than the present writer. 
 
 W. CAMPBELL. 
 
 227 Bath Street, 
 Glasgow, February, 1S83
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 I. Rise and Progress of Glasgow and its Craftsmen, . i 
 
 II. CraftsmenJAssociated and Incorporated — Explanation 
 
 of Origin of Deacons, etc., ..... lo 
 
 III. Incorporation of Cordihers — Its Coat of Arms — 
 
 Explanation of Emblems — Its Management, etc., . 14 
 
 IV. Glasgow created a Royal Burgh — Increased Powers 
 
 and Privileges of Incorporated Trades — Vicissi- 
 tudes of Crafts during 15th, i6th, and 17th 
 Centuries, ........ 23 
 
 V. The Revolution of 16S8 — Charter by William and 
 
 ^1^17. 35 
 
 VI. Sketch of St. Crispin, the Patron Saint of Shoe- 
 makers — Incidents and Proverbs concerning Shoe- 
 makers and Shoes from Earliest Period^Pro- 
 cession of King Crispin in 1831 at Coronation of 
 
 William IV., 35 
 
 VII. Acts and Proceedings of Cordiners — Edicts of the 
 Kirk- Session commanding the Magistrates and the 
 Deacons to do certain Acts, etc., .... 53 
 
 VIII. Burgesses — W^atching and Warding before Estab- 
 lishment of Police Force under First Police Act 
 of 1800 — Privileges of present Burgesses, . . 85 
 
 IX. Decree of Declarator, or Grand Decerniture fixing 
 Set of Trades' House and the Rank and Pre- 
 cedence of the Fourteen Incorporated Trades of 
 
 Glasgow, 88 
 
 X. The Cathedral Saved by the Craftsmen of Glas- 
 gow, 91
 
 Table of Contents, 
 
 XI. The Burgh Reform Act, and 4 Will. IV., cap. 
 
 76, 1833, and its Beneficial Effects, . . 94 
 
 XII. Rules for Electing Representatives to the Trades' 
 House, and of Persons to Hold Office in the 
 Crafts, enacted by Trades' House under Burgh 
 Reform Act, with Table showing Burgess Fines, 96 
 
 XIII. Act, 9 Vict., cap. 17 (1846), Abolishing Exclu- 
 
 sive Privileges of Trading in Burghs — Regula- 
 tions rendered necessary in consequence — 
 Proposal to alter Bye-laws enacted under Act 
 of 1833, lOI 
 
 XIV. Rules and Regulations for the Internal Manage- 
 
 ment of the Cordiners, . . . . . 127 
 
 XV. Loyalty of Craftsmen, . . . , . 1 30 
 
 XVI. Admission to Membership of Cordiners, with 
 
 Form of Declaration, and Admission Ticket, . 135 
 
 XVII. Trades' School and Trades' House Scholarships 
 and Bursaries — Forms and Rules for Scholar- 
 ships, &c. — Educational Aid by Cordiners — 
 Form of Application for Aid, . . . 138 
 
 XVIII. Trades' House Pensions and Bursaries, with 
 Forms of Application — Cordiners' Pensioners 
 and Precept Holders, with Form of Applica- 
 tion, etc., ....... 149 
 
 XIX. Accounts and Funds of Cordiners, . . . 157 
 
 XX. Acquisition of Gorbals Lands — Interest of Cor- 
 diners and others therein, . . . . 1 79 
 
 XXI. Sketch of Erection of Trades' House Buildings — 
 
 Interest of Cordiners therein, . . . 193 
 
 XXII. Cordiners' Deacon's Box — Inventory of Contents — 
 
 Cordiners' Bells — and Deacon's Album, . . 201 
 
 XXIII. Oaths taken in former times by Cordiners and by 
 
 Protestant and Roman Catholic Burgesses, . 204 
 
 XXIV. List of present Members of Cordiners, . . 209 
 XXV. List of Deacons of Cordiners since 1758, and of 
 
 present Members of Master Court, . . . 216
 
 Table of Contents. 
 
 XXVI. Trades' House of Glasgow — State of its Funds 
 
 and of the Fourteen Incorporated Trades, . 219 
 XXVII. Roll of Deacon-Conveners of Trades' House from 
 
 1604 — Sketch of Deacon's Day, . . . 222 
 XXVIII. Union of Scotland with England — Commotion 
 amongst the People — Action by Cordiners and 
 other-Craftsmen, ...... 234 
 
 XXIX. Growth of Glasgow — Harbour Revenue in 1771 
 and 1882 — Population, Year after Union with 
 England and in 1882 — Rental, and Parlia- 
 mentary and Muncipal Constituency, . . 238 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 I. Table of Scots Money, showing its equivalent in 
 
 Sterling Money, 243 
 
 II. Regulations of the Cordiners, 27th June, 1460, . 243 
 
 III. Seal of Cause of the Cordiners, 27th February, 1558, 248 
 IV. Do. do., 27th June, 1569, . 251 
 
 V. Act of the Deacon-Convener's House in favour of 
 the Cordiners, and Ratification by Provost, Bailies, 
 and Council of Glasgow, ..... 257 
 VI. The Letter of Guildry of 1605, .... 260 
 
 VII. Statute, 1672, Ratifying Letter of Guildry, ^ . . 280 
 VIII. Charter by Charles I. creating Glasgow a Royal 
 
 Burgh, 2S1 
 
 IX. Act William and Mary, 1690, Chap. 18, confirming 
 
 Charter by Charles I., etc., ..... 293 
 
 X. Act 1846, abolishing exclusive Privileges of Trading 
 
 in Burghs, ........ 294 
 
 XI. Rulesand Regulationsof Cordiner.s, enacted February, 
 
 1881, 296
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 Page 158, lines i and 2. — Instead of- '■iox. we had no Poor Law.- 
 until the year 1846," 7-ead " for we had r^o effective Poor Laws until 
 the year 1846." 
 
 Page 293. — Instead of '' 1691, chap. 18," read " 1690."
 
 THE 
 
 CORDINER CRAFTSMEN 
 
 OF GLASGOW. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 RISE AND PROGRESS OF GLASGOW AND ITS CRAFTSMEN. 
 
 The exact origin of the Crafts of Glasgow is lost in those 
 mists of antiquity which no amount of research can now 
 dispel. In order to obtain anything approaching an in- 
 sight into their origin, it is necessary to glance shortly at 
 the history of Glasgow. As Glasgow grew into a place 
 of importance, the necessity arose for a union of the 
 Burgess Craftsmen for mutual protection and self-defence 
 against the inroads made into the towns by the powerful 
 surrounding feudal proprietors. The Burgess Craftsmen 
 for a long time were the antagonists of the feudal aristo- 
 cracy ; and in early times freedom and liberty were only 
 to be found in the societies of such craftsmen. 
 
 Ancient historians tell us that St. Kentigern, or St. 
 Mungo, who was contemporary with Saint Columba and 
 
 A
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Saint Ninian, about the year 560 founded a Christian 
 settlement and church in the midst of a forest of wood 
 and glade on the banks of the then lovely Molendinar 
 Burn. This spot was, no doubt, selected from its beauty 
 and great natural advantages. 
 
 Of the ancient history of Glasgow little is known for 
 nearly 500 years after the foundation of the religious 
 station. The earliest authentic account of the station is 
 that given during the reign of Alexander I., in the inquiry 
 and investigation respecting the church lands made by 
 Alexander's brother David, Prince of Cumberland, after- 
 wards David I., in 11 16. This prince inducted his 
 chaplain, John Achaius, a man of great learning, to the 
 bishopric of Glasgow. The prince was superior of the 
 province of Cumbria, which was supposed to include the 
 Avestern and southern districts of Scotland, with an 
 adjacent part of England. But the most learned his- 
 torians have not as yet made it clear what this province 
 really embraced. The church property recovered under 
 this inquiry enabled Bishop John to erect a cathedral at 
 Glasgow, which was consecrated in the year 1136; and 
 it also enabled his successors, with assistance from 
 other sources, to commence and complete a cathedral, 
 which was built upon the site of Bishop John's cathedral, 
 and consecrated by Bishop Jocelyn in 1197. These 
 places of worship appear, from what we have learned, 
 to have been destroyed by fire. 
 
 It has been for a long time the general belief that 
 the present cathedral is the one dedicated by Bishop 
 Jocelyn in 1197. There is every reason, however, to' 
 believe that the present magnificent structure was com-
 
 Rise and Progress of Glasgow and its Craftsmen. 
 
 menced by Bishop Bondington, who was consecrated in 
 1233; at least, this is the result arrived at, after a critical 
 investigation, by Mr. Honeyman, whose eminence as an 
 architect, and attainments as an archaeologist, entitle his 
 opinion to the greatest respect. Mr. Honeyman made a 
 more careful examination of the structure and stricter 
 comparison of its styles of architecture than appears 
 to have been done before, and the conclusion at which 
 he arrived was, that the only portion which remains of the 
 building consecrated in 1197 is a small pillar and part of 
 the vaulting in the south-west corner of the crypt. This, 
 as Mr. Honeyman points out, belongs to the transitional 
 style. At the supposed time of the building of the 
 present cathedral tlie st3'le in which it was erected was 
 not even in existence. The architecture of the present 
 building is early English, of a fully developed type; and 
 the very oldest examples of that style, even in England, 
 were not erected till after 1190. Apart from this, there 
 is no reason to doubt that the church which was dedi- 
 cated in 1 197 was at that date a completed structure. 
 It is described as a building which Bishop Jocelyn ipse 
 novavi construxerat — terms which could not properly 
 b£ applied to a building then still only in the course of 
 erection. All the probabilities, indeed, go to show that 
 the building dedicated by Jocelyn was of a temporary 
 character, intended to be superseded by a more mag- 
 nificent structure; and some time after the year 1235, 
 in apparent fulfilment of that intention, the erection 
 of the present cathedral was commenced by Bishop 
 Bondington. In all probability the crypt and choir 
 were completed in his time. That he was engaged
 
 Incorpoi-aiion of Cordiners. 
 
 in extensive building operations, and not in mere 
 additions, is rendered almost certain by the fact that, in 
 1242 — forty-five years after the dedication of Jocelyn's 
 church — there is an ordinance for a national collection 
 annually during Lent in aid of the new building, then 
 in progress ; and more than thirty years later, namely, 
 in 1277, under the episcopate of Robert Wyschard, 
 there is evidence that the work was still unfinished. 
 In that year we find among the Glasgow charters a 
 Deed of the Lord of Luss, by which, in consideration 
 of a sum of money paid to him, he makes a grant of 
 timber from his forests in Dumbartonshire for building 
 a steeple and treasury — cajupanile et ihesatiraria ; and 
 later still there is a grant by King Edward to Bishop 
 Wyschard for the same purpose. The wooden spire, 
 erected with the timber from Luss, was in the year 1400 
 struck by lightning and totally destroyed. The erection 
 of a stone structure to supply its place was immediately 
 projected, and the work was began and carried (at least 
 as far as the first battlement) by Bishop Lauder, who died 
 in 1425. It was continued, and perhaps completed, by 
 his successor. Bishop Cameron, whose episcopate lasted 
 till the year 1446.* 
 
 At the time the Christian settlement was formed and the 
 church planted by St. Kentigern, Glasgow was unknown. 
 Indeed, the whole district then consisted of forests of 
 wood and muirland; but the erection of a church, with 
 its attendant body of ofiiciating ecclesiastics, combined 
 with their civilising and attractive influences, soon brought 
 
 * MacGeorge's "Old Glasgow," p. 106.
 
 Rise and Fivgrcss of Glasgow and its Craftsmen. 5 
 
 around the church the rude inhabitants, who commenced 
 to erect their primitive dweUings. 
 
 The Bishop's Palace or Castle was built upon the site 
 presently occupied by the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. 
 The existing Castle Street was named after this Bishop's 
 Castle. In this locality the nobility had their residences 
 during the time the bishops held almost regal sway 
 The bishops are said to have had a country mansion at 
 the place now called Bishop Street. The old mills 
 standing on the west side of that street are still called 
 the Bishop Garden Mills. On an old map by Mr. Jas. 
 Barry, published in 1782, a house and extensive gardens 
 are delineated thereon. It is thought by some that the 
 bishops had no house there; but there is little doubt 
 about their possessing the gardens at the place named, 
 and that the bishops had a country seat at the Castle 
 of Partick. 
 
 The name of the City of Glasgow, founded by St. 
 Kentigern, has been spelt in various ways at different 
 times — according to the fancies of the writers — such as 
 Glagu, Glesgu, Glasgeu, Glascu, Glasgu, Glasgou, Glasgw, 
 Gleschow, Glasco, and Glasgow. Local historians have 
 interpreted the name as meaning " grey smith." This is 
 evidently a mistake, and has arisen from their seeking its 
 origin in the Gaelic of the Scottish Highlands. This 
 part of Clydesdale was a Welsh settlement, and the origin 
 of the name is to be sought in the British branch of the 
 Celtic language. It is said to mean the beloved green 
 place — "g/as, z'eridi's, and enf or "guf cams, as in 
 miuiclm. The word munchu is of Welsh derivation — 
 mwym, cleniens, jirbaniis, and cu or chu, earns. In
 
 6 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 composition cu becomes in Welsh gu; hence mungu. 
 In course of time St. Kentigern came to be popularly 
 known as St. Mungo ; and the city has been long, 
 and is still, known as the city of St. Mungo."'' The 
 city thus probably took its origin from the spot where St. 
 Kentigern and St. Columba met, and where the first church 
 was erected by St. Kentigern on the banks of the then 
 beautiful and limpid stream, called the Molendinar Burn. 
 When St. Kentigern planted his Christian settlement, 
 and for centuries afterwards, the locaUty was one of 
 great beauty ; but the march of civilisation, and the 
 works and necessities of man, have utterly destroyed 
 the sylvan beauties of the place, and turned the once 
 classic stream, at this part, into — alas ! — a covered- 
 over common sewer. Well may we, in the words of 
 Shakespeare, exclaim, " To what base uses wc may 
 return, Horatio." 
 
 It may be interesting to our readers to quote here the 
 following humorous verses, composed by the late Alex. 
 Rodger, descriptive of St, Mungo as a famous, merry, 
 and godly saint, which we extract from Whistle Binkie: — 
 
 SANCT xMUNGO. 
 
 Sanct Mungo wals ane famous Sanct, 
 
 And ane cantye carle wals hee, 
 He drank o' ye Molendinar Burne, 
 
 Quhan better hee culdna prie ; 
 Zit quhan hee culd gette strongere cheere, 
 
 He never wals wattere drye, 
 Butte dranke o' ye streame o' yc wimpland worme 
 
 And loote ye burne rynne bye. 
 
 "" MacGeorge's "Old Glasgow."
 
 J^ise and Progress of Glasgow and its Craftsmen. 
 
 Sanct Mungo vvals ane merrye Sanct, 
 
 And merryle hee sang ; 
 Quhannever he liltit uppe hys sprynge. 
 
 Ye very Firre Park rang ; 
 Butte thoch he weele culd lilt and synge, 
 
 And mak sweet melodye, 
 He chauutit aye ye bauldest straynes, 
 
 Quhan prymed \vi' barlye-bree. 
 
 Sanct Mungo wals ane godlyc Sanct, 
 
 Farre famed for godlye deedis, 
 And grete delyte hee daylie took 
 
 Inn countynge ower hys beadis ; 
 Zit I, Sanct Mungo's youngeste sonne, 
 
 Can count als welle as hee ; 
 Butte ye beadis quilk I like best to count 
 
 Are ye beadis o' barlye-bree. 
 
 Sanct jMungo wals ane jolly Sanct, 
 
 Sa weele hee lykit gude zil, 
 Thatte quhyles hee staynede his quhyte vesture 
 
 Wi' dribblans o' ye still ; 
 Butte I, hys maist unwordye sonne. 
 
 Have gane als farre als hee, 
 For ance I tynde my garment's skirtis, 
 
 Throuch lufe o' barlye-bree. 
 
 As a matter of history we fear that the poet has here 
 exceeded the customary Ucense ; for it is very doubtful if 
 the natives of these isles when St. Mungo planted his 
 Christian settlement, who were then in an uncivilised 
 condition, knew anything of the art of making whisky. 
 And if the renowned saint knew this secret, he was a 
 man much more in advance of the age he lived in than 
 he has got credit for.
 
 8 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 About the 12th century the enlightened sovereigns of 
 feudal countries began to see the policy of throwing their 
 protection around free burghs; and the leading church- 
 men, the most cultivated class of society, and who were 
 exempt from the exclusive prejudices of a feudal nobility, 
 went along with that movement which ultimately raised a 
 Third Estate based on Industry. Bishop Jocelyn, having 
 adopted this policy, made use of the great interest he had 
 with William the Lyon, and succeeded in procuring from 
 that king, in 1 1 74, a charter conferring on Glasgow the rank 
 of a bishop's burgh. This charter, with another obtained 
 in 1 1 76, and a third in 1190, all granted by William, 
 conferred on the inhabitants of Glasgow many privileges 
 tending to encourage them in the cultivation of trade 
 and commerce. The inhabitants at that time appear to 
 have been governed by a provost and bailies, appointed 
 or approved of by the bishoj:). 
 
 By charters in 1449 and 1450 King James the Second 
 granted to William, Bishop of Glasgow, and his succes- 
 sors, the City of Glasgow, Barony of Glasgow, and lands 
 called Bishopforest, to be holden of the crown, in fee and 
 heritage, as a Burgh of Regality, with power to elect their 
 magistrates. By Act 1476, cap. 8, ratification is made of 
 the City and Barony to the Bishop and vSee of Glasgow in 
 free regality — granting to the bishop the power of appoint- 
 ing and removing the provost and magistrates, and the 
 privilege of electing a serjeant to bear a silver rod with 
 the royal arms at one end and those of the bishop 
 at the other, for executing arrestments, mandates, and 
 precepts. The power to appoint magistrates therefore 
 remained in the hands of the ecclesiastics, who, to
 
 Rise and Progress of G/asgorc ajid its Craftsmen. 9 
 
 overawe the inhabitants, elected powerful nobles to the 
 magistracy. 
 
 After this period Glasgow gradually emerged from a 
 long reign of ecclesiastical influence. After protracted 
 struggles against the combination of the Clyde burghs, 
 and the nearer tyranny of the royal burgh of Ruther- 
 glen, and after suffering indignities from the Lennoxes, she 
 was destined, when thoroughly emancipated, to become 
 the greatest commercial city of Scotland. It may be 
 safely said that nearly all the crafts within the burgh 
 were then or soon afterwards in existence, although in 
 most instances not yet associated under the authority of 
 seals of cause, containing rules and regulations for their 
 guidance and government, and conferring powers and 
 privileges on the crafts which enabled them to act with 
 beneficial effect, not only for the craftsmen in particular, 
 but for the citizens of Glasgow generally.
 
 Incorpo ration of Cordinc'fs. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 CRAFTSMEN ASSOCIATED AND INCORPORATED — EXPLANA- 
 TION OF ORIGIN OF DEACONS, ETC. 
 
 In 143 1 King James the First found it necessary to 
 import craftsmen into Scotland from France and 
 Flanders, in consequence of the great slaughter of Scotch 
 craftsmen during the preceding wars with England. 
 "The Cronikils of Scotland," page 565, state that "King 
 James, to agment the common weil, and to cause his 
 liegis incres in mair virtew, brocht mony nobill Craftsmen 
 out of France, Flandeirs, and other partis — for the Scottis 
 were exercit in contineuall wars, frae the time of King 
 Alexander the Third to thay dayis. Thus were all 
 Craftsmen slane be the wars." 
 
 There appears to have speedily sprung up among the 
 craftsmen within the royal burghs a desire to be 
 associated under rules enacted by the Magistrates and 
 Town Council, who had the power to regulate trades 
 and incorporate tradesmen and guilds under seals of 
 cause granted by them. The regulations issued by the 
 magistrates were styled Letters of Deaconry — latterly 
 Seals of Cause — which regulated the manner of con- 
 ducting trades within the burgh, and of providing funds 
 for the support of decayed brethren and widows and 
 children of craftsmen. 
 
 Prior to the Reformation period, the Roman Catholic 
 Archbishop of Glasgow, as superior of the burgh of
 
 Craftsmen Associated, etc. 
 
 regality, either himself enacted regulations, or confirmed 
 those proposed by the Magistrates and Town Council, 
 associating several classes of the craftsmen of Glasgow, 
 and conferring upon them the right to elect deacons, 
 collectors, and masters. 
 
 There are fourteen Incorporated Trades in Glasgow, 
 and the following are the dates of their incorporation, 
 viz.: — The Hammermen, about 1536; the Tailors, about 
 1546; the Cordiners, in 1558; the Maltmen, date un- 
 known, but their privileges are supposed to have been 
 fixed by the Letter of Guildry; the Weavers, in 1528; 
 the Bakers, exact date unknown, owing to the destruction 
 of their charters by fire; the Skinners, in 15 16; the 
 Wrights, about 1567; the Coopers, about 1569; the 
 Fleshers, about 1580; the Masons, about 1057; the 
 Gardeners, about 1690 ; the Barbers, about 1559, and the 
 Dyers and Bonnetmakers, about 1597. 
 
 There are also fourteen Incorporated Trades in Edin- 
 burgh, and they appear to have been incorporated about 
 much the same period as the craftsmen of Glasgow. 
 
 Why the number of the incorporated trades should 
 amount to fourteen only, when there were other trades 
 existing at the time to increase the number, is a some- 
 what difficult question to answer, and opens up a wide 
 field of inquiry. For instance, in the Edinburgh In- 
 corporated Trades there are the Goldsmiths, the 
 Chirurgeons, and the Hatters and ^V^aulkers, who do 
 not find a place in the Glasgow Incorporated Trades : 
 while these, on the other hand, include the Barbers, the 
 Coopers, and the Gardeners, who find no place amongst 
 those of Edinburgh. At the period when the trades were
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 incorporated the community was imbued with deep 
 religious principles and sentiments; and this being so, 
 one can easily conceive that the authorities granting and 
 confirming the deeds incorporating the trades had promi- 
 nently in their minds the scriptural number seven, or a 
 multiple thereof. Whether or not this accounts for the 
 number of fourteen being that to which the crafts were 
 limited in the two chief cities, it is a curious coinci- 
 dence that the number should have been restricted to 
 the scriptural one when there were other trades to incor- 
 porate, as is seen by the incorporation of trades in Glasgow 
 which are not incorporated in Edinburgh, and vice versa. 
 It adds some weight to this view when we find that nearly 
 all the crafts have mottoes on their coats of arms of a 
 religious character ; and when we take into account the 
 fact that the bishops were the leading or governing men 
 of those days, it is natural to suppose that they would 
 model everything they had to do with upon scriptural 
 ideas. 
 
 For the same reason, no doubt, the chief men of the 
 crafts were called deacons, in accordance with the New 
 Testament dispensation, which provided for the election 
 of deacons to serve the Church, and whose special duty 
 it was to see that the widows and other poor people were 
 not neglected. As will be afterwards shown, the Church, 
 in the 17th and beginning of the i8th centuries, exercised 
 the power of commanding the Magistrates and Council, 
 as well as the deacons of crafts in Glasgow, to perform 
 certain duties connected with the conduct of the citizens 
 and craftsmen ; and no doubt this power was exercised 
 with even greater zeal before the 17th century, when the
 
 Craflsmcn Associated^ elc. 
 
 13 
 
 Church wielded an almost despotic power; but we find, as 
 a matter of history, that the Church always exercised this 
 power in such a way as to foster and protect, and further 
 to the utmost, the interests of trade and commerce.
 
 14 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS — ITS COAT OF ARMS 
 
 EXPLANATION OF EMBLEMS, ETC. — ITS MANAGEMENT, 
 ETC. 
 
 The Cordiners must have existed as an association or 
 society for many years before they had any rules or regu- 
 lations for their government; for we find that, on 27th 
 June, 1460, they petitioned the Magistrates and Council 
 for and obtained their approval of certain regulations for 
 their proper management and guidance. The Cordiners 
 evidently, from the position and importance they subse- 
 quently attained, and in order to secure that power and 
 standing which was their due, on 27th February, 1558, 
 appUed for and obtained from the Magistrates and 
 Council their first Seal of Cause incorporating the craft. 
 This Seal of Cause was approved of by the Archbishop 
 of Glasgow. On 27th June, 1569, the Magistrates and 
 Council further granted another Seal of Cause to the Cor- 
 diners. And again, on 30th September, 1693, the Cordi- 
 ners obtained an Act of the Deacon Convener's House of 
 Glasgow in their favour, which was ratified by the Provost, 
 Bailies, and Council of Glasgow, confirming the contract 
 between the Cordiners of Glasgow and the Cordiners of 
 Gorbals providing that the latter should only come into 
 and trade in Glasgow on the market-day, and then only 
 on payment by each one of them of eighteen shillings 
 Scots of market dues. These Regulations and Incorpo-
 
 Cordiucrs Incorporated — Coat of Anus, etc. 15 
 
 rating Seals of Cause, with the Seals of the Archbishop 
 of Glasgow attached, are retained in a beautiful state of 
 preservation. A print of the Regulations and Seals of 
 Cause will be found in the Appendix. 
 
 The Incorporation is called " The Incorporation of 
 Cordiners in Glasgow." The Incorporation has a coat 
 of arms and an appropriate motto. The coat of arms 
 and motto are as follows : — " Azure — a chevron betwixt 
 three ducal crowns with shoemakers' cutting knives under- 
 neath the crowns tr," with the motto in an escroll above 
 the shield, " God is our Hope." 
 
 In our days mines are worked, railways constructed, 
 and other great works too vast for individuals to carry 
 out, are undertaken by associations of men who unite 
 their money in a common fund. Such combinations 
 were much more necessary in earlier times, when capital 
 did not exist in such abundance. There were, for 
 instance, companies of traders — or, as they called them- 
 selves, " merchant adventurers." Such companies existed 
 in various ports. A seal was necessary for them as a 
 corporate body, and, of course, a distinctive and fitting 
 emblem was sought for it. Now the merchant princes of 
 the East, who brought their gifts to the new-born Saviour 
 in Bethlehem, at once occurred to the minds of the early 
 traders, and nothing could be more natural than to adopt 
 three crowns emblematical of those pious merchants to 
 whom they likened themselves. These three crowns are 
 often seen among the badges of ancient trading companies. 
 When the Incorporation of Cordiners was considering 
 the most suitable coat of arms to be adopted, the 
 emblems which appear to have found favour with the
 
 1 6 Tncorporaiion of Cordiners. 
 
 early traders also received the approval of the Incor- 
 poration. Hence the Incorporation adopted three 
 ducal crowns, with the cutting knife as emblematical 
 of the trade, and the chevron as the badge of fidelity. 
 The Incorporation also adopted St. Crispin as its 
 Patron Saint, a sketch of whom will be found in 
 Chapter VI. 
 
 The town of Kingston-upon-Hull has a coat of arms 
 with three crowns upon an azure ground, adopted, it may 
 be assumed, for the same reason as that given above. The 
 merchants of Hull were a very opulent body; and from 
 the trade they carried on the town derived much of its 
 importance, as also its heraldic cognizance of the three 
 crowais. 
 
 The Incorporation of Cordiners, as one of the guilds 
 of the city, is entitled to wear on the reverse side of its 
 coat of arms, the arms of the city. The following is the 
 description of the Glasgow coat of arms as taken from the 
 charter by L}'on King-at-Arms to the city : — •" Argent, on 
 a mount in base vert an oak tree proper, the stem at the 
 base thereof surmounted by a salmon on its back, also 
 proper, with a signet-ring in its mouth or, on the top of 
 the tree a redbreast, and in the sinister fess-point an 
 ancient hand-bell, both also proper. Above the shield is 
 placed a suitable helmet with a mantling gules doubled 
 argent, and issuing out of a wreath of the proper liveries 
 is set for crest the half-length figure of St. Kentigern 
 affronte, vested and mitred, his right hand raised in the 
 act of benediction, and having in his left hand a crozier, 
 all proper ; on a compartment below the shield are placed 
 for supporters two salmon proper, each holding in its
 
 Cor diners Incorporated — Coat of Arms, etc. 17 
 
 mouth a signet-ring or, and in an escroll entwined with 
 the compartment this motto, ' Let Glasgow Flourish.' " 
 
 The armorial insignia of Glasgow are richly storied, 
 the different emblems referring to several legends in the 
 life of St. Kentigern, who was the first bishop of Glasgow, 
 and died about a.d. 602. The tree represents the bough 
 which, according to an old story, St. Kentigern kindled 
 by his word into a blaze in order to relight the church 
 lights, which some of his enemies had put out. The bird 
 perched upon the tree is a robin, the pet of St. Serf, 
 which St. Kentigern restored to life, as the tradition 
 goes. The bell which hangs from the tree signifies the 
 church and see of Glasgow founded by St. Kentigern. 
 But the most romantic legend of all is associated with 
 the salmon, which bears a ring in its mouth. Tradition 
 relates that the Queen of Cadzow had given away to a 
 certain knight a ring which she had received as a present 
 from the king, her husband. The king, suspecting this, 
 and being very wroth at such faithless conduct, considered 
 how he might best discover her guilt and punish it. 
 
 One day when the king and his court were out hunting 
 along the banks of the Clyde, the knight to whom the 
 queen had given the ring, overcome with fatigue, fell 
 asleep under the shelter of a tree. The king seized the 
 opportunity to look into the knight's pouch, and there, 
 as he had expected, he found the ring. Incensed beyond 
 measure that the queen should have thus lightly treated 
 the ring he gave her, he flung it into the river. 
 
 Returning home, he demanded the ring from the queen, 
 at the same time telling her that she should be put to 
 death if it was not produced. She immediately sent her 
 
 B
 
 1 8 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 maid to the knight to ask for it ; but, of course, he could 
 not find it. The queen knew not which way to turn. 
 At last, in her despair, she bethought herself of the good 
 Bishop Kentigern. She avowed her fault to him and 
 expressed her sorrow, and besought his advice and help. 
 The good man believed in her sincerity and took com- 
 passion upon her. He immediately sent one of his people 
 to fish the river, with instructions to bring him the first fish 
 he caught. The angler soon returned, and laid a huge 
 salmon at the feet of the bishop, who took from its mouth 
 the very ring which the king had flung into the Clyde. The 
 queen, receiving the ring from the bishop, together with his 
 blessing, hastened to take it home to her husband, and 
 thus her life was saved by the good Bishop Kentigern. 
 
 In the year 1881 the writer called the attention of the 
 Incorporation to the deacon's medal or badge of office 
 and chain, and stated that they were entirely out of keep- 
 ing with the importance and position of the craft. He 
 also pointed out that on the obverse side of the medal 
 the shield was incorrect according to heraldry, and that 
 the emblems were likewise, in several respects, inaccurate ; 
 besides that, the date of incorporation of the craft, as 
 given on the badge, was wrong, as shown by the Seals of 
 Cause, which had been transcribed by the late Professor 
 Cosmo Innes, and subsequently revised, with the originals, 
 by James D. Marwick, LL.D., town-clerk, Glasgow, both 
 eminent authorities on such matters. He further pointed 
 out that the city arms, as given on the reverse side of 
 the medal, were wholly erroneous. 
 
 The Incorporation, after some discussion, unanimously 
 remitted to the present deacon, Mr. Robert Paterson,
 
 Cordiners Incorporated— Coat of Arms ^ etc. 19 
 
 Mr. R. B. Forrest, and the writer, as a committee, to 
 inquire into the whole subject, and with power to order 
 a new medal and chain in correct form. After length- 
 ened investigation, the committee fixed upon the design 
 of the present medal and chain, and Mr. Sorley, jeweller, 
 Buchanan Street, was intrusted with carrying out the 
 design, which he very carefully and artistically executed. 
 An engraving of the new medal and chain will be found 
 in the frontispiece, showing both sides of the medal. The 
 new medal and chain were inaugurated at a meeting of 
 the craft, to whicli all the members were invited, held in 
 Mr. John Forrester's, 7 Gordon Street, Glasgow, in the 
 spring of 18S1, when a service of cake and wine was 
 provided, and the proceedings passed off in a very 
 pleasant and harmonious manner. 
 
 On the obverse side of the medal is the arms of the 
 craft and the motto above, and around this the words, 
 " Incorporation of Cordiners, Glasgow," while round the 
 rim or edge of the medal are the words, " Medal and 
 chain re-designed, 1881." On the reverse side of the 
 medal is the city arms, and around this the words, " In- 
 corporated 27th February, 1558, and 27th June, 1569. 
 Ratified 30th September, 1693." 
 
 The arms of the Cordiner Craft of Edinburgh is as 
 follows :— " Azure — their cutting knife in pale, and in 
 chief, a ducal crown or." 
 
 From what we have stated, it will be seen that the 
 crown is a favourite emblem of the crafts of Edinburgh 
 and Glasgow. 
 
 The affairs of the Incorporation are managed in terms 
 of the bye-laws (which will be found printed in the
 
 l7icorporatio}i of Cordi7iers. 
 
 Appendix), by the Master Court, which consists of the 
 deacon, the collector, nine masters, and one master to 
 be nominated by the deacon, who is called the Deacon's 
 Goudie (in all, fourteen members), of whom five are a 
 quorum. The three of the nine masters longest in office 
 retire annually. The Incorporation holds four stated 
 quarterly meetings in the year, about Candlemas, Whit- 
 sunday, Lammas, and Martinmas. An annual meeting 
 is held on the first Friday after 15th September for the 
 election of ofiice-bearers. At the meeting for the election 
 of office-bearers there falls to be elected by the Incor- 
 poration a deacon and a collector, who hold office for 
 one year ; three masters, to hold office for three 
 years ; a master or deacon's goudie, appointed by 
 the deacon, to hold office for one year ; a trade's 
 goudie, appointed by the Incorporation, to hold office 
 for one year; six representatives to the Trades' House, 
 appointed by the Incorporation, who are to be members 
 of the Master Court, and of whom the deacon for the 
 time and the late deacon shall always be members ex 
 officiis — to hold office for one year. It has been the use 
 and wont custom to elect the collector a representative 
 to the Trades' House, which has proved a most judicious 
 arrangement, because it enables him to become fully 
 acquainted with the business of the House before he is 
 appointed deacon, when he has to take an important part 
 in its proceedings. Another appointment to be noticed 
 is that of a member of the Building Committee of the 
 Trades' House, who holds office for one year, and acts 
 as one of the representatives of the Incorporation in 
 the Trades' House. The reader will receive full informa-
 
 Cordiners Incorporated — Coat of Arms, etc. 21 
 
 tion as to the Trades' House Buildings under Chapter 
 XXL, deaUng specially with that subject. Until 1882 
 a member of the Educational Committee of the Trades' 
 House was annually elected by the Incorporation, but in 
 consequence of the abolition of the Trades' School, to 
 the maintenance of which all the incorporations con- 
 tributed, and seeing that the education given by the 
 House was entirely paid for out of its own funds, the 
 Trades' House resolved to rescind the right to make this 
 appointment by the crafts, and the Trades' House now 
 appoints the Educational Committee out of its own 
 members. Another appointment is also made at the 
 annual meeting, and that is the delegate for the Gorbals 
 Lands. The reader will receive full information as to 
 these lands in Chapter XX., dealing with the Gorbals 
 Lands. The next and last appointment of office- 
 bearers made at the annual meeting is the Educational 
 Committee of the Incorporation. This committee takes 
 charge of the educational matters connected with children 
 of members of the Incorporation. These representatives 
 to the Trades' House and office-bearers in the Incor- 
 poration must, in terms of the bye-laws enacted by the 
 Trades' House, be in the occupancy of a dwelling-house 
 or place of business within the municipality of Glasgow. 
 The reader will find these latter bye-laws given under 
 Chapter XII. The appointment of clerk and officer is 
 also made at the annual meeting. 
 
 The Deacon presides at all meetings of the Incor- 
 poration and of the Master Court. He and the collector 
 operate jointly on the bank account. The collector 
 receives and pays all moneys. He finds caution for his
 
 Incorporation of Cordi7iers. 
 
 intromissions. His books are duly audited annually ; and 
 he reports the state of the funds of the Incorporation to the 
 quarterly meetings of the Master Court. The accounts, 
 after being audited, are submitted to the Master Court, 
 and, when approved of, arc printed and circulated among 
 the members for final consideration and approval at the 
 annual meeting. The bye-laws, which are very complete, 
 and provide for almost everything that is likely to arise, 
 will be found printed in the Appendix.
 
 Glasgow Created a Royal Burgh, etc. 23 
 
 C H A P T E R I V. 
 
 GLASGOW CREATED A ROYAL BURGH — INCREASED POWERS 
 AND PRIVILEGES OF INCORPORATED TRADES — VICISSI- 
 TUDES OF CRAFTS DURING 15TH, i6tH, AND 1 7TH 
 CENTURIES. 
 
 Glasgow was created a royal burgh by charter granted 
 by King Charles the First, dated at Newmarket, i6th 
 October, 1636. This charter was confirmed by Acts of the 
 Scottish Parliament, ist Session, ist Parliament, Charles 
 II., and ist Parliament William and Mary, 1690. This 
 charter " dc novo (and without prejudice of their former 
 rights) erected and incorporated our foresaid burgh into 
 a free Royal Burgh, with all and singular liberties, privi- 
 leges, immunities, and jurisdictions, which, by the laws 
 and customs of our kingdom pertained, or could justly 
 pertain, to any other free Royal Burgh ; and with special 
 power and liberty to the provost, bailies, councillors, 
 community, burgesses, and the freemen of our said burgh, 
 and their successors for ever (and to no others whatever, 
 the freemen and burgesses of our said burgh only being) of 
 having, frequenting, using, and exercising mercantile 
 business, the trade and traffick of merchandize, blok, buy, 
 cope, sell all kind of merchandize, as well native as 
 foreign; and this within the entire bounds of our said 
 burgh of Glasgow, and the whole liberties and privileges 
 thereof, and of holding, enjoying, and possessing, within 
 our said burgh and bounds foresaid, for ever, one mer-
 
 24 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 chant gildry, with courts of dean of gild, the gild courts, 
 members of council, and jurisdictions thereto belonging," 
 &c. 
 
 It is under this royal charter that the river bailie of 
 Glasgow has a jurisdiction extending from the Glasgow 
 Bridge to the Clochstaine (Lighthouse), aTid, under the 
 Clyde Navigation Act, 1858, his authority has been 
 extended to the southernmost point of the island of 
 Little Cumbrae in the Frith of Clyde. This enables 
 the river bailie, under the Clyde Acts and the Glasgow 
 Police Act, to try offences committed against the bye- 
 laws of the Clyde Trustees and of the Pilot Board of 
 the River and Frith of Clyde. This royal charter also 
 creates, makes, and constitutes " the (then) present Pro- 
 vost and Bailies of our said burgh, and their successors, 
 Justices of the Peace, within our said burgh of Glasgow, 
 and whole territories and Hberties thereof, and within 
 the said harbours of Inchgreen, Newark, and Pot of the 
 Rig." The provost and bailies of Glasgow continue at 
 the present day to be Justices of the Peace for Lanark- 
 shire, ex officiis. 
 
 This royal charter likewise " unites, annexes, and 
 incorporates our foresaid burgh and city of Glasgow, 
 together with all lands, tenements, territories, communi- 
 ties, the infield and outfield parts, stations of ships, fairs, 
 markets, mills, multures, sequels, and the thirlage, 
 churches, rights of patronage, customs, hospitals, col- 
 lasteria, the correction houses, and others particularly and 
 generally above specified, into one free royal burgh ; and 
 we will and grant that our sasine taken thereof by the 
 provost or any ane of the baillies of our said burgh, at
 
 Glasgow Created a Royal Burgh, etc. 25 
 
 the market cross or court house, will stand and be per- 
 petual sasine to them and their successors, councillors, 
 and community of our said burgh, without renewing of 
 the said sasine, notwithstanding the particulars foresaid, 
 or whatever of them may be discontiguous, holding and 
 having all and whole our foresaid burgh of Glasgow, 
 comprehending the whole lands, tenements, territories, 
 churches, chapels, communities, harbours, stations of 
 ships, fairs, markets, mills, multures^ the sucken customs, 
 hospitals, coUasteria, and others, particularly and generally 
 above mentioned, by the foresaid provost, bailies, dean 
 of guild, treasurer, councillors, burgesses, and community 
 of our said burgh of Glasgow before mentioned, and their 
 successors, of us and our successors, in free burgage for 
 ever, by all the righteous meiths, ancient and divided, 
 according as they ly in length and breadth ; in houses, 
 edifices, forests, plains, muirs, marshes, ways, paths, waters, 
 pools, rivulets, meadows, grazing fields and pastures, 
 mills, multures, and their sequels; fowlings, huntings, 
 fishings, peats, turfs, coals, coalfields, rabbits, rabbit 
 warrens, pigeons, dovecots, Avorkshops, brass foundries, 
 breweries, and broomfields, trees, groves, and twigs, 
 woods, beams, quarries, stone, and lime, with courts and 
 their entries, herezelds, bloodwits and merchetis of women; 
 with gibbet, ditch, sok, sak, thoile, thave, vest, wrak, 
 with wair vennysoun, infang-thiefif, outfang-thieff, pit, and 
 gallows, with common pasture and free entrance and 
 exit, and with all other and singular liberties, commodi- 
 ties, profits, and easements, and their just pertinents 
 whatsomever, as well named as not named, as well under 
 ground as above ground, far and near, belonging to the
 
 26 Incorporation of CoriUners. 
 
 said Royal Burgh, with pertinents or justly belonging, 
 enjoying them in whatever manner in future, freely, quietly, 
 full}', entirely, honorably, well, and in peace, without any 
 revocation, contradiction, impediment, or obstacle what- 
 ever. The said provost, baillies, dean of guild, com- 
 munity and inhabitants of our said burgh and city of 
 Glasgow, and their successors, delivering hereafter annu- 
 ally to us and our successors, the sum of twenty merks of 
 usual money of our kingdom of Scotland, at the Feasts of 
 Pentecost and St. Martin, in the winter, by equal portions, 
 our burgh revenue, with service of burgh, used and wont; 
 also paying yearly to the most Reverend Father in Christ. 
 Patrick, Archbishop of Glasgow, and his successors, the 
 sum of sixteen merks of money aforesaid, at whatever 
 term of payment our foresaid burgh of Glasgow by its 
 former charter is bound." This charter conveyed to 
 the Lord Provost and Magistrates the whole lands in the 
 present royalty, now the City Parish, with the exception 
 of a small portion added to the ancient royalty in iSoo. 
 by the Police Act of that year. 
 
 Although full liberty was not granted by this royal 
 charter to Glasgow, as in several royal burghs, owing to 
 the reservations therein to James, Duke of Lennox, and 
 his successors and bailies, and their deputies, of the 
 liberties and privileges during the whole time of the 
 Glasgow Fair similarly and in the same manner as they 
 enjoyed and were accustomed to in times past, yet the 
 increased powers and privileges contained in the charter, 
 with this exception, were so much in excess of those for- 
 merly enjoyed, that the crafts then began to flourish, and 
 the city to grow in importance.
 
 Glasg07v Created a Royal Burgh, etc. 27 
 
 This charter is printed at length in the Appendix, and 
 is well worthy of a perusal by the reader. 
 
 Although the crafts at this period had made great head- 
 way, their powers and privileges were, however, subject to 
 great vicissitudes during the 15th, i6th, and part of the 
 17th centuries, as the following enactments will show: — 
 
 The statute of James I., in 1425, cap. 39, makes 
 mention for the first time of " deakons " or " maister 
 men" — handicraftsmen, in their different branches in 
 every town of the realm, being thereby empowered to 
 elect a preses, who was called " a deakon or maister man 
 over the laife for the time, so that the lieges be not 
 defrauded in time to come as they have been in time 
 byegone through untrue men of crafts." A continuation 
 of this statute, in 1426, cap. 27, requires "deacons of ilk 
 craft " to be elected. By statute (cap. 86) of the same year 
 the office of deacon was declared to be of general preju- 
 dice to the kingdom — all license to elect deacons revoked 
 —and the former meetings of the deacons was condemned 
 as the assemblies of conspirators. The privilege of elect- 
 ing deacons was restored by statute of James II. in 1457, 
 cap. 65, in favour of the Goldsmiths of Edinburgh, which 
 required them to appoint a deacon to inspect their work, 
 that it be of standard fineness, and by the passing of an 
 Act of James III., 1483, cap. 96, which required Gold- 
 smiths again to have a deacon, the office once more 
 became general among the crafts. Some years later the 
 Act James III., Parlt. 2, cap. 12, first mentions the dis- 
 tinction between traders and merchants — tradesmen using 
 merchandise are required to renounce their craft — and by 
 Act James III., 1487, cap. 107, it is ordained that this
 
 I)ico}-po?-atioJi of Cordiners. 
 
 Act be put into execution by escheat of the merchandise 
 to be accounted for to the Exchequer. 
 
 By Act 1493, James IV., cap. 43, the office of deacon 
 was again revoked " because it is clearly understandin to 
 the King's Hieness and his three estates that the using of 
 deakons of men of crafts in burrows is right dangerous, 
 it is therefore ordained that all deakons shall cease for a 
 year at least (especially masons and wrights) except to 
 examine works." 
 
 By statute of Queen Mary, 1555, cap. 52, the office of 
 deacon was altogether abolished because it was the cause 
 of commotion and unlawful combinations amongst the 
 crafts themselves, and betwixt burgh and burgh, deserving 
 of great punishment Frequent disturbances had taken 
 place between merchants and craftsmen. A very lively 
 commotion took place in Edinburgh, in the year 1543, 
 arising out of a dispute between the merchants and 
 craftsmen, the jealousy of the crafts being stimulated 
 by the merchants having for a long time exercised the 
 power of electing the magistrates exclusively from among 
 themselves, of whom the Town Council was originally 
 composed. The irritation thus occasioned was greatly 
 increased when the magistrates of that city passed a 
 law encroaching on the rights of the craftsmen. This 
 new infringement roused the resentment of the deacons 
 of the trades, and they at once resolved to let it be 
 clearly understood that they were in no mood to submit, 
 but were determined to obtain redress, and that speedily. 
 They proceeded to the Town House, where, apparently 
 with the intention of overawing the magistrates, they 
 drew their swords. In this object they were dis-
 
 Glasgow Created a Royal Burgh, etc. 29 
 
 appointed, and were themselves seized and overpowered 
 l)y an armed force, and thereafter imprisoned. The 
 craftsmen then assembled to rescue their deacons; but 
 on the matter beginning to assume a serious aspect, it 
 was brought to an end by the interposition of the 
 Regent Arran. The continued animosity of the crafts- 
 men led to fresh disturbances, and eventually brought 
 upon themselves and the other craftsmen of the king- 
 dom the statute passed in 1555, which enacts "that 
 there be na deakons chosen in times cumming within 
 burgh," and the provost, bailies, and council of the burgh 
 are directed " to chuse the maist honest man of craft, of 
 gude conscience, ane of every craft to visie their craft 
 that they labour sufficiently, and thir persons to be called 
 visitours of their craft, and to be elected and chosen 
 yearly at Michaelmas, and their visitours chosen, sworn, 
 and admitted to have choosing of officers and other 
 things as the deacons voted before. Na craftsmen to 
 bruik office in the burgh except two of the most honest 
 and famous persons to be chosen yearly." 
 
 The constituting of the heads of all the crafts 
 "visitors" was a radical change; and when the title of 
 "deacon" was restored, that of "visitor" was retained, 
 and still continues to be used, by the maltmen craft of 
 Glasgow. 
 
 Queen Mary, on i6th April, 1556, granted a general 
 charter in favour of the craftsmen of burghs and cities 
 within the realm, rescinding the Act passed in 1555, and 
 which charter " restores and repons tliem to use and 
 have deacons of all craftis, togidder with all and sundry 
 privileges, faculties, freedoms, consuetudes, and uses
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 granted to them be our maist noble progenitors, and 
 alsua the use and possession of the saidis liberties 
 bruikit and joisit by them in tymes bygane, notwith- 
 stanging the said Act of Parliament, &c., ratifying 
 and approving all their former privileges given in tyme 
 bygane." 
 
 The craftsmen of Edinburgh having again got a footing 
 in the Town Council of Edinburgh, they, before long, 
 filled the city with tumult in their renewed contests with 
 the merchants. Both the merchants and craftsmen w^ere, 
 however, desirous of obtaining peace, and referred their 
 differences to the decision of James VI. as umpire. In 
 1583 the King executed a decree-arbitral, establishing 
 the political constitution or set of the tOAvn upon much 
 the same footing which it has retained till altered in our 
 own times ; but this decree was by no means sufficient 
 to put an end to the contests for power in burgh politics 
 between the merchants and craftsmen, and these disputes 
 resulted in frequent appeals to the Supreme Court to 
 define their respective rights and privileges. 
 
 A spirit of antagonism similar to that just referred to 
 existed between the merchants and craftsmen in Glasgow 
 in regard to the political influence of the town and the 
 management of its municipal affairs ; and with respect to 
 this local contention for precedence between the mer- 
 chants and craftsmen in Glasgow, McUre, the local his- 
 torian, says : — " In the i6th century violent contests arose 
 between the merchant and trades ranks respecting the 
 government of the city. The merchants had exercised 
 the whole sway, monopolised the magistracy, and assumed 
 the sole right of managing the funds. The trades, who
 
 Glasgotu Created a Royal Burgh, etc. 31 
 
 were more numerous, insisted on a participation of office. 
 The animosities which had arisen from this source were 
 at last allayed by a submission of the points of difference 
 to Sir George Elphinstone, of Blythswood, knight, then 
 Provost, Mr. David Weems (the parson of Glasgow), and 
 Messrs. John Bell and Robert Scott, two ministers of the 
 city, anent their privileges, places, ranks, and prerogatives." 
 These arbiters issued an award, dated 6th February, 
 1605, which is termed the Letter of Guildry. This Letter 
 of Guildry, in so far as not altered or amended by the 
 Burgh Reform x'\ct of 1833 and the Act of 1846, abolish- 
 ing the exclusive privileges of trading in burghs — both 
 afterwards referred to — with the Seals of Cause before 
 noticed, incorporating the Cordiners of Glasgow — contain 
 the constitution of that craft. The Letter of Guildry, in 
 so far as not altered or amended as before-mentioned, 
 contains also the constitution of the Merchants' House, 
 and Trades' House of Glasgow, and likewise, with their 
 Deeds of Incorporation, of the other thirteen crafts of 
 Glasgow. The Letter of Guildry — a print of which, and 
 of the Acts confirming the same, will be found in the 
 Appendix — fixed the prerogatives and privileges of the 
 fourteen incorporations, and brought the crafts into union 
 with each other. 
 
 From 1604 to 1672 the Letter of Guildr)' remained 
 unconfirmed by Parliament, and was not mentioned, or 
 in any manner referred to, in the several statutes passed 
 by the Legislature in regard to Glasgow, although acted 
 upon during the period of ^68 years between 1604 and 
 1672; but some circumstance having occurred during the 
 persecution of the Covenanters which created a desire to
 
 32 
 
 Ificorporaiion of Cordincrs. 
 
 get this done, the Letter of Guildry was subsequently 
 confirmed by the Act Charles II., chapter 129 (year 
 1672). 
 
 It appears that this Act was got upon the application 
 and at the cost of the Trades' House and of the fourteen 
 incorporated trades of Glasgow.
 
 Rrvoliition, 1688 — Charter by William and Mary, etc. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE REVOLUTION OF 1 688 CHARTER BY WILLIAM 
 
 AND MARY. 
 
 The flight of James II. of England and VII. of Scotland, 
 in 1688, completed the Revolution which placed the 
 country under a responsible government, and destroyed 
 the influence of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal 
 parties, who had controlled the deacons and craftsmen 
 of Glasgow for a very long period. The real feelings of 
 the people of Glasgow, untinged by the medium of a self- 
 elected Town Council, then became apparent. When 
 the convention of the Estates, after the flight of the king, 
 met at Edinburgh in 1688 to consider the settlement of 
 the Crown upon William and Mary, Glasgow raised and 
 armed a regiment of 500 men, and sent them to Edin- 
 burgh as a bodyguard to the Convention. The regiment 
 was commanded by the Earl of Argyll and the Lord 
 Newbottle. By this spirited and very decided step the 
 citizens of Glasgow evinced their support of the cause of 
 the Reformation and Revolution. 
 
 This feeling was further shown in 1689 t>y the inhabi- 
 tants at large petitioning the Estates of Parliament, setting 
 forth their grievances, and complaining of the fraudulent 
 practices of the self-elected magistrates in having wasted 
 the burgh funds and granted bonds to their friends without 
 value. In response, the statute 1689, cap. 95, was passed, 
 which put an end to this by enacting, " That all precepts 
 
 c
 
 34 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 and bonds granted by the present Magistrates and Town 
 Council of GlasgOAV in favour of any of themselves, or any 
 other person, except for payment of the public debts since 
 the date of the Act of the Estates ordaining new elections 
 of magistrates in burghs by poll of the habile burgesses, 
 shall be void and null." 
 
 On 2nd July, 1689, the Magistrates and Council were 
 elected by a poll of all the burgesses. 
 
 On 4th January, 1690, William and Mary granted a 
 royal charter confirming all former Deeds made by 
 any of their royal predecessors in favour of the com- 
 munity of the City of Glasgow, or guild brethren, trades- 
 men, or any society of deaconry, within the same, &c. 
 This charter was subsequently ratified by the Act of 
 William and Mary, 1690, cap. 18, a print of which will 
 be found in the Appendix.
 
 Sf. Crispin — Patron Saint, etc. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 SKETCH OF ST. CRISPIN, THE PATRON SAINT OF SHOE- 
 MAKERS — SHOEMAKERS AND SHOES FROM EARLIEST 
 PERIOD — PROCESSION OF KING CRISPIN IN 1 83 1 AT 
 CORONATION OF WILLIAM IV. 
 
 Having referred as briefly as possible, and as the cir- 
 cumstances of the case permit, to the seals of cause, 
 charters, and Acts of Parliament affecting or relating to 
 the incorporated crafts, and specially to the Cordiners, 
 it will now be appropriate to give some description of 
 the Incorporation of Cordiners and its doings. Unfor- 
 tunately, the historical material available will not admit 
 of more, than a very general account. 
 
 In the first seal of cause of the Incorporation of 
 Cordiners in 1558, it is set forth — "That quhair for the 
 louynge of Almichty God, the honor of holy kirk wirschep, 
 and commowne veil of this gude toun, and for the proffet 
 of all and syndry our souerane lorde and ladyis, the 
 king and quen, graceis leigeis, and wtheris repairing 
 thairto, and for augmentatioune of deuine seruice at the 
 alter of Sanct Niniane, situat in the metropolitane Kirk 
 of Glasgow, the honour of Sanctis Crispine and Crispinani, 
 our patrones, we desire," &c, St. Crispine and Crispinani 
 are thus the adopted patron saints of the Cordiners — 
 i.e.f Shoemakers. St. Crispin's Day, 25th October, is 
 set apart in our calendar to St. Crispin ; and to quote 
 the words in the spirited speech that Shakspeare has
 
 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 put into the mouth of King Henry V., when he 
 addressed his army of 30,000 men before the famous 
 battle of Agincourt, fought and won by the Enghsh on 
 25th October, 1415, "this day is called the Feast of St. 
 Crispian." Not that Crispian was all one with Crispin, for 
 they were not one, but two, and in that speech by the king 
 he mentions them as " Crispin, Crispian," and ends his 
 address with the words, "that fought with us upon St. 
 Crispin's Day." The poet used Avhichever name was 
 required by the metre of his line. He also calls Crispian 
 " Crispianus," and he was otherwise known as "Crispinian." 
 The two brothers, Crispin and Crispian, were sprung of a 
 noble Roman family, and having embraced the Christian 
 faith, left Rome for Soissons, where they were imprisoned 
 and tortured to death by the governor, Rictius Varus, in 
 the year 287, when Maximian was emperor. During the 
 daytime the brothers preached the Gospel, and in order to 
 support themselves, worked at night at the trade of shoe- 
 making, as had been done at an earlier period by Anianus, 
 bishop of Alexandria, who is said to have received 
 instruction from St. Mark. But while Anianus, the Chris- 
 tian shoemaker, is scarcely, if ever, remembered, the 
 names of Crispin and Crispian are of world-wide re^DUta- 
 tion, the place of honour, as the patron saint of shoe- 
 makers, being generally given to the elder brother, 
 Crispin. But the Cordiners of Glasgow, from the words 
 of their first seal of cause, adopt both names. 
 
 In a work that is extant the story of the two brothers, 
 Crispin and Crispian, is transferred to England and the 
 neighbourhood of Canterbury, and romantically treated 
 in a manner that does not accord with the versions of
 
 Sf. Crispin — Patron Saini, etc. 
 
 Alban, Butler, and Lusius; for while Crispian goes to 
 the wars, Crispin is made " the emperor's shoemaker " 
 to King Logria, and makes shoes for his daughter, tlie 
 Princess Ursula. She falls in love with Crispin, who tells 
 her that he is a prince by birth, and they are privatel}- 
 married. There are some curious adventures related in 
 this version of the story of the two brothers, but no 
 martyrdom, for the king graciously pardons them, and 
 they live happily ever after. In connection with this 
 Kentish story, it is somewhat remarkable that when John 
 Weever, the antiquary, wrote his " Funeral Monuments " 
 in 1 63 1, he described a heap of stones on the beach at 
 Widde, near Stonend, which is said to mark the graves of 
 Crispin and Crispian, who had been shipwrecked and cast 
 ashore at that spot. The first baby-boy of Prince Crispin 
 and Princess Ursula gave rise to the old proverb — 
 
 " A shoemaker's son is a prince born." 
 
 A story is told of Henry VIII. going through the streets 
 of London at night in disguise, that he might see for 
 himself how the constable and watch performed their 
 duties; and that he went into a cobbler's shop to get 
 his boot mended ; drank with the cobbler, and asked 
 him to come to the Palace and inquire for Harry Tudor: 
 how the cobbler went and recognised the king, who 
 gave him the freedom of his cellar and an annual pension 
 of forty marks. A somewhat similar story is told of the 
 Emperor Charles V. of Germany, who, on October 25, 
 wandered in disguise into the shop of a Flanders cobbler 
 in order to get his boot mended. The cobbler refused 
 to do this, because they did not do a stitch of work on
 
 38 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 St. Crispin's Day, but he invited the stranger lo drink 
 with him, and proposed the king's health. " Do you love 
 him then?" asked the other, "Aye," said the cobbler, 
 "I love his long noseship well enough; but I should 
 love him more if he would tax us less." The next day 
 the cobbler was summoned to the palace, and was horrified 
 to find that his long noseship was his companion on St. 
 Crispin's Day; but the king thanked him for his hospitality, 
 and begged him to say what benefit he would wish to be 
 bestowed upon him.^ The simple-minded cobbler could 
 think of no other request than this — that the cobblers of 
 Flanders should bear for their coat of arms a boot sur- 
 mounted with the Imperial Crown. This was granted, as 
 was also his further request that cobblers should take pre- 
 cedence of shoemakers. A dispute on this point occurred 
 at Frankfort so lately as July, 1S63, and had to be settled 
 by the authorities. On St. Crispin's Day, 1S61, the King 
 of Hanover and his son were received into the Corporation 
 of Cobblers at Hanover. 
 
 In England the Cordwainers' and Cobblers' Company 
 was incorporated in the y^ar 1410, but the title of 
 cobblers fell into contempt, and is not now used by 
 the company, whose fine hall is in St. Distaffs Lane, 
 St. Paul's, London. In 18 13 a work was pubHshed on 
 " The Art and Mystery of a Cordwainer," written by 
 Frederick Rees. The word cordwainer is a corruption 
 of corduainir, which itself was a corruption from cor- 
 donnier, Cordova or Cordua being famed for that leather, 
 of which we are told, in Hudibras, of some "who 
 have been kicked till they know whether a shoe's of 
 Spanish or neat's leather " — a delicacy of perception engen-
 
 S/. Crispin — Patron Saint, etc. 39 
 
 dered by the tenderness of the cuticle. In Paris the 
 shoemakers celebrated St. Crispin's Day by a mass at the 
 church of St. Peter, Montmartre, up to October 25, 1868, 
 on which day instead of the usual statue of the saint, 
 the Frercs Cordonnicrs carried a huge boot, to the great 
 amusement of the spectators. The ecclesiastical autho- 
 rities, therefore, refused, in 1869, to perform the usual 
 ceremonies unless the image of St. Crispin was borne in 
 the procession ; and as the cordonniers preferred the huge 
 boot, St. Crispin's Day was not observed as a religious 
 festival. That French word cordonnier or cordinnier 
 was introduced — in the fifteenth century — into Scot- 
 land, where a shoemaker was called a cordiner, though 
 soutar or souter is the more familiar term. Burns' 
 Souter Johnny was John Lauchlan, a shoemaker of Ayr. 
 Sir Walter Scott, in his " Lay of the Last Minstrel," spells 
 the word in its Latin form, when he calls Watt Tinlinn 
 "■ sutor and archer." It was Apelles, the painter to Alex- 
 ander the Great, who, when a cobbler had found fault with 
 the sandals in one of his pictures, and then proceeded to 
 criticise the other portions of the painting, checked him 
 with the words ne sutor ultra crcpidavi — " The shoemaker 
 should not go beyond his last."' 
 
 St. Crispin's Day is celebrated at Stirling and elsewhere 
 in Scotland in a highly convivial manner by the Crispin 
 clubs ; but it is to be hoped that the old saying — 
 
 " On the twenty-fifth of October ne'er a souter's sober." 
 
 will have dropped into decadence. At Selkirk, on St. 
 Crispin's Day, the members of the Crispin Club were 
 compelled to " lick the birse," which was a bunch of
 
 40 Iiicorporaiioi of Cordineis. 
 
 bristles, the emblem of their craft, and was mouthed by all 
 in turn. When Sir Walter Scott was initiated he washed 
 the birse in his wine, but was compelled, as a penalty, to 
 drink the polluted liquor. Prince Leopold had to go 
 through the ceremony in 1819, when he was made a 
 sutor of Selkirk. St. Crispin's Day at Birmingham, in 
 1866, produced a case for the magistrates, in which a 
 witness spoke of shoemakers' tools as " snobs' tools " — 
 snob being one of the many names given to makers and 
 menders of boots and shoes — who are also known as 
 welters, cleaners, clickers, blockers, runners, closers, 
 repairers, restorers, translators, clobberers, and slob- 
 berers. The last title, according to a northern legend, 
 had its origin from a Jew shoemaker who insulted the 
 Saviour on his way to Calvary, and was told by Him 
 that he was a sneak and a slobberer, and that all his 
 race should be slobberers till the end of time. A more 
 curious term for " snobs' tools " is " Sir Hugh's bones," 
 the meaning of which is explained in a story in 
 " The Gentle Craft," wherein Sir Hugh, before his 
 death, bequeaths his bones to the shoemakers, at whose 
 trade he had worked, and who, in memory of him, 
 called their tools " Sir Hugh's bones." 
 
 When King John was at Northampton — then and still a 
 centre of the shoemaking trade — he gave one shilling for 
 his dress boots and sixpence for his slippers ; but when 
 our Queen and the Prince Consort passed through there, 
 on their way to Burgleigh, the prince was presented with 
 a pair of boots. There is a saying, " You may know 
 when you are within a mile of Northampton by the smell 
 of the leather and the noise of the lapstones." It is to
 
 S^. Crispin — Patron Saint, etc. 41 
 
 be feared that tlie shoemakers of Northampton of the 
 present day have become degenerate sons of their pious 
 fathers when their recent election of Mr. Bradlaugh as 
 their M.P. is fully considered in all its bearings. In one 
 thing they must command respect, if in nothing else, and 
 that is their consistency and determination not to be 
 beaten, although the whole forces of the Commons 
 House of Parliament have been arrayed against them. 
 
 St. Crispin's Day, in the Crimean War of 1854, will 
 ever be remembered for the Battle of Balaclava and the 
 charge of the Light Brigade. 
 
 St. Crispin's Day in 1869 was celebrated at Deane, 
 Northamptonshire, by the reopening of the Parish Church, 
 after considerable restoration, when the Bishop of Peter- 
 borough (Dr. Magee) in his sermon made eloquent 
 mention of the Battle of Balaclava and the charge of the 
 Light Brigade on St. Crispin's Day, in which battle an 
 important part was taken by the late Lord Cardigan. 
 Both at Agincourt, in 14 15, and at Balaclava, in 1854, 
 British heroism was splendidly displayed on St. Crispin's 
 Day. 
 
 That is "a pretty story" — as, indeed, good old Bishop 
 Latimer calls it, quoting it from one of the old fathers of 
 the Church — of St. Anthony, that when he was living a 
 very hard and severe life in the wilderness, there came 
 to him one day a voice from heaven, saying, " Anthony, 
 thou art not so perfect as a cobbler that dwelleth in 
 Alexandria." Hearing this, Anthony forthwith rose, took 
 his staff, and travelled to Alexandria, where he found the 
 cobbler, who was greatly astonished to see so reverend a 
 father come to his house. Then spake Anthony to him,
 
 42 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 saying, " Come and tell me thy whole conversation, and 
 how thou spendest thy time." "Sir," said the said 
 cobbler, " as for me, good works have I none ; my life is 
 but simple and slender, seeing that I am but a poor 
 cobbler. In the morning when I rise I pray for the 
 whole city wherein I dwell, especially for all such neigh- 
 bours and poor friends as I have; after that I sit me 
 down to my labour, where I spend the whole day in 
 getting my living, and I keep me from all falsehood, for 
 I hate nothing so much as I do deceitfulness ; wherefore, 
 when I make any man a promise, I keep it, and perform 
 it truly ; and thus I spend my time poorly with my wife 
 and children, whom I teach and instruct, so far as my 
 wit will serve me, to fear and dread God ; and this is the 
 sum of my simple life." 
 
 Other crafts than shoemakers may possibly make for 
 themselves a great eminence in the possession of noble 
 names and singular incidents, but it is somewhat matter 
 of doubt if any can show such an illustrious line as 
 the shoemakers. The name of Prince Crispin has 
 already been referred to. Not one of the least of 
 certain curious incidents is the tradition that the most 
 illustrious of the royal blood of Spain, in Spain's illustrious 
 day, flowed originally from the veins of a shoemaker of 
 Veyros, a town in Portugal. The shoemaker's daughter, 
 Inez, most remarkable for her beauty, became the mistress 
 of Don John, the governor of Veyros. The old shoe- 
 maker never forgave her. He cast her out from his 
 house ; but although he would never see her more, to 
 show that his severity was not a matter of passion but of 
 principle with him, he thought that he ought, after the
 
 S/. Crispin — Patron Saint, etc. 43 
 
 fashion of his age, to expiate her fault, and so thereafter 
 he would neither lie on a bed, eat at a table, change his 
 linen, nor cut hair or beard ; and his hair grew in such 
 profusion that he came to be known as Old Beardy. 
 The young lady herself, perhaps smitten with grief for 
 her father's sorrow, entered a nunnery, of which she 
 became the abbess, leaving behind her a great reputation 
 for virtue and hohness. Her son, Don Alfonso, to his 
 honour be it recorded, made a pilgrimage to Veyros to 
 obtain the blessing of Old Beardy, his grandfather, which 
 he could only with great difficulty secure. Old Beardy 
 did, however, lay his hands upon the duke's head, and 
 gave him his blessing ; but the stubborn old shoemaker 
 would hold no further conversation with him. A daughter 
 of this young duke became the queen of Castile, and the 
 mother of the great Isabel, the granddaughter of the 
 Emperor Charles V. 
 
 " There's nothing hke leather " is an old proverb, and 
 used, we suppose, on every occasion when persons are 
 heard extolling their craft as of chief importance. It is 
 said to have had its origin in the instance of the currier 
 who, when his native city was in a state of siege, would 
 have it defended with leather ; but the proverb finds 
 something of an illustration in the life of Edward Irving. 
 When he was minister in Glasgow, in his parish was a 
 shoemaker, a radical and an infidel — one of that order of 
 men one may so easily imagine — who sat at his stall, 
 dreamily musing, hammering out his leather, and talking 
 heaps of mischievous nonsense, most likely flavoured with 
 many a strong piece of common sense. Irving wanted to 
 get at this man, so one day he made his appearance by the
 
 44 Incorporatio7i of Cordluers. 
 
 side of the shoemaker's stall. In the course of the 
 conversation he took up a piece of leather and made 
 some remarks upon it, showing that he really knew what 
 he was talking about, which, for that very reason, ex- 
 asperated the shoemaker, who set it down to an ignorant 
 conceit of knowledge, exclaiming, "What do ye ken 
 aboot leather?" Now this was just what Irving wanted. 
 He was thoroughly up in leather, for his father was a 
 tanner, and he proceeded, as he indeed from the first 
 intended, to talk to the astonished shoemaker about 
 shoes, and suggested certain processes for making shoes 
 by machinery. Crispin soon got fairly interested in the 
 great figure stooping over his bench. At last he threw 
 down his tools, exclaiming, " Now, but you're a decent 
 kind of fellow. And do you preach ? " The shoemaker 
 was vanquished, and Irving went very little farther on that 
 occasion ; but, amazing to say, the very next Sunday the 
 infidel shoemaker put in a modest appearance at Irving's 
 church. Irving watched his opportunity after this, and 
 in some few days contrived to meet the shoemaker in the ■ 
 streets. Accosting him in a cheerful and friendly manner, 
 and hailing him as, in some sense, an old friend, the tall 
 orator, to the amazement of the little shoemaker — of 
 course he was little, who ever heard of a tall shoemaker ? 
 — walked away by his side, in earnest conversation, 
 through the crowded streets of Glasgow. He had said 
 little or nothing about religion in all their talks hitherto, 
 but by the time they had reached the end of their walk 
 all resistance was over with the shoemaker. He sent his 
 children to the school, his wife was allowed to go to the 
 kirk in peace, and, most marvellous of all, he procured
 
 S/. Crispin — Patron Sairit, etc. 45 
 
 a decent suit of black, and became a regular and respec- 
 able kirk-goer. When he was taunted with this com- 
 plete change in his behaviour he was in the habit, says 
 Mrs. Oliphant, who tells the story, of summing it all 
 up in words which gave the palm to the cunning of his 
 conqueror, saying, " He's a sensible man yon — he kens 
 aboot leather." 
 
 Another well-known proverb, that " None know where 
 the shoe pinches but he who wears it," is attached to a 
 well-known story. A noble Roman was divorced from 
 his wife. His friend expressed surprise, saying, " Is she 
 not beautiful?" "Yes." " Is she not rich ? " "Yes." 
 " Is she not accomplished; are her manners not graceful?" 
 " Yes." " Well, then, why have you separated from her?" 
 " Well, no man can tell where the shoe pinches but he 
 who wears it." But there is little doubt that the proverb 
 is older than that story. This proverb reproduces itself in 
 another — " The fairest looking shoe may pinch the foot." 
 
 The shoe being so essential an article of comfort and 
 i:onvenience to the human family in all except the most 
 utterly savage tribes, every nation may be presumed to 
 have its proverbs concerning shoes, and to fit its moralities 
 to them. Hence, among the old Latins, those who lived 
 merely for external appearances, disregarding more solid 
 worth and the culture of the mind, were spoken of as 
 "De calceo solicitus, et pedem nihil curans " — "Anxious 
 about the shoe, but disregarding the foot"- — a proverb 
 which was possibly in Pope's mind when he penned the 
 celebrated couplet — 
 
 " JVort/i makes the man, the want of it the fellow, 
 And all the rest is leather or prunella." •
 
 46 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 There is a story told of an old Duke of Leeds who lived, 
 it is said, in the early part of the reign of George III. 
 One morning, soon after breakfast, the duke was in his 
 library with Dr. Monsey, his chaplain and friend, when 
 Mr. Walkden, of Pall Mall, his grace's shoemaker, 
 was introduced with a new pair of shoes, which he 
 was to fit on. The shoemaker was a great favourite of 
 the duke. "What have you there, Walkden?" "The 
 pair of shoes for your grace," he replied. " Let me see 
 them." They were handed to the duke accordingly. The 
 chaplain took up one, examining it with great attention. 
 "What is the price?" asked the chaplain. "Half a 
 guinea, sir," said the shoemaker. " Half a guinea ! what ! 
 for a pair of shoes?" said the chaplain; "why, I could 
 go to Cranbourne Alley and buy a better pair of shoes 
 than they ever were, or ever will be, for five and sixpence." 
 He then threw the shoe to the other end of the room. 
 Walkden threw the other after it, saying, " As they were 
 fellows, they had better go together," at the same time 
 saying to the chaplain, '•' Sir, I can go to a stall in Moor- 
 fields and buy a better sermon for twopence than the 
 duke gives you a guinea for." " Well done, Walkden, 
 that's capitally said ; make me half-a-dozen pairs of these 
 shoes directly," said the duke. 
 
 Concerning the taking off of the shoes as a mark of 
 worship or token of respect, we find an exemplification 
 in the word to Moses : " Put off thy shoes from off thy 
 feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." 
 And when Joshua saw the captain of the Lord's host, the 
 captain said to him, " Loose thy shoe from off" thy foot, 
 for the place whereon thou standest is holy." To this
 
 S/. Crispin — Patron Saint, etc. 47 
 
 day the Mussulman takes off his shoes as he enters the 
 mosque; and so also do many of the Hindoos as they 
 enter their temples. With this rule of taking off the shoe 
 is associated the ancient practice — -so commonly observed 
 at our weddings — of throwing the shoe, the sign of a 
 covenant, as we read in the Book of Ruth : — " Now this 
 was the manner in former time in Israel concerning 
 redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all 
 things a man plucked off his shoe and gave it to his 
 neighbour, and this was a testimony in Israel. Therefore 
 the kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for thee ; so he drew off 
 his shoe. And Boaz said unto the elders and unto all 
 the people, Ye are witnesses this day that I have bought 
 all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and 
 Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. Moreover, Ruth, the 
 Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be 
 my wife : ye are witnesses this day," «S:c., &c. This also 
 explains that other text, "Over Edom will I cast my 
 shoe." This ancient usage of the shoe as the token and 
 sign or seal of a covenant, and the throwing of it as the 
 sign of an inheritance and dominion, give an excellent 
 explanation of two of our common proverbs, "Waiting 
 for dead men's shoes," and "Standing in another 
 man's shoes." So various are the associations sug- 
 gested even by a pair of shoes ! 
 
 Respecting the taking off of the shoe as a token of 
 worship and homage, INIr. Drummond Hay, in his enter- 
 taining book on " Western Barbary," recites a story, 
 certainly not of shoemakers, but of shoes. The clock 
 of the great Mosque of Tangiers was out of order, and 
 needed a skilful craftsman to repair it. None of the
 
 48 IncorporatioJi of Cordhiers. 
 
 faithful were found equal to the task. The clock would 
 not strike ; the works would not move. It was gravely 
 declared that a gin or evil genius had got possession of 
 it and of its works, and all sorts of exorcisms were tried 
 to expel the evil spirit, but without effect. Their only 
 resource now was in one who was fortunately residing in 
 Tangiers, a Christian clockmaker, or, as they called him, 
 "a cursed Nazarene from Geneo." But the difficulty 
 was how to employ him, for the clock was in the tower 
 of the Mosque, and it seemed impossible to permit him 
 to defile God's house of prayer by his sacrilegious steps. 
 There were grave consultations as to what their sacred 
 laws would permit them to do in such a case — one pro- 
 posal being to lay down boards, over which the infidel 
 might pass without touching the sacred floor. Finally it 
 was determined to pull up the pavement upon which the 
 "Christian dog" stepped, and whitewash the walls near 
 which he passed. So the unbeliever was sent for, and of 
 course informed that, first of all, he must take off his shoes 
 when entering the temple of the prophet. But a new, and 
 quite unexpected, difficulty arose. " Take off my shoes ! " 
 said he, "that I won't. I never take them off when I go 
 into my own church — I'll not take them off when I go into 
 the temple of your prophet." 
 
 The grave men were in utter perplexity. They called 
 together a committee of the Oolavia, or wise and learned 
 ones, from whom they sought counsel. The clock must 
 be set right ; but how was this to be done ? The clock- 
 maker's shoes had proved a serious obstacle. He and 
 all his race they cursed with great unanimity ; but that 
 did not mend the matter. At last one wise and sagacious
 
 S/. Crispm — Patron Saint, etc. 49 
 
 old priest rose and craved permission to speak. " Verily," 
 said he, "there is no God but God, and Mahomet is His 
 prophet. But if," said he, " the Mosque be out of repair, 
 and lime and bricks have to be conveyed into the interior 
 for the use of the masons, do not the donkeys carry those 
 loads ? and do they not enter with their shoes on?" " You 
 speak the very truth," was the general exclamation. " But 
 the donkey," continued the wise old man, " does not 
 believe that there is no God but God, and Mahomet is 
 His prophet." " No, verily," said they all. '■ Then," said 
 the speaker, " let the Christian go in shod as a donkey 
 does, and come out as a donkey." The argument was 
 unanimously applauded. So, in the character of a donkey 
 did the Christian enter the Mohamedan temple and 
 mended the clock — not, indeed, like a donkey, but as 
 such in the opinion of the faithful. So he came out 
 again ; and, at the date of writing his book, Mr. Hay 
 says — " The great clock of Tangiers has never since 
 wanted a visit from 'the donkey' to effect its repairs." 
 
 We may now conclude this general sketch by giving the 
 story of the classical cobbler who, in order to eclipse a 
 rival who lived opposite to him, put over his door, or 
 stall, the well-known motto, ^' Mens conscia recti'''' — "a 
 mind conscious of rectitude." His adversary, determined 
 not to be outdone, showed himself, alas ! to be a cobbler 
 in classics as well as in shoes, by placing over his door 
 the astonishingly comprehensive defiance, " Men's and 
 tvoniois conscia recti .'" 
 
 History records that the Cordiners of Glasgow have ever 
 been amongst the foremost in assisting and promoting 
 every good cause in which the public at large were
 
 5° 
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 interested ; and we arc happy to learn that they formed a 
 very important part of the Trades' Procession in Glasgow 
 in 1 83 1, on the occasion of the coronation of King William 
 the Fourth. The report of this procession in the Glasgow 
 Free Press of loth September, 1831, states that the shoe- 
 makers (Cordiners) formed the " keystone " of the pro- 
 cession, which numbered about 14,000 persons. The 
 address to the King on the occasion of his coronation 
 was unanimously voted on the Green of Glasgow by 
 200,000 persons. The following is a programme of the 
 procession we have referred to : — 
 
 ^proasston of Ifitng d^risptn — 1S31. 
 
 
 SHOEMAKERS. 
 
 
 
 TWO HERALDS. 
 
 
 Cttard. 
 
 CHAMPION, 
 
 On Horsehack. 
 TWO CAPTAINS. 
 
 Gicard. 
 
 Lieideiiaiit. 
 
 STANDARD BEARER. 
 
 Lieutenant. 
 
 Guard. 
 
 RUSSIAN COSSACK. 
 Oji Horseback. 
 
 Gitard. 
 
 Bashaw. 
 
 Lieutenant. 
 
 TWO CAPTAINS. 
 TWO LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 INDIAN KING. 
 
 THREE PAGES, 
 
 A II on Horseback. 
 
 STANDARD BEARER. 
 
 HEAD COLONEL, 
 
 On Horseback. 
 
 Bashaw. 
 
 Ueiitenant.
 
 S^. Crispin — Patron Saint, etc. 
 
 51 
 
 Lieutenant. 
 Aiiie-de-Cainp. 
 
 Lieutenant. 
 
 STANDARD BEARER. 
 
 FIELD MARSHAL, 
 Oil Horseback. 
 
 Lieictenant. 
 Aide-de-Camp. 
 
 TWO CAPTAINS. 
 
 STANDARD BEARER. 
 
 SECRETARY OF STATE. 
 
 RESIDENT OF COUNCIL. 
 
 PRIVY COUNCILLORS. 
 
 SIXTEEN USHERS. 
 
 EMBLEMS OF THE CRAFT. 
 
 Lieutenant. 
 
 Life Guards 
 
 mn mtng, 
 
 Life Guards. 
 
 Lieutenant. 
 
 Lieutenant. 
 
 Lieutenant . 
 
 SUPPORTED BY TWO DUKES. 
 king's TRAIN BORNE BY TWELVE PAGES. 
 THE CHAPLAIN. 
 TWO CAPTAINS. 
 
 STANDARD BEARER. Lieutenant. 
 
 FIFTEEN LORDS. 
 TWO CAPTAINS. 
 STANDARD BEARER. Lieutenant. 
 
 LATE KING, 
 
 SUPPORTED BY TWO DUKES. 
 
 TWO CAPTAINS. 
 
 SIX LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 TWO SHERIFFS. 
 
 MACER. 
 
 LORD MAYOR, 
 
 PROTECTED BY FOUR GUARDS. 
 TWO CAPTAINS. 
 STANDARD BEARERS. Lieutenant. 
 
 IVVENTY-ONE WHITE APRON BOYS. 
 
 BRITISH PRINCE, 
 
 TH TWO SUPPORTERS AND THREE PAGES, 
 A II on Horsel'ixck.
 
 52 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 TWO CAPTAINS. 
 Lieutenant. standard bearer. Lieutenant. 
 
 HIGHLAND CHIEFTAIN, 
 FOLLOWED 1;Y A PAGE. 
 
 FLAG 
 (Motto: "The Sons of Crispin ever shall be Free"). 
 FOURTEEN CLANSMEN, 
 MEMBERS OF THE CRAFT. 
 
 FLAG {in the middle of the Body) 
 (Motto : " Reform," and " The Thing pleased the King and the People"). 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL. 
 
 THREE ADJUTANTS, 
 Alton Horscliack.
 
 Acts of Cordiners, etc. 53 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE CORDINERS — EDICTS QF 
 THE KIRK COMMANDING THE MAGISTRATES AND THE 
 DEACONS TO DO CERTAIN ACTS, ETC. 
 
 Unfortunately, the minute books of the Cordiners are 
 extant only from the year 1759. Very possibly no 
 minutes were previously kept — the deacon and masters 
 meeting, and giving only verbal instructions in those early 
 days. This source failing, we are thus left entirely 
 dependent upon the very meagre records of contem- 
 poraneous history for whatever information we possess 
 regarding the acts and doings of the craft in those early 
 days. A few extracts from the ancient Burgh Laws and 
 Records may here be given of the laws applicable to 
 guilds in general and to the Cordiners in particular, with 
 the quaint judgments and singular penalties imposed for 
 their transfrression : — 
 
 " BURGH laws of KING DAVID I. 
 
 " Law 93. — Of Soutaris Barkande in the Burgh. 
 
 " It is to wyt that na soutar duelland wythin the burgh 
 aw to by ony hydis of mare prise to bark bot that has the 
 eyris and the hornis of a lenth.
 
 54 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 "the LAWIS of the gild (1249) OF THE ANCIENT 
 " BURGH OF BERWICK, GENERALLY ADOPTED IN SCOT- 
 " LAND. 
 
 ^^ Law I. — Off the Kepyn of t lie Gen trail Gylde. 
 
 " We half ordanit that all perticlar gilde hidertill oysyt 
 in ony burgh salbe away put, and the catall (to) thaim 
 ressonabilly and of laAv aucht salbe gevin to this gilde, 
 and in tym to cum be na maner of wys ony vthir gyld thai 
 presume to procure, bot vnyon had of all the membris til 
 a hed in all gud deidis thar sail cum to gethir a falouschip 
 sekyr and a suthfast frendschip bot dyssayt. 
 
 '■'• Lazii 7. — Ordinance anent Offenders. 
 
 " Item, giff ony of the brether stryk with his nef he sail 
 amend it with halff a mark, and efter the will of the alder- 
 man, and the den, and the layff of the brether, he sail 
 mak asyth to the perty. Item. — Giff ony of the brether 
 of the gyld thru violence drawis blud of ane othir he sail 
 amend wyth xxs., and efter the will of the alderman, and 
 of the dene, and of the layff of the brether, he sail assyth. 
 Nor ther sail nayn of thir mendis wyth ony prayer be 
 loussit na slakyt be na maner of way. 
 
 ^^ Law 12. — Off Hym that Fallis Cru/cyt in the Gylde. 
 
 '■ Giff ony of our brether of the gilde in his eyid fall 
 crukyt or pure in ane incurabill seyknes, and he haue 
 nocht of his awin whar of he may be sustenyt, efter the
 
 Ach- of Cordi/iers, etc. 55 
 
 estymacion of the alderman ande of the brether, as 
 the faculte of the gyld askis and may susten, he salbe 
 releffyt. 
 
 " Lata 13. — Off the Dochter of the Gyld Bruther. 
 
 " Giff that ony of the brether efter his desces leyff a 
 dochter off his spousit wyff borne, the whilk be of loffabill 
 conuersacione and of gud fame, geyff sho haf nocht of hir 
 awin whar of it may be purwayit hir of a man (or of a 
 reUgiouse house gif that sho lyk to lef chast), efter the 
 estimatioun of the alderman and the faculte of the gilde, 
 it salbe purwayt till hir of a husband or than a hous of 
 religione. 
 
 '■'■ Lato 14. — Order ancjit Burial of a poor Brother of Gild. 
 
 " Gif ony of the breder of the gilde hapyn to disses, and 
 has not to bring him to the erde as afferis, or to ger sing 
 for his saule, the breder sal tak of the faculteis of the 
 gilde and ger his bodye be honestly layd in erde. (And 
 if any of the brethren of the guild, being in the town, shall 
 not come to the burial of his brother, he shall forfeit one 
 boll of barley malt.) 
 
 '■^ Law 16. — Off Hym that passes avayfra the Gylde. 
 
 " Item, we haf ordanit that giff ony of our brether 
 avay fra the gyld neclygentlye, nan of the brether sail 
 mynister till hym, consall, na help in vord nor in deyde 
 vythin the burgh nor vtuth. All thocht he be impledyt 
 and in perall of lyff and membryce or in ony other erdly 
 charge, he sail haue na help of thaim.
 
 56 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 '■'■Law 17. — -Ordinance for gathering of the Brethren. 
 
 " Item, we haf ordanyt that als oft as the Alderman 
 (and the Ferthingmen and other good men) will gader the 
 brether of the gyld till ther nedis to be trettyt, all the 
 brether sail gather to gether, the bell herd vnder the payn 
 of xijd. And when the lytill bell is ringin thro the tovn, 
 than the bell in the bellhous salbe rungin thris, fyrst 
 schortly and syn twys, ilka tim a reasonabill space, and 
 whatsomeuer bruther of the gyld what place of the tovn 
 that he be in and heris that bell and cummys nocht to 
 the place of the congregatioun, or the ringin of the bell 
 ces, he salbe in his amerceiament. 
 
 '•'Law 22. — Off the liberty of brother of the Gild. 
 " We ordain that no one buy hides, wool, or wool skins 
 to sell again, nor cut cloth, unless he be a brother of our 
 gild, or a stranger merchant, for the sustaining of his 
 office ; and he shall not have lot nor cavil with brother 
 of our gild. 
 
 "Law 24. — Ordinance anent Shoemakers ond Tanners. 
 
 " We ordain that no shoemaker ought to tan any hides 
 but such as have the horns and ears of equal length. And 
 no tanner ought to salt any hides. 
 
 " LAW OF THE CHAMBERLAIN- AIR, OR HIGH CHAMBER- 
 "LAIN, WHO HAD COGNIZANCE IN ALL BURGH MATTERS 
 " END OF I4TH CENTURY. 
 
 " Laiu 2 2. — Off the chalance of Sowtaris. 
 " In the first that thai both bark and makis schone 
 othervvais than the law has statute and ordanit, that is to
 
 Acts of Cortfi/wrs, etc. 57 
 
 say that the home and the eir ar in like lang. Item, that 
 thai male schone butis and vther graitht of the lethir or 
 jt be barkit. Item, that thai sow witht fals and rottin 
 threid, throu the whilk the schone are tynt or thai be 
 half worn. Item, whair thai suld gif thair lethir gude 
 oyle and taulch, thai gif jt bot watter and salt. Item, 
 thai wirk jt or jt be courait, in greit hindering and skaith 
 of the kingis liegis. 
 
 "■ 2nd April, 1574. — The quhilk daye, Thomas Craig, 
 cordiner, is fund in the wrang for non-compearance ; and 
 als for the transportyng of the gallows at his awin hand 
 furtht of the auld accustomat place sa neir hand the 
 towne ; and ordanit to repone the samyn agane. 
 
 ^' 1th May, 1574. — Anent the mater movit Archibald 
 Stene, as Factour and commissionare for James Blakburne, 
 aganis Johne (Steyne) Cordiner, for nocht delyuerance of 
 ane pair walker scheris beying in his handis, pertenyng 
 to vmquhill Archibald Blakburne, and now to the said 
 James, as ane part of his movable airschip guddis contenit 
 in Bill ; the said Johne conperand, nocht grantand the 
 premissis allegit that the scheris can nocht be airschip, as 
 nocht vsit be the deid, bot are ane part of his movable 
 guddis ; Thairto answerit the said Archibald, that insafer 
 as thai wer sett in hyring thai aucht to be airschip guddis, 
 and to avise heirwith the Baillies assignit the xiiij daye of 
 May instant partibus citatis. 
 
 " \^th May, 1574. — The quhilke daye, Archibald 
 Legate, Cordiner, is maid burges and freman of the 
 burght and citie of Glasgu, and hes gevin his aith of 
 fidelitie to the towne; quhais fines was gevin by the 
 baillies, counsale, and dekynnis to George Burell,
 
 58 IncoTporation of Cor diner. 
 
 Merchand, for his support, to relieve his extreme 
 pouertie in tyneyng of his pack be the sey. 
 
 '■'■ 2^th Jiuie, 1574. — The quhilk daye, John Gihnour, 
 Cordiner, is fund in the wrang, and amerchiament of 
 court in brekyng of the Statutes maid anentis the pete 
 bog of auld in holyng wp of tlie samyn, and dume 
 gevin thairupon, and Johne Allan souertie for his vnlaw, 
 conform to the auld statutis. 
 
 " 17M September, 1574. — In presens of the Baillies and 
 Counsale, Gilbert Young, Cordiner, is maid burgess and 
 freeman, quhais fines was gevin presentlie to the Maister 
 of Work for his daylie continewing with the workmen in 
 the tolbuytht, mending and awating on them, and expenssis 
 debursit be him thairuponn. 
 
 " %th October, 1574. — The quhilk daye, my Lord Pro- 
 uest requeistit the auld baillies and Counsale to suffer 
 certane deykynnis of craftis to be admittet to cum in the 
 counsalhous to stand and heir the lytis of the Baillies 
 chosin and nominat this yeir,but preiudiceof the priuileges, 
 liberteis, or vse in votyng, owther of craftis or merchan- 
 dis, in ony yeir thereftir; at quhais requeist the said 
 baillies and auld counsale hes permittet three dekynnis 
 of craftis to be present in the counsalhous, to stand by, 
 heir, and see the saidis lytis nominat this yeir onelie, sua 
 that induce na practik in tymes thereftir. Lytis lytit be 
 the prouest, baillies, and auld counsale, to be presentit to 
 my Lord Archibischop of Glasgow for nemmyng of twa or 
 three of them in baillies for this instant yeir to cum, re- 
 queisting allwayis my Lord to nominat thre in respect of 
 the multitude of the peple and trubles in office : — George 
 Elphinstone, Archibald Lyonn, James Flemyng, auld
 
 Ads of Coj'diners, etc. 59 
 
 baillies ; Maister Adame Wallace, William Conyghame, 
 John Flemyng, merchant, John Wilsoun, pewderer, James 
 Braidwood, Cordiner. Quhilkis lytes being presentit that 
 samyn instant daye to my Lord Archibischop of Glasgw, 
 and the requesit forsaid maid to him, he nominat baillies 
 for this instant yeir, George Elphinstone, Archibald 
 Lyoun, Maister Adam Wallace. 
 
 " Z'^st Jaj2uar}\ 1594. — Andro Parker, Cordiner, is maid 
 burges and freman of the burgh and citie of Glasgow, 
 and hes gevin his ayth of fidelities as efifeirit, quhais fynes 
 ar remittit to him by the baillies and Counsale at the 
 desire of Patrik Leinzeis, Cordiner, for his travelles, 
 laboures, and expenssis maid be him in the Tonne's 
 affaires in Edinburgh, in transporting Letteers of the 
 Toune's thairto and ansuers agane thairof, debursing of 
 syluer in the Toune's effaires that wes necessar gevin 
 instantly, and for continewing thairin in tyme cumyng. 
 
 " loth/iiiic, ^595- — Christopher Alexander, merchant, 
 is become cautioune for John Hamiltoune, Deikin of the 
 Hammermen, (and others are become caution for each of 
 the following crafts,, viz. : — Cordineris, tailyeouris, baxteris, 
 cowperis, fleschouris, wobsteris, wrichtis, masounes, bonnet 
 makeris, and skinneris) that the saidis deikines sail com- 
 peir againe befor the provest, ballieis, and counsale, to 
 ansuer for accusatiounes laid to thair charge for contraven- 
 tioune of thair craftis, and vtherwayes, wpone xxiiij houri's 
 warnyng, and als to gif wpe every ane of thair craftis 
 respective, that sal happen to be insolent and trubleris of 
 the quiyetness of the toune, ilk persoune onder the paine 
 of fyve hunderth li, and ilk ane of thame ar decernit to 
 releve thair cautioneris.
 
 6o I II corporation of Cordiiicrs. 
 
 " It is statute and ordanit be the provest, baillies, coun- 
 sale, and deikines, respectand the apperand multitude of 
 the incumeris to be frie in the Toune, and that be rea- 
 sonabihies of thair fynes that hes beine in times bygane, 
 it is statute and ordanit that ilk outtintownes burges sail 
 paye for thair fynes in tyme cumyng no less nor the 
 sovme of xx li to be payitt to the theasurer, always the 
 priuileges of burges barnes to be obseruit and keipit, 
 conforme to the aith maid thairancnt of befoir, and or- 
 danes the same to be roipitt wpoun the Symmerhill quha 
 will gif maist thairfor yeirlie wpone sic conditionnes as sal 
 be sett doune. 
 
 " S^^^ June, 1596. — It is condiscendit be the baillies 
 and counsale, that the provest, baillies, and counsale, 
 and deikines sail convein togidder upoun the {blank) day 
 of (blank) instant, at fyve houris in the morning, and 
 sauld pass, accompanett with sum spaidis, to pass to the 
 mercheing of the loynes about the tovne, and first begyn 
 at the Stable Greyn, betuix Brwmehill and the Persounes 
 Craft, and nixt about the Brwmehill, Garnegad, St. 
 Mongol's Trie, and remanent haill loynes, ilk daye fra 
 daye quhill perfyting and reparaling of all loynes, and to 
 begyn first on Tyisdaye nixt, at four houris in the mornyng, 
 at the Crosce,and thaireftir, Weddinsdaye and Thuirsdaye, 
 ilk daye in the mornyng. 
 
 " 18/// April, 1597. — The baillies and counsale and 
 deikines resevand the letteres fra the diuk, pryour, and 
 provest in favor of James Og, now in this toune, to 
 convoy him to the court, condiscendit that tua bailleis 
 and xxiiij horsmen to be appointit sail convoy him to 
 Edinburgh, viz. : xij mercheantis and xij craftismen, in
 
 Acts of Cordiners, etc. 6i 
 
 the best maner that thai can ryde, witli hagbut, steil- 
 bonnet, sword, and vither necessar, and ilk persone that 
 rydis to haive ten li for his expenssis, and ane contribu- 
 tioune to be set doune wpoun the mercheantis and 
 craftismen as the bailleis sail think guid, and ilk persone 
 being chargeit that faillcis to ryde to paye ten li of 
 penaltie. 
 
 " 2'jth/ii/y, 1599. — The provest, bailleis, and counsale, 
 and deikines, eftir the deikines advysement tuiching thair 
 votting anent the divisioune of the toune in tua peirochines, 
 and of new socht over agane this daye be the thrie 
 ministeris supplicatioune, all the saidis provest, bailleis, 
 counsale, and deikines condiscendand in ane voce abydet 
 at the former voitting maid this daye viij dayes, viz. : thai 
 all thocht it guid that the toun salbe devydit in tua 
 competent peirochines, provyding that the touneschip be 
 nawyis burdanit with ony farder bigging or leitting of 
 kirkis, nor substeaning of ma ministeris nor thai have and 
 dois presentlie. 
 
 '•' 22>t/i July, 1599. — Comperit the haill deikines and gef 
 thair ansuer anent the divisioune of the toune, aggreit, 
 as is contenit in the former Act aboue writtin and na 
 vtherwyis. 
 
 ^^ Afth July, 1605. — In presens of Thomas Muir and 
 John Andersoune, baillies, personallie compeirit James 
 Greinleyis, cordiner, and haifing purchest be his moyen 
 relief to John Greinleyis, his brother, out of ward of the 
 heich hows to the laiche tolbuithe, being wardit thairin 
 at the instance of Alexander Dunlop, merchand, for tlie 
 sowme of ane hundrethe markis money principal and ten 
 markis liquidat expenssis, is willinglie, of his awin consent
 
 62 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 and fre will, becum cautioune that the said John sail 
 rcmaine in ward in the laiche towbuithe, ay and quhill 
 he have satisfiet the said Alexander of the foirsaid sowmis. 
 
 " 13/// September^ 1605. — Thomas Neill, cordiner, is 
 fund in the wrang, and amerciament of cowrt, of his 
 awin confessioune for cuming out of ward, being wardif 
 thairin, and for cuming downe the towbuithe stair with 
 ane drawin quheinger, and for wounding and bUiiding of 
 John Towris vpone the heid to the greit effusione of his 
 bluid. 
 
 "28//^ December, 1605. — The proveist, baillies, counsall, 
 and deikinis of counsall, efter declaratioune be maid by- 
 William Andirsoun, baillie, and Maister John Ross, of his 
 Majesties goodwill and affectioune in perfyting and per- 
 forming the liberties of this burgh, according to his 
 Majesties first Lettere, and that the doing and perform- 
 ing thairof is committit to George, Erll of Dunbar, Lord 
 Home of Berwick, theasurer, &c., and that his Lordschip 
 be wntrew reportis of the enemies of this common weill, 
 quha intendis to withstandis the liberties of this burgh, 
 and bring the sawmin in perpetuall miserie and slaifrie, 
 informis not onlie his Majestic bot lykwayes my Lord 
 Duik of Lennox, and his Lordship, that it is not the will 
 and desyre of the communitie of this burgh, and honest 
 rank thairof, to have thair liberties granted vnto thame 
 conforme to his Majesties guid will and Lettere direct to 
 thame, thairfoir, with ane voice and consent hes con- 
 cludit that, with heart and hand, thai will maist heartlie 
 concurr, with bodie and guidis, maist humbhe to suit the 
 perfyting of thair liberties conforme to his Maiesties 
 grant, as ane mater not only profitabill for thame and
 
 Acts of Cordiners, etc. 63 
 
 thair posteritie, and ane liberatioune from all slaifrie, but 
 also maist expedient for the suirtie and advancement of 
 his Majesties service ; and to that effect the provest, 
 baillies, and counsall, and counsall forsaid, all in ane voice, 
 hes condiscendit to ryd to Edinburgh in thair awin per- 
 sounis for obtaining thairof " 
 
 The affairs of the crafts seem to have been managed in 
 quite a patriarchal manner in early times. Some extracts 
 from the minutes of the Cordiners may now be given in 
 order to show the inner management of the craft sub- 
 sequent to 1759. These need not be numerous; a 
 judicious selection may suffice for the object in view. 
 
 On 1 6th August, 1759, John Finlay was accused of 
 having been guilty of a breach of one of the Acts of 
 Trade. The said John Finlay being called, and not com- 
 pearing to answer to the foresaid accusation, the deacon 
 and masters, in terms of the Acts and Rules of Trade, 
 ratified and approven of by the magistrates and coun- 
 cil of the burgh, by ane Act, dated the 27th June, 1560 
 years, fynes and amerciates the said John Finlay in the 
 sum of twenty pounds Scots money as a new upsett, and 
 twenty shillings Scots money to the baillies of the toun 
 for his contumacy in not compearing at this meeting in 
 obedience to the deacon's order and citation given him. 
 
 On 2nd October, 1759, at a meeting of the deacons 
 and masters, compeared John Scott, and protested against 
 the deacon for ane leet presented by him to the meeting, 
 and that there could be no meeting, as the clerk was not 
 present, being also an illegal meeting, as the masters got 
 not half-an-hour's warning, and that the deacon refuses 
 to read the Act in favours of the qoudies and box-masters
 
 64 Iiicorporalioii of Cordiiicrs. 
 
 having a vote, and, therefore, appeals to the convener's 
 House for redress. 
 
 The deacon and haill masters of trade having taken 
 into their serious consideration the abuse of William 
 Peacock, a member of the craft, by throwing out that he 
 would have better justice done him by the common hang- 
 man than was got from the deacon. Therefore, and in 
 respect thereof, fines und amerciates the said William 
 Peacock in the sum of five pounds Scots to the craft and 
 fourty shillings to the baillies, totics quoties, in terms of the 
 Act of the Incorporation, 17th May, 1619. 
 
 [This Act of 1 619 must have been written on a separate 
 paper, which has not been preserved, for no minute books, 
 as already stated, now exist of that date.] 
 
 Eo die, compeared the above AViUiam Peacock, and, in 
 obedience to the above sentence, paid into tlie collector 
 the above fine, whereof he is discharged. 
 
 On 15th November, 1759, the deacon and major part 
 of the said masters of the foresaid incorporation' unani- 
 mously fine and amerciate John Yule, a member of trade, 
 for his contempt and disobedience in refusing to attend 
 a meeting of the trade upon the twelfth current, and not 
 booking his journeyman in the usual manner in a new 
 upsett, conform to Act of Trade made thereanent. 
 
 On 9th October, 1760, there was produced two pair of 
 single channell pumps, which were seized in the house 
 of John Forrester, cordener, the same being inspected, 
 the deacon and masters find the saids pumps are insuffi- 
 cient and unfitt for use, and recommend it to the deacon 
 to apply to the magistrates for their direction in the dis- 
 posing thereof
 
 Acts of Cordiners, etc. 65 
 
 Glasgow, 2()th April, 1761. — In the house of James 
 Muir, cordiner in Glasgow, being convened the deacons 
 and masters of the Incorporation of Cordiners in Glas- 
 gow, they made choice of John Forsyth, late deacon of 
 the said trade, to be preses of the meeting. The said 
 James Wardrop, present deacon, having made a com- 
 plaint to the said meeting upon John Scott, late deacon 
 of the said incorporation, for calling him, the said James 
 
 Wardrop, a liar, a d d liar, and other scandalous 
 
 expressions, which the said John Scott several times 
 repeated, which being repeated by the said James War- 
 drop in presence of the said preses and masters, and also 
 in presence of the said John Scott, he the said John 
 Scott, pled guilty of the crimes preferred, and subjected 
 himself to any punishment the said preses and masters 
 should inflict on him therefor; and it being put to a vote 
 in the said meeting what fine should be put upon the said 
 John Scott for the crimes foresaid, the said preses and 
 masters unanimously fined him, the said John Scott, in a 
 new upsett, and ordained him to ask the said James 
 Wardrop's pardon therefor. And the trade, having con- 
 sidered the said sentence, modified the fine awarded 
 against the said John Scott to fifteen shillings sterling, 
 and ordained him to ask the said James Wardrop's par- 
 don in terms of the foresaid sentence, and compeared the 
 said John Scott and obtemperate the said sentence. 
 
 On 24th October, 1786, the deacon laid before the 
 meeting a memorial, made up for John Wilson and other 
 journeymen, complaining of the regulations of the 
 Incorporation which had been sent to Mr. Dempster, 
 member of Parliament, in order to make application to 
 
 E
 
 66 Incorporation of Corditiers. 
 
 Parliament for redress ; and he having sent the same to 
 the Lord Advocate, his lordship had appointed that the 
 deacon and a committee of the masters should wait on 
 him to hear the memorial, and inform him of the facts 
 with respect to the grievances complained of. 
 
 The deacon and masters, therefore, named as a com- 
 mittee to wait on the Lord Advocate — Deacon James 
 Burns, Collector William Miller, Deacon John Paull, 
 Deacon James Couper, Deacon James Salmon. 
 
 On 31st October, 1787, the deacon laid before the 
 Incorporation an extra;ct from the Trades' House, anent 
 opposing the intended alteration of the law anent the 
 importation of corn and meal, &c., into Scotland, which 
 being read, and the -meeting having deliberated anent the 
 proposed alteration of said law, are unanimously of opinion 
 that the same will be very hurtful and prejudicial to the 
 trade and manufactory of this part of the countr}', and, 
 therefore, approve of the resolutions of the Trades' House, 
 and Chamber of Commerce, and other incorporated 
 bodies, for the opposition of said intended law, and 
 concur and agree to follow joint-measures with them 
 in preventing the same from being carried into execution, 
 and order these their resolutions to be published in the 
 Glasgow and Edinburgh newspapers. 
 
 The deacon also informed the meeting that he and 
 the other members of the committee had waited on the 
 Lord Advocate, with a number of the journeymen who had 
 made up the memorial and entered the complaint against 
 the articles and regulations of the society, and that his 
 Lordship, after a full hearing of both parties, found none 
 of the articles improper, and the grievance ill founded,
 
 Acts of Cor diners, etc. 67 
 
 excepting the one respecting the augmentation of the 
 freedom fines, as to which, if any solid objections could 
 be stated, he advised the parties to submit the same to 
 the determination of the magistrates. The deacon also 
 informed the meeting that the committee were greatly 
 assisted in their conference with the Lord Advocate by 
 James M'Ewen, trades' baillie, Ninian Glen, deacon- 
 convener, and Mr. Wilson, town-clerk, and he therefore 
 moved that a glass of thanks should be given these 
 gentlemen for their kindly assistance, which being 
 considered by the meeting, they approve thereof and 
 authorise the deacon and the other members of the 
 committee to give them a treat accordingly, and order 
 the collector to pay the same from the funds of the 
 Incorporation. 
 
 We have already remarked that the kirk was the supreme 
 authority in Glasgow in former times, and the session in 
 Glasgow issued its edicts directing magistrates, deacons, 
 and others as to what they were to do, as the following 
 extracts conclusively show : — 
 
 In 1599 the session enacts that whoever shall be 
 chosen provost or bailies after this shall be enrolled as 
 elders of the kirk for the time to come. 
 
 In 1600 the session ordains the deacons of the 
 crafts to cause search for absents from the kirks in their 
 crafts of all the freemen, the one half of the fine to go to 
 the kirk and the other to the craft. The same year 
 searchers are directed to pass on the Sabbath into the 
 houses to apprehend absents from the kirk. 
 
 In 1640 the session ordains that all masters of families 
 shall give an account of those in their families who hath
 
 68 Incorporation of Cordmcis. 
 
 not the Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer, Creed, &c., 
 and that every family shall have prayers and psalms 
 morning and evening. 
 
 In 1642 the session directs the magistrates and minis- 
 ters to go through the streets on the Sabbath nights to 
 search for persons who absent themselves from kirk, the 
 town officers to go through with the searchers. 
 
 In 1645 the session directs that no horse meat nor 
 any other thing be cried through the streets on Sabbath, 
 and that no water be brought in after the first bell to 
 the forenoon sermon. 
 
 In 1 69 1 the session directs that those who wander on 
 the Sabbath, or stand before the door, will be called 
 before the session. 
 
 In i6g8 the session recommends to the elders and 
 deacons, two and two, to search the change houses, in 
 their proportions, on Saturday nights at 10, and dilate 
 drinkers and houses to the magistrates. 
 
 In 1725 the session enacts that the elders and deacons 
 go through their proportions, and take notice of all young 
 women that keep chambers alone, especially them suspect 
 of lightness, and warn them that they will be taken notice 
 of, and advise them to get honest men, or take themselves 
 to service. 
 
 The session enacts that no women, married or un- 
 married, come within the kirk doors, to preaching or 
 prayers, with their plaids about their heads, neither lie 
 down in the kirk on their face in time of prayer, with 
 certification their plaids shall be drawn up, or the)- 
 raised by the beddal. The session, considering that 
 great disorder hath been in the kirk by women sitting
 
 Acfs of Cordi/iers, etc. 69 
 
 with their heads covered in time of sermon, sleeping their 
 way, ordains intimation to be made that none sit with 
 their heads covered witli plaids in time of sermon. 
 
 We need not wonder at such an edict beting issued 
 when we find that about the second decade of the 
 seventeenth century the kirks were kept open on Sunday 
 in summer from five morning till nine evening. 
 
 The minute books of the Cordiners show that, as years 
 rolled on, their proceedings were in keeping with the 
 prevailing spirit of the times. And it would only be 
 wearying the reader to give any further extracts. The 
 more prominent matters appearing in the minutes may 
 now be touched upon. 
 
 ^^llen Partick was in what may be called a rural state, 
 '' the Duck Club of Partick" was established — its quarters 
 being in " the Bunhouse" — and as a key to the corporation 
 class, who were members of the Duck Club, it may be 
 well to mention Mr. M'Tyre, a gentleman who, after 
 passing through all the gradations of the Incorporation of 
 Cordiners, arrived at last at the deacon convener's chair, 
 which gave him a seat at the Council Board. This gentle- 
 man was regarded as the president of the Social Partick 
 Brotherhood, and was exceedingly popular, not only 
 among his council friends at "the Bunhouse," but likewise 
 among the members of the Trades' House. He was, in 
 fact, so much esteemed by the latter body, that they 
 expressed a unanimous wish to have his portrait taken as 
 an appropriate ornament to their corporation walls; 
 and there it now hangs as a stimulant to every ambitious 
 man to do his duty. It was during the period of his 
 popularity that the convener was most frequently found
 
 70 Incorporation, of Cordincrs. 
 
 wending his way, with majestic step, towards Particle ; and 
 it was then that the ducks in that village suffered most 
 from his Saturday visits. It was on one of these occasions 
 that the club poet, Mr. William Reid, improvised the 
 following true and touching couplet — 
 
 " The ducks of Partick quack for fear, 
 
 Crying, Lord preserve us ! there's jNI'Tear !" 
 
 And no wonder. For no sooner was the rubicund 
 countenance of the worthy convener espied by the blue 
 and white swimmers of the mill-dam than it was certain 
 that the fate of some of those then disporting themselves 
 would become, ere another Saturday, that of their jolly 
 companions who at that moment were suffering martyrdom 
 in the kitchen of " the Bunhouse." 
 
 The inquiry by the Royal Commissioners into the 
 state and condition of cities and burghs in 1833 is also 
 a matter of considerable importance, and is deserving 
 of notice here. The following is the report containing 
 the inquiries by the Commissioners, and the replies 
 thereto by the Incorporation of Cordiners, with letter 
 prefixed by the clerk to the members of the Incor- 
 poration : — 
 
 " TO THE MEMBERS OF THE INCORPORATION OF COR- 
 DINERS IN GLASGOW. 
 
 " The Secretary to the Commissioners appointed by 
 His Majesty to inquire into the state and condition of 
 the cities and burghs of Scotland, having intimated to your 
 deacon, Mr. Muckhart, that he was required to furnish 
 them with written answers to various queries which they
 
 Acts of Cordmers, etc. 71 
 
 communicated, — the answers to be delivered personally 
 to them, in Glasgow, on the 5th November curt. — the 
 deacon called a meeting of the Master Court to consider 
 the subject. The Court accordingly met, and, after the 
 Secretary's Letter, and Notes of Inquiry enclosed, had been 
 read over, and the members present had each stated his 
 views on the various topics adverted to, the meeting re- 
 mitted to the clerk to prepare answers to the queries, and 
 submit the same to another meeting for consideration. 
 
 " The clerk proceeded to investigate the charters and 
 ancient records of the Incorporation, and to inquire into 
 its general state and condition. Having completed this 
 investigation, he laid a rude draft of the answers before 
 the deacon, who suggested various important additions 
 and amendments. The draft being thus re-modelled, 
 the Master Court were again convened (ist November, 
 1833), when the following minute was written: — 'The 
 minute of the last meeting of the Court was read over, 
 and the deacon having produced the draft answers 
 ordered to be prepared by that minute, the same were 
 approved of, and appointed to be submitted to the con- 
 sideration of the meeting of the trade, which the deacon 
 stated he had called for that purpose.' And of the same 
 date — 'At a meeting of the whole trade, the foregoing 
 minutes of the Master Court having been read over, the 
 draft answers were produced and read to, and considered 
 by, the meeting. Whereupon, on the motion of Bailie 
 Wilson, seconded by Mr. M'Gregor, the said answers were 
 unanimously approved of, and appointed to be laid before 
 the Commissioners by the deacon ; and the same were 
 also appointed to be engrossed in the sederunt-book, and
 
 72 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 printed and circulated among the members of the trade. 
 The thanks of the meeting were voted to the clerk for the 
 answers which had been read. 
 
 "It is in consequence of this resolution that the fol- 
 lowing pages, embracing the Notes of Inquiry by the 
 Commissioners, and the answers to each, as laid before 
 them by the deacon, are now printed and circulated 
 among you. 
 
 " There is appended a copy of the oldest charter of 
 the Incorporation, which it is thought proper to put each 
 member in possession of, along with the information 
 given to the Commissioners. 
 
 "R. L. 
 "60, Ingram Street, 
 
 " Glasgow, jth November, iSjj." 
 
 "NOTES OF INQUIRY BY THE BURGH COMMISSIONERS, AND 
 ANSWERS BY THE DEACON OF THE INCORPORATION OF 
 CORDINERS, 1833. 
 
 " Inquiry I. — Brief statement of the constitution and 
 history of the Corporation, and reference to, and 
 production of, any charters or documents, printed 
 or otherwise, connected with those points. 
 
 " Ansiver. — Reference is respectfully made to the 
 copies of the charters of the Incorporation, for a brief 
 statement of the causes which led to its original constitu- 
 tion, which appears to have been about the year 1460. 
 In the year 1780 the Incorporation arranged their whole 
 rules and regulations into one code, which was ratified 
 by the Trades' House on the 6th March, 1781. An 
 extract of this code is herewith submitted to the" com-
 
 Acts of Cofdiners, etc. 
 
 missioners. Almost no variation lias been made upon 
 the bye-laws or usages of the trade since that period, 
 excepting, perhaps, that the entry-money of strangers was 
 raised, in 1802, from ;^i2 tO;^2o, which sum includes a 
 small fee to the clerk and officer. The mode in which the 
 business of the Incorporation is at present managed may 
 be thus shortly stated : — 
 
 " A deacon and collector are elected by the freemen 
 who have been a year and day on the roll, on the third 
 Friday of September in each year. That day week there 
 are appointed six members by the deacon, and six by the 
 freeman, who are styled Masters — one person, styled 
 Goudie, elected by the freemen, and another by the 
 deacon ; — and these, with the deacon and collector of 
 the former year, in all eighteen persons, compose the 
 Master Court, whose duty it is to manage the trade's funds 
 and property, to distribute the revenue among the poor, 
 and to attend to other ordinary business, and who meet 
 four times a year for these purposes. On extraordinary 
 occasions, both the INIaster Court and the whole freemen 
 are convened by the deacon to take special subjects into 
 consideration. From the Master Court four persons are 
 selected by the Corporation, who, with the present and 
 late deacon, compose the representation, and attend to 
 the interests of the craft in the Trades' House — a general 
 body composed of representatives from the fourteen in- 
 corporated trades of the city. 
 
 "The minute books are extant, and appear to have 
 been regularly kept since 1681." 
 
 \_This last paragraph must, we think, be an error, for 
 the minute books in the possession of the present clerk
 
 74 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 date only from 1759. If the books commenced sooner 
 they have been lost.] 
 
 " Inquiry II. — Boundaries within which the exclusive 
 privilege is or may be exercised. 
 
 " Anstuer. — The exclusive privileges of the trade are 
 confined to the ancient Royalty of Glasgow. 
 
 '•'• Inquiry III. — Funds of the Corporation, either heri- 
 table or moveable — how raised, how vested, and 
 how applied for the Corporation and other pur- 
 poses. 
 
 '■'•Answer. — This Incorporation possesses considerable 
 funds and property, w^iich may be classed as follows, 
 viz.: — Heritable property., money., -^ynA produce of entries and 
 quarterly payjuents. 
 
 "(i.) Heritable Property. — -i. Many years ago, the 
 trades of Glasgow, along with the managers of Hutche- 
 sons' Hospital and the town of Glasgow, purchased lands 
 on the south side of the River Clyde, with the superiority 
 of the Barony of Gorbals. Sometime afterwards a division 
 was made, by which the trades received the grounds to 
 the west of the new road from the Broomielaw Bridge to 
 Crossmyloof These were partially feued out from time 
 to time, and, from the increasing population of the cit)', 
 and other causes, both the feus and the remaining property 
 have now become very valuable. The Trades' House, 
 and most of the separate Incorporations, advanced the 
 price in various proportions — making in all 31 shares.. 
 Of these the Cordiners hold two ; and last year the share
 
 Acls of Cordiiicrs, etc. 75 
 
 of revenue arising from the feus effeiring to this interest 
 was ;^io5 8s. More ground remains to feu, and is going 
 off rapidly at increasing prices. The Corporation, there- 
 fore, value their interest in the Gorbals lands at above 
 ;^4,ooo. 2. The Incorporation, in 1793, paid into a fund 
 for the erection of a Trades' Hall in Glassford Street the 
 sum of ^20^. The rents drawn from this building are 
 divided into proportions corresponding to the sums 
 advanced. This trade receives annually fully 5 per cent, 
 on the input stock. 3. They are proprietors of a tene- 
 ment of liouses in Stockwell Street of Glasgow, yielding 
 a present rental of ^^169 i8s., which may be valued 
 at twelve years' purchase, or ^2,038. And, lastly, 
 4. They possess the top flat and garrets of a house in 
 High Street, yielding a present rental of ;^24, and 
 which may be estimated at thirteen years' purchase, 
 or ^312. 
 
 "The whole heritable property is, therefore, worth about 
 ^6,555. 
 
 " (2.) Money. — The Incorporation some time ago lent 
 ;^6oo to the trustees on the river Clyde, on a bill payable 
 on demand, which yields 3-^- per cent. 
 
 " (3.) Annual Produce. — The remaining sources of 
 revenue consist of the entry-money of members, and the 
 quarterly payments, by each member on the roll, of two 
 shillings in the year. By an average recently taken, on 
 an investigation of the trade's affairs, and which may still 
 be assumed as correct, the former source was estimated 
 as yielding about ;^8o per annum, and the latter ;^i8 ; 
 and both may be valued at twenty years' purchase, or 
 ^1,960.
 
 76 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 " The total value of the trade's funds may therefore be 
 estimated at ^9,000. 
 
 "As to the application of these funds, the only proper 
 answer is, that the whole arc expended in maintaining the 
 poor of the Incorporation and their widows ; but certain 
 expenses to a clerk, an officer, for the use of the hall, and 
 other incidental charges, are unavoidably necessary. The 
 Corporation also annually subscribes sums to the Glasgow 
 Royal Infirmary and Eye Infirmary ; and in times of 
 scarcity, general sickness, or inclement seasons, expends 
 extra sums upon the poor, in the purchase of clothing, 
 fuel, and other necessaries. Extraordinary donations are 
 likewise given at the discretion of the deacon, when 
 parties apply previous to a quarter-day ; and certain 
 sums are paid towards the funeral expenses of each 
 member or widow who dies in decayed circumstances. 
 
 " The amount expended last year in the stated quarterly 
 payments to decayed members and widows of members 
 was ;2^24 6s. 6d., and in monthly payments, ;^i43 17s. gd. 
 The sum given by the deacon's precepts and for funerals, 
 on an average of the last three years, is ^13. The sum 
 of ;^i4 is annually paid to the Town's Hospital, and 
 ;^i4 annually to a chaplain for teaching a free school 
 and for school books. The occasional subscriptions have 
 averaged, in the same period as before, ^23 per annum. 
 Above ^220 is thus annually expended for charitable, 
 and ;^i4 for educational purposes. 
 
 " The whole accounts of the receipts and expenditure 
 of the Corporation are annually examined by the Master 
 Court, docqueted by the deacon, and, after being approved 
 of at a general meeting, are entered in the minute-book.
 
 Ac^s of Cordiners, etc. 
 
 77 
 
 " Inquiry IV. — Any widows' schemes, or other charit- 
 able institutions of Corporation, whether with or 
 without Parliamentary authority. 
 
 " Answer. — There are no widows' schemes or charit- 
 able institutions other than the ordinary distribution by 
 the Master Court. 
 
 " Inquiry V. — Clerk to give a comparative list of 
 prosecutions for last thirty years — of entrant mem- 
 bers — apprentices for same period, distinguishing 
 the number each year. 
 
 ^\ Answer. — The following is a return in answer to 
 this query ; and it may be remarked that very few of the 
 prosecutions went farther than a summons to enter, and 
 in those cases where litigation ensued, the Corporation 
 was uniformly successful, except, perhaps, when, with his 
 defences, the party sued produced a discharge as a king's 
 freeman, which he had not formerly exhibited : — 
 
 
 RETURN 
 
 OF PROSECUTIONS. 
 
 
 
 
 Prose- 
 
 Mem- 
 
 Appren- 
 
 
 Prose- 
 
 Mem- 
 
 Appren- 
 
 
 cutions. 
 
 bers. 
 
 tices. 
 
 
 cutions 
 
 bers. 
 
 tices. 
 
 From Sept. 
 
 
 
 
 Brought up, 
 
 3 
 
 57 
 
 30 
 
 1802 
 
 
 
 
 1809 
 
 I 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 1810 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 Till Sept. 
 
 
 
 
 1811 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 1803 
 
 1 ^r-i 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 1S12 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 1804 
 
 Vii 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 1813 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 1805 
 
 )^'i 
 
 20 
 
 9 
 
 1814 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 1806 
 
 ^- 3 
 
 4 
 
 1815 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 1807 
 
 I 7 
 
 3 
 
 1816 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 I 
 
 1 80S 
 Forward, 
 
 14 
 
 2 
 
 1817 
 Forward, 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 I 
 
 3 1 57 
 
 30 
 
 H 
 
 119 
 
 65
 
 78 
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Return of Vv^o^^cxiiioy.'i— Continued. 
 
 
 Prose- 
 
 Mem- 
 
 Appren- 
 
 
 cutions. 
 
 bers. 
 
 tices. 
 
 r,iought up, 
 
 37 
 
 iSi 
 
 8S 
 
 1826 
 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 I 
 
 1827 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1828 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 1829 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 1830 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 I83I 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 1832 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 1833 
 
 J 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 Total. 
 
 50 
 
 217 
 
 92 
 
 Years. 
 
 Brought up, 
 1818 
 1819 
 1S20 
 1821 
 1S22 
 1823 
 1824 
 1825 
 
 Forward, 
 
 Prose- 
 
 Mem- 
 
 Appren- 
 
 cutions. 
 
 bers. 
 
 tices. 
 
 14 
 
 119 
 
 65 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 I 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 
 85 
 
 37 
 
 181 
 
 Giving an average of i| prosecutions each year, 7! entrants, and 3 
 and a fraction apprentices. 
 
 '■'Inquiry VI. — How far the exclusive privileges 
 noiu enforced compare with what they formerly 
 were. 
 " Answer. — The exclusive privileges now enforced are 
 held to be the same as under the most ancient charters, 
 and very recently these charters have been founded on, 
 and supported by, courts of law, in enforcing these privi- 
 leges. 
 
 " Inquiry VII. — Are those privileges any consider- 
 able inducement to enter ? 
 
 " Answer. — It is certainly thought that these exclusive 
 privileges are a considerable inducement to enter. They 
 confer on freemen of the trade the sole power of manu- 
 facturing and exposing for sale shoes within the burgh. 
 The burgh is the most populous part of the city ; and to
 
 Acts of Cordi tiers, etc. 79 
 
 it, besides, all strangers repair for their commodities. In 
 a trade like this, it is a very great advantage to any person 
 beginning business to be able to open shop in this quarter 
 of the town ; and this is accordingly the inducement held 
 out. 
 
 " Inquiry VIII. — How far they could be safely abol- 
 ished, always reserving funds and other advantages 
 to the Corporation. 
 
 " Answer. — From the previous statement, it is easy to 
 see that, were the exclusive privileges abolished, the Cor- 
 poration would very soon decay ; and the answer to this 
 query, it must be evident, is that they could not be safely 
 abolished. No person who would then, in the event of the 
 exclusion being abolished, be entitled to open shop within 
 the royalty, would think of voluntarily paying a freedom 
 fine of ;^2o to the Corporation : consequently, no new 
 entries would be received, and the Corporation could 
 have no pretence for keeping up the quarter-accounts, 
 nor, though they wished to do so, can it be supposed 
 they would be entitled to exact them in a court of law. 
 The revenue, therefore, would be materially reduced, and 
 one of two consequences would follow — either the Master 
 Court would be necessitated to reduce the allowances to 
 their poor, and withdraw their usual annual subscriptions 
 and extraordinary donations to charitable institutions, or 
 they would be compelled to encroach on their capital 
 stock, and so gradually extinguish the funds as well as 
 the privileges of the Corporation. Should this last, how- 
 ever, be the result, or even only supposing the allowances 
 and other payments to the poor to be diminished or sus-
 
 8o Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 pended, it is apprehended that the City of Glasgow would 
 be materially affected in respect of the consequent increase 
 of pauperism which would ensue. The annual payment 
 to the Town's Hospital would first be withdrawn ; 
 and considering that each individual member is, over and 
 above this payment, liable to assessment like other citi- 
 zens, this is of some consequence. The present average 
 allowance to decayed members is about 4s. 6d. per month, 
 and the like to widows, which is certainly small enough ; 
 but being received, not as a charity, but in some measure 
 as a matter of right, and as the result of former contri- 
 butions, it serves the important purpose of keeping up 
 a spirit of independence on the part of the recipients, 
 which causes them to struggle hard to work out the re- 
 mainder of their support. Reduce this sum any lower, 
 and, as the parties receiving it are all either old or 
 infirm, you render it impossible for them, by their own 
 industry, to make up as much more as is necessary 
 for their subsistence. They then will apply to be put 
 on the list of the town's poor, and once upon that roll, 
 there is an end to their independence — ^they become 
 paupers for life. Take away the immense sums annually 
 expended on the poor, and for other charitable purposes, 
 by the incorporated trades, and an increase of the poor's 
 rates must take place, not only to a corresponding extent, 
 but in a ratio accumulated by the aversion or disinclina- 
 tion to labour, which seems uniformly to result from 
 taking payment from a legal fund of relief. 
 
 " It must also be borne in mind that, if the funds are to 
 be so reduced by the abolition of the exclusive privileges, 
 there is a risk of the Trades' School being given up.
 
 Ads of Cordiners, etc. 
 
 That institution gratuitously educates io8 boys annually 
 in reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography, and 
 furnishes them with school-books, &c. The Cordiners 
 are entitled to have twelve boys always in the school, and 
 the boys educated in this seminary are preferable to 
 various bursaries in the University. All the important 
 advantages to the community arising from so considerable 
 a system of education would, in the opinion of this 
 Corporation, be entirely lost, were so serious a change 
 to take place as any which would materially affect the 
 funds either of the Trades' House or any of the fourteen 
 incorporated trades ; and the separate funds of the House 
 depend entirely on the prosperity of the several corpora- 
 tions. 
 
 '■'■ Inquity IX. — -What those ot/ier advantages are. 
 
 " Anstaer. — There are no other advantages belonging 
 to this Incorporation, unless there may be included in 
 these the political status which the incorporated trades 
 of Glasgow have lately acquired under the Burgh Reform 
 Act, their representatives in the Trades' House having 
 the power of choosing a deacon-convener, who is, ex 
 officio, a member of the Town Council, and this dignitary 
 being always necessarily a freeman trades' burgess. 
 
 " Inquiry X. — Right of presentation to hospitals, &c. 
 
 " Anstvei: — None ; excepting the presentation of poor 
 brethren to the Town's Hospital, in virtue of the annual 
 payment formerly alluded to, and to other institutions, 
 such as the infirmary, in virtue of voluntary subscriptions. 
 It is proper, however, to add that twelve members of the
 
 82 Incorporation of Cordiucrs. 
 
 Trades' House are annually elected directors of the 
 Town's Hospital, and, by the different acts constituting 
 certain public boards, the deacon-convener and other 
 members of the Trades' House are constituent parts of 
 the direction of these. For instance, they have four 
 seats at the Board of Bridewell Commissioners, at the 
 Statute Labour Board five, in the direction of the Lunatic 
 Asylum two, of the Royal Lifirmary two, of the Lock 
 Hospital one, of the Blind Asylum two, &c. The con- 
 vener is also, ex officio^ a member of the General Board 
 of Police. And, lastly, four members of the House are 
 annually elected dean of guild lyners, who sit in judging 
 causes that come before this court; and from their always 
 being practical tradesmen, are not the least useful part of 
 it.* To these important trusts this Incorporation has 
 thus indirectly a right of presentation. 
 
 ^'- Ifiquiry XL — Present state of Corporation generally. 
 
 " Answer. — From strict economy and good manage- 
 ment on the part of the Master Court, for these many 
 years past, the Incorporatipn is at this moment more 
 flourishing than it has been for above a century. It has 
 an increasing revenue, and is wholly free of debt; and, in 
 consequence of the present state of the finances, it is in 
 contemplation to raise the monthly and quarterly allow- 
 ances to the poor on the roll. 
 
 * The Dean of Guild Court judges in all possessory questions 
 regarding property, encroachments, nuisances, and the like which 
 occur within burgli, and its jurisdiction is exclusive of the Sheriff 
 and Bailie Courts.
 
 Acts of Cofdiners, etc. 
 
 " Inqiiiry XII. — If not prosperous, explain causes, and 
 suggest improvements. 
 
 " AuSiCer. — No suggestions occur as worthy the com- 
 missioners' attention. 
 
 " Inquiry XIII. — Copies of any resolutions of the 
 Incorporation in reference to the Burgh Reform 
 Bill. 
 
 "■ Ajisioer. — The Incorporation frequently met and 
 petitioned Parliament for the passing of the Parliamentary 
 Reform Act. But the Burgh Reform Bill being intro- 
 duced into a reformed Parliament, and so considered to 
 to be quite safe, and as both the city members were 
 advocates for it, it did not seem to be necessary to take 
 any steps regarding it. 
 
 '■Inquiry XIV. — Any other explanations or sugges- 
 tions connected with the above points. 
 
 '• Anstacr. — The Incorporation have no explanations 
 or suggestions to offer connected with the various points 
 submitted to tlieir attention by the commissioners. 
 
 " All which is humbly submitted by 
 
 " Lauchlant Muckhart, Deaco7i." 
 
 The foregoing queries and answers contain a very dis- 
 tinct epitome of the affairs of the Incorporation at the 
 time, and, with a few exceptions, are still applicable 
 to the present state of matters. These exceptions are — 
 I St. The exclusive privileges of trading have since been 
 abolished, and consequently all trading prosecutions are
 
 84 Iiicorporatioji of Cordincrs. 
 
 now at an end ; 2nd, the Bridewell has been transferred 
 to Government, under the Prisons Act, 1877 ; 3rd, the 
 Trades' House School has been superseded, in conse- 
 quence of the schools erected and maintained by the 
 School Board, under the Education Act, 1872 ; 4th, the 
 Statute Labour Board has been abolished by the Roads 
 and Bridges Act, 1878; 5th, the annual payment and 
 presentation of poor to the Town's Hospital have been 
 dropped; and 6th, the heritable property in Stockwell 
 Street and High Street has since been sold. 
 
 Nothing further of importance calling for special notice 
 has transpired since 1848, when the proposal, already 
 referred to, for changing the Incorporation into an annuity 
 society was abandoned. There were, however, some 
 matters brought up and decided upon, which may interest 
 our readers, and may be considered worthy of a passing 
 notice. These matters will now be shortly touched 
 upon.
 
 Burgesses — Watching and JVaniing, etc. 85 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 BURGESSES WATCHING AND WARDING BEFORE ESTAB- 
 LISHMENT OF POLICE FORCE UNDER FIRST POLICE 
 ACT OF 1800. 
 
 Down to the close of last century watching and warding 
 was, in accordance with the burgess oath, an obligation 
 laid upon all who had obtained municipal privileges ; 
 but the mode practised by the burgesses to evade the 
 duty was, of itself, sufficient to render the watching even 
 worse than a farce. The respectable citizens, instead of 
 proceeding in their turn to the guard-house themselves, 
 either hired porters or sent their servants to perform 
 the work ; while occasionally a set of young madcaps 
 ostensibly undertook the duty, but instead of attempt- 
 ing to allay noise and turbulence, they secretly instigated 
 commotion for the . sake of diversion. In these cir- 
 cumstances, it may easily be conceived that thieves 
 and vagabonds had their full swing, while, beneath 
 the safeguard of an ill-lighted and frequently a lamp- 
 demolished town, offences of the most heinous kind were 
 safely committed. The first Police Act was obtained in the 
 year 1800, but, even so late as the commencement of the 
 present century, outrages of every kind and description 
 were daily committed in the blaze of day, while battles 
 with lethel weapons, and pugilistic encounters on the 
 public streets, were of nightly occurrence. While this 
 was the case, it must be allowed that many of these
 
 86 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 irregularities arose more from fun and frolic than from 
 vice and passion, and were created not unfrequently by 
 youths belonging to the better classes. At that period, to 
 carry off a barber's basin, or to unswing a golden-fleece 
 from above the shop doors, was a common trick ; and, 
 as to the transference of a sign-board from one shop to 
 another, this was looked upon as no crime, but rather as 
 an excellent joke. The truth is, that for many years after 
 the police was established, it was anything but a sufficient 
 force. It was invisible in the daytime, and during the 
 night the watching was little better than a mockery. The 
 limited day-force, indeed, was chiefly engaged in the detec- 
 tion of crimes, while the night-force was rather a dread to 
 themselves than to others. The force then were poor, 
 worn-out old men. On a stormy night the shaky old watch- 
 man would sometimes draw over his rough stockinged 
 limbs a pair of coarse /loggers as an additional safeguard 
 from the night air, while over his wig, if he had such a 
 luxury, was usually planted a Kilmarnock nightcap and 
 above all, a hat — the whole head-gearbeingtied down under 
 the chin by some cast-off shawl or handkerchief. In this 
 garb and guise the police guardian sallied forth, not un- 
 frequently accompanied by his wife, to the post assigned 
 to him for the night, who, after seeing him snug in his 
 box, retired home, never forgetting, however, to give him 
 the strictest charges to take good care of himself. It 
 may easily be imagined that the watchman was not long 
 ensconced in his wooden great coat before he got into a 
 dozy condition, and, as these boxes were made with the 
 upper half to open outwards, in the lock of which the key 
 was always left, it very often happened that the poor
 
 Burgesses — Watching and Warding, etc. 87 
 
 Bobby was locked in and the key thrown away by some 
 passing wag; and sometimes even the box and all it 
 contained was tumbled on its face by a lot of mischievous 
 dare-devils wending their way homewards in a lively 
 condition from a tavern. As time went on the force was 
 greatly improved ; but it was many years before it reached 
 a state even approaching the present effective force. To 
 those now living quietly and comfortably under the 
 protection of our well-managed municipal police, it is 
 scarcely possible to convey any idea of the irregularities 
 and dangers to which the citizens of Glasgow were exposed 
 under the warding and watching by the burgesses, and, 
 indeed, even after the establishment of the police. The 
 burgess has now all the privileges without the attendant 
 personal obligations and duties borne by his predecessor 
 before the present century commenced. His burgess 
 ticket contains many privileges. Should the burgess be 
 a craftsman and in reduced circumstances he may get, 
 through his craft and the Trades' House, &c., certain sub- 
 stantial benefits, afterwards fully explained in chapters 1 7 
 and 18, but even if he be merely a burgess, but not a 
 craftsman, he may still obtain assistance from Hutche- 
 sons' Hospital and the Corporation of Glasgow through 
 their respective chamberlains out of mortifications left 
 by benevolent benefactors, information as to which is 
 always fully given on application. The burgess of the 
 present day may well offer up his fervent thanks for the 
 security he dwells in, and the many benefits he enjoys, 
 when contrasted with those possessed by his predecessors 
 during the last and previous centuries.
 
 Incorporation of Cordiucrs. 
 
 C H A P T E R .1 X . 
 
 DECREE OF DECLARATOR, OR GRAND DECERNITURE 
 FIXING SET OF TRADES' HOUSE AND THE RANK AND 
 PRECEDENCE OF THE FOURTEEN INCORPORATED 
 TRADES OF GLASGOW. 
 
 Before the year 1771 the deacons and visitor of the 
 fourteen incorporated trades nominated the following 
 number respectively as their assistants, the whole, with 
 the deacon-convener as their chairman, being styled the 
 Trades' House, namely : — The Hammermen, Tailors, 
 Cordiners, Maltmen, five assistants each ; the Weavers, 
 three; the Bakers, Skinners, Wrights, Coopers, Fleshers, 
 Masons, Gardeners, and Barbers, two each ; and the 
 Dyers, one. In that year, however, an effort was made 
 by the ten incorporations which had a right to nominate 
 the smaller number of representatives to obtain an equal 
 representation in the House with the four trades which 
 had a right to nominate the larger number. This question 
 resulted in an action of declarator being brought in the 
 Court of Session, in which action the following inter- 
 locutor was pronounced : — " The Lords of Council and 
 Session found, and hereby find, that the constitution of 
 the Society of the Trades' House, as established either by 
 the Decreet Arbitral, commonly called the Letter of 
 Guildry, anno 1605, or by immemorial usage, cannot 
 now be altered or encroached upon, and particularly, that 
 the rank or precedency of the several trades or incor-
 
 Decree of Declarator, etc. 89 
 
 porations, and the number of members which each 
 incorporation has a title to send to the Trades' House, as 
 in use prior to the late encroachments, which gave rise 
 to the present dispute, being previously established by 
 immemorial custom, must continue, and cannot be altered 
 or varied either by the trades or convenery, by them- 
 selves, or with the concurrence of the Magistrates and 
 Council of Glasgow. Found, and hereby find, that the 
 regulations in the Act 1729, concerning the poor of the 
 Trades' House are proper and subsisting regulations 
 until they shall be altered in a rational manner and by 
 proper authority, reserving to all concerned to object to 
 any such alteration if they shall see cause. Found, 
 decerned, and declared, and hereby find, decern, and 
 declare that the rank and precedency of the several 
 trades and incorporations in the Trades' House is and 
 ought to be as follows, and in the order set down : — 
 Hammermen, Tailors, Cordiners, Maltmen, Weavers, 
 Baxters, Skinners, Wrights, Coopers, Fleshers, Masons, 
 Gardeners, Barbers, Bonnetmakers and Dysters; that the 
 number of members which each trade or incorporation 
 has a title to send to the Trades' House are as follows : — ■ 
 The Hammermen, Tailors, and Cordiners, each their 
 deacon, with five assistants ; the Maltmen, their visitor, 
 with five assistants; the Weavers, their deacon, with three 
 assistants ; the Bonnetmakers and Dysters, their deacon, 
 \vith one assistant ; the Baxters, Skinners, Wrights, 
 Coopers, Fleshers, Masons, Gardeners, and Barbers, each 
 their deacon, with two assistants — being in all fifiy-four 
 in number. That the office-bearers of the Society are a 
 deacon-convener and collector. That when the deacon-
 
 Qo Iticorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 convener and collector arc chosen out of the first five" 
 trades — viz., the Hammermen, Tailors, Cordincrs, Malt- 
 men, or Weavers — then these office-bearers are to be 
 accounted part of the ordinary representatives of the 
 first five trades, so that the ordinary number of members 
 of the House shall not be thereby increased ; but if 
 it shall happen these office-bearers are chosen out of 
 any of the remaining nine incorporations, then they shall 
 be additional extraordinary members of the Trades' 
 House, and the trade or trades out of which they are 
 chosen shall be entitled to have their ordinary number of 
 representatives in the Trades' House over and above the 
 said office-bearers." 
 
 This decision, called " the Grand Uecerniture," was 
 acquiesced in, and became final, and it regulated the 
 filling up of the Trades' House of Glasgow until the 
 passing of the Burgh Reform Act, 1833, which contains 
 new provisions on this head, and which are explained 
 in Chapter XL The extract of this decree is in the 
 custody of the Incorporation of Hammermen, Glasgow. 
 
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 C H A P T E R X. 
 
 THE CATHEDRAL SAVED BY THE CRAFTS OF GLASGOW. 
 
 Various Acts were passed by Parliament before 1580, 
 during the progress of the Reformation in Scotland, for 
 the destruction of strongholds and the cathedrals, abbeys, 
 and monasteries of the Roman Catholics. 
 
 In the west of Scotland the execution of these A»ts 
 was given to the Earl of Argyll and other noblemen, 
 who, whatever motives actuated them, had the good 
 taste to spare the Glasgow Cathedral. In 1579, how- 
 ever, the magistrates, at the instigation of ^Mr. Melville, 
 the Principal of the College, assembled the people by 
 tuck of drum to pull down the Cathedral. The deacons 
 and craftsmen, to their immortal honour, assembled and 
 swore that the first person who dared to remove a single 
 stone from the building should not survive the bringing 
 down of another. Nor would the deacons and craftsmen 
 retire till they had obtained an assurance that no damage 
 would be done to the fabric. This firm stand effectually 
 put an end to the purposed act of vandalism. While the 
 Cathedral was thus saved by the craftsmen, the registers 
 of the church and bibliothecs were cast into the fire and 
 perished. 
 
 At this time, it i*s thought; the offices of the dean of 
 guild and convener of the Trades' House did not formally 
 exist — the provost and the deacons being the chief repre- 
 sentatives of the Incorporated Trades.
 
 92 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 The accuracy of the account commonly received as 
 to the part taken by Mr. Melville in reference to the 
 attempted demolition of the Cathedral has recently been 
 called in question, and it is affirmed that the account is 
 not well founded. The local historians, however, have 
 been quite clear and specific on the point. And when 
 we consider the very strong feelings which animated the 
 Reformers, and which found expression amongst their 
 followers throughout the country in the unroofing and 
 destroying of cathedrals and other places of worship 
 occupied by the Roman Catholics, so as to extirpate, as 
 they thought, that religion, we do not think it at all 
 improbable that an ardent Reformer like Mr. Melville 
 should have been so far moved by the spirit of the time 
 as to have acted the part which has all along been 
 accredited to him. There is no doubt whatever that the 
 craftsmen prevented the demolition of the Cathedral as 
 intended by the Reformers, for which they merit the 
 thanks of all admirers of ecclesiastical architecture. 
 
 The following is a copy of the original order issued to 
 the magistrates of Glasgow by the noblemen appointed 
 to carry out the Acts relating to the Roman Catholic 
 churches : — 
 
 " To OUR Traist Friendis : 
 
 " Traist friendis, after maist harty commendacion, we 
 pray you fail not to pass incontinent to the Kirk (of 
 Glasgow), and tak doun the hail images thereof, and bring 
 forth to the kirk-zyard, and burn thaym openly. And 
 sicklyk cast doun the altaris, and purge the kirk of all
 
 The Cathedral, etc. 93 
 
 kynd of monuments of idolatrye, and this ze fail not to 
 do, as ze will do us singular emplesur ; and so commitis 
 you to the protection of God. 
 
 "From Edinburgh the XII of Aug., 1560. 
 
 (Signed) " Ar Argyll. 
 „ " James Stewart. 
 
 ,, " RUTHVEX ,, 
 
 " Fail not, hot ze tak guid heyd that neither the dasks, 
 windocks, nor durris be ony ways hurt or broken, either 
 glassin wark or iron wark."
 
 94 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 THE BURGH REFORM ACT, 3 AND 4 WILL. IV., CAP. 76, 1S33. 
 
 This bill, if it had been passed as introduced into Parlia- 
 ment, would have affected the Merchants' House and 
 Trades' House very injuriously. It would have excluded 
 the dean of guild and deacon-convener from the Town 
 Council; the Merchants' House and Trades' House would 
 so far have been placed under the control of the Town 
 Council as to have made it impossible for either House, 
 or any of the incorporated trades, to alter a regulation or 
 enact a bye-law without the consent of the Magistrates 
 and Council; and it would have impaired the right of the 
 Merchants' House or Trades' House to elect the dean of 
 guild-lyners, and other office-bearers. The Magistrates 
 and Town Council of Glasgow, however, and likewise the 
 Merchants' House and Trades' House, petitioned against 
 the bill. There were a number of petitions from other 
 parts of Scotland, but these were not supported by active 
 opposition. There seems to have been little harmony 
 in the course pursued by the Glasgow deputations. The 
 Magistrates and Council were opposed to the principle 
 of the bill, while the Merchants' and Trades' Houses 
 simply desired to obtain the adoption of certain clauses 
 affecting their interests. The Commons passed the bill 
 without giving effect to the wishes of the Trades' House. 
 The Trades' House, however, resolved to oppose the 
 bill in the House of Lords in the hope of obtaining the
 
 Burgh Reform Ad, etc. 95 
 
 needed clauses. Aided by the powerful assistance of 
 Lord Rosslyn, the Trades' House was ultimately suc- 
 cessful in its efforts; and to his Lordship is due the 
 right conferred on the Trades' House by this statute 
 to elect their own chairman by direct vote, without 
 the control which previously existed on the part of tlie 
 Town Council, and to make bye-laws ; to have the dean 
 of guild and deacon-convener constituent members of 
 the Town Council ; to elect the members of the Dean of 
 Guild Court, and the directors and office-bearers of the 
 several institutions they had right to oX&ct, fnr fro /n the 
 Tozvii Council control ; and for the provision that no 
 person shall be allowed to qualify or act as a town 
 councillor until he shall be a burgess.
 
 96 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 C H A P T E R X [ I . 
 
 RULES FOR ?:lecting represextatives to the trades' 
 
 HOUSE, AND OF PERSONS TO HOLD OFFICE IN THE 
 CRAFTS, ENACTED BY TRADES' HOUSE UNDER BURGH 
 REFORM ACT, WITH TABLE SHOWING BURGESS FINES. 
 
 I. Enacted on 17th September, 1833, that "The 
 right of the deacons and visitor to nominate assistants in 
 the House shall cease, and the qualified freeman of each 
 incorporation shall annuall)-, and at the same meeting at 
 which they shall elect their deacon or visitor, or within 
 eight days thereafter, elect, by direct vote, their repre- 
 sentatives to the House, and shall report their election to 
 the clerk of the House." 
 
 2. Enacted 17th September, 1833, that "It shall be 
 competent to any incorporation to re-elect all or any of 
 their representatives." 
 
 3. Enacted on 17th September, 1833, that " Tlie 
 deacon and visitor, and the last deacon and last visitor, 
 shall be of the number of representatives from the respec- 
 tive incorporations." 
 
 4. Enacted on 17th September, 1S33, that "Upon the 
 second Wednesday of October annually, the House, con- 
 sisting of the whole persons who shall have been members 
 during the year preceding, and until that day, along with 
 the newly-elected deacons and visitor, shall meet, and
 
 Rules for Electing Representatives^ etc. 97 
 
 by direct vote of the whole persons then assembled, elect 
 from among the persons who had been members of the 
 House during the preceding year one to be deacon- 
 convener of the trades, and another to be collector to 
 the House for the ensuing year ; and it shall be com- 
 petent to re-elect to either of these offices." 
 
 5. Enacted on 17th September, 1833, that "Upon 
 the completion of this election, those persons who had 
 been members of the House during the preceding year 
 shall become disqualified, and shall cease to be members, 
 unless they shall have been re-elected, or otherwise 
 qualified under these regulations." 
 
 6. Enacted on 17th September, 1833, that "Upon 
 the day after the election of the deacon-convener, the 
 House shall meet, and by direct vote, without the inter- 
 vention of leets, elect the four dean of guild councilmen, 
 of the craft rank or guild lyners, the directors or managers 
 of all institutions to which the House is entitled to send 
 directors or managers, and the other office-bearers of the 
 House." 
 
 7. Enacted on 17th September, 1833, that " No person 
 shall be eligible as a representative in the House unless 
 he is duly admitted freeman of, and entitled to hold office 
 in, the incorporation to be represented by him, duly 
 enrolled upon the last qualified roll of that incorporation, 
 and in the occupancy of a dwelling-house or place of 
 business within the parliamentary district of Glasgow, 
 specified in the Act 2nd and 3rd William lY., ' to amend 
 the representation of the people of Scotland,' or within 
 
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 98 Tucorporaiion of Cor diners. 
 
 any part of tlie royalty of Glasgow not comprehended by 
 that district." 
 
 8. Enacted on 17th September, 1833, that " Members 
 of the incorporations of maltmen and gardeners shall 
 continue to be eligible as representatives of their respec- 
 tive incorporations, although not resident in, or in the 
 occupancy of a place of business within that district." 
 
 9. Enacted on 7th October, 1833, that "Freemen of 
 the incorporation of dyers and bonnet makers, duly 
 enrolled upon the last qualified roll of that incorporation, 
 not subject to any disqualification, shall be qualified to 
 be elected to hold office in that incorporation, and to 
 represent the same in the House, although not resident, 
 or in possession of a place of business within the royalty, 
 or parliamentary district of Glasgow." 
 
 10. Enacted on 9th October, 1835, that "A freeman 
 who is duly enrolled upon the last qualified roll of the 
 incorporation, to be represented by him, and is entered 
 as a burgess of that particular craft, and is in the 
 occupancy of a dwelling-house, or a place of business, 
 within the parliamentary district of Glasgow, specified in 
 the Act 2nd and 3rd William IV., chap. 65, ' to amend 
 the representation of the people in Scotland,' or within 
 any part of the ancient royalty of Glasgow, not comjDre- 
 hended by that district, shall be qualified to hold office 
 in his incorporation, and to be elected and to sit as a 
 representative of his incorporation in this House while 
 he continues to possess those qualifications ; and in so 
 far varies and alters the seventh bye-law, enacted upon
 
 Rules for Electing Representalives, etc. 99 
 
 17th September, 1833, and the ancient law of the House 
 — members of the incorporations of maltmen and 
 gardeners, under the ancient law, and dyers and bonnet 
 makers, under the bye-law of 7th October, 1833, being 
 qualified to be elected, and to sit as representatives in 
 the House, although not resident, or in possession of 
 a place of business within the royalty or parliamentary 
 district of Glasgow." This area was extended to the 
 municipal area of Glasgow in 1882. (See minutes quoted 
 in memorial to Dr. Kirkwood, Chapter XHI.) 
 
 11. Enacted on 21st May, 1838, that "All vacancies 
 which shall occur in the representation of the House by 
 the death or resignation of the representative or other- 
 wise, shall be filled up, by election, by the incorporation 
 represented — the election to proceed at a general meeting 
 of the trade called for the purpose." 
 
 12. Enacted on 2Sth September, 1849, that "Each 
 incorporation shall, in reporting the election of a repre- 
 sentative to the House, certify in the minute of election 
 whether the person elected is a trades burgess of Glasgow 
 or has paid to the House the entry-money of two 
 guineas." 
 
 13. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "The several 
 deacons, and the visitor and representatives of the several 
 incorporations, shall, before being received or qualified as 
 members of the House, exhibit to the House, or to the 
 deacon-convener and clerk of the House, their burgess 
 ticket of the craft rank, or, if a merchant burgess, the 
 receipt for payment of two guineas to the House."
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 The following Table shows the sum requiring to be 
 paid for the Burgess Ticket referred to in Regulation 
 No. 13, and the apportionment of the entry-money : — 
 
 
 
 
 For the Guildry. 
 
 
 
 
 
 To the 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Amount of 
 
 Townwhen 
 
 To the 
 
 To the 
 
 
 
 
 Burgess 
 
 either 
 
 Merchant 
 
 Trades' 
 
 
 
 
 and Guil- 
 
 Merchant 
 
 House 
 
 House 
 
 BucKetP. 
 
 
 dry Fine. 
 
 or Trade 
 
 Burgess. 
 
 when Mer- 
 chant 
 
 when 
 Trades 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Burgess. 
 
 Burgess. 
 
 
 
 
 £s. d. 
 
 £s. d. 
 
 £s. d. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 £ 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Merchant at far) 
 hand, - - -J 
 
 7 iS 3 
 
 2 18 3 
 
 500 
 
 
 
 
 Tradesman at 1 
 far hand, - - J 
 
 4 18 3 
 
 2 18 3 
 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 Eldest Son, Fa- ■) 
 ther dead, - J 
 
 II 2 
 
 
 * 
 
 2 10 
 
 
 
 8 4 
 
 Eldest Son, Fa- 7 
 ther living, - J 
 
 19 6 
 
 084 
 
 '•' 
 
 2 10 
 
 
 
 8 4 
 
 Youngest Son,- 
 
 1 2 3I 
 
 II \\ 
 
 » 
 
 2 10 
 
 
 
 8 4 i 
 
 Son-in-Law, - 
 
 I 5 
 
 II I* 
 
 « 
 
 5 6f 
 
 
 
 8 4 
 
 Apprentice, 
 
 I 5 
 
 II ii 
 
 * 
 
 5 6^ 
 
 
 
 8 4 
 
 * If merchants the sum goes to Merchants' and not to Trades' 
 House. 
 
 Note. — Far hand means a person entering for the first time in 
 his own right, near hand means a son or son-in-law of an already 
 admittcd member.
 
 Abolition, of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 ACT 9 VICT., CAP. 17 (1846) ABOLISHING EXCLUSIVE 
 PRIVILEGES OF TRADING IN BURGHS — REGULATIONS 
 RENDERED NECESSARY IN CONSEQUENCE — PROPOSAL 
 TO ALTER BYE-LAWS ENACTED UNDER THE ACT OF 
 1833- 
 
 By this Act the exclusive privileges of carrying on or 
 dealing in merchandise, and of carrying on or exercising 
 certain trades or handicrafts by guilds, crafts, or incor- 
 porations within burghs, were abolished. The Act will 
 be found in the Appendix. 
 
 Mr. Crawfurd, the historian of the Trades' House, says 
 many persons believed that their abolition would lead to 
 the decay of the incorporations. 
 
 The dean of guild and his council had, according to 
 Mr. Crawfurd, previously resolved not to enforce the law 
 which required persons to enter as burgesses before 
 carrying on any trade of buying or selling, or any craft ; 
 and under those altered circumstances the Trades' House 
 enacted the following bye-laws : — 
 
 13. Enacted on 28th September, 1849, that " Merchant 
 burgesses of Glasgow, and all other persons who are, or 
 may become, members of any of the incorporated trades, 
 may be admitted members of the convenery upon paying 
 two guineas to the Trades' House, and shall thereby
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 become eligible for holding office in the Trades' House, 
 and for the enjoyment of all other privileges of the 
 convenery." 
 
 14. Enacted on 28th September, 1849, that "It shall 
 not be lawful to any incorporation to admit or qualify any 
 person as a member, unless such person shall be a trades' 
 burgess, or shall have paid two guineas to the Trades' 
 House of entry-money to the convenery." 
 
 Under these bye-laws several persons, holding burgess 
 tickets as merchants, paid j£,2 2s. to the Trades' House 
 instead of the guildry fine of two pounds payable at 
 entering as a trades' burgess, and thereby became 
 enabled lawfully to enter with any of the incorporated 
 trades as guild brethren of the craft rank, and, at 
 the same time, to retain their position as guild brethren 
 of the merchant rank, and members of the Merchant 
 House. 
 
 This was believed to be a hberal measure, by super- 
 seding the old law, which prohibited a man from being a 
 member of both ranks ; and it was reciprocated by the 
 dean of guild and Merchant House, who freely admitted 
 burgesses of the craft rank to be members of that cor- 
 poration without compelling them to pay a second guildry 
 fine. 
 
 The Merchant House had, at different times, raised its 
 entry-money of ^5, first by adding to it ^4, as the 
 purchase-money of immunity from the payment of 4s. 
 a-year of quarter accounts, and thereafter by increasing 
 that ;^4 to ten guineas, at which it now stands, in
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 103 
 
 addition to the original payment of ^'5 as the guildry 
 fine. 
 
 The above bye-law of the Trades' House added two 
 shillings only to the original guildry fine of ^2 ; and for 
 payment of this two shillings, in addition to the original 
 j[^2, a merchant burgess is enabled to avoid the forfeiture 
 not only of the ^5 and ^10 los. he paid to the Merchant 
 House, and the ;Q2 i8s. 3d. he paid to the magistrates 
 and council at entering a burgess of that rank, but is 
 allowed to retain his position as a member of the Merchant 
 House, is enabled to become a guild brother of the craft 
 rank, and to enjoy all the benefits of both ranks. 
 
 Much looseness, says Mr. Crawfurd, however, continued 
 to prevail in several of the incorporations on the subject 
 of admitting members, and to correct the evils arising 
 from the prevalence of different practices in several of the 
 incorporations, the House enacted the following bye- 
 laws : — 
 
 15. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "It shall not be 
 lawful to any incorporation, or to the deacon or masters 
 thereof, to admit, enrol, or receive as a member any 
 person whatever who is not a burgess of Glasgow, either 
 of the merchant rank or of the trades rank, and who does 
 not, at his admission, prove the fact by exhibiting his 
 ticket, or a proper certificate of burgess-ship." 
 
 16. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "It shall not 
 be lawful to any person who now is, or who shall be 
 hereafter admitted, a member of any of the fourteen 
 incorporations of Glasgow, to hold office as deacon or
 
 104 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 collector of the incori)oration, or to be elected its repre- 
 sentative in the Trades' House, or to be delegate on the 
 Gorbal lands, or a director of the Trades' School, or a 
 member of the committee for the management of the 
 Trades' Hall Buildings, or to be recommended as, or 
 admitted or enrolled, a pensioner on the funds of the 
 House, or to share in any way in its privileges, unless he 
 is a burgess of Glasgow of the craft rank, of the class of 
 the incorporation to be represented by him, or shall have 
 paid, or shall pay to the Trades' House two guineas, or 
 such other sum as shall be exigible at the time as the 
 entry-money as a guild brother of the craft rank of that 
 class." 
 
 17. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, "In the view of 
 preserving a record of the persons who shall hereafter be 
 admitted burgesses of the craft rank, and of merchant 
 burgesses who are admitted guild brethren of that rank 
 by payment to the House of the foresaid entry-money, 
 the town-clerks shall, in accounting to the House for 
 the sums paid to them as entry-money, be requested 
 to give, in August yearly, a list of the names of every 
 person who has entered a burgess of the craft rank during 
 the preceding year, stating in columns the trade for which 
 he entered, whether as son, son-in-law, or apprentice of a 
 freeman burgess, or at the far hand, and the entry-money 
 and bucket-money paid by each." 
 
 18. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "The clerk of 
 the House shall enrol those names and all those parti- 
 culars, and also the names of all merchant burgesses
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges^ etc. 1 05 
 
 who shall enter guild brethren of the craft rank, by 
 paying two guineas to the House, in a book, to be pre- 
 pared and preserved as a record of the persons qualified to 
 hold office in the Trades' House and the incorporations." 
 
 19. Enacted on 21st April, 1857, that "The several 
 deacons, and the visitor, and representatives of the several 
 incorporations, shall, before being received and quaUfied 
 as members of the House, exhibit to the House or to the 
 deacon-convener and clerk of the House, their burgess 
 ticket of the craft rank ; or if a merchant burgess, the 
 receipt for payment of the two guineas to the House." 
 
 The Incorporation of Cordiners in 1881 unanimously 
 memorialised the Trades' House on the subject of the 
 inapplicability of the before-mentioned bye-laws passed 
 in 1833 and 1835 to the present changed circumstances, 
 and urged the House to consider the matter, especially 
 having regard to the present position of the craft brought 
 about by the Statute of 1846 abolishing the exclusive 
 privileges which the crafts had of carrying on or exercis- 
 ing their trade or handicraft within the burgh, with a 
 view to amended rules being enacted to suit such changed 
 circumstances. 
 
 The House having taken no action upon the memorial, 
 and the writer having, with the co-operation of his col- 
 leagues in the House, tabled a motion on the subject, 
 which is quoted in the memorial after-mentioned, it was 
 remitted to the Bye-laws Committee of the House. 
 
 Prior to the matter being taken up by the committee, 
 the colleagues of the writer suggested to him the
 
 io6 Incorporation of Cordi7iers. 
 
 propriety of his preparing a memorandum explanatory 
 of the motion. This the writer did. Prints of this 
 memorandum were sent to all the members of the Trades' 
 House. The following is the memorandum : — 
 
 " MEMORANDUIM EXPLANATORY OF MR. CAMPBELL'S 
 MOTION FOR ALTERATION OF BYE-LAWS. 
 
 ^'' Motion: — -That this House resolve to amend the fol- 
 lowing Rules and Regulations of the House, viz, : — 
 ' Delete from Rule 7, enacted by this House on 7th 
 October, 1833, and also from Rule 10, enacted by this 
 House on 9th October, 1835, all as printed in Mr. Craw- 
 furd's Sketch of the Trades' House at pages 123 and 124, 
 the following words occurring after the words ' place of 
 business,' viz., 'within the Parliamentary district of Glas- 
 gow specified in the Act 2nd and 3rd William IV., to 
 amend the representation of the people of Scotland, or 
 within any part of the Royalty of Glasgow not compre- 
 hended by that district,' and insert instead in these Rules 
 after the words ' place of business,' the following words, 
 ' or whose avocation or calling is within the City of Glas- 
 gow as at present defined by Act of Parliament, or as may 
 be defined by any future Act of Parliament.'" 
 
 "At the last meeting of the Trades' House of Glasgow, 
 the above motion was proposed by Mr. Campbell, and 
 referred to the Bye-laws Committee to consider and 
 report to the House. In order to save time, and enable 
 every member of the House to understand the full scope
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 107 
 
 of the motion, Mr. Campbell respectfully submits the 
 following remarks thereon for their consideration : — 
 
 " The necessity for the alteration of the bye-laws arises 
 from the fact that such bye-laws were enacted so long 
 ago as 1833 ^^^d 1835, and, while they met the then 
 existing state of matters, they fail to meet the altered 
 circumstances of the present day, as will be shortly 
 explained. 
 
 "The City of Glasgow, prior to the year iSoo, 
 embraced only the ancient royalty, which was but a 
 small portion of the present municipal city. 
 
 " In the year 1800 the royalty and municipal city was 
 extended so as to include a portion of the Barony Parish, 
 then in the county. By subsequent sundry Acts of Par- 
 liament the municipal city was again extended over and 
 embraced portions of the lands of Blythswood. When 
 the bye-laws were enacted in 1833 and 1835, the munici- 
 pal city — for which the Town Council and Deacon-Con- 
 vener were elected, and to which alone the burgess ticket 
 applied, and in which alone the exclusive privilege of 
 trading engaged in by the crafts could be carried on — 
 extended to under a half of the area of the present Parlia- 
 mentary burgh, the boundaries of which were fixed by the 
 Parliamentary Reform Act of 1 832, an Act which deals with 
 boundaries of burghs and the franchises thereby created 
 for Parliamentary purposes only. Consequently this Act 
 has no connection with municipal franchises, rights, privi- 
 leges, and immunities, or Trades' House matters in any 
 way whatever. It may be also observed that, although 
 the Parliamentary burgh embraced all and more than
 
 io8 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 all the built-on portion south of the river, the municipal 
 burgh comprised only a small part of the Parliament- 
 ary burgh on the north side of the river. Now the 
 municipal burgh is much larger in area than the Parlia- 
 mentary burgh, by the extensions authorised in 1846, 
 1872, and 1878. Within the boundaries fixed in 1832 
 for Parliamentary purposes there were five separate and 
 independent jurisdictions or authorities, viz. : The muni- 
 cipal authorities of the burgh of Glasgow, the municipal 
 authorities of the burghs of Calton, Anderston, and Gor- 
 bals, created by separate statutes, and the Commissioners 
 of Supply of the County for the portion of the Parlia- 
 mentary burgh not under burghal jurisdiction. A Post- 
 Office map in the hands of the Clerk to the House, in the 
 hands of the members of the Bye-laws Committee, and in 
 the hands of the deacons, shows (i) the municipal burgh 
 of Glasgow prior to 1846 in yellow body colour; (3) the 
 police burghs of Anderston, Calton, and Gorbals, and a 
 part of the ancient royalty and part of the county, in 
 brown body colour ; (3) the present Parliamentary burgh 
 of Glasgow prior to 1S46, which included the then muni- 
 cipal burgh of Glasgow and the burghs of Anderston, 
 Calton, and Gorbals, &c., ringed in red ; and (4) the 
 present municipal burgh of Glasgow, as extended in 1846, 
 1872, and 1S7S, ringed in blue. 
 
 " The Home Secretary, Viscount Melbourne, in the 
 Royal Commission issued to the Commissioners to fix 
 these Parliamentary boundaries, gave the following direc- 
 tion, viz. : — ' In general, without being controlled by 
 local divisions or jurisdictions, you will assign such 
 boundaries as the circumstances of each burgh may seem
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 109 
 
 to require, making sufficient allowance for the future 
 extension of the town.' 
 
 " The report of these Royal Commissioners submitted 
 to Parliament, and upon which report the Parlia 
 mentary boundaries of Glasgow were fixed, contained 
 the following passages : — ' In following your Lordship's 
 instructions to "assign such boundaries as the circum- 
 stances of each burgh may seem to require," we con- 
 ceived it to be our duty to ascertain what really and 
 fairly ought to form the burgh, and to settle its 
 boundaries upon that principle. 
 
 " ' Proceeding to act on this system, we thought our- 
 selves called upon to consider not merely what constituted 
 the town itself, but also the nature of the population 
 situated in the immediate neighbourhood, but beyond its 
 actual precincts. Most of the larger towns are surrounded 
 by villas or detached dwellings of that description, oc- 
 cupied chiefly by persons who either carry on business in 
 the town, or who are so intimately connected with it in 
 various ways, that they arc, in habits and cha}-acter, an 
 urban rather than a rural population. In these cases it 
 was thought expedient that the occupiers of such premises 
 should form part of the burghal constituency, and they 
 have been accordingly included in the burgh, wherever 
 it was found practicable without extending the boundary 
 to an unreasonable size.' 
 
 '• And in speaking of the boundary fixed for the Parlia- 
 mentary Burgh of Glasgow, the Royal Commissioners 
 state that — ' A large portion of open ground is cotitained 
 within these limits which appears necessary to be attached to 
 so rapidly an increasing town.'
 
 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 "These quotations show the far-seeing principles which 
 guided the commissioners in fixing the Parliamentary 
 boundaries in such a way as seemed to them to meet all 
 future extensions. But it is well known that Glasgow 
 has grown far beyond what was contemplated even by 
 the commissioners, and in other respects the changes 
 have been equally great since 1832. 
 
 " The Trades' House at that time very naturally, in 
 fixing the area within which its members should reside or 
 carry on business, adopted the statutory boundaries fixed 
 by the Royal Commissioners, and accordingly, in 1833, 
 when the present Bye-law A''! I. was enacted, it provided 
 first that ' No person shall be eligible as a representative 
 in the House unless he is a duly-admitted freeman of, 
 and entitled to hold ofiice in, the incorporation to be 
 represented by him, duly enrolled upon the last qualified 
 roll of that incorporation, and in the occupancy of a 
 dwelling-house or place of business within the Parlia- 
 mentary district of Glasgow specified in the Act 2 and 3 
 William IV.,' 'to amend the representation of the people 
 of Scotland, or within any part of the royalty of Glasgow 
 not comprehended by that district.' This royalty is part 
 of the ancient city, and is situate to the north of the canal, 
 and is beyond the Parliamentary district, but is within 
 the municipal boundary. 
 
 "A similar Bye-law, No. 10, was enacted in 1835 with 
 reference to persons entitled to hold office in the various 
 crafts. 
 
 " From the operations of these bye-laws the members of 
 the Maltmen, Dyers', and Gardeners' Crafts were specially 
 exempted, on the ground, it is assumed, that they could
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, dc. 1 1 1 
 
 not, from the nature of their respective crafts, carry on 
 their business in the municipal burgh. 
 
 " This exemption confers upon the members of these 
 crafts a right to a seat in the House, and to hold office in 
 their own incorporations, even supposing they reside or 
 carry on business in any part of the country. It might be 
 asked if this is an exemption applicable to the present 
 day? 
 
 " As regards the other eleven crafts, the members 
 thereof, in order to hold office in the House and in their 
 crafts, must, according to the above rules, reside or carry 
 on business in Glasgow. 
 
 " But the motion does not aim at levelHng down the 
 present rules applicable to the eleven crafts so as to give 
 them the same rights which the three privileged ones have 
 and exercise. In order to qualify the craftsmen, the 
 object of the motion is to extend the area within which 
 they may reside or have an avocation to that of the 
 municipal boundaries of Glasgow, which are now much 
 greater than the Parliamentary boundaries — although at 
 one time, as already stated, the Parhamentary boundaries 
 were much more extensive than the municipal boundaries 
 — the latter, as already mentioned, being the area for which 
 the Town Council and deacon-convener are elected, and 
 to which the burgess ticket applied, and in which the 
 exclusive privileges of trading could alone be carried on. 
 
 " At the time the bye-laws were made, and down to the 
 year 1846, the exclusive privileges of trading could not 
 be exercised or carried on in the municipal burgh by the 
 privileged craftsmen unless they were qualified members 
 of the craft, and having that in view it was necessary,
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 perhajis, to enact such rules ; but the men of those days 
 composing the House, even ahhough the members of the 
 crafts could not carry on the exclusive privileges of 
 trading beyond the then, as already stated, very limited 
 municipal burgh, holding, as they did, enlightened and 
 far-seeing views, enacted the bye -laws referred to, which 
 conferred a right upon persons in the occupancy of a 
 dwelling-house or place of business in the burghs of 
 Calton, Anderston, and Gorbals, and in the county of 
 Lanark — although these places were as distinct from the 
 then municipal Glasgow as the present burghs around the- 
 present municipal Glasgow are distinct from the present 
 municipal Glasgow — to hold office in the House and in 
 their incorporations. A new bye-law might, with equal 
 justice, be proposed for extending the area for having a 
 place of business and residence so as to include the 
 burghs of Partick, Hillhead, Govan, Kinning Park, 
 PoUokshiclds, Crossbill, Govanhill, and Maryhill, which 
 burghs stand in precisely the same relation now to 
 municipal Glasgow as did the burghs of Calton, Anderston, 
 and Gorbals in 1833 ^"^^ 1S35. 
 
 " But, as will be seen, the motion does not go so far as 
 this. Its object is simply to extend the boundaries, so 
 as to embrace those members Avho have a residence 
 outside the present city boundaries, hiitivJio have a calling 
 or avocation in the city. Its adoption would impart a 
 spirit of fairness, and produce an equality of privilege 
 amongst the members of the incorporations which does 
 not at present exist. 
 
 " From the rapid outgrowth of Glasgow, and from other 
 circumstances, large numbers of persons are forced to
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 113 
 
 obtain house accommodation outside of Glasgow, although 
 they have fixed and permanent avocations in Glasgow, 
 such as bank agents, tellers, managers, secretaries, col- 
 lectors, heads of departments, &c., &c. j and it is to 
 these and such like, the terms avocation or calling would 
 appl}'. These persons have really quite as deep, if not a 
 deeper, interest in the city and its affairs, as some of those 
 having an individual place of business or residence in 
 their own name. 
 
 "Were the House to extend the area embracing the 
 burghs outside Glasgow, as was done in 1833 and 1835, 
 there would be no need for adopting the proposed 
 motion ; because the persons having an avocation or 
 calling in Glasgow, and residing in these burghs, would 
 then have the qualification to hold office. The motion 
 is, however, it will be observed, restricted to those persons 
 /iavi?ig Ml avocation or calling in, and as such having their 
 interests hoimd up in Glasgozc, and does not confer any 
 right to those outside municipal Glasgow, and who have 
 no interest therein, as was done in 1833 and 1835. A 
 very great number of the members who joined the crafts 
 within the last ten years would be qualified to hold ofiice 
 if this motion was passed. To keep matters as they are 
 would not only limit the choice for selecting members to 
 hold office, but would be keeping up an unfairness. 
 
 " It has been urged as an incontrovertible argument that 
 the bye-laws of the House so made in 1833 cannot be 
 altered — in short, that they are, like the laws of the Medes 
 and Persians, unalterable. But the bye-laws made in 1833 
 were altered and amended by the House in 1835, under 
 the advice of its eminent legal adviser, and no doubt for 
 
 H
 
 114 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 good and sufficient reasons, and this, too, after the pass- 
 ing of the Burgh Reform Act of 1833, which will be re- 
 ferred to presently. There is no doubt about the power 
 of the House to make bye-laws, and having the power to 
 make, the House possesses an equal right to alter and 
 amend, as it did in 1835, when the then circumstances 
 required it less than they now do. 
 
 " Another objection advanced against any alteration is, 
 that the alteration would prejudice the election of the 
 deacon-convener. Any alteration now in the direction 
 indicated by the motion would, admitting for the sake of 
 argument that there is something in the objection, be less 
 objectionable than what was done in 1833 and 1835, 
 when the late Mr. Crawfurd knew well about the bearing 
 of all the matters connected with the Burgh Reform Bill 
 of 1833, and the right of the House to elect the deacon- 
 convener under it. Mr. Crawfurd, it may be observed, 
 was engaged upon that very Bill, and adjusted the clauses 
 in it with reference to the rights of the House and its 
 deacon-convener, and under the provisions of this Act 
 alone the bye-law of 1833 and its alteration in 1835 were 
 enacted. 
 
 " Referring to the Burgh Reform Act 1833, it has been 
 oirged that the deacon-convener must be elected by per- 
 sons having the same qualification as those who elect 
 Town Councillors. This is an entire mistake. 
 
 " Section 8 of that Act provides, with reference to the 
 election of Town Councillors, that ' Upon the first Tues- 
 day of November next, the electors, qualified and entered 
 in the list or roll made up as aforesaid, shall, in each of 
 the burghs not contained in schedule (F) to this Act
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 115 
 
 annexed, choose from among such of their oiuti number as 
 either reside within the boundaries assigned to such burgh 
 by the said recited Act, or as may carry on business or 
 reside within the royalty thereof, such a number of coun- 
 cillors as by the set or usage of each burgh respectively 
 at present constitutes the Common Council of such 
 burgh.' 
 
 " Now, the persons to be so chosen as Town Councillors 
 are to be chosen by the electors out of their oion number, as 
 appearing in the Municipal Roll of Electors ; but these 
 municipal electors have nothing to do with choosing the 
 deacon-convener — that is specially afterwards provided 
 for by the Act, as will be now explained. 
 
 "Section 21 of the Burgh Reform Act of 1833 enacts 
 ' That nothing herein contained shall be held or con- 
 strued to impair the right of any craft, trade, convenery 
 of trades or guildry, or Merchants' House or Trades' 
 House, or other such incorporation, severally to elect 
 their own deacons, or deacon-convener, or dean of guild, 
 or directors, or other lawful ofificers for the management 
 of the affairs of such crafts, trades, conveneries of trades, 
 or guildries. Merchants' or Trades' Houses, or other such 
 corporations, but that, on the contrary, the said several 
 bodies shall from and after the passing of this Act be in 
 all cases entitled to the free election in such form as shall be 
 REGULATED by them of the said several office-bearers, and 
 other necessary officers for the management of their affairs 
 ivithout any interference or control lohatsoever on the part 
 of the Town Council thereof .^ 
 
 " It will thus be seen that the Trades' House is entitled 
 to elect their deacon-convener in any way they like, and
 
 ii6 Tncorporatmi of Cordiners. 
 
 the section is quite silent as to the trades requiring to 
 have any qualifications such as that now in the Rules, 
 although in section 8 before quoted it expressly states 
 what the qualifications for electing the members of To7vn 
 Council from their own number must be, and that the Town 
 Council could not interfere, as they had done previous to 
 the passing of the Burgh Reform Act, 1833, which Act 
 made irajDortant alterations upon the Letter of Guildry 
 and the ancient laws and usages. 
 
 " Section 42 of the Act, 1833, further enacts that ' The 
 persons elected as hereinbefore provided (that is, under 
 section 21) to the offices of dean of guild and deacon- 
 convener, or convener of trades, by the convenery and 
 guild brethren ... of Edinburgh, and to the 
 offices of dean of guild and deacon-convener by the 
 Merchants' House and Trades' House respectively of 
 Glasgow, shall, in virtue of their said election by the said 
 guild brethre7i, convene?-}; Aferchants" House, and Trades' 
 House respectively in the City of Glasgow be co7istitue?it 
 members of the Town Councils of the said cities, and shall 
 enjoy all the powers and shall perform all the functions 
 now enjoyed or performed by such oflfice-bearers in these 
 cities.' . . . 
 
 " There cannot be any doubt, therefore, that the deacon- 
 convener can, in virtue of this section, take his seat at 
 the Town Council under any regulation or bye-law enacted 
 by the House under section 21, provided always that the 
 persons must be burgesses who elect, and no one is 
 admitted a craftsman unless he is a burgess ; and there 
 cannot also be any doubt that the House has power to 
 make, under section 31, such bye-laws as they deem
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 1 1 7 
 
 expedient, and afterwards to alter and amend them, as 
 the House in its wisdom may deem proper. 
 
 " If the contention that any alteration of the bye-laws in 
 the manner pointed out in the motion would affect the 
 right of the deacon-convener to sit as a constituent 
 member of the Town Council under the Reform Act of 
 1833 be correct, then the House, by the special exemp- 
 tions conferred by them on the Maltmen, Dyers, and 
 Gardeners, by the bye-laws enacted since the passing of 
 that Act, has already jeopardised the deacon-convener's 
 seat in the Town Council, because the statute makes no 
 exception in favour of any one craft over another. Under 
 the Statute of 1833, all the crafts are alike, and all must 
 stand in the same position as regards the qualification for 
 sitting as Members of the House, and for holding office 
 in their crafts. But it is quite evident that the House, in 
 making the bye-law^s under the provisions of the Reform 
 Act of 1833, were well and rightly advised that it was not 
 necessary that the deacon-convener and those electing 
 him should have the same qualification as the electors 
 enfranchised under that Act for electing out of their own 
 number the ordinary members of the Town Council ; for, 
 had it been otherwise, they could not have made the 
 exception under the Act of 1833 in favour of the Malt- 
 men, Dyers, and Gardeners. 
 
 " Mr. Crawfurd, in his work on the Trades' House, in 
 dealing with what was done at the passing of the Burgh 
 Reform Bill of 1833, says — 'The Merchants' House and 
 Trades' House are thus indebted to Lord Rosslyn for 
 right to elect their own chairman by direct vote, without 
 the control of the Town Council, and to make bye-laivs ;
 
 ii8 Incorporation of Cordmers. 
 
 to have the dean of guild and deacon-convener constituent 
 members of the Town Council ; to elect the members of 
 the Dean of Guild Court, and the directors and office- 
 bearers of the several institutions they had a right to 
 electa free frovi its control; and for the provision that no 
 person shall be allowed to qualify or act as a Town 
 Councillor until he shall be a burgess.' 
 
 " The case of the Dean of Guild is cited as one against 
 any alteration. But there is no analogy between the two 
 cases. The protest against the Dean of Guild sitting as a 
 member of the Town Council is that he is elected by 
 certain of the members of the Merchants' House who 
 are not burgesses. That does not apply to the Deacon- 
 Convener, for every member of the House is a burgess. 
 
 " With reference to the exclusive privileges and rights of 
 the crafts, these were enforced in the municipal burghs, as 
 distinguished from the parliamentary burghs up to the year 
 1846, and many actions at law were brought to enforce 
 the rights ; but the Act 9 Vict, of that year enacted — 
 'That all such exclusive privileges and rights shall 
 cease, and it shall be lawful for any person to carry 
 on or deal in merchandise, or to carry on and exercise 
 any trade or handicraft in any burgh and elsewhere 
 in Scotland, without being a burgess of such burgh, 
 or a guild brother, or a member of any guild, craft, or 
 incorporation.' 
 
 " This Act also provides ' That it shall be lawful for 
 every such incorporation to make all bye-laws, regulations, 
 and resolutions relative to the management and application 
 of its funds and property in reference to its altered circum- 
 stances under this Act, as may be considered expedient, and
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 119 
 
 to apply to the Court of Session for the sanction of the 
 Court,' &c. 
 
 '•' It being clear, then, that the House has power under 
 the Acts of 1833 and 1846 to alter and amend its bye- 
 laws, and it being equally clear that, to meet the "altered 
 circumstances" which a period of 46 years must have 
 wrought in a city like Glasgow, an amendment is required; 
 and it is hoped, therefore, that no unreasoning senti- 
 mentality will stand in the way of the House redressing 
 what is felt to be a real grievance by many members of 
 the crafts, and a bar not only to their acceptance of office, 
 but to the entry of new members into the crafts, from the 
 knowledge that, under the present bye-laws, they are 
 debarred from office and cannot rank on an equality with 
 the other members, if they should happen to reside beyond 
 the parliamentary boundaries of the city and not have a 
 business of their own in it — a restriction which is surely 
 applicable to other days than these. If the House has 
 any fear as to the legality of adopting the principle of 
 such a motion as is proposed, and if it is in doubt as to 
 what should be done under all the circumstances stated, 
 a safe course would be to take the opinion of counsel on 
 the whole subject." 
 
 The' memorial hereinafter quoted embodies the motion 
 tabled by the writer and also the recommendation of 
 the Bye-laws Committee of the Trades' House, that with 
 respect to the qualifying area from the parliamentary to 
 the municipal boundaries, that that part of the motion 
 should be adopted. The Trades' House approved of 
 this recommendation, and, with respect to the other
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 part of the motion, proposing to entitle those members 
 of crafts whose avocations or caUings were within the 
 said boimdaries to hold ofifice in their crafts and in 
 the Trades' House, the Committee recommended that 
 the opinion of counsel should be taken. That minute 
 was approved of by the Trades' House, and the subject 
 having been again remitted to the Committee, they 
 resolved to take the opinion of Dr. Anderson Kirk- 
 wood, and the following Memorial was submitted to 
 Dr. Kirkwood, to which his opinion is annexed, and 
 which is of much interest to members of the craft: — 
 
 " MEMORIAL BY THE TRADES' HOUSE OF GLASGOW FOR 
 " THE OPINION OF ANDERSON KIRKWOOD, ESQ., LL.D. 
 
 " At a meeting of the Trades' House, held on 8th Novem- 
 ber last, notice of the following motion was given, viz. : — 
 ' That the Trades' House resolve to amend the follow- 
 ing Rules and Regulations of the House, viz. — Delete 
 from Rule 7 enacted by this House on 7th October, 
 1833, and also from Rule 10 enacted by this House on 
 9th October, 1835, all as printed in Mr. Crawfurd's 
 Sketch of the Trades' House at pages 123 and 124, the 
 following words, occurring after the words " place of busi- 
 ness," viz., within the parliamentary district of Glasgow 
 specified in the Act 2 and 3 William IV., to amend the 
 representation of the people of Scotland, or within any 
 part of the royalty of Glasgow not comprehended by 
 that district, and insert instead of these Rules, after the 
 words " place of business," the following words, " or whose 
 avocation or calling is within the City of Glasgow as at
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 121 
 
 present defined by Act of Parliament, or as may be 
 defined by any future Act of Parliament ; ' and the same 
 was remitted to the Bye-laws Committee, who reported that 
 they were of opinion that the first portion of the motion 
 relative to extending the qualifying area from the parlia- 
 mentary to the municipal boundaries should be adopted, 
 and recommended that the opinion of counsel should be 
 obtained as to that portion of the motion proposing to 
 entitle those whose avocations or callings were within 
 said boundaries to hold office in their respective crafts, 
 and to be representatives in the House, as to the bearing 
 it may have in future when the Deacon-Convener takes 
 his seat as a member of the Town Council. The House 
 approved of this minute, and resolved and remitted to the 
 Committee to take the opinion as recommended. 
 
 " The House in 1833 enacted as a Bye-law, that those 
 eligible to be elected and to sit as representatives in the 
 House should be duly enrolled freemen of, and entitled 
 to hold office in, the incorporation to be represented by 
 them, duly enrolled upon the last qualified roll of that 
 incorporation, and in the occupancy of a dwelling-house 
 or place of business within the parliamentary district of 
 Glasgow specified in the Act 2 and 3 William IV., 
 excepting the members of the Incorporations of INIalt- 
 men. Gardeners, and Dyers, who, from the nature of 
 their businesses, are eligible as representatives of their 
 respective incorporations, although not resident in, or in 
 the occupancy of a place of business within, that district. 
 
 " Since that date that Bye-law has been acted upon. 
 
 " By the Act 3 and 4 William IV., sec. 21, the Deacon- 
 Convener, along with the Dean of Guild, are entitled to a
 
 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 seat in the Town Council ex officiis ; and it will be 
 observed from Mr. Crawfurd's Sketch, page 115, that that 
 right was only obtained after a good deal of discussion in 
 the House of Lords, and that the Trades' House was 
 indebted to Lord Rosslyn for the right to elect its chair- 
 man. 
 
 " It is not at present questioned but that the Convener 
 has a right to take his seat in the Council ; but it may be 
 here remarked that the Dean of Guild, on taking his seat, 
 is yearly protested against by the Town-Clerk, on the 
 ground that he is not legally elected, being sent in by 
 certain members of the Merchants' House who have not 
 taken out their burgess tickets and become freemen of 
 the city in terms of the Act. 
 
 The Deacon-Convener has been, and is elected by 
 members having all the necessary qualifications, being 
 burgesses, and in the occupancy of a dwelling-house or 
 place of business, excepting as before-mentioned. Counsel 
 is referred to the accompanying Sketch by Mr. Crawfurd 
 on the Trades' House, and especially to page 124 of that 
 work, and also to the printed reasons by Mr. Campbell in 
 support of the motiou now before the House, and accom- 
 panying Post Office Map, showing the parliamentary and 
 municipal boundaries, &c. 
 
 " Counsel's opinion is therefore asked upon the folloiving 
 ^'■points, viz.: — 
 
 " I. Might a protest, similar to that in the case of the 
 Dean of Guild, not be taken in the event of the above 
 motion being passed, and the Deacon-Convener being 
 elected as before stated ?
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges, etc. 
 
 " 2. Is there any legal difficulty standing in the way of 
 the House enacting a new Bye-law to the effect of allow- 
 ing those whose avocations or callings are within the 
 municipality of Glasgow holding office in their respective 
 crafts, and in the Trades' House ? 
 
 " 3. In the event of the House enacting this Bye-law, 
 would it in any way affect the Deacon-Convener's seat in 
 the Town Council under the existing law ? 
 
 "4. In the event of the legislature proposing a bill to 
 deal with an alteration of the law as to the election of 
 town councillors, and as to the constituent members 
 of the Town Council, such as the Dean of Guild and 
 Deacon-Convener, would the proposed bye-law have 
 any effect in lessening the present position of the House, 
 or prejudicing in any way the right of the Deacon- 
 Convener to a seat in the Town Council ? 
 
 "Opinion. 
 
 " Having considered the foregoing memorial, and the 
 various Acts of Parliament from 1833 to 1878 inclusive, 
 bearing upon the questions involved, and having also 
 examined the previous bye-laws of the Trades' House, 
 and the minutes of the meetings at which the same were 
 passed, and having likewise had the benefit of a consulta- 
 tion with the sub-committee, I now respectfully submit 
 the following opinion, in answer to the queries appended 
 to the memorial : — 
 
 " I. It is quite possible that, in the event of Mr. Camp- 
 bell's motion being passed, a protest similar to that taken 
 in the case of the Dean of Guild may be taken against the
 
 124 Iinorporation of Cordmers. 
 
 future elections of the Deacon-Convener, but such a 
 protest is unavailing unless the allegations it contains are 
 relevant in themselves, and are established by competent 
 proof in an appropriate action at law to be brought by the 
 protester. 
 
 " 2. In answering this query I assume, as was done at 
 the consultation, that the objectionable words at the close 
 of the motion, viz., the words ' or as may be defined by 
 2>x\y future Act of Parliament,' are to be withdrawn, and 
 that the rather vague expression ' the City of Glasgow as 
 at present defined by Act of Parliament,' is to be made 
 more specific, by substituting the words 'the City of 
 Glasgow as defined by the Municipal Extension Acts of 
 1872 and 1S78.' 
 
 " On these assumptions, I am of opinion that there is no 
 legal difliculty standing in the way of the Trades' House 
 enacting a new bye-law, to the effect of allowing those 
 whose avocations or callings are within the municipality 
 of Glasgow holding office in their respective crafts and in 
 the Trades' House. 
 
 " In considering this query, it became necessary to give 
 special attention to the Act of 1846, abolishing the 
 exclusive privileges of trading in Scotch burghs, and 
 providing for an application to the Court of Session to 
 sanction new bye-laws that might in consequence require 
 to be made by certain incorporations, but I am satisfied, 
 that in the case of the Trades' House such an application 
 is unnecessary, my reason being, that the Trades' House 
 has, in my opinion, inherent power of its own authority 
 to pass the proposed new bye-law, and if so, the Act does 
 not take away or weaken that authority. On the con-
 
 Abolition of Exclusive Privileges^ etc. 125 
 
 trary, it provides ' that nothing herein contained shall 
 affect the validity of any bye-laws, regulations, or resolu- 
 tions that may be made by any such incorporation without 
 the sanction of said Court, which it would have been 
 heretofore competent for such incorporation to have made 
 of its own authorit}', or without such sanction.' 
 
 "Any application to the Court of Session is therefore, I 
 think, unnecessary, and, if unnecessary, it is obviously 
 inexpedient — looking to the difficulty, delay, and expense 
 that might thereby be entailed. 
 
 " 3. I see no ground for thinking that if the proposed 
 bye-law were passed, the Deacon-Convener's right, under 
 the existing law, to a seat in the Town Council, would in 
 any way be affected. 
 
 " 4. The legislature has, of course, the power to make 
 such an alteration of the law as is here suggested, but I 
 am of opinion that it would not give its sanction to any 
 bill which would try to make the passing of the proposed 
 bye-law a pretext for lessening the present position of the 
 Trades' House, or prejudicing in any way the right of 
 the Deacon-Convener to a seat in the Town Council. 
 
 " The opinion of 
 
 "(Signed) Anderson Kirkwood. 
 
 " Glasgow, 145 West Geors^^e Street, 
 loth April, 1SS2. " 
 
 The Trades' House, on iStli August, 18S2, having 
 resumed consideration of the motion tabled by the writer, 
 with the memorial to, and opinion of. Dr. Anderson Kirk- 
 Avood, as before given, when late Convener ]\I'Onie moved,
 
 126 
 
 Incorporation of Cordmers. 
 
 as an amendment, the previous question, and was seconded 
 by Mr. William M'Call. After some discussion thereon, 
 the vote was taken, when 22 voted for the amendment 
 and 12 for the motion. The motion was therefore lost; 
 and now, what cannot be cured must be endured.
 
 Rules for Internal Management of Cordiners. 127 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE INTERNAL MANAGE- 
 MENT OF THE CORDINERS. 
 
 It does not appear, from a perusal of the minute 
 books which Mr. Lamond, the clerk of the Cordiners, 
 placed, with his usual courtesy, at the service of 
 the writer, that the Cordiners ever passed any bye- 
 laws for the internal management of the craft before 
 the year 1780. The bye-laws were again revised 
 and re-enacted in 1802. Copies of these bye-laws 
 are not now obtainable. In 1847, shortly after the 
 passing of the Act abolishing the exclusive privileges 
 of carrying on handicrafts or trades, the Cordiners, 
 having in view the changes brought about by that 
 Act, had under their consideration the advisability 
 of changing the Incorporation into an Annuity Society. 
 An actuary had been consulted, who had prepared 
 elaborate tables, such as tables for widows' annuities, 
 deferred annuities, and immediate annuities, together 
 with a table showing the pensioners then on the roll. 
 A set of bye-laws had likewise been prepared to carry 
 out the annuity proposals, and a petition was thereafter 
 presented to the Court of Session, asking the Court 
 to approve of these bye-laws in virtue of the powers 
 conferred by the Act of 1846. The followinc^ is
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 the public notice of the petition so presented to the 
 Court of Session : — 
 
 " Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow. 
 
 " Intimation is hereby made to all concerned, that a 
 petition for the Incorporation of Cordiners of Glasgow 
 having been presented to the Lords of Council and 
 Session (First Division), praying their Lordships to 
 interpone the sanction of the Court to the bye-laws or 
 regulations and resolutions, and relative tables and 
 schedules annexed to the said petition, or otherwise to 
 make thereon such alterations or adject thereto such con- 
 ditions or qualifications as their Lordships might think 
 fit, and thereafter to sanction and approve of the same, 
 all as more particularly mentioned in the prayer of the 
 said petition, and all in terms of the Act 8 and 9 Victoria, 
 cap. 17, intituled, 'an Act for the Abolition of the Exclusive 
 Privilege of Trading in Burghs in Scotland.' — their Lord- 
 ships, by interlocutor, dated loth December instant, 
 appointed the said petition to be duly intimated to all 
 concerned. And it is also hereby further intimated that 
 copies of the said petition, to which the said proposed 
 bye-laws, regulations, and resolutions are appended, with 
 the said interlocutor, will lie with ]\Ir. Blyth, Deacon of 
 the Incorporation, at his shop, Argyle Street, Glasgow, 
 for the inspection and information of the members of the 
 Incorporation, and all others having interest, for one 
 calendar month from this date. 
 
 " Rob. La^iond, Clerk to the Incorporation. 
 "James Burness, S.S.C. 
 
 "• Ji December, 184-/.'^
 
 Rules for Internal Management of Cordiners. 129 
 
 The proposed rules and tables appear at length in the 
 minute books of the Incorporation. 
 
 On xyth April, 1848, the minute book shows that the 
 Incorporation abandoned the proposal to convert the 
 Incorporation into an annuity society, and, accordingly, 
 the petition to the Court of Session and relative pro- 
 ceedings fell to the ground. 
 
 The minute book further shows that the Incorporation 
 enacted bye-laws in 1848. These bye-laws were again 
 amended, enlarged, and improved in 1868, and these 
 latter, owing to the changes that had come about, were 
 again amended in February, 1877, February, 1878, and 
 Februar}^ 1881. The alteration in 1877 consisted in 
 an entire revision, and embraced a new table of entry- 
 moneys, providing that each member should on entry 
 pay according to his age, and not as formerly, when 
 young and old paid alike. 
 
 The amendments of 1878 were of an unimportant 
 character. The chief amendment made in 1881 was a 
 new rule to the effect that, in the case of a contested 
 election for office-bearers, the election should be con- 
 ducted according to a simple and convenient form of 
 ballot, which has given great satisfaction on the two 
 occasions on which it has been used, and it has totally 
 allayed that feeling of personal irritation which had 
 been so frequent a concomitant of the former elections 
 of office-bearers. A print of the amended bye-laws of 
 1 88 1 will be found in the Appendix.
 
 130 Incorporation of Co?-diners. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 LOYALTY OF CRAFTSMEN. 
 
 The Trades' House of Glasgow, which embodied, to 
 a certain extent, the several incorporated trades, was 
 itself formally constituted a corporate body under the 
 Letter Guildry of 1605 and subsequent Acts of Par- 
 liament, and may be said to have reflected the senti- 
 ments and opinions of the Incorporated Trades. It 
 has on all public occasions and events exhibited in 
 no unstinted manner its loyalty and devotion to the 
 crown ; but various public events arose before, and 
 have arisen since, the Trades' House became formally a 
 corporate body, which have given the craftsmen them- 
 selves an opportunity for evincing, as they have done, 
 their individual loyalty fully and freely. It seems 
 unnecessary to trouble the reader with a recapitula- 
 tion of these numerous individual loyal expressions 
 in so far as the Incorporation of Cordiners is con- 
 cerned. A selection of two modern incidents will, 
 we think, suffice for this object. One of these 
 events was in connection with the address voted to 
 William IV. on the Green of Glasgow in 183 1, and 
 dealt with in Chapter VI., and the other on the 
 occasion of the visit of Her present Majesty to Glas- 
 gow in 1849, when the Incorporation presented a loyal 
 address to the Oueen. The following is the minute
 
 Loyalty of Craftsmen. 131 
 
 agreeing to present the address, and the address 
 itself:— 
 
 " At a meeting of the Master Court, held within 
 the clerk's office the loth day of August, 1849, 
 at 3 o'clock afternoon. 
 
 " Met — The Deacon, Mr. Lochore, jun., Mr. 
 George Smith, Mr. D. Macnicol, Mr. Peter 
 McGregor, and Mr. John Craig. 
 
 '• Mr. Lochore moved that the Incorporation present 
 an address to Her Majesty on the occasion of her visit to 
 this city, which was seconded by Mr. Macnicol, and 
 unanimously agreed to, and authority given accordingly. 
 
 " To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. 
 " May it please your Majesty, 
 
 '• We, the Deacon, Collector, Masters, and Members 
 of the Incorporation of Cordiners in the City of Glasgow, 
 enfranchised by charter granted centuries ago by one of 
 your royal ancestors on the throne of Scotland, partici- 
 pating in the joyous and grateful feelings inspired by your 
 Majesty's gracious condescension in honouring this 
 ancient seat of commerce and learning with a royal visit, 
 beg to approach your august presence with the expression 
 of our devoted loyalty and attachment to the British 
 Crown, and reverential esteem and admiration of your 
 Majesty's person, consort, and family. 
 
 " We humbly solicit your most Gracious Majesty to 
 accept this expression of our hearty thanks and lively
 
 132 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 gratitude, and our prayers that all happiness may attend 
 your Majesty in your person, family, and government. 
 
 " Signed in name, presence, and by appointment 
 of the said Incorporation, and the Seal of the 
 Incorporation is affixed the tenth day of August, 
 Eighteen hundred and forty-nine. 
 
 (Signed) '• James Craig, Deacon^ 
 
 Glasgow has not, like Edinburgh, Stirling, and Perth, 
 had the good fortune to have been a seat for a royal 
 residence, and thus its craftsmen have not had an 
 opportunity of assisting in the protection and preserva- 
 tion of royal personages \ but had Glasgow been so 
 favoured, it may, with safety, be affirmed that her crafts- 
 men would not have been behind their brethren of 
 Edinburgh in the loyalty shown by the latter, as given in 
 the following story : — 
 
 During the strife betwixt James V. and the Earl of 
 Northumberland, John Armstrong, chief of a band of 
 Mosstroopers, was enticed by the king, on the suggestion 
 of his officers, to come to the king, who had written a 
 letter to Armstrong with his royal hand to attend at 
 the palace of Holyrood. The king, hearing a distinct 
 account of the crimes John was guilty of, ordained 
 Armstrong to be committed to gaol, and suffer, with 
 his accomplices, according to law. This notorious free- 
 booter, along with his followers, drew upon the king 
 in his chamber of audience, and the king was with 
 much difficulty rescued by his courtiers. Armstrong and 
 his attendants continued their hostilities, designing to
 
 Loyalty of Craftsmen. 133 
 
 kill every soul in the royal palace; but it being noised 
 in the city of Edinburgh that the king was in imminent 
 danger of being cut off by the hands of these bandits, 
 the crafts of the city rose, came to the rescue, and slew 
 "fourscore a"nd ten" of the freebooters. This story is 
 preserved in memory, not so much by our historians, who 
 give but a faint account of it, as in the following quaint 
 ballad written by one of the greatest poets of that age : — 
 
 " There dwelt £ii man in fair Westmoreland, 
 John Armstrong men did him call ; 
 He hd neither lands nor rents coming in. 
 Yet he kept cightscore men in his hall. 
 
 " The king he wrote an a letter then, 
 
 An a letter which was large and long ; 
 He sign'd with his own hand, 
 
 And he promised to do him no wrong. 
 When this letter came John him till, 
 
 His heart was as blyth as birds on a tree ; 
 Never was I sent for before any king, 
 
 My father, my grandfather, nor none but mc. 
 
 " By the morrow morning at ten of the clock 
 
 Toward Edinburgh gone was he ; 
 And with him all his eightscore of men, 
 
 Good Lord, an it was a goodly sight to see. 
 When John came before the king, 
 
 He fell down low ujDon his knee ; 
 O pardon, my sovereign liege, he said. 
 
 O pardon my eightscore men and me. 
 
 " Thou shalt have no pardon, thou traitor Strong, 
 Nae for thy eightscore men and thee ; 
 For to-morrow morning by ten of the clock 
 
 Eotli thou and them shall liansj on the irallow tree.
 
 134 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Then John looked over his left shoulder ; 
 
 Good Lord, what a grievous look looked he ! 
 Said, I have asked grace at a graceless face, 
 
 Whj', there is nane for ye or me. 
 
 " But John had a bright sword by his side, 
 
 And it was made of mettle so free. 
 That had not the king stept his foot aside, 
 
 He had smitten his head from his fair bodie; 
 Saying, Fight on, my merry men all, 
 
 And see that none of you be tane ; 
 For rather than men should say we were hang'd 
 
 Let tliem report that we were slain. 
 
 " God wot the Trades of Edinburgh rose, 
 And sore beset poor John round, 
 That fourscore and ten of John's best men 
 Lay gasping all upon the ground."
 
 Admission to Cor diners. 135 
 
 CHAPTER X V I . 
 
 ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP OF CORDINERS, WITH FORIM 
 OF DECLARATION AND ADMISSION TICKET. 
 
 Persons desirous of becoming members of the Incor- 
 poration of Cordiners in Glasgow require to fill up the 
 following declaration. The declaration is lodged with 
 the clerk, who brings it before a meeting of the Master 
 Court. If the applicant is known to two members of the 
 Master Court to be in good health, of good character, and 
 otherwise eligible, he is thereupon admitted on the terms 
 set forth in the Bye-laws and Regulations of the craft, 
 which will be found printed in the Appendix. If the 
 applicant is not so known, his application is remitted to 
 two members of the Master Court to make full inquiry 
 into all the circumstances and to report, and this report 
 guides the Master Court in admitting or rejecting the 
 applicant. Applicants at near hand are entitled to 
 admission, as a matter of right, on payment of the entry- 
 money in the Table of Rules ap^Dended to the Bye-laws. 
 The following is the declaration : — 
 
 INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS IN GLASGOW. 
 DECl.ARATIOX TO BE MADE BY APPLICANTS FOR ADMISSION. 
 
 1. Name, Designation, and Residence of Applicant. 
 
 2. Name, Designation, and Residence of Party in whose right 
 
 application is made. 
 
 3. If a Son-in-law of a INIember, Name and Age of the Wife.
 
 136 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 4. Applicant's Age next l)irtli-day. 
 
 5. Evidence of the Age. 
 
 6. Craft of Applicant. 
 
 7. Applicant's general occupation, if different from that of his 
 
 craft. 
 
 8. If Married, and what Children, and Children's Names and 
 
 Ages. 
 
 9. Date. 
 
 10. Applicant's usual signature. 
 
 Note. — In the case of Applicants at the far hand, Nos. 2 and 3 do not 
 require to be filled up. 
 
 Date. 
 
 The applicant is not entitled to attend meetings for a 
 year and day after his admission, nor to receive any 
 benefit from the pension fund for three years after his 
 admission. A member of the craft is entitled, if he 
 desires it, to receive a certificate of admission on vellum 
 in the accompanying form. Before Deacon John Ander- 
 son filled the Incorporation Chair, in 1878-79, there was 
 no certificate. It was considered to be very desirable 
 that such a certificate of admission should be provided, 
 as in the case of almost every other society or incorpora- 
 tion. The matter was therefore remitted to Deacon John 
 Anderson and the writer, who was then collector, to 
 arrange for an appropriate admission ticket, and the 
 result of that remit is shown by the following form, which 
 was unanimously approved of by the Incorporation : — 
 
 THE INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS, GLASGOW. 
 INCORPORATED, 
 
 Conform to (ist) .Seal of Cause by the Provost and Magistrates of 
 Glasgow, dated 27th February, 1558, and Ratification thereof by
 
 Admission to Cor diners. 137 
 
 James, Archbishop of Glasgow. (2nd) Seal of Cause by the Provost 
 and Magistrates of Glasgow, dated 27th June, 1569. (3rd) Act of 
 the Deacon Convener's House of Glasgow, and Ratification thereof 
 by the Provost, Bailies, and Council of Glasgow, dated 3rd 
 September, 1693. 
 
 This IS TO Certify that 
 
 residing at 
 
 was on the day of 
 
 Admitted a Member of the Incorporation of Cordiners^ 
 Glasgow, 
 
 and he is entitled to all the rights and privileges pertaining to, and 
 subject to all the obligations incumbent upon, a member of the said 
 Incorporation as set forth in the printed Rules and Regulations of 
 the Incorporation. 
 
 Deacon. 
 
 Collector. 
 
 Clerk. 
 Glasgow. 
 
 These forms of declaration for admission and admission 
 ticket may be obtained from the clerk to the Incor- 
 poration.
 
 138 Incorporatioji of Cordiners. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 trades' school and trades' house scholarships — 
 
 FORMS and rules — EDUCATIONAL AID BY CORDINERS — 
 FORM OF APPLICATION. 
 
 In consequence of the passing of the Education Act of 
 1872, and the subsequent estabUshment of School Board' 
 schools, it was resolved by the Trades' House to abolish 
 its School, and to establish scholarships, etc., instead, to 
 be given to children of members of the craft rank who 
 had attained the highest number of marks in public exami- 
 nation by the Government inspectors. Applicants for 
 scholarships must lodge with the clerk of the Trades' 
 House applications in the annexed forms. The rules for 
 the scholarship are appended to the forms. 
 
 APPLICATION FOR TRADES' HOUSE JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIPS. 
 
 " The maximum age of Boys and Girls competing for a Junior 
 Scliolarsliip is fourteen years." [Rule j.) A Boy or Girl able 
 to pass an examination in the Fifth Standard of the Scottish 
 Code, and any two of the Specific subjects of secular instruction 
 mentioned in said Code, will be eligible for a Junior Scholar- 
 ship." {Rule 4.) 
 
 Name and residence of Applicant. 
 Age at next Birth-day. 
 
 (Certificate required.) 
 Name of Father or Grandfather, and on whose right the claim is 
 founded. 
 
 State whether Father or Mother alive.
 
 Trades' Scholarships — Aid by Cordiners. 139 
 
 Where Educated, and in what Classes. 
 
 State whether the Applicant holds, at present, any Scholarship 
 or Bursary, — if so, the name of the Scholarship or Bursar)', and the 
 amount. 
 
 State Incorporation of which Father or Grandfather was a member, 
 and date of Burgess Ticket. 
 
 State present occupation of Applicant ; with whom employed ; 
 income, if any; and what future occupation intending to follow. 
 
 State which two of the Specific subjects* of the Scottish Code the 
 Applicant desires to be examined on. 
 
 * Applicants who take English Literature as one of the Specific subjects, are 
 
 requested to state what lines of Poetry they have committed to memory ; 
 
 the Books from which applicants have been taught the Specific subjects 
 
 should also be mentioned. 
 The E.xamination on the Specific subjects will not go beyond the Standard for 
 
 the Second year. 
 Girls will be required to hand in to the examiner specimens of Needlework. 
 
 We have personally met the Applicant, or otherwise satisfied 
 ourselves regarding the statements in the above Application, and 
 recommend, as eligible to compete. 
 
 Director on. Education. 
 Clerk. 
 
 RULES FOR THE TRADES' HOUSE JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIPS. 
 
 I. — The above Scholarships of the Trades' House are for the 
 promotion of higher education. 
 
 2. — There shall be thirty Junior Scholarships, of the average value 
 of Fifteen Pounds, and tenable for three years — Ten Pounds to be 
 paid the first year ; Fifteen the second ; and Twenty the third year, 
 but the minimum of 400, out of 1000 marks, must be reached in 
 order to entitle to a Scholarship. Ten of these to be filled up 
 annually. 
 
 Note.— The Scholarships will only be granted for One Year on account of 
 present legislation, and because of certain proposed changes on these 
 Rules being presently under consideration.
 
 140 Incoyporatio7i of Cordiners. 
 
 3. — These Scholarships shall be open to the Children and Grand- 
 children of Freemen in connection with any of the fourteen Incor- 
 porations, educated in any school. The maximum age for boys 
 and girls competing for a Junior Scholarship is hereby fixed at 
 fourteen years. 
 
 4. — A boy or girl able to pass an examination in the Fifth* Stan- 
 dard of the Scottish Code, and any two of the Specific subjects of 
 secular instruction mentioned in said Code, will be eligible for a 
 Junior vScholarship. 
 
 5. — The holders of the Junior Scholarships shall be required to 
 attend some school where a graduated course of higher instruction is 
 given, and give evidence of attention to their studies, by submitting 
 to the Clerk of the House a certificate from their teacher, before the 
 second half of their annual allowance is paid. 
 
 6. — The examination shall be held in July of each year. 
 
 7. — -The payments to be made in November and May in each 
 year. 
 
 8. — The Scholarships shall be awarded according to the merits of 
 the Candidates, on the report of a duly qualified Examiner appointed 
 by the Committee on Education, with the sanction of the House. 
 
 9. — The Committee on Education reserve to themselves the right of 
 testing the progress of the holders of Scholarships at the end of each 
 year, and in the event of not being satisfied with the progress made, 
 or of inattention to studies or misconduct on the part of any one 
 holding any of the above Scholarships, it shall be in the power of 
 the Committee to suspend from the benefits of said Scholarships, or 
 altogether deprive of the same. 
 
 * Standard V. — Reading— K^^L^va^ with expression a short passage of prose 
 or poetrj', with explanation, grammar, and elementary analysis of simple 
 sentences. Writi/tg — Writing from memory the substance of a short story or 
 narrative read out twice by the Inspector ; spelling, grammar, and handwriting 
 to be considered. Arithmetic — Practice, bills of parcels, and simple proportion. 
 History a7id Geography — Outlines of the History of Great Britain from the 
 Union of the Crowns to the death of George III. Geography of Scotland, with 
 special knowledge of the county in which the school is situated, and map 
 drawing of it. 
 
 Gl.asgow, June, 1SS2.
 
 Trades' Scholarships — Aid by Cordiners. 141 
 
 APPLICATION FOR TRADES HOUSE SENIOR SCHOLARSHIPS. 
 
 " The maximum age for Boys and Girls competing for a Scholarship 
 is hereby fixed at eighteen years." (Rules.) " A Boy able 
 to pass an examination in a Standard somewhat equivalent to 
 the entrance Bursary Examination at the University will be 
 eligible for a Scholarship. A standard of corresponding value 
 to apply to Girls." (Rule 4. ) 
 
 Name and residence of Applicant. 
 
 Age at next Birth-day. 
 (Certificate required.) 
 
 Name of Father or Grandfather, and on whose right the claim is 
 founded. 
 
 State whether Father and Mother alive. 
 
 Where Educated, and in what Classes. 
 
 State whether the Applicant holds, at present, any Scholarship 
 or Bursary, — if so, the name of the Scholarship or Bursary, and the 
 amount. 
 
 State Incorporation of which Father or Grandfather was a 
 member, and date of Burgess Ticket. 
 
 State present occupation of Applicant ; with whom employed ; 
 income, if any; and what future occupation intending to follow. 
 
 State if previously a holder of a Junior Scholarship. 
 
 We have personally met the Applicant, or otherwise satisfied 
 ourselves regarding the statements in the above Application, and 
 recommend as eligible to compete. 
 
 Diixctor on Education. 
 Clerk. 
 
 The Examination for Senior Scholarships will be held in October 
 next, and will be on the following subjects: — 
 
 SUBJECTS FOR BOYS. 
 
 ENGLISH Grammar and Composition; sources and 
 
 growth of the English Language ; writing 
 a short Essay on some simple subject.
 
 142 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 HISTORY History of Britain from 1707 to tlie presenttime. 
 
 GEOGRAPHY Uritish Isles and Colonies ; Kurope ; with 
 
 Map Drawing. 
 MATHEMATICS. ..First Six Books of Euclid; Algebra up to 
 
 Quadratic Equations. 
 DRAWING E.Kcrcises in Freehand, Perspective, Geometry 
 
 or Model Drawing. 
 
 In place of Drawing, Boys may take the 
 
 Elements of Mechanics, or Chemistry or 
 
 Magnetism, and Electricity. 
 LATIN Passages for translation from a Book of Virgil, 
 
 and one of the first five Books of Livy (the 
 
 Books to be chosen by the Candidates) ; 
 
 translation from English into Latin, and 
 
 questions on Grammar. 
 
 And one of the following Languages : — 
 GREEK Passages for translation from a Book of Homer, 
 
 and a Book of Xenophon's Anabasis (the 
 
 Books to be chosen by the Candidates) ; 
 
 short sentences to be translated into Greek, 
 
 and questions on Greek Grammar. 
 FRENCH Passages for translation from some fairly easy 
 
 prose author ; translation into French ; 
 
 questions on Grammar. 
 GERMAN Passages for translation from some fairly easy 
 
 prose author ; translation into German ; 
 
 questions on Grammar. 
 
 Boys will state on their Applications whether they wish to be 
 examined in Greek, or French, or German. They will state the 
 Latin books, and if they choose Greek, the Greek books on which 
 they wish to be examined. They will also state whether they wish 
 to be examined in Drawing, or the elements of one of the above- 
 mentioned Sciences. 
 
 subjects for girls, 
 
 ENGLISH Same as for Boys. 
 
 HISTORY Same as for Boys.
 
 Traded Scholarships — Aid by Cordiners. 1 43 
 
 GEOGRAPHY Same as for Boys. 
 
 ARITHMETIC Practice, Proportion (simple and com- 
 pound), Fractions (vulgar and 
 decimal). Interest. 
 
 DRAWING Same as for Boys. 
 
 In place of Drawing, Girls may take 
 
 MUSIC Elements of the Theoiy of Music, and 
 
 playing on the Piano. 
 
 Note. — Unle.js some acquaintance — thorough so far as it goes — with the Theorj' 
 of ^lusic is displayed, no marks will be allowed the Candidate in this 
 subject. 
 
 DOMESTIC ECONOMY... Clothing, Food, Cooking, Rules for 
 
 Health. 
 
 And one of the following Lan- 
 guages :— 
 
 LATIN Any Book of Ca;sar'-s Gallic War 
 
 (chosen by Candidate), with trans- 
 lation into English, and questions 
 on Grammar. 
 
 GREEK Any Book of Xenophon's Anabasis 
 
 (chosen by Candidate), with trans- 
 lations of easy sentences into Greek, 
 and questions on Grammar. 
 
 FRENCH .Same as for Boys. 
 
 GERMAN Same as for Boys. 
 
 Girls will state on their Applications the language on which they 
 wish to be examined (if Latin or Greek, state Books), and whether 
 they wish to be examined in Music or Drawing. 
 
 RULES FOR trades' HOUSE SENIOR SCHOLARSHIPS. 
 
 I. — The Senior Scholarships of the Trades' House are for the 
 promotion of higher education. 
 
 2. — There shall be nine Scholarships of tlie average value of 
 Thirty Pounds, and tenable for three years — Twenty-five Pounds to
 
 144 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 be paid the first year, Thirty the second, and Thirty-five the third 
 
 year. 
 
 Note. — The Scholarships will only be granted for One Year on account of present 
 legislation, and because of certain proposed changes on these Rules 
 being presently under cqnsideration. 
 
 3. — These Scholarships shall be open to Children and Grand- 
 children of Freemen in connection with any of the fourteen 
 Incorporations, educated in any school. The maximum age for 
 boys and girls competing for a Scholarship is hereby fixed at 
 eighteen years. 
 
 4. — A boy able to pass an examination in a standard somewhat 
 equivalent to the entrance Bursary Examination at the University 
 will be eligible for a Scholarship. A standard of corresponding 
 value to apply to girls. 
 
 5. — The holders of such Scholarships .shall attend the University 
 or some Technical Institution, and give evidence of attention to 
 their studies, by submitting to the Clerk of the Trades' House a 
 certificate from their Teacher, before their half-yearly allowances 
 are paid. Girls who hold Scholarships must also prosecute their 
 sttidies in an Educational Institution, and in a manner satisfactory 
 to the Committee on Education, subject to the same conditions as 
 the boys. 
 
 6. — Three Scholarships shall be filled up the first year, and the 
 same for each succeeding year. 
 
 7. — The Examination shall be held in October of each year. 
 
 8. — The Scholarships shall be awarded according to the merits 
 of the Candidates, on the report of a duly qualified Examiner 
 appointed by the Committee on Education, with the sanction of the 
 House ; but the minimum of 400, out of 1000 marks, must be 
 reached in order to entitle to a Scholarship. 
 
 9. — The papnents shall be made in November and May in each 
 year. 
 
 10. — The Committee on Education reserve to themselves the 
 right of testing the progress of the holders of Scholarships at the 
 end of each year, and in the event of not being satisfied with the 
 progress made, or having received evidence of inattention to studies
 
 Trades^ Scholarships — Aid by Cordiiiers. 145 
 
 or miaconduct on the part of any one holding any Scholarship, it 
 shall be in their power to suspend them from the benefits of said 
 Scholarships, or altogether deprive them of the same. 
 
 Glasgow, August, 1SS2. 
 
 APPLICATIOX FOR TRADEs' HOUSE TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
 
 " For the purpose of furthering the education of the youth of either 
 sex connected with the Incorporations, the House has allowed 
 the Committee on Education a sum, not to exceed in any one 
 year ;^ioo, to be spent for Scientific Instruction — special refer- 
 ence being had to art and manufacture — in morning or evening 
 classes. " 
 
 Name and residence of Applicant. 
 
 Age at next Birth-day. 
 
 Name of Father or Grandfather, and on whose right the claim is 
 founded. 
 
 State whether Father or Mother alive. 
 
 \Yhere Educated, and in what Classes. 
 
 State Incorporation of which Father or Grandfather was a member, 
 and date of Burgess Ticket. 
 
 State present occupation of Applicant ; with whom employed ; 
 income, if any ; and what future occupation intending to follow. 
 
 State what branch of Technical Education the applicant means to 
 prosecute, and where. 
 
 We have personally met the Applicant, or otherwise satisfied 
 ourselves regarding the statements in the above Application, and 
 recommend as eligible to compete. 
 
 Director on Education. 
 Clerk. 
 
 The matter of the education of the children of the 
 necessitous poor of the members of the Cordiners was, 
 in consequence of the aboHtion of the Trades' House 
 
 K
 
 146 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 School, under consideration of the Master Court on 
 3rd August, 1876, and the following is the minute of 
 the meeting containing the resolution come to on this sub- 
 ject : — " The Deacon reported what was proposed to be 
 done in the matter of educational aid in consequence of the 
 discontinuance of the Trades' School, and after consider- 
 able discussion, it was agreed, on the motion of Deacon 
 Burt, seconded by Mr. Thomas Mitchell, to leave the 
 details of the arrangements for continuing educational aid 
 to the children of members in schools, other than the 
 Trades' School, in the hands of the Education Committee 
 appointed by the Master Court, with a recommendation 
 to them in carrying these out, as far as practicable to 
 give effect to the views expressed by the meeting." 
 
 The result of this minute has been that the Educational 
 Committee have paid to the necessitous poor who applied 
 for aid the fees for the education of their children in the 
 School Board schools. There were 14 such children edu- 
 cated during the past year. The fees paid do not include 
 school books. Educational aid has never, in the know- 
 ledge of the writer, been refused to those really requiring 
 such aid. When educational aid is wanted, the following 
 form of application requires to be filled up and lodged 
 with the Clerk to the Incorporation : — 
 
 INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS IN GLASGOW. 
 
 SCHEDULE TO BE FILLED UP ON BEHALF OF APPLICANTS FOR 
 EDUCATIONAL AID. 
 
 1 . Name and Residence of Child for whom Claim is made. 
 
 2. Age last Birth-day, and if Parents alive. 
 
 3. What School, if any, has the Child formerly attended ?
 
 Trades' Scholarships — Aid by Cordiners. . 147 
 
 4. Whether a Child or Grandchild of a Member of the Incorpor- 
 ation, or whether the ]\Iember is, or was, connected with any of the 
 other Incorporated Trades in Glasgow. 
 
 5. Name of Memlier of this Incorporation on whom the Claim is 
 founded. 
 
 6. Date when Member was admitted into the Incorporation of 
 Cordiners. * 
 
 7. State amount of Income, from all sources, of the Parents of 
 the Child, or that of other Parties on whom it is dependent. If any 
 Children living with Applicant, and earning wages, state how much. 
 
 S. How many Children at home dependent upon Applicant ? 
 
 9. In what Relation to the Child does the Party stand who makes 
 the above declaration ? 
 
 10. Signature of Applicant. 
 
 11. Residence of Apphcant, and where employed. 
 
 Glasgow, 
 
 In connection with this matter, it may be well to inform 
 our readers that a Bill was introduced into Parliament 
 in the session of 1882, which was subsequently passed 
 into a law, and is now called " An Act to reorganise the 
 Educational Endowments of Scotland (i8th August, 
 1 882)." By this Bill, as originally framed, it was con- 
 ceived that the funds applied by the Trades' House and 
 by the fourteen Incorporations to educational purposes 
 might be brought under its provisions, and applied to 
 educational purposes generally. The Trades' House and 
 two of the Incorporations — the Cordiners being one — 
 petitioned Parliament against the Bill, with a view to get 
 it altered so as not to embrace the Trades' House and 
 the crafts ; and as it was found that no satisfactory under- 
 taking could be got from the Government, that the Trades' 
 House and the Incorporations would be exempted from
 
 148 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 its provisions, the Trades' House appointed a deputation, 
 consisting of Mr. Thomas Reid, the present Deacon- 
 Convener, and others, to go to London to protect the 
 interests sought to be interfered with — the writer being 
 one of the deputation. Various interviews took place 
 with the Lord Advocate and other members of Parlia- 
 ment; but, as nothing was agreed to, the deputation found 
 it necessary to get an amendment placed on the notice 
 paper of the House, and which would, if agreed to, 
 thoroughly protect the interests of the Trades' House 
 and the fourteen Incorporations. That amendment was 
 moved in the house by Mr. Cochrane-Patrick, M.P., and 
 then — but only then — the Lord Advocate, on the part 
 of the Government, accepted the amendment, and it now 
 forms part of the Act. The following is the clause, the 
 portion in italics being the amendment agreed to in the 
 House : — 
 
 " ' Educational endowment ' shall mean any property, 
 heritable or movable, dedicated to charitable uses, and 
 which has been applied, or is applicable, in whole or in 
 part, whether by the declared intention of the founder or 
 the consent of the governing body, or by custom or other- 
 wise, to educational purposes, but shall not, except loith 
 consent of the governing body, include the funds, whether 
 capital or rroenue, of any incorporation or society, con- 
 tributed or paid by the members of such incorporation or 
 society by 7C'ay of entry-moneys or other fixed or stated 
 payments, nor burgess fines paid to any such incorporation 
 or corporate society, except as hereinafter provided."
 
 Trades' House and Cor diners^ Pensions, etc. 149 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 trades' house pensions and bursaries, with 
 
 FORMS OF application. 
 
 In 1877 these pensions were revised, and the Incorpora- 
 tion of Cordiners is now entitled to have on the roll four 
 craftsmen as pensioners, who must be on the pension roll 
 of the Incorporation. The maximum number of male 
 pensioners that can be enrolled by the Trades' House 
 is 70. If vacancies occur in any of the crafts, and they 
 cannot be supplied by such crafts, the most needful are 
 put on the roll from other crafts. If the pensioner has 
 been a deacon-convener, the pension is ;^5o a year; if a 
 collector of the Trades' House, £,i,o a year ; if a deacon 
 of a craft, ;^3o a year; and, if a craftsman, ;^2o a year. 
 The number of widow pensioners from a craft is not 
 limited as in the case of males — the most deserving and 
 necessitous getting the preference, whatever craft they 
 may belong to, but each craft is, as far as may be, fairly 
 represented ; the maximum number entitled to admission 
 being 50 — the pension being ;^i5 a year for a deacon's 
 widow, and ^10 a year for others. The number of 
 unmarried daughters from a craft is also not limited as in 
 the case of males — the most deserving and necessitous 
 getting the preference the same as in the case of widows, 
 whatever craft they may belong to — the pension being 
 from ;^5 to ^8 a year, according to circumstances,
 
 150 Incorporation of Coi'diners. 
 
 the maximum number who can be enrolled being 100. 
 The Trades' House paid _;/^2,6o3 5s. during last year for 
 pensions and precepts. 
 
 The following are the forms which require to be filled 
 up and lodged with the clerk to the Trades' House by 
 those desiring pensions. In all cases the applicants must 
 be pensioners or precept-holders in their own craft, and 
 their applications must be approved of and recommended 
 by the Master Court of the Incorporation from which the 
 applicants claim a right before being lodged with the 
 clerk of the Trades' House: — 
 
 At Glasgow, the day of 
 
 Eighteen Ilimdred and 
 
 At a meeting of the Deacon and iMasters of the Incorpor- 
 ation of the whole having been duly 
 warned to attend, as was verified by the Officer. 
 
 The Meeting, under the Resolutions of the Trades' House of 
 Glasgow, dated 25th September, 1S45, and the previous Regulations 
 of the House on the subject of Pensioners on its Funds, recommend 
 
 as in all respects a worthy object 
 for a Pension from the Trades' House, under those Resolutions and 
 Regulations ; and do hereby certify that the foHowing is a state of 
 health, family, and circumstances : — 
 
 Age at next Birth-day. 
 State of Health. 
 If Married or a Widower. 
 What is his Employment. 
 What Children, and their Age. 
 
 State Incorporations on which he is a Pensioner, and amount of 
 Pension from each.
 
 Trades^ House and Cordineri Pensions, etc. 151 
 
 If a Pensioner on Hutchesons' Hospital, cind amount. 
 Any other source of Income, and amount. 
 
 Whether he was ever Deacon of the Trade, or a Member of the 
 Trades' House, and date. 
 
 And the fleeting further certify that the said 
 is a Burgess of the Craft Rank of Glasgow, and a duly enrolled 
 Freeman of the said Incorporation of as 
 
 and was entered on 18 
 
 Extracted by 
 
 At Glasgow, the day of 
 
 Eighteen Hundred and 
 
 At a Meeting of the Deacon and blasters of the Incorporation 
 of the whole having been duly warned to 
 
 attend, as was verified by the Officer. 
 
 The Meeting, under the Resolutions of the Trades' House of 
 Glasgow, dated 15th February, 1877, and the previous Regulations 
 of the House on the subject of Pensioners on its Funds, recommend 
 
 as in all respects a worthy object 
 for a Pension from the Trades' House, under those Resolutions and 
 Regulations ; and do hereby certify that the following is a state of 
 her health, family, and circumstances : — 
 
 Age at next Birth-day. 
 
 State of Health. 
 
 What is her employment. 
 
 What Children, and their Age. 
 
 State Incorporations on which she is a Pensioner, and amount of 
 Pension from each. 
 
 If a Pensioner on Hutchesons' Hospital, state amount. 
 
 If any other source of Income, state amount. 
 
 Whether her Husband was ever Deacon of the Incorporation, or a 
 Member of the Trades' House, and date.
 
 152 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 And the meeting further certify that her Ilusl^and was a Burgess 
 of the Craft Rank of Glasgow, and a duly enrolled Freeman of the 
 Incorporation of ns 
 
 and was entered on 18 
 
 Extracted by 
 
 UNMARRIED DAUGHTERS. 
 
 At Glasgow, the day of 
 
 Eighteen hundred and 
 
 At a jNIeeting of the Deacon and Masters of the Incorporation 
 of the whole having been duly warned 
 
 to attend, as was verified by the Officer. 
 
 The meeting, under the Resolutions of the Trades' House of 
 Glasgow, dated 15th February, 1877, and the previous Regulations 
 of the House on the subject of Pensioners on its Funds, recommend 
 
 as in all respects 
 a worthy object for a Pension from the Trades' House, under those 
 Resolutions and Regulations ; and do hereby certify that the follow- 
 ing is a state of her health, family, and circumstances : — 
 
 Age at next Birth-day. 
 
 State of Health. 
 
 What is her employment ? 
 
 State Incori^orations on which she is a Pensioner, and amount of 
 Pension from each. 
 
 If a Pensioner on Hutchesons' Hospital, state amount. 
 
 If any other source of Income, state amount. 
 
 Whether her Father was ever Deacon of the Incorporation, or a 
 Member of the Trades' House,«and date. 
 
 And the meeting further certify that her Father was a Burgess of 
 the Craft Rank of Glasgow, and a duly enrolled Freemen of the 
 the Incorporation of as 
 
 and was entered on 18 
 
 Extracted by
 
 Trades^ House and Co rdi tiers' Pensions, etc. 153 
 
 BURSARIES IN WHICH THE TRADES HOUSE OF GLASGOW 
 IS INTERESTED. 
 
 1. Hoivisoris Bursary. — John Howison, minister of 
 Cambuslang, by deed of mortification, dated 25th Nov- 
 ember, 1 613, granted the profit of 1,000 merks, to be 
 laid out upon lands within the burgh of Glasgow. The 
 Trades' House received this sum, and until 18 17 paid 
 ^5 a year as its interest to the bursar, whom they 
 regularly appointed. Since 1820 the Trades' House 
 has paid ;^9 a year, in consequence of a gift of ^^20 
 received from one who was formerly a bursar. 
 
 2. Gilchrist'' s Bursary. — On 25th March, 1700, the 
 Trades' House acknowledged having received from the 
 Trustee of the deceased John Gilchrist, late tailor, and 
 late deacon-convener, 2,500 merks for the maintenance 
 of a student yearly, in the University of Glasgow, under 
 certain conditions, and the Trades' House became bound 
 to pay £^ yearly. 
 
 There are several other mortifications under the 
 management of the Town Council and others, and of 
 the Trades' House, but, as these may be reorganised 
 under the Educational Endowments Act, it has been 
 deemed expedient not to give them here. 
 
 CORDINERS' PENSIONERS AND PRECEPT-HOLDERS, WITH 
 FORM OF APPLICATION, &C. 
 
 The number of pensioners is not a fixed one, nor is 
 the pension or precept a fixed amount — each being paid 
 according to the specialities and necessities of the case ; 
 and the INIaster Court in this exercises the utmost fairness
 
 154 Incorp07-aiion of Cor diners. 
 
 and impartiality. It has been a leading principle in 
 the Master Court to make the pensioners and precept- 
 holders feel that their pensions and precepts do not 
 partake of the nature of charity. There were last year 
 12 male pensioners, 20 female pensioners, and 14 female 
 precept-holders ; and the amount paid last year to these 
 pensioners and precejot-holders was ^545 8s. The 
 following declaration must be filled up and lodged with 
 the clerk to the Incorporation by those persons desiring 
 pensions or precepts : — 
 
 INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS IN GLASGOW. 
 DECLARATION OF APPLICANT FOR PENSION. 
 
 1. Xame of Applicant. 
 
 2. Residence, 
 
 3. Age last Birth-day. 
 
 4. Married or Single. 
 
 5. Widow or Widower. 
 
 6. Healthy and able-bodied, or otherwise. 
 
 7. Number of Family, Ages, Condition, whether healthy or 
 otherwise. 
 
 8. Total Income yearly, from every source. 
 
 9. Relations able to aid or not. 
 
 10. On whom the Applicant founds claim to make application. 
 
 11. Date of that Person's entry with the Incorporation. 
 
 12. Applicant's Signature. 
 
 At the day of the said 
 
 appeared before me, and affirmed 
 that, to the best of knowledge and belief, the above is a true 
 
 declaration. 
 
 Signature.*' 
 
 * To be signed by a Clergyman, Elder, or some known respect- 
 able person.
 
 Trades' House and Cordinos' Pensions, etc. 155 
 
 The pensioners are personally visited annually by the 
 members of the Master Court, who inquire into and report 
 upon the case in accordance with the following form : — 
 
 INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS. 
 
 PENSION LIST. — visitors' SCHEDULE. 
 
 Visitor. 
 Visitor. 
 
 iSS 
 Tensioner's Name and Address. 
 Date of Member's Admission to Incorporation. 
 Date when put on Pension Roll. 
 Age of Pensioner. 
 Amount of Pension. 
 
 Date of last increase to Pension, and amount of increase. 
 Income from sources other than this Pension. 
 Number of Children Living. 
 Age of Youngest Child. 
 Ageof Oldest Child. 
 How Children are occupied. 
 Number of own Children at School. 
 Number of Grandchildren do. 
 General Remarks by Visitors. 
 
 When the writer became collector of the Incorporation 
 he found that no vouchers had been taken from the 
 pensioners and precept-holders, and that the collector's 
 accounts were, as respects the pensions and precepts, 
 entirely unvouched. In order to avert all manner of 
 suspicion from the collector, the writer, with the approval 
 of the then deacon, Mr. John Anderson, got receipts litho- 
 graphed ; and every payment has since been vouched by 
 a receipt being taken from the person to whom the 
 payment was made. This eftectually set at rest all
 
 156 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 questions as to i)ayment having been made, enabled 
 every item to be properly vouched, and put the collector 
 in the independent position he really ought to occupy. 
 There was another matter which the writer, as collector, 
 thought required correction. The pensioner or precept- 
 holder held no document authorising him or her to receive 
 the pension or precept ; and accordingly a ticket was 
 prepared and given to each pensioner or precept-holder, 
 which requires to be exhibited to the collector by the 
 pensioner or precept-holder on the day of payment. 
 This ticket has proved of immense service, and saves a 
 deal of trouble to the collector, who could not of course 
 be expected to know every pensioner. The pensions 
 are paid in the Trades' House to the pensioners 
 quarterly in advance. The following is the ticket just 
 mentioned : — 
 
 THE INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS, GLASGOW. 
 
 Glasc.ow, 18 
 
 The Quarterly Pension of payable only 
 
 upon production of this Ticket. £ 
 
 Deacon. 
 CoHcclor. 
 
 The following memo, appears on the back of the 
 ticket : — 
 
 No. Payable in the Trades' Hall, on the first day of the 
 
 months of November, February, May, and August, between the 
 hours of 9 and 10 o'clock forenoon. When any of these days 
 happen to fall upon a Sunday, payment will be made on the last 
 day of the preceding month. 
 
 N.B. — Pensioners changing their addresses, to at once intimate 
 the change to the Collector.
 
 A ceo J 17! is and Fin ids of Cordiners. 157 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 ACCOUNTS AND FUNDS OF CORDINERS. 
 
 In the course of this liistory we have had occasion to 
 remark that the affairs of the Incorporation have been 
 managed in a truly patriarchal fashion in olden times, 
 and even until the present century. That the affairs 
 were well managed the minutes and accounts abundanth' 
 prove — the management partaking much of a clanship 
 or family character. The first accounts which appear in 
 the minute books are for the year 1785-86, and these 
 accounts show that the deacon had power to grant 
 precepts, or, at all events, did grant precepts, to other 
 than members of the Incorporation ; for, we find that in 
 that year the deacon granted 190 precepts for small sums 
 to poor people, some of whom, no doubt, belonged to the 
 trade, although not members of the Incorporation, but 
 others of them were wholly unconnected Avith the trade^ 
 such as sailors, &c. ; and we likewise find that certain 
 sums, on visits, by order of the deacon and masters, were 
 paid to 1 7 poor persons who were evidently not members 
 of the Incorporation. This is proved by other items in 
 the accounts paid under such headings as weekly poor, 
 fortnightly poor, monthly poor, and quarterly poor, and 
 buried by the trade. These latter were certainly mem- 
 bers of the Incorporation. We cannot wonder at the 
 Incorporation at that time taking an interest in the poor, 
 because there was really no other body, except the crafts
 
 158 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 and the church, to take such charge of the poor, for we 
 had no poor laws until the year 1S46. There were no 
 bye-laws then, as now, against the Incorporation providing 
 for only the poor connected with the Incorporation. 
 Indeed, the letter of guildry may, in a manner, be said 
 to have sanctioned what was then done, for it authorised 
 money to be disbursed for good and pious uses ; and 
 what could savour more of a good and pious use than 
 assisting the deserving poor in the town. But, by the 
 present bye-laws, none but those who are members of 
 the Incorporation can now be assisted from its funds. 
 The accounts of 1785-86 are very fully detailed, and 
 are very suggestive upon many points. They exhibit 
 this drawback, however, that they do not distinguish 
 between revenue and capital, and no stock account is 
 given. By the old minutes the members of the Incor- 
 poration seem to have lent the Incorporation money to 
 each other on bill — a very bad practice^ — which often 
 resulted in loss, through the bills granted not being paid. 
 The accounts, too, of 1785 show that expenditure was 
 paid out of capital. As to the lending of money now, 
 rule 30 of the bye-laws provides that " It shall not be 
 competent for the M^ister Court to lend any portion of 
 the funds to any of their own number " — which has proved 
 a most salutary and useful rule. 
 
 In 1S78 it was remitted to a committee — of which the 
 writer was a member — to report as to an improved mode 
 of keeping the collector's books, and of stating the 
 abstract of accounts. That committee w^ent fully into 
 the matter, and reported its opinion, and the Incorpora- 
 tion approved of the report. The abstract accounts for
 
 Accounts and Funds of Cordiners. 159 
 
 the past year in the succeeding pages gives the abstract 
 as now in use, and which is in accordance with the recom- 
 mendation of this committee. The first stock account 
 that appears in the minute books is for the year 1823. 
 It shows the capital of the Incorporation to have then 
 been ;^2,362 los., while the stock account for the past 
 year shows a capital of ^^18,071 15s. oW. This, we 
 think, is abundant proof that the affairs of the Incorpora- 
 tion, since 1823, have been well managed and carefully 
 husbanded ; but, at the same time, it has to be remarked 
 that this careful management has not in any way been to 
 the disadvantage of the pensioners, who have all along, 
 as the minutes show, been generously dealt with. The 
 following are the accounts for 17S5-86 : — 
 
 C H A R G E . 
 
 1755. Sept. 23. — By cash received from col- 
 
 lector West, . . . ;^ii 8 5 
 
 FREEDOM FINES. 
 
 1756. IMay 12. — Alexander Cameron, son- 
 
 in-law of Duncan JNIan, ;^i 13 4 
 
 July 12. — Andrew Anderson, as 
 having served apprentice- 
 ship, . . . . 3 15 6 
 
 June 23. — William Murray, as having 
 
 served apprenticeship, . 3 15 6 
 
 9 4 4 
 
 APPRENTICES FOR FREEDOM. 
 
 1785. Nov. 18. — ^John Thomson, one, . ^o 13 4 
 
 David Hamilton, one, . o 13 4 
 
 Carry forzuard, . . ;!^I 6 8 jC^o 12 9
 
 i6o Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 Brought foncard, . . . ;{^i 6 8 ^"20 12 9 
 17S6. Mny 12. — Balance of Robert Miller's 
 
 booking, . . .024 
 
 James Buchanan, one, . 013 4 
 
 Aug. 18. — Peter Morrison, one, . o 13 4 
 
 2 15 8 
 
 AIM-RENTICES WITHOUT FREEDOM. 
 
 May 12. — John Leighton, one for in- 
 struction, . . . ^o 9 2 
 
 092 
 
 JOURNEYMEN BOOKINGS. 
 
 1785. Nov. 18. — Adam Allan, one, . 
 
 James Salmon, one, . 
 John Jenkins, one, . 
 John Paul, one, 
 Andrew Buchanan, one, . 
 John M'Dougall, two, 
 
 1786. Feb. . — ^Jolm Jenkins, two, . 
 
 William Telfer, one, 
 
 Gavin Williamson, one, . 
 
 James Blyth, one, 
 
 Daniel M'Millan, two, 
 
 Thomas M 'Alpine, one, . 
 April 3. — Mushet Gilchrist, three, . 
 May 12. — James Salmon, one, . 
 
 William Telfer, one, 
 
 John Paul, one journey- 
 man, .... 
 
 Andrew Buchanan, one, . 
 
 William Govan, one. 
 
 Peter Morrison, two, 
 
 Andrew Anderson, one, . 
 
 John Jenkine, two. . 
 
 Carry fonvard, . . . ^^2 16 O ^23 17 7 
 
 ^0 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 c 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 

 
 Accojiuts and Fimds of Cordiners. 
 
 i6i 
 
 
 
 Brought forivard^ . 
 
 .£2 
 
 16 
 
 £23 17 7 
 
 1786. 
 
 May 
 
 12. — Thomas IM'AIpine, one, 
 
 . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 18. — ^John Brown, one. 
 
 . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 William Telfer, two, 
 
 . 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 John Jenkine, one, . 
 
 . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 John Crie, one, 
 
 . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gavin Williamson, one. 
 
 . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 John M'Dougal, one, 
 
 . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mushet Gilchrist, one. 
 
 . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 MONEY AND INTEREST RECEIVED, VIZT. 
 
 1785. Nov. 4. — Received from John Gray, 
 
 Returned Cash, . . £0 10 o 
 19. — Borrowed from John Paul, 25 00 
 Dec. 3. — Interest on Robert Sharp's 
 
 Bond of ;^6o, . .300 
 Interest on Lockhart & 
 
 Monteith's Bond of £60, 300 
 Interest on Andrew Lid- 
 
 dell's Bond of ;{^20, .100 
 10. — William Taylor's Interest, 
 
 omitted last year, ;^ioo, 500 
 Interest of John Somervil's 
 
 Bond, ;^30, . . . I 10 o 
 14. — Interest of John Wood's 
 
 Bond, ;i^50, . . . 2 10 o 
 17. — Interest of Thomas Shcd- 
 
 den's Bond, £120, .600 
 
 1786. Jan. 7. — Interest of Daniel M'Mil- 
 
 lan's Bond, ^100, .500 
 
 Feb. 8. — Interest of Gilbert Shearer's 
 
 Bond, ^50, . . . 2 10 o 
 18. — Borrowed from Robert 
 
 M'Aulay, . . . 20 o o 
 
 Carry forivard. 
 
 £lS 
 
 o £2-] II 7
 
 r62 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Brought forward, . . £t^ o o £2^ 11 7 
 1786. Mar. I. — Interest of Stewart's and 
 
 Dining Bond, ;^8o, .400 
 16. — Interest of John ^laxwell's 
 
 Bond, ;^5o, . . . 2 10 o 
 17. — Interest of Robert Mar- 
 shal's Bond, ;!f 120, .600 
 April I. — Interest of William Lang's 
 
 Bond, ^100, . .500 
 
 7. — Interest of Laurance Din- 
 
 widdie's Bond, ^20, .100 
 II. — Thomas Allason — a fine, .010 
 12. — Received part of James 
 
 Bryce's Bond, ;^loo, . 50 o o 
 16. — John Good's Interest on 
 
 his Bond, ;i{^200, . . 10 o o 
 Interest of John M 'Intosh's 
 
 Bond, ;i{^200, . . 10 o o 
 
 From William Lang for 
 advice about the Con- 
 veenor House, . . i 10 o 
 June 3. — From Jean Reid for £2 of 
 her bill when renued from 
 29th July, 1785, to 3rd 
 June, 1786, . . > o I 84 
 26. — Interest of Thomas Park's 
 
 Bond, ^100, . .500 
 
 Interest of James Bryce's 
 
 Bond, £100, . .500 
 
 July 26. — ^Jenkin & Miller's Bond, 
 
 ^100, . . . .500 
 Aug. 18. — Interest of James Muir, 
 
 Jum-., Bond, £So, .400 
 
 Interest of William Tay- 
 lor's Bond, p^ioo, . 500 
 
 Carry forivard, . . £i8g 2 8^ ^27 11 7
 
 Accounts and Funds of Cor diners. 163 
 
 Brought fonvard, . . jCiSg 2 8i ;^27 11 7 
 1786. Aug. 18. — Returned Cash from Robert 
 
 Scot, . . . .100 
 Sept. 25. — Interest of Andrew Bu- 
 chanan's Bond, ;^loo, .500 
 Interest of John Shearer's 
 
 Bond, ;^ioo, . .500 
 
 Interest of John Crie's 
 
 Bond, ;^30, . . . I 10 o 
 William Craig, Cobler's 2 
 
 Year's Quarter Accounts, 080 
 Quarter Accounts, . . 21 4 6 
 James Muir, Scnr., Interest 
 
 on his Bond, ;^ioo, .500 
 James M'Queen's Interest 
 
 on his Bill, ;^I2, . .0120 
 Received from Collector 
 
 Telferforthe Gold Chain, 2 15 6 
 
 £2S9 4 3i 
 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 MONEY PAID. 
 
 1785. Sept. 16. — Paid for the Constra House, 
 Scot, Stark, and Russel, 
 and carrying the Box, . ;!^o 6 o 
 23. — Paid forthe Constra House, 
 Scott, Stark, and Russell, 
 canyingtheBox, Candle, 
 and opening Church Door, 072 
 Nov. 18. — Paid for Trades' House, 
 Scott, Stark, and Russell, 
 carrying Box and Candle, 042 
 
 Carry fonuard, . . . ;^o 17 4
 
 164 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 Brought forward, . . . £0 17 4 
 1786. Feb. 17.— Paid Scott, Stark, and Rus- 
 sell, and carrying Box and 
 Candle, . . .042 
 
 April 3. — Paid for Candle in Trades' 
 
 House, . . .002 
 
 II. — Paid for Candle in Trades' 
 
 House, . . .002 
 
 May 12. — Paid Scott, Stark, and Rus- 
 sell, and carrying Box, .040 
 Aug. 18. — Paid Scott, Stark, and Rus- 
 sell, and carrying Box, .040 
 
 £1 9 10 
 
 MONEY LENT AND PAID. 
 
 1786. May 12. — Paid John Paul, . • £2^ o o 
 Paid do. interest on 
 
 above, . . . . o 12 o 
 June 3. — Paid Jean Reid in part of 
 
 her bill, . . .400 
 
 Paid Jean Reid interest on 
 
 above, . . . .096 
 July 21. —Paid Donald M'Donald 
 
 interest on his bill, . i 14 6 
 
 1785. Nov. 29. — Lent Robert Scott, which 
 he afterwards repaid on 
 8th Aug., as stated in 
 charge, . . .100 
 
 ?2 16 o 
 
 POOR SERVED ON VISITS BY ORDER OF THE DEACON 
 AND MASTERS. 
 
 1785. Sept. 30. — Widow Dixon, . .^060 
 
 Oct. 8.— Widow M'Ewan, . .060 
 
 Nov. 10. — Archibald Buchanan, .040 
 
 26. — Widow Vassie, . .060 
 
 Carryforward, . . .;^i 2 o ^34 5 10
 
 Accounts and Funds of Cordiners. 
 
 165 
 
 
 Brought fonvard, . 
 
 £1 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 £34 5 10 
 
 1786. 
 
 Jan. II. 
 
 — Widow Graham, 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 13- 
 
 —Robert Malcom, 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 24. 
 
 —Widow Semple, 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 6. 
 
 — Widow Graham, 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mar. 16. 
 
 —John M'Killop, 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow ]\Ialcom, 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 20. 
 
 — Widow Donaldson, 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 14. 
 
 — Widow M'Kean, 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sept. 14. 
 
 —John Thomson, Logic 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Almond, 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 26. 
 
 — Widow Rodger, by orde 
 
 r 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of Deacon and Masters 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 5. 
 
 — Robert Houston, by order 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of Deacon and Masters, 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nov. 15. 
 
 —Widow M'Ewan, when 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 dying, by order of Dea 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 con and Masters, . 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 18.- 
 
 — Margaret Graham, when 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 dying, by order of Dea 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 con and Masters, . 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 420 
 
 
 
 MONTHLY POOR. 
 
 
 
 
 
 1785. 
 
 Oct. I. 
 
 To Men, . 
 
 ^0 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 J) 
 
 ,, Women, 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Dec. I. 
 
 ,, Men,' . 
 ,, Women, 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I7S6. 
 
 Jan. 2. 
 
 ,, Men, . 
 ,, Women, 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 March i. 
 
 ,, Men, . 
 ,, Women, 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 April I. 
 
 ,, Men, . 
 
 
 
 . 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 >> 
 C< 
 
 ,, Women, 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 irry forzvard. 
 
 /16 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 ^38 7 10
 
 i66 
 
 Incorporation of Co7'dmers. 
 
 Brought forioard, 
 1786. May I. To Men, . 
 ,, ,, Women, 
 
 June I. 
 
 ,, Men, . 
 
 5> 
 
 , , Women, 
 
 July I. 
 
 ,, Men, . 
 
 jj 
 
 ,, Women, 
 
 Aug. I. 
 
 ,, Men, . 
 
 J J 
 
 ,, Women, 
 
 Sept. I. 
 
 ,, Men, . 
 
 )) 
 
 ,, Women, 
 
 ^16 17 
 
 6 ;^3S 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 . 10 
 
 6 
 
 ■ 3 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 . 10 
 
 6 
 
 • 3 
 
 
 
 • 7 
 
 6 
 
 • 3 
 
 
 
 7 10 
 
 34 7 
 
 QUARTERLY POOR. 
 
 Stroensoii's Mortification. 
 
 Nov. 18. 
 
 To Men, .... 
 
 £^ 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 J J 
 
 ,, Women, 
 
 12 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 Dec. 28. 
 
 ,, Men, Extra Service, 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 J, 
 
 ,, Women, do., . 
 
 7 
 
 IS 
 
 
 
 1786. Feb. 17. 
 
 ,, Men, . . . . 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 >> 
 
 ,, Women, 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 May 12. 
 
 ,, Men, . . . . 
 
 5 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 5 J 
 
 ,, Women, 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 Aug. 18. 
 
 ,, Men, . . . . 
 
 5 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 ■>■> 
 
 ,, Women, 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 ,, 
 
 ,, Men at Deacon's Fare- 
 
 
 
 
 
 well, 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 ,, 
 
 ,, Women at Deacon's 
 
 
 
 
 
 Farewell, . 
 
 5 
 
 14 
 
 6 
 
 
 WEEKLY POOR. 
 
 
 
 
 Thos. Greenlees, 52 Weeks, at is. per week, ;^2 12 o 
 Andw. Finlayson,52 ,, ,, is. ,, 2 12 o 
 
 John Scott, 52 „ ,, IS. „ 2 12 o 
 
 81 12 6 
 
 Carry forward , 
 
 • £l 16 0;^I54 7 4
 
 Accounts and Funds of Cor diners. 167 
 
 Brought fonvard, . . . ;i^7 16 0^^154 7 4 
 James Paterson, 52 Weeks, at is. per week, 2 12 o 
 George Morton, 52 ,, ,, is. ,, 2 12 o 
 
 John Morrie, 52 ,, ,, is. ,, 2 12 o 
 
 David Stevenson, 5 ,, ,, is. ,, 050 
 
 J. Scot, Officer, 52 ,, ,, 2s. ,. 540 
 
 21 I o 
 
 
 BURIED BY THE 
 
 TRADE. 
 
 
 1785. 
 
 Nov. 18.— Robert Boyd, . 
 
 •^0 14 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 23. — John Graham, . 
 
 . 18 
 
 
 
 1786. 
 
 May 31. — Widow Fife, . 
 
 . 18 
 
 
 
 
 June 8. — ^James Short's Wife,, 
 
 . IS 
 
 
 
 EXTRA EXPENSES. 
 
 1785. Nov. 14.— Paid John Scot's Shoes, 
 
 5s. 6d.; and Stockings, 
 3s., . . . .;^o 8 6 
 Dec. 26. — Paid for a big Coat to John 
 
 Scot, . . . .203 
 
 1786. Jan. 2. — Paid John Scot his New- 
 
 Year's Gift, . . .026 
 30. — Paid Making and Furnish- 
 ing John Scot's big Coat, 090 
 
 Paid for bringing home 
 John Jenkine's Wife 
 from the North Country, i 10 o 
 
 Paid for carrying Widow 
 
 Forrester to Hospital, .010 
 Mar. 15.— Paid Mrs. Orr for Books, . i 17 9 
 
 Paid for two Bags for 
 
 holding books, . ,060 
 
 Paid for John Scot's Shoes, 
 5s. 6d. ; and for Stock- 
 ings, 3s., . . .086 
 
 Carrv forward, . . • ;^7 3 6/178 13 4
 
 1 68 
 
 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 Brought fo7"ivard^ . . . £"] 
 1786. May 4. — Paid for John Scot to drink 
 the King's health, 
 July 12. — Paid John Scot to his Fair, 
 Paid Alex. Stark do., 
 
 Paid Convener's Officer 
 to his Fair, . 
 Sept, 12. — Paid Clerk's Fees, . 
 Paid his Lad, . 
 Paid Cast of the House, . 
 Paid my own expense 
 at do., .... 
 Paid Convener's Officer, . 
 
 3 6;^i78 13 4 
 
 1785. Sept. 22. 
 
 deacon's precepts 
 
 -Robert Dunsmuir, 
 Widow Paterson, 
 Margaret Alexander 
 Alexander Stark, 
 Elizabeth Cowan, 
 Widow Forrester, 
 James Smith,. 
 Widow M'Kean, 
 Alexander Russell, 
 Mrs, Mitchell,. 
 William Selkirk, 
 Widow Craig, 
 Archibald M'Fadden 
 Alex. M 'Donald, 
 Thomas Greenlees, 
 Alex. Gartshore, 
 Two Sailors, . 
 Robert Boyd, . 
 Widow Crawford, 
 
 Cany fonoai'd, 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 t 6 
 
 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 t 6 
 
 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 t 6 
 
 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 006 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 20 7 6 
 
 L-i- 5 6^199 o 10
 
 Accounts and Funds of Cordiners. 
 
 169 
 
 
 Brought forward, . 
 
 ■£i = 
 
 6;^I99 
 
 10 
 
 1785. 
 
 Sept. 22. — David Stevenson, 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Malcom, 
 
 . ] 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Widow jMiller, 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 John M'Killop, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Thomas Stobo, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Paterson, 
 
 . 1 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Jack, . 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Wood, 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Thos. M'Cracken, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Jean Paul, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Catherine Buchanan, 
 
 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 Margaret M'Lean, 
 
 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 Poor Woman, . 
 
 ( 
 
 3 6 
 
 
 
 Elizabeth M 'Arthur, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 Janet Ferguson, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Calderhead, 
 
 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 John Kennedy, 
 
 . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 Widow Nicol, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 James Hamilton, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 Euphan Bell, . 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 John Sym, 
 
 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 Widow M'Dougall, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 Mary Wylie, . 
 
 . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 Widow Barr, * 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 Widow Symple, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 James Bryson, . 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Margaret Alexander, 
 
 . 
 
 I 6 
 
 
 
 Mathew Kelso, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 A poor Family, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 Widow Wood, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 Widow Bowse, 
 Carj-y forioard. 
 
 . 1 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 .£3 < 
 
 ) 0^199 
 
 10
 
 170 
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Brought forward, . 
 
 •£i 9 o£\()() 10 
 
 1785. Sept. 22. — Widow Donaldson, 
 
 . 1 
 
 
 
 A poor Man, . 
 
 . 1 
 
 6 
 
 Widow Gray, . 
 
 . ] 
 
 6 
 
 John Baird, 
 
 . ] 
 
 6 
 
 Widow Smith, 
 
 . ] 
 
 
 
 Widow Chahners, 
 
 . 1 
 
 
 
 Widow Aitken, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 Three poor Sailors, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 John Dykes, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 Widow Weir, . 
 
 . ] 
 
 6 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 , 1 
 
 
 
 Widow Main, . 
 
 . 1 
 
 6 
 
 John M'Bryne, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 Robert Wining, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 William Paul, . 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 Thomas Anderson, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 William Kelso, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 Widow Campbell, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 A poor Family, 
 
 . 1 
 
 6 
 
 Widow Mitchell, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 Widow Henderson, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 John Legal, one 
 
 f the 
 
 
 freemen, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 William Alexander, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 Widow Mushat, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 Widow Gilchrist, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 Andrew Finlayson, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 Widow Kirlie, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 Widow Craig, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 A poor Sailor, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 Widow Miller, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 Janet Howie, . 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 Widow Tarbet, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 Widow Buchanan, 
 
 . 
 
 . .£s I 
 
 [ 
 
 Carry forward. 
 
 D 0;^i99 10
 
 Accounts and Funds of Cordiners. 
 
 171 
 
 Brought foi~iuard, . 
 
 ;^5 10 
 
 0;^I99 
 
 10 
 
 1785. Sept. 22. — Widow Greenshiels, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow M'Nair, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Two poor Men, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 John Buchanan, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 A poor Man, . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Stewart, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Robert Houston, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 A poor Man, . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Grindlay, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 A poor Sailor, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Barr, . 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Bryson, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Paterson, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 John Scot, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Robert jMalcom, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Rodger, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Donald, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Dixon, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Thomson, . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Margaret Caldwell, . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Thomas Stobo, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 William Lees, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Henry, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Fairlie, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Alexander Russell, . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Blair, . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow M'Kean, 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Henry Nicol, . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Malcolm, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 James Shiels, . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Agnes Chalmers, 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Carry fonvard. 
 
 £7 9 OjCigg o 10
 
 172 
 
 Incorporatioji of Cordiners. 
 
 1785- 
 
 
 Brought forward, . 
 
 . .£l < 
 
 ? 0;^I99 
 
 10 
 
 Sept. 
 
 22.— Widow Weir, . 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Archibald Johnston, 
 
 . 006 
 
 
 
 A poor Family, 
 
 . 
 
 r 6 
 
 
 
 James Bryson, 
 
 . 
 
 t 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Marwood, 
 
 . 
 
 I 6 
 
 
 
 A very poor Man, 
 
 . : 
 
 2 . 
 
 
 
 Ann Cathcart, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Margaret Alexander, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 . c 
 
 ) 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Baird, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Mathew Kelso, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Morchie, 
 
 . c 
 
 D 6 
 
 
 
 Thomas Stobo, 
 
 . ] 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Robertson, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 James Shiels, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Miller, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Jack, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Twelve poor Sailors, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Robert Turner, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Auld, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow M'Kay, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Donaldson, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow M'Kean, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Aitkeh, 
 
 . 
 
 t 
 
 
 
 Widow Chalmers, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 A poor Man, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow Bowse, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cornelius Todd, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Two poor Sailors, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 
 
 
 
 William Graham, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Smith, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 
 A poor Family, 
 
 . 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Widow Shanks, 
 
 . 
 
 [ 6 
 
 
 Carry forward, 
 
 £9 9 0^199 o 10
 
 Accounts and Funds of Cordiners. 
 
 173 
 
 Brought forward, . 
 
 ■£9 
 
 9 
 
 0;^I99 
 
 10 
 
 17S5. .Sept. 22. — Widow M'Nicol, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Robert Dunsmuir, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 David Robertson, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Bryce Kerr, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Gray, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Robert Waddel, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Elizi Walker, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 A poor Family, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 William Shearer, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Morchie, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Mason, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Graham, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Janet Reid, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Gibson, 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Forrester, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 James Allan, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 James Milne, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 A poor Family, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Widow Weir, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Three poor Sailors, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Widow M'Kay, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Three Sailors, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 William Jack, . 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 A poor Family, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 A poor Woman, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Mary Marwood, very pooi 
 
 , 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 Mary Baird, 
 
 . 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 John Scott, 
 
 . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 A poor Family, 
 
 . 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 A poor Widow, 
 
 . 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 A distressed Family, 
 
 . 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 William Gray, 
 
 . 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 John Murie, 
 
 . 
 
 I 
 
 6 
 
 
 Carry forivard. 
 
 £11 
 
 18 
 
 6;^I99 
 
 10
 
 174 
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Brought forward, . 
 
 1785. Sept. 22. — A poor Family, 
 
 Hugh Turnbull, 
 
 £11 18 6£ig() o 10 
 . 016 
 . o I o 
 £iz I o 
 
 ;^2II I 10 
 
 Total charge, 
 Total discharge, 
 
 Balance. 
 
 ■ £2S9 4 32 
 . 211 I 10 
 
 • . ;^4S 2 5.^ 
 James Burns. 
 
 ROBT. M'AULAY, Clk. 
 
 The following is the first Stock Account :- 
 
 STATE OF STOCK, 25TH MAY, 1823. 
 
 Present Rent of Property, ^453 15s., valued at 14 
 
 Cash in Bank, .... 
 
 
 100 
 
 
 
 
 ;^6,452 ID 
 
 
 
 Deduct owing by the Incorporation — 
 
 
 
 
 Trades' House, . 
 
 £1,^00 
 
 
 
 Mr. Coventiy, 
 
 900 
 
 
 
 Miss Rutherford, 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 Mr. M'Aslane, . 
 
 500 
 
 
 
 Coopers' Incorporation, 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 United Cordiners, 
 
 180 
 
 
 
 St. Hugh Society, 
 
 no 
 
 
 
 
 
 ;^4,o9o 
 
 
 
 
 ;^2,362 10 
 

 
 Accounts and Fmids of Cordmers. 
 
 175 
 
 INCORPORATION OF CORDINERS, GLASGOW. 
 
 collector's abstract, 1881-82. 
 
 No. I. — Revenue Accoimt. 
 
 Quarterly Accounts, . 
 
 Gorbals Lands, Share of Cast, , 
 
 Interest from Investments, 
 
 Interest on Deposit Receipts, 
 
 Enti-y-Moneys, . 
 
 Interest on Bank Account, 
 
 Incorporation's Proportion of Surplus 
 
 Rents, Trades' Hall, 
 Slims received for Members' Cards, 
 Income Tax recovered. 
 
 1881-82 
 
 
 r88o-Si 
 
 
 £9 8 
 
 2 
 
 ;^lo 
 
 18 
 
 ID 
 
 268 10 
 
 
 
 307 
 
 
 
 
 
 421 ID 
 
 
 
 421 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 20 iS 
 
 4 
 
 17 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 S3 7 
 
 8 
 
 s 
 
 9 
 
 2 
 
 3 2 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 5 
 
 4 II 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 ID 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 8 
 
 II 
 
 ^811 13 o ;^79i 16 3 
 
 EXPENDITl 
 
 JRE. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1SS1-S2 
 
 
 iS8o-Sf 
 
 
 Pensions, ..... 
 
 £3S9 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 £2,(^9 
 
 
 
 Precepts, 
 
 185 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 205 10 
 
 
 
 Salaries, 
 
 35 
 
 
 
 
 
 35 
 
 
 
 School Fees, .... 
 
 ID 
 
 4 
 
 9 
 
 17 7 
 
 9 
 
 Income Tax, .... 
 
 8 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 10 ID 
 
 6 
 
 Donations and Subscriptions, 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 16 16 
 
 
 
 Funeral Allowances, 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Law Expenses, 
 
 4 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 3 II 
 
 I 
 
 Collecting Feu-duties, etc.. 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 4 2 
 
 6 
 
 Advertising, Stationery, and Printing 
 
 II 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 29. 6 
 
 7 
 
 Postages and Miscellaneous, 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 12 18 
 
 4 
 
 New Medal and Chain, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 57 
 
 
 
 Car)y forivard. 
 
 ;^67I 
 
 5 
 
 9 
 
 ;^770 2 
 
 9
 
 176 
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Brought forivard, . ^d^i 5 9 ;^77o 2 9 
 
 Balance, being excess of Receipts over 
 
 Expenditure, . . . . 140 73 21136 
 
 ;^8ii 13 o ;^79i 16 3 
 
 No. II. — Cash Account. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 Balance from previous Collector, . . . . £12 iz ^h 
 
 Drawn from Union Bank, ..... 915 10 o 
 
 Receipts per Revenue Account, . . . . 811 13 o 
 
 Total Dr. side, per Cash Book, . ;if 1,739 "5 54 
 
 EXPENDITURE. 
 Lodged in Union Bank, 
 
 Do. do. Interest, . 
 
 Expenditure, per Revenue Account, 
 Balance in Collector's hands, . 
 
 Total Cr., per Cash Book, 
 
 ^1,055 16 3 
 325 
 
 671 5 9 
 9 II oh 
 
 £h739 15 54 
 
 No. Ill Stock Account, 1881-82. 
 
 Bond, 
 
 3, 222 years' purchase, 
 
 ^7,042 
 
 10 
 
 
 al. Property, Sandyford Place, . 
 
 1,012 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 ,, Dowanhill, . 
 
 675 
 
 
 
 
 
 ,, Govan Road, 
 
 614 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 ,, Buchanan Street, 
 
 1,540 
 
 
 
 
 
 ,, Shamrock Street, 
 
 632 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 ,, Bearsden, 
 
 1,000 
 
 
 
 
 
 ,, Merchiston, Edinburgh 
 
 700 
 
 
 
 
 
 ,, Shawlands, . 
 
 1,800 
 
 
 
 
 
 ,, Woodlands Road, 
 
 1,300 
 
 
 
 
 
 ,, Dundas Street, 
 
 120 
 
 
 
 
 
 Carry forwa7-d, 
 
 ;^i6,436 
 
 15 
 

 
 500 o 
 
 
 
 300 
 
 
 
 177 13 
 
 7 
 
 *40o 
 
 
 
 9 II 
 
 oh 
 
 -^18,071 15 
 
 oh 
 
 17,931 7 
 
 91 
 
 ^140 7 
 
 3 
 
 Accounts and Funds of Cordiners. 177 
 
 Brought forward, .... ^16,436 15 o 
 Value of Shares, Trades' House Buildings, as in 
 
 Trades' House Books, ..... 247 15 5 
 
 Cash on Deposit Receipt with Magistrates and 
 
 Council (Police), ...... 
 
 Cash in Union Bank on Deposit Account, . 
 
 ,, on Current Account, ..... 
 Debenture Bond, Girvan and Portpatrick Railway, 
 Cash in Collector's hands, ..... 
 
 Amount of Stock, 1881-82, 
 Amount of Stock, 1880-81, 
 
 Increase, 
 * Note. — No Interest has been received on this sum since 1878. 
 
 Samuel Marks, Collector. 
 
 145 Great Eastern Road, 
 Glasgow, 12th September, 1882. 
 
 We, the Auditors appointed to examine the Accounts of the 
 Incorporation of Cordiners, Glasgow, for the year 1881-82, have 
 carefully examined the intromissions of Samuel Marks, the Col- 
 lector, as entered in his Cash Book and subsidiary Books, and 
 checked the same with the vouchers, and found the whole correctly 
 stated, the balance due by the Collector being Nine Pounds Eleven 
 Shillings and One Halfpenny, and we have seen the security writs 
 in the hands of the Clerk. We have also examined the Abstract as 
 prepared by the Collector, and found it correctly set forth. 
 
 Robert Paterson, Auditor. 
 James Y. Merry, Auditor. 
 A. H. EwiNG, Auditor. 
 Glasgow, 12th September, 1S82. 
 
 These old accounts contain matter for reflection. The 
 sea-faring trade seems to have been in a depressed state 
 about 1785-S6, or the deacon must have had a great 
 
 M
 
 178 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 repute for giving sympathy and aid to sailors. There 
 could not have been many Clyde ships at that period, 
 for the whole harbour revenue in 1786 was only ;^i,986. 
 Those accounts show that twenty-seven seamen got aid 
 on precepts granted by the deacon, although it must be 
 admitted that the sum paid individually was but small. 
 Though it appears small to us, the necessaries of life 
 were at that time greatly cheaper, and consequently a 
 shilling then went a great deal farther than now. The 
 curious thing is that if one sailor went alone he got a 
 shilling, while if two, three, four, or twelve went together 
 each lot got only a shilling. It seems to have been a 
 shilling all round for each lot. The sailors must have 
 been rather simple, as by making their applications singly 
 they might have got a shilling a-piece. Another curious 
 entry is the payment of sums to persons "when dying." 
 Other entries appear as to the expense of carrying the 
 deacon's box. Three men are charged for on each 
 occasion — this we suppose would be for two to carry 
 the box and one to act as guard and protector. Two- 
 pence is charged for candles at the meetings. No doubt 
 the members would require light then as now, but the 
 question is how much light did the twopence worth of 
 dips afford. The Incorporation seems to have been kind 
 to its ofificer, the name then being as now — John Scot. 
 The Incorporation not only paid ^£2 9s. 3d. for the cloth 
 and making of Mr. Scot's big coat, but it also paid 5s. 6d. 
 for his shoes and 3s. for his stockings, besides giving him 
 money to drink the King's health, and for his faring at 
 the New-Year and at Glasgow Fair.
 
 Gorhals Lands, etc. 179 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 ACQUISITION OF GORBALS LANDS — INTEREST OF 
 CORDINERS AND OTHERS THEREIN. 
 
 It will be observed from the abstract accounts of the 
 Incorporation of Cordiners, as given in the preceding 
 chapter, that there is an item stated on the revenue side of 
 the abstract for 1881-82 of ^268 los. as the share pertain- 
 ing to the Incorporation of the cast of the Gorbals lands. 
 
 The history connected with the acquisition of the 
 Gorbals lands will be dealt with in the succeeding pages 
 of this chapter, in as short a way as the circumstance of 
 the case will permit of. It is thought that there could 
 not be a better case on record, showing the remarkable 
 increase in the value of land in and around Glasgow, than 
 that of the lands purchased by the City of Glasgow on 
 behalf of itself — Hutchesons' Hospital and the Trades' 
 House and Incorporations. These lands were divided 
 between these bodies, as will be fully explained in the 
 succeeding pages. 
 
 That cast is the annual revenue derived from the feus 
 of the Gorbals lands belonging to the Trades' House and 
 to eleven of the Incorporated Trades in the shares or pro- 
 portions in the following half-yearly schemes of division. 
 These schemes are taken from the published accounts 
 of the Trades' House for the past year, and show the 
 amount of shares held by the Trades' House and each 
 of the eleven Incorporations, with the annual produce 
 paid to each, after deduction of expenses : —
 
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 iam Boyd, Collector. 
 
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 nel Marks, Collector, 
 lalloch Bayne, Collector, 
 •ge Younger, Collector. 
 . Currie, Collector. 
 
 S. Osborne, Collector, 
 iam Lightbody, Collector, 
 ond B. Paterson, Collector. 
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 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 The particulars connected witli the acquisition of 
 the Gorbals lands and their management are as 
 follows : — Sir Robert Douglas, with consent of Dame 
 Susannah Douglas, his wife, in 1640, disponed to the 
 provost, bailies, and councillors of Glasgow, the six- 
 pound land of old extent of Gorbals and Brigend, with 
 the coals and coal-heughs, lying within the said bounds, 
 the Tower, fortalice. Manor Place, houses, biggings, 
 yards, orchyards, tenands, tenandries, service of free 
 tenants, and all parts, pendicles, and pertinents of the 
 same whatsomever ; together with all and haill the heri- 
 table office of bailliary and justiciary within the said 
 bounds, with all privileges and liberties whatsomever 
 belonging thereunto, in trust for behoof of the council 
 and community of Glasgow, to the extent of one-fourth 
 part ; of the hospital called Hutchesons' Hospital, and of 
 the poor placed and to be placed within the same, to the 
 extent of two-fourth parts; and of the hospital called 
 Crafts' Hospital, for the last just haill fourth part thereof 
 
 By a contract, dated 9th March, 1650, entered into 
 between the magistrates and town council of Glasgow 
 on the one part, and the deacon convener of the trades, 
 and the deacons of certain individual incorporated trades 
 of Glasgow of the other part, it appears that the one- 
 fourth part of the said lands and others held in trust for 
 the Trades' House was parcelled out and divided, as under- 
 written, viz. : — " The said deacon convener and twelve 
 deacons of crafts, including the visitor of the maltmen, 
 as one of the twelve, for the use of the hospital, in eight 
 thirty-one parts. The deacon of the tailors and masters, 
 in six thirty-one parts. The deacon of the hammermen
 
 Gorbals Lands, etc. 183 
 
 and masters^ in two thirty-one parts. The deacon of the 
 cordiners and masters, in two thirty-one parts. The 
 visitor of the maltmcn an masters, in six thirty-one parts. 
 The deacon of the skinners and masters, in two thirty-one 
 parts. The deacon of the weavers and masters, in one 
 thirty-one part. The deacon of the wrights and masters, 
 in one thirty-one part. The deacon of the fleshers and 
 masters, in one thirty-one part. The deacon of the 
 coopers and masters, in one thirty-one part. The deacon 
 of the bakers and masters, in one-half of one thirty-one 
 part. And the deacon of the masons and masters, in 
 one-half of one thirty-one part." 
 
 The Act of the Scottish parliament, 1661, chap. 235, 
 ratified and approved of the foresaid disposition granted by 
 Sir Robert Douglas, to be holden of the deceased noble 
 Prince Esme Duke of Lennox and Earl of Richmond, 
 superior thereof, in feu, farm, fee, and heritage. 
 
 The magistrates of Glasgow, with concurrence of 
 Hutchesons' Hospital, and the deacon-convener and 
 crafts, leased the minerals, shortly after they acquired 
 the lands, to Patrick Bryce ; and he, under that lease, 
 worked the coal. The minute of parliament, dated 3rd 
 April, 1661, states that, "A petition was presented by 
 James Bell, merchant in Glasgow, setting forth that 
 certain lands belonging to him on the marches of the 
 lands of Gorbals belonging to the town of Glasgow, where 
 there is a coal work farmed out by the magistrates thereof 
 to Patrick Bryce ; and that the said Patrick Bryce had 
 entered the petitioner's ground and worked his coal, and 
 obstinately refused to allow a visitation, threatening, if 
 any one would go down, to cut the cords, and that he had
 
 184 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 maliciously drowned the coahvork, to the utter ruin of the 
 petitioner's intended work. The Lords of the Articles 
 reported their opinion that a commission should be 
 issued to inquire into that complaint." No trace can 
 be found of the inquiry by this commission. 
 
 The whole of the lands were possessed by the Town 
 Council, Hutchesons' Hospital, the Trades' House, and 
 the eleven incorporations, as joint propert)^, until 1790. 
 During a considerable part of this period, the coal in the 
 lands continued to be worked by lessees and the rents 
 and revenues were divided in the above-mentioned pro- 
 portions. Meetings appear to have taken place pretty 
 regularly to examine the accounts of the coal lordships 
 and the surface rents, and to adjust their division. Certain 
 pints of brandy consumed at the meetings appear to have 
 been duly charged to the Trades' House. 
 
 In 1788 the parties interested agreed to divide the 
 surface, and to reserve the coal, as joint property ; and 
 by deed of submission, dated 31st December, 1788, and 
 24th February, 1789, they referred to Robert Graham, 
 Esq. of Lambhill, John Bogle, farmer at Bogleshole, Wil- 
 liam Hamilton at Barrachney, and Nicol Baird, farmer 
 at Kelvinhead, " judges' arbiters, mutually elected, the 
 valuation of the surface, and the division of the surface 
 of the foresaid lands, as nearly as possible into four equal 
 parts, having all due regard and consideration to the situ- 
 ation, quality, and quantity of the said lands; but reserving 
 always the whole coal and other minerals, of whatever 
 kind, in the said lands, which are not to fall under the 
 valuation and division, but are to be, and remain pro 
 indiviso property, and belong to the proprietors aforesaid."
 
 Gorbals Lauds, etc. 185 
 
 These arbiters valued each parcel of the lands separately, 
 and afterwards " divided and laid off the same into four 
 parts, as equal in quantity, quality, and value as they could ;" 
 and the parties having drawn for the lots, by direction, 
 and in presence of the arbiters, lots first and second were 
 drawn by the preceptor and patrons of Hutchesons' Hos- 
 pital ; lot third was drawn for the Trades' House of 
 Glasgow ; and lot fourth was drawn for the community 
 of the city of Glasgow. The arbiters decided, that in 
 order to put the said several lots on an equal footing in 
 point of value, the preceptor and patrons of Hutchesons' 
 Hospital, as having drawn lots first and second, should 
 pay to the deacon-convener and collector of the Trades' 
 House, as having drawn lot third, ;^34 os. 2|d., and to 
 the lord provost and magistrates of the city of Glasgow, 
 as having drawn lot fourth, £,112 4s. 6|d. This decree 
 arbitral is dated 15th October and nth November, 1789. 
 
 By another submission, dated 12th October, 17S9, 
 those parties referred to Archibald Grahame, banker in 
 Glasgow ; John Millar, professor of law in the college of 
 Glasgow ; and John Wilson, junior, writer in Glasgow, to 
 fix the price which the magistrates and town council of 
 Glasgow should pay for the superiority of the whole 
 barony, with the right of bailiary and justiciary, which 
 it was agreed should be vested in them ; and those arbi- 
 ters, by their decree arbitral, dated 8th January, 1795, 
 decided that the magistrates and council of Glasgow 
 should pay to Plutchesons' Hospital and the Trades' 
 House, as the price and value of their three-fourth parts 
 of the superiority, with the right of jurisdiction of bailiary 
 and justiciary, and the feu-duties and casualties of the
 
 1 86 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 village of Gorbals, ;^i,2oo : whereof ;^5oo should be 
 paid to Hutchesons' Hospital, and ;^2 5o to the Trades' 
 House, with interest from Whitsunday, 1789; and that 
 the remaining ;^45o should be paid to that hospital and 
 the Trades' House in the same proportions, unless the 
 magistrates and council should, on or before Whitsun- 
 sunday, 1796, sell by public auction as much of the 
 superiority as was requisite to make two freehold quali- 
 fications to vote for the representative of the county of 
 Lanark in parliament ; in which case they should retain 
 the ^450, and in place thereof pay Hutchesons' Hospital 
 and the Trades' House three-fourth parts of the price 
 obtained for the superiority so sold. 
 
 The magistrates and council did not sell the superiority 
 until about 1829, when they sold as much as yielded two 
 county votes, and obtained ^3,204 for it from Lord 
 Douglas; which sum was paid on 5th March, 1830, little 
 more than twelve months before the Reform Act was 
 passed, which Act made that superiority valueless. 
 
 By disposition, dated ist June, 1792, the magistrates 
 and councillors of Glasgow, in implement of the decreet 
 arbitral dividing the surface, disponed to James M'Lehose, 
 deacon-convener of the trades of Glasgow, and John 
 Gordon, collector of the Trades' House thereof, and their 
 successors in office, in trust for behoof of the Trades' 
 House, and the different deacons and masters of the 
 several Incorporations, thereinafter mentioned, in the 
 different proportions thereinafter specified, that part of 
 the lands which lies between the river Clyde on the 
 north; lot second, belonging to Hutchesons' Hospital, 
 on the south; the line of Bridge Street and Eglinton
 
 Gorbals Latids, tic. 187 
 
 Street, long since laid off, on the east; and the Shield's 
 Burn and lot fourth, belonging to the magistrates and 
 council of Glasgow, on the west. This part was disponed 
 in four separate lots, specially described, extending to 
 seventy-eight acres, three roods, and fourteen falls, old 
 Scotch measure, along with the just and equal one-fourth 
 share pro I'/fd/z'/so of the whole coal in the said six-pound 
 land, and all other minerals of whatever kind. This 
 disposition declares that it " was granted in trust always 
 for behoof of the deacon-convener and deacons of crafts 
 of the City of Glasgow, including therein the visitor of 
 the maltmen, for the use of the said Trades' Hospital, to 
 the extent of eight thirty-one parts ; and for behoof of 
 the deacon and masters of the Incorporation of Tailors 
 in Glasgow, in name of the said Incorporation, to the 
 extent of six thirty-one parts; and for behoof of the visitor 
 and master of the Incorporation of Maltmen, in name of 
 the said Incorporation, to the extent of six thirty-one 
 parts ; and for behoof of the deacon and masters of the 
 Incorporation of Hammermen, in name of the said Incor- 
 poration, to the extent of two thirty-one parts ; and for 
 behoof of the deacon and masters of the Incorporation of 
 Cordiners, in name of the said Incorporation, to the 
 extent of two thirty-one parts; and for behoof of the 
 deacon and masters of the Incorporation of Skinners, in 
 name of the said Incorporation, to the extent of two 
 thirty-one parts; and for behoof of the deacon and masters 
 of the Incorporation of Weavers, in name of the said In- 
 corporation, to the extent of one thirty-one part ; and for 
 behoof of the deacon and masters of the Incorporation of 
 Wrights, in name of the said Incorporation, to the extent
 
 1 88 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 of one thirty-one part; and for behoof of the deacon and 
 masters of the Incorporation of Fleshers, in name of the 
 said Incorporation, to the extent of one thirty-one part ; 
 and for behoof of the deacon and masters of the Incor- 
 poration of Coopers, in name of the said Incorporation, 
 to the extent of one thirty-one part; and for behoof 
 of the deacon and masters of the Incorporation of 
 Bakers, in name of the said Incorporation, to the 
 extent of one-half of one thirty-one part; and for be- 
 hoof of the deacon and masters of the Incorporation of 
 Masons, in name of the said Incorporation, to the extent 
 of one-half of one thirty-one part." 
 
 Instrument of sasine was expede under this disposition, 
 and registered in the Particular Register of Sasines, loth 
 July, 1792. On 30th June, 1790, the Trades' House 
 resolved that the lands should be feued by roup, at the 
 upset feu-duty of ;^io for each Scotch acre. In 1791 the 
 House laid off streets through that part of the lands 
 apportioned to them, dividing it into compartments, these 
 being subdivided into building steadings, according to a 
 plan prepared by John Gardener, land surveyor. Under 
 an arrangement with Hutchesons' Hospital, Eglinton 
 Street and Bridge Street were laid off, along the east 
 boundary, from the Broomielaw Bridge to the PoUokshaws 
 Road; and in 1791 the Trades' House and Incorpora- 
 tions commenced to feu steadings for building, at the 
 price of is. 6d. a square yard, the ground of the streets 
 not being charged to the feuar. This price was increased 
 from time to time till it reached ^i 5s. a square yard. 
 
 On 13th April, 1798, a committee of the Trades' House 
 was appointed to act along with a committee of the Town
 
 Gorbals Lands, etc. 189 
 
 Council "to ascertain the excrescence of the output of 
 the Gorbal coal, with power to appoint a skilled person 
 to inspect the works, and report if the coal is wrought in 
 terms of the tack." 
 
 The price originally paid by the Trades' House and 
 Incorporations, as their one-fourth share of the whole 
 price paid to Sir Robert Douglas in 1640, was thirty-one 
 thousand merks, equal to ^^ 1,7 43 13s. sterling. 
 
 The Trades' House and Incorporations received 
 ;^i,692 I2S. 6d. from the proprietors of the Glasgow, 
 Paisley, and Ardrossan Canal, in 18 14, for. two acres one 
 rood and thirty-six falls of the lands taken for the purpose 
 of making the canal, and ;^732 los. further in 1823 for 
 3,257 square yards, taken for increasing the company's 
 accommodation. For those sums the Trades' House and 
 Incorporations took payment in shares of the stock of the 
 company; and those shares became worthless, through the 
 total failure of that enterprise. But there was a reserva- 
 tion in the conveyances to the canal company that, if the 
 canal and relative works were disused, the ground should 
 revert to the sellers at the price paid for it. When the 
 Glasgow and South- Western Railway Railway Company 
 went to Parliament, in 1881, to discontinue the canal 
 and make a railway on its site, the House and the 
 Incorporations opposed the bill, but the House of Lords 
 decided against the reserved rights of the Trades' House 
 and the eleven Incorporations. 
 
 In 1829 the Trades' House and Incorporations received 
 ;^ 1 0,000 from the trustees for improving the navigation 
 of the Clyde, for the ground which lay between Clyde 
 Place, on the south ; the river, on the north ; the bridge.
 
 I go Incorporation of Corditiers. 
 
 on the east ; and West Street, on the west. This ground 
 is now occupied by the south wharf of the Glasgow 
 Harbour, from the Bridge of Glasgow to West Street. 
 
 In 1 83 1 the steadings which had been feued yielded 
 feu-duties to the amount of ^^1,769 iis. gd., the highest 
 price obtained having been 3s. 6d. a square yard. 
 
 Between 1831 and 1856 the whole of the unfeued 
 ground was feued, the last feus effected being ten 
 steadings. The lowest price taken during this period 
 was 8s., and the highest obtained 25 s. a square 
 yard. These amounted to ^2^ 64,1 27 is. 8d., converted 
 into feu-duties amounting to ^^3,206 7s. id. Those 
 feu-duties, added to the amount payable in 183 1, makes 
 ^4,975 i8s. lod. of feu-duties. 
 
 Every yard of the seventy-eight acres, three roods, and 
 fourteen falls conveyed to the Trades' House, as their 
 one-fourth part of the Gorbals lands, has therefore long 
 since been sold or feued. 
 
 The prices obtained for the portions sold amounted to 
 ;;^i2,425 2S. 6d., and the feu-duties for the parts feued 
 between 1791 and 1856 amount to ^^4,975 i8s. lod.. 
 payable some yearly, others half-yearly, and all well 
 secured. Double feu-duty is payable each nineteenth 
 year, for greater part of the lots feued, in full of all 
 casualties of superiority. 
 
 These are really most remarkable returns for the price 
 of ;^i,743 13s., advanced by the Trades' House and 
 Incorporations in 1 640 ; and the fact that prices rose 
 from 3s. 6d. to 8s. a square yard in 1832, and between 
 that year and 1856 to 25s., producing those feu-duties, 
 are proofs of the rapid growth of Glasgow, subsequent
 
 Gorbals Lands, etc. 191 
 
 to the reform of the House of Commons in 183 1, the 
 abolition of the East India Company's monopoly, the 
 reform of the municipal corporations, and the repeal of 
 the corn laws, which followed those other great measures. 
 
 The purchase and no doubt the very successful manage- 
 ment of these lands have proved a great source of wealth 
 to the Trades' House and Incorporations of Glasgow. 
 
 hx. a meeting of the Trades' House, on i8th August, 
 1789, the deacon-convener represented that the lands and 
 barony of Gorbals had been divided by the arbiters ; and 
 the House resolved that the convener and late convener, 
 and a member to be appointed by each of the Incorpora- 
 tions interested, should form a committee for the general 
 management of the part allocated to the Trades' House 
 and Incorporations. 
 
 The management of feuing the lands remained in a com- 
 mittee so constituted, along with the collector of the Trades' 
 House, who was appointed, under minute of 21st August, 
 1827. This committee is styled "The delegates on the 
 Gorbal lands," and is now composed of the deacon- 
 convener and collector of the House, the late convener 
 and late collector, and one delegate elected yearly by 
 each of the Incorporations of Hammermen, Tailors, 
 Cordiners, Maltmen, Weavers, Bakers, Skinners, Wrights, 
 Coopers, Fleshers, and Masons — fifteen in number. 
 
 By resolution of 5th August, 1831, the clerk of the 
 Trades' House was appointed clerk to those delegates, 
 and also their factor for collecting the feu-duties. 
 
 There is a standing committee of the delegates for 
 examining the factor's accounts ; and the delegates meet 
 in January and July half-yearly to examine those accounts,
 
 192 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 and the report by the committee thereon. The delegates 
 thereafter adjust a scheme of division of the feu-duties 
 betwixt the House and Incorporations interested, and the 
 sum due to each is paid over to the several collectors 
 generally on the following day ; each of the latter sign 
 the scheme in the sederunt book, in acknowledgment of 
 the share having been paid, and receive a memorandum 
 of the sum paid, as a voucher in accounting with his 
 Incorporation. This is called ''the cast of the Gorbal 
 lands."
 
 Traded House Buildings, etc. 193 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 SKETCH OF ERECTION OF TRADES' HOUSE BUILDINGS — 
 INTEREST OF CORDINERS THEREIN. 
 
 As the Incorporation of Cordiners has an interest along 
 with the Trades' House, and the other thirteen Incorpora- 
 tions, in the Trades' Hall and Buildings in Glassford Street, 
 it may be of interest to our readers to give a short sketch of 
 their erection, the uses to which they are applied, meetings 
 held, cost of the buildings, and the proportion of stock 
 held by each Incorporation in the cost as fixed in 1841. 
 
 It appears that during the seventeenth and the early 
 part of the eighteenth centuries, the Trades' House held 
 its meetings in the almshouse, denominated the trades' 
 hospital. Towards the middle of the eighteenth century 
 the meetings were frequently held in the Tron Church, 
 or its session-house, although sometimes in the trades' 
 hospital ; and near the close of the century the meetings 
 generally took place in the session-house of that church. 
 The Incorporations also held their general meetings, at 
 first in the trades' hospital, occasionally in the Tron 
 Church session-house, which gradually became the more 
 convenient place of meeting ; and for this use of the 
 session-house one shilling and sixpence was paid at every 
 meeting. The committees of the Trades' House and the 
 deacons and masters of the Incorporations generally met 
 in taverns to 'perform their business. 
 
 On 8th June, 1 791, the Trades' House resolved to build a 
 hall, and purchased from William Horn, wright in Glasgow, 
 
 N
 
 194 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 a lot of ground, extending one hundred feet from north to 
 south, and eighty-five feet nine inches from east to west, 
 being part of the garden behind the dweUing-house in 
 Trongate Street which had belonged to Mr. Campbell of 
 Shawfield, and had been purchased by Mr. Horn from the 
 trustees of John Glassford, late merchant. The minute of 
 sale recites that Mr. Horn proposed " to take down the 
 dwelling-house, and form a street of sixty feet in breadth, to 
 run from Trongate to Ingram Street, in or near the centre 
 of the ground he had so purchased," to be called Great 
 Glassford Street. The lot of ground purchased by the 
 Trades' House was situated on the west side of the proposed 
 street, and its price was twenty shillings a square yard, and 
 amounted to ;^952 15s. 6d. The value of the ground now 
 would amount to fully twenty times the sum paid for it. 
 
 The disposition to this ground was granted on 15th 
 May, 1792, by Mr. Horn in favour of " James M'Lehose 
 and John Gardner, deacon-convener and collector of the 
 Trades' House, and to their successors in office, in trust 
 for the use and behoof of the Trades' House, and the Incor- 
 porations of Hammermen, Tailors, Cordiners, Maltmen, 
 Weavers, Bakers, Skinners, Wrights, Coopers, Fleshers, 
 Masons, Gardeners, Barbers, and Bonnet-makers and 
 Dyers, in proportion to the several sums which each had 
 advanced, or should in future advance, to the Trades' 
 House towards payment of the price, and the expense of 
 building the proposed hall." The instrument of sasine, 
 under this disposition, is recorded in the burgh register 
 of sasines, 29th May, 1792. 
 
 By disposition, dated 24th July, 1794, Mr. Horn, in 
 respect of ^100 paid to him, disponed to the then
 
 Trades' House Buildings, etc. 195 
 
 deacon-convener and collector of the Trades' House, in 
 trust as aforesaid, a right of passage or entry from Great 
 Glassford Street to the ground behind the Trades' Hall, 
 through the steading belonging to him, situated on the 
 south side of the hall, six feet wide, and ten feet high ; 
 under reservation of right to build over, and to have a 
 cellar under, that entry. The instrument of sasine under 
 this disposition is recorded in the burgh register of 
 sasines on 26th August, 1794. 
 
 Plans of the proposed buildings were prepared by 
 three architects; and a probable estimate was submitted, 
 showing that the " cost of the site and building might 
 amount to ^3,300." On 24th August, 1791, the Trades' 
 House selected the plan of Mr. Adams, and remitted the 
 matter for the consideration of the several Incorporations. 
 
 A subscription was opened by the Incorporations 
 towards defraying the expense of the building. The 
 foundation-stone was laid on 9th September, 1791, and 
 the building was completed in 1794, in conformity with 
 Mr. Adams' plans. The building consisted of shops on 
 the street floor, with vaults underneath ; a hall above the 
 shops of seventy feet by thirty-five, and twenty-three feet 
 in height to the ceiling, and thirty-one feet to the top of 
 the dome ; two large rooms above the hall, and five 
 small rooms in other parts of the building, for meetings 
 of the Master Courts of the Incorporations, and of Com- 
 mittees of the House. The first meeting of the House 
 in the new hall took place on 17th September, 1794. 
 
 In 1808 the House expended from its own funds 
 ;^i,i97 7s. 3d. in building a hall, forty-one feet by 
 twenty, and fifteen feet in height, on the vacant ground
 
 196 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 in rear of the north end of the principal building, with a 
 large school-room, forty feet by twenty, above it. 
 
 On 13th November and 5th December, 1808, Mr. 
 William Clark, of Kerse, authorised the House to make an 
 entry from the hall buildings into the street or lane laid out 
 and formed by him, from Virginia Street, eastward into 
 the said buildings, and to use that street or lane freely. 
 
 On 13th November and 5th December, 1808, the 
 thanks of the House were voted to Mr. Clark for this 
 gift, to be delivered in a gold snuff-box, of the value of 
 twenty guineas; and, on 13th February, 1809, Mr. Clark, 
 in his answer, stated that his father and grandfather had 
 been deacon-convener. 
 
 The rents of the shops, and the sums paid for the use 
 of the halls, by other parties than the House and the 
 Incorporations, and their committees and Master Courts, 
 are received by the collector, and are now annually 
 divided among the Trades' House and Incorporations 
 according to their respective contributions. 
 
 On 6th September, 1809, a handsome, beautiful, and 
 artistic chair for the deacon-convener, ornamented with 
 fifteen shields of gilt silver, engraved with the arms of the 
 House, and of each of the fourteen Incorporations, was 
 completed and placed in the hall in 1819. An engraving 
 of these arms is given at page 90. The members of the 
 House dined together on 14th September of that year to 
 commemorate this event. When her present Majesty 
 visited Glasgow, on 14th August, 1849, the college 
 authorities obtained the loan of this chair for the fore- 
 hall of the old college in High Street, for the reception 
 given on that occasion by them to the Queen.
 
 Trades' House Buildmgs, etc. 197 
 
 On 1 8th November, 1822, a large gasalier, which cost 
 ;;^2 28 4s. 5d., was put up in the hall. 
 
 On 19th May, 1826, the Trades' House accepted from 
 the subscribers the portrait, by Graham, of Mr. William 
 M'Tyre, a late deacon-convener, and put it up in the 
 hall. Mr. M'Tyre was a member of the Incorporation of 
 Cordiners, and is specially referred to in a previous 
 chapter as the president of the " Partick Duck Club," 
 which held its meetings at " The Bunhouse " inn. 
 
 On 1 6th November, 1837, a proposal was made 
 to build kitchen accommodation on the vacant ground 
 in rear of the south end of the principal building. 
 Estimates having been obtained, amounting tO;^594 4s., 
 the House resolved to proceed with the erection. This 
 scheme extended ; and plans by Mr. David Hamilton 
 having been obtained, along with relative estimates, 
 amounting to ^1,521, the Trades' House, in accordance 
 with a report from its committee, approved of those plans 
 and estimates, and resolved to proceed with the work. 
 
 On 1 6th December, 1847, vaults underneath to be 
 placed in the building were afterwards proposed ; and 
 the committee resolved to excavate and arch over for 
 vaults the whole area of the new building. 
 
 This additional building was completed in October, 1 838. 
 It consists of a large kitchen, thirty-four feet by twenty-five, 
 on the ground floor, and vaults underneath; a saloon, forty 
 feet by twenty-five, and nineteen feet nine in height above it, 
 connected with the great hall; and a large additional school- 
 room, forty feet by twenty-five, and eighteen feet six in 
 height, above the saloon. This school-room is now disused 
 as such in consequence of the abolition of the Trades' School.
 
 198 
 
 Incorporation of Cordwas. 
 
 One of the small rooms in the original building was 
 converted into a fireproof room, having, two wall safes for 
 the House, and one wall safe for each of the incorporated 
 trades, each safe being secured by an iron door, and the 
 whole enclosed by an additional iron door on the entrance 
 into the room. 
 
 On 30th August, 1 84 1, a committee of the Trades' 
 House having reported upon the state of the intromissions 
 with the rents of the hall buildings from 1825 till Whit- 
 sunday, 1840, recommended that the amount of the shares 
 falling to the several Incorporations of the surplus rents, 
 along with interest thereon, should be divided among the 
 Incorporations and added to their stock in the buildings 
 as at Whitsunday, 1840; and declared the following to 
 be the stock of the Trades' House and Incorporations 
 severally in those buildings at that date, viz. : — 
 
 The Trades' House, 
 The Hammermen, 
 Tlie Tailors, 
 
 Sum advanced 
 in 1791. 
 
 Share of 
 
 Rentsfromi825 
 
 to 1840. 
 
 Share of Stock 
 
 at Whitsunday, 
 
 1840. 
 
 ;^4,ooo 
 
 203 14 II 
 
 509 8 8 
 
 203 12 II 
 
 611 42 
 334 6 4 
 305 12 I 
 168 2 
 356 II 
 
 71 16 2 
 203 14 II 
 
 61 2 6 
 
 50 18 8 
 loi 17 I 
 
 25 19 I 
 
 ;^44 2 II 
 
 iio 7 8 
 44 2 6 
 
 132 8 8 
 72 8 10 
 66 4 5 
 36 8 2 
 77 5 2 
 
 15 II 3 
 
 44 2 II 
 
 13 4 II 
 
 II II 
 
 22 I 7 
 
 5 12 7 
 
 £TA^o 15 ID 
 247 17 10 
 619 16 4 
 
 247 15 5 
 743 12 10 
 406 15 2 
 371 16 6 
 
 204 8 4 i 
 
 433 16 2| 
 
 87 7 5, 
 247 17 10 1 
 
 74 7 5 
 
 61 19 7 
 
 123 18 8 
 
 31 II 8 
 
 The Cordiners, 
 
 The Maltmen, 
 
 The Weavers, 
 
 The Bakers, 
 
 The Skinners, 
 
 The Wrights, 
 
 The Coopers, 
 
 The Fleshers, 
 
 The Masons, 
 
 The Gardeners, 
 
 The Barbers, 
 
 The Dyers, 
 
 
 ;^7,207 18 8 
 
 ;^695 2 6 
 
 ^^11,383 17
 
 Trades^ House Buildings, etc. 199 
 
 The Trades' House, by minute of 30th August, 1841, 
 approved of the above apportionment of the stock, and 
 ordered that the accounts of the rents of the buildings in 
 Glassford Street should in future be kept separate from 
 the account of the funds of the House, and engrossed 
 and preserved in a separate ledger or account book. 
 
 By minute of the Trades' House of 26th January, 
 1843, it is provided that the buildings should thereafter 
 be under the management of a committee, to consist of 
 the convener, collector, late convener, and late collector, 
 and fourteen members of the House, one to be elected 
 by each of the fourteen Incorporations, at a general 
 meeting, and to be returned along with the return of 
 members to the House. 
 
 By minute of the Trades' House of 8th September, 
 1843, it is provided that the names of all the conveners 
 should be painted on canvas, agreeably to Mr. Hamilton's 
 plan, and put up in the large hall. 
 
 By minute of the Trades' House of 2nd October, 
 1855, it is provided that each incorporation which 
 should hold general meetings of the trade, or meetings 
 of their Master Court, or of any committee whatever, 
 of either the trade or Master Court, in any of the halls 
 or rooms of the buildings in Glassford Street, exceeding 
 seven in number, during any one year, shall pay 2 s. 6d. 
 for each meeting exceeding that number, in order to pay 
 for the gas and coal consumed, and the other costs 
 incurred by that excess of meetings. 
 
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 revised and enacted the following scale of charges for 
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 Deacon! s Box — Cordhiers^ Bells, etc. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 deacon's box — INVENTORY OF CONTENTS — CORDINERS' 
 BELLS — AND ALBUM OF DEACONS. 
 
 In early times there were no banks, and the funds and 
 documents of the Incorporation were kept in a large 
 charter chest called the " Deacon's Box." This box had 
 for greater security two locks, the keys of which were, as 
 they still are, kept by two separate persons — these persons 
 being the two goudies. The deacon appoints the deacon's 
 goudie and the Incorporation the Trades' goudie. The 
 deacon had simply the honour of being custodier of the 
 box, and it necessarily followed that the funds were very 
 secure, as the deacon and the two key keepers had always 
 to be present when the box was opened. Banking facilities 
 and safes have long since rendered the box unnecessary 
 except for holding relics of bygone days. The seals of 
 cause and all the title-deeds and security writs of the 
 Incorporation are in the possession of Mr. R. P. Lamond, 
 writer, the clerk to the Incorporation. The following is 
 an inventory of the contents of the Deacon's Box, viz. : — 
 
 " incorporation of CORDINERS. 
 
 " Inventory of Contents of ' Deacon's Box,' as carefully 
 looked over by Deacon Paterson and Goudies 
 Brown and Gilchrist, and Lochore, tertius, deacon. 
 — 13/// December, 1869. 
 
 "Ross' Bond to the Cordiners, 1686. Particulars and 
 Agreements in reference to Blackfaulds.
 
 Incorporatio7i of Cordiners. 
 
 "Articles of Sasine, marked Nos. i to i8 on right 
 hand corner, such number having no reference to 
 dates or indorsements. Acts of Council, marked 
 Nos. I to 7 on right hand corner, such number having 
 no reference to dates or indorsements. Agreements 
 between the Corporation of Cordiners and the Shoe- 
 makers of Gorbals. Receipts and Acknowledgments 
 previous to 1678. 
 
 " Professor Davidson's Award in Submission between 
 the Incorporation and James M'Farlane, 26th January, 
 1832. 
 
 "Receipts, Bonds, and Bills, 1678 to 1810. 
 
 " Extract Minutes of Trades' House. 
 
 " Accounts connected with Stockwell property — pro- 
 cesses at law, and documents in reference thereto. 
 
 " Discharges and Decreets 1707 to 1806. 
 
 "Receipts, Bonds, and sundry law papers, 1603 to 
 
 1754- 
 
 " Bond — the Incorporation of Cordiners to the Trades' 
 House, 1823. 
 
 " Form of oath. 
 
 " Collector's discharged accounts. 
 
 " Old indentures. 
 
 " Discharges and acknowledgments. 
 
 "Decreet — ist 4 trades of the convenery against the 
 other 10 trades, 1777. 
 
 " Memorial from the tailors as to mortcloth. 
 
 " Various ancient papers and two old bank books. 
 
 " Confession of Faith, signed by a number of adherents, 
 on parchment. 
 
 " Old coins, &c.
 
 DcacoiCs Box — Cordiners' Bells, etc. 203 
 
 "Incorporation seal. {Note. — This is an old die for 
 printi7ig.) 
 
 " Incorporation stamp hammer, 
 
 " Made this thirteenth day of December, Eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-nine years, and reported to the Master 
 Court of the Incorporation by 
 
 (Signed) " Matt. Paterson, Deacoii. 
 " James Brown. 
 " Jame^ Gilchrist, jun. 
 " Robert Lochore, tertius." 
 
 The Incorporation owns three hand bells. No. i 
 is inscribed, " The gift of Deacon John Jenkins to 
 the Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow, 1788." 
 No. 2 is inscribed, "Incorporation of Cordiners, 1794." 
 No. 3 is inscribed, '• Given by Col. Charles Walker, of the 
 I St Regt., Lanarkshire Local Militia, to Mr. John Craig 
 (for the third time), present Deacon of the Incorporation 
 of Cordiners in Glasgow, for the use and behoof of the 
 Trade, and in token of respect to the Deacon and regard 
 to the Craft. — Glasgow, 2nd iVugust, 181 5." 
 
 The deacons' album is inscribed, "Album — the cartes 
 de visite of the Deacons of the Incorporation of 
 Cordiners, Glasgow, — presented to the Incorporation 
 by Deacon Matthew Paterson, 1870." The album 
 contains photographs of nearly all the gentlemen who 
 have filled the honourable office of Deacon long before 
 and since that date.
 
 J04 Incorporatio)i of Cordiiicn. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 OATHS TAKEN IN FORINIER TIMES BY CORDINERS, AND 
 BY PROTESTANTS AND ROMAN CATHOLICS WHEN 
 ADMITTED AS BURGESSES. 
 
 I. — CORDINERS' OATH. 
 
 "I DO here solemnly swear before God and these 
 Witnesses, I shall be a true and faithful Member 
 of the Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow, into 
 which I am now admitted a Freeman, and shall obey, 
 observe, implement, and fulfil the haill Rules, Acts, and 
 Regulations made, or to be made, for the good and 
 benefit of the said Trade, for the maintenance and 
 sustenance of the Poor thereof: Shall not pack nor piel 
 with Unfreemen, nor any way, directly or indirectly, be 
 concerned as partner in any Branch of the said Trade 
 with any Person or Persons whomever, until he or they 
 be first entered a Freeman or Freemen of the said 
 Incorporation : And as often as I shall violate this my 
 Oath, or any part thereof, shall forfeit and pay to the 
 Collector, for the use of the said Incorporation, a new 
 Upset, as a Stranger. 
 
 " So help me God." 
 
 What a contrast this is to the simple oath now in use 
 taken by the office-bearers, that "they will faithfully 
 perform the duties of the office to which they have been 
 appointed."
 
 Oaths Taken in Former Times, etc. 205 
 
 We will now give the quaint and wordy forms of oath 
 taken many years ago by burgesses on their being admitted 
 to the roll : — 
 
 II. — PROTESTANT BURGESS OATH. 
 
 " Here I protest, before God; that I confess and allow 
 with my heart the true religion, presently professed within 
 this realm and authorised by the laws thereof. I shall 
 abide thereat, and defend the same, to my life's end, 
 renouncing the Roman religion, called Papistry. I shall 
 be leal and true to our Sovereign Lord, the King's 
 Majesty, and to the Provost and Baillies of this Burgh. 
 I shall obey the officers thereof, fortify, maintain, and 
 defend them in the execution of their Office with my 
 body and goods. I shall not colour Unfreemen's goods 
 under colour of my own. In all taxations, watchings, 
 and wardings to be laid upon this Burgh I shall willingly 
 bear my part thereof, as I am commanded thereto by the 
 Magistrates ; I shall not purchase nor use exemptions to 
 be free thereof, renouncing the benefit of the same for 
 ever. I shall do nothing hurtful to the liberties and 
 common-weil of this Burgh. I shall not brew nor cause 
 brew any malt but such as is grinded at the Toun's 
 Mills, and shall grind no other corns except wheat, pease, 
 rye, and beans, but at the same allenarly. And how oft 
 as I shall happen to break any part of this my oath, I 
 oblige me to pay to the common affairs of this Burgh the 
 sum of one hundred pounds, Scots money, and shall 
 remain in ward until the same be paid. 
 '' So help me God.
 
 2o6 Incoi'poratio7i of Cor diners. 
 
 " I shall give the best counsel I can, and conceal the 
 counsel shown to me. I shall not consent to dispone the 
 common goods of this Burgh, but for ane common cause, 
 and ane common profit. I shall make concord, where 
 discord is, to the utmost of my power. In all lienations 
 and neighbourhoods, I shall give my leal and true judg- 
 ment, but price, prayer, or reward. 
 
 "So help me God." 
 
 HI. — ROMAN CATHOLIC BURGESS OATH. 
 
 In 1793 an Act of Parliament was passed, authorising 
 magistrates of royal burghs to admit Roman Catholics to 
 be burgesses and guild brethren of their respective burghs, 
 on the administration of the following oath* : — 
 
 " I do hereby declare that I do profess the Roman 
 Catholic religion. I do sincerely promise and swear that 
 I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to His Majesty, 
 King George III., and him will defend, to the utmost of 
 my power, against all conspiracies and attempts whatever 
 that shall be made against his person, crown, or dignity, 
 and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make 
 known to His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, all treasons 
 and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against 
 him or them. And I do faithfully promise to maintain, 
 support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the 
 succession of the Crown, which succession, by an Act 
 (entituled, An Act for the further limitation of the Crown, 
 and better securing the rights and liberties of the Subject), 
 is, and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress 
 
 * Applications under this Act were first made in Glasgow in 1801.
 
 Oaths Takeji in Former Times, etc. 207 
 
 and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the Heirs of her 
 body, being Protestants, hereby utterly renouncing and 
 abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other 
 person claiming or pretending a right to the Crown of 
 these realms. And I do swear that I do reject and 
 detest as an unchristian and impious position that it is 
 lawful to murder or destroy any person or persons what- 
 soever for, or under pretence of their being heretics or 
 infidels, and also that unchristian and impious principle, 
 that faith is not to be kept with heretics or infidels. And 
 I further declare that it is not an article of my faith, and 
 that I do renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion that 
 Princes, excommunicated by the Pope and Council, or 
 any authority of the See of Rome, or by any other 
 authority whatsoever, may be deposed or murdered by 
 their subjects, or any person whatsoever. And I do 
 promise that I will not hold, maintain, or abet any such 
 opinion, or any other opinion contrary to what is ex- 
 pressed in this declaration. And I do declare, that I do 
 not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign 
 Prince, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, 
 any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or 
 pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm. 
 And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, 
 testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and 
 every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the 
 words of this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or 
 mental reservation whatever, and without any dispensation 
 already granted by the Pope or any authority of the See 
 of Rome, or any person whatever, and without thinking 
 that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or
 
 2o8 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 absolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although 
 the Pope, or any other person or authority whatsoever, 
 shall dispense with, or annul the same, and declare that 
 it was null or void. 
 
 " So help me God." 
 
 When this oath had been administered, the name of 
 the applicant and his designation was entered in a book, 
 and attested by a magistrate. The oath which was usually 
 administered to the Protestant burgess was then taken 
 by the Roman Catholic — with this difference, that, in the 
 preamble of the oath, the latter protests before God that 
 he professes the Roman Catholic religion. 
 
 The taking of these oaths by burgesses has long since 
 fallen into abeyance, and all that the person has to do on 
 becoming a burgess at the present time is to pay his 
 freedom fines and receive his burgess ticket.
 
 List of Members of Cordiners, etc. 209 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 LIST OF THE PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE INCORPORATION 
 OF CORDINERS, WITH THE DATES OF THEIR ENTRY, 
 AND ADDRESSES, SO FAR AS KNOWN, EXCLUSIVE OF 
 PENSIONERS. 
 
 Year"^^ NAMES AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 1832. Malcolm M'Caul, 92 St. Vincent Street. 
 
 1834. Robert Lochore, tertius, Lenzie. 
 
 1841. Robert AI'Nair, Busby. 
 
 1844. James Wilson, London. 
 
 1846. William Jarvis, 70 Prince's Street. 
 
 1847. John Gentle, Post Office, Edinburgh. 
 
 1848. Henry Clow, 10 Royal Exchange Square. 
 
 1849. Daniel Naismith, America. 
 
 1850. James Burns Kidston, 50 West RegentTStreet. 
 1850. John Kidston, 50 West Regent Street. 
 
 1850. Michael Kidston. 
 
 1850. James Brown, City Chambers, Ingram Street. 
 
 1853. William Russell, 17 Garden Street. 
 
 1853. William Grahame, 27 St. James' Street, Kingston. 
 
 1853. Thomas Gebbie, Park Place, Gourock, 
 
 1855. Edmond Small Cathel. 
 
 1856. James Sanders, 34 East Hill Street. 
 1856. James Good, 
 
 1856. James Kerr, Junior, 13 Argyle Arcade. 
 1856. James Wood, 49 Renfield Street. 
 
 o
 
 Incorporation of Cordtncrs. 
 
 NAMES AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 Entrance 
 Year. 
 
 1857. Donald M'Callum, Laburnum Cottage, Lcnzie. 
 
 1857. John Barr, 89 Elderslie Street. 
 
 1857. Andrew Scott, Junior, i Nithsdale Place, Paisley 
 
 Road. 
 
 1857. John William Scott, 122 South Portland Street. 
 
 1857. James M'Allister, 48 Grafton Street. 
 
 1857. Robert Lindsay, Junior, 12 Florence Place, Stan- 
 
 ley Street. 
 
 1858. Ebenezer W. Henry, London. 
 1858. James Paterson, Elcho Street. 
 
 1858. William Lamond, Sheriff-Substitute, Cupar- Fife. 
 
 1858. Henry Lamond, 93 West Regent Street. 
 
 i860. Peter Birrell, 19 Candleriggs Street. 
 
 i860. James Gibb Birrell, 19 Candleriggs Street. 
 
 i860. William Pringle Porter, New Zealand. 
 
 1 86 1. James Bayne, Junior, 137 Ligram Street. ' 
 
 1 86 1. Alexander Lawson, Junior. 
 
 1 86 1. George M'Kean, 45 Union Street. 
 
 1 86 1. James Stewart, 2 Cumbrae Place, Crossbill. 
 
 1861. Lewis MacLellan, 67 Port-Dundas Road. 
 
 1863. Marshall Gilchrist, Post Office, ThornHebank. 
 
 1864. Robert Lawson, 24 Queen Street. 
 1864 Robert Morton, London. 
 
 1864. Gavin Lochore Brodie, New Zealand. 
 1864. John Woodside, New Zealand. 
 
 1864. Robert Brodie, 87 St. Vincent Street. 
 
 1865. Robert Peel Lamond, 93 West Regent Street. 
 1865. D. S. Law, 9 Trongate Street. 
 
 1865. W. T. Scott. 
 
 1866. William Gibson, 77 Queen Street.
 
 List of Members of Cordiners, etc. 
 
 NAMES AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 Entrance 
 Year. 
 
 1867. John Sime, Saint Andrew's Square. 
 
 1868. Peter Morrison, 23 Union Street. 
 1868. Robert Paterson, 28 Renfield Street. 
 1868. Alexander Forrester, 36 Buchanan Street. 
 
 1868. Wm. Walker, at Messrs. Fulton's, 147 Stockwell St. 
 i86g. James York, Contractor, Greenock. 
 
 1869. Andrew Mitchell, 172 Cowcaddens Street. 
 1869. David French, 15 Union Street. 
 
 1869. David Aitken, 16 Robertson Street. 
 
 1869. William Lochore Brown, 41 West George Street. 
 
 1870. William Steel. 
 
 1870. John Burt, 143 Great Hamilton Street. 
 
 1870. Matthew Paterson, Junior, 12 Elmbank Crescent. 
 
 1870. James Gilchrist, Post Office, Thornliebank. 
 
 1870. James M'Grigor, 181 Trongate. 
 
 1870. John Dewar, 6 Dixon Street. 
 
 1870. Robert C Steel, 84 Gordon Street. 
 
 1870. Thomas Muir, Junior, 487 Eglinton Street. 
 
 187 1. John Hutcheson Kerr, 124 Bath Street. 
 187 1. John Anderson, 114 Glebe Street. 
 
 1871. James M'Intyre Murray, Toronto, Canada. 
 
 187 1. Islay Ferrier Drysdale, Bonhill. 
 
 1 87 1. David Tait Stewart, 23 Ronald Street. 
 
 1872. Thomas Mitchell, 137 Ingram Street. 
 1872. Robert Bishop, 62 North Frederick Street. 
 
 1872. John Anderson, 58 Bath Street. 
 
 1873. Andrew Hearst, 45 Parson Street. 
 1873. Charles Wragg, 4 Stockwell Street. 
 
 1873. Joseph Craig, Lands Valuation Office, 128 Ingram 
 Street.
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 NAMES AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 Entrance 
 Year. 
 
 1873. Binnie Craig, Dundee. 
 
 1873. William Campbell, 128 Ingram Street. 
 
 1873. Robert Anderson, 22 Ann Street. 
 
 1874. Robert Henderson, 137 Ingram Street. 
 1874. Thomas Smart Blyth, 8 Newton Place. 
 
 1874. Thomas Simpson, 19 Graham Street, Bridgeton. 
 
 1874. Angus Mitchell, 42 Miller Street. 
 
 1874. David Pentland, 49 Buchanan Street. 
 
 1874. Robert Sutherland, 4 Both well Street. 
 
 1874. William Campbell Bell, 92 Renfield Street. 
 
 1874. James Winning, Rosemary Villa, Cathcart. 
 
 1874. John Wallace, 305 Argyle Street. 
 
 1874. James Forbes, Longridge, Fauldhouse. 
 
 1874. Alexr. Carmichael Paterson, 273 George Street. 
 
 1875. Colin Lamont, 86 Renfrew Street. 
 
 1875. Robert Wood, 4 North Street, Springburn. 
 1875. W. P. Buchan, 21 Renfrew Street. 
 1875. Donald MacKeochan, 137 Ingram Street. 
 1875. Ebenezer Barclay, 44 Candleriggs Street. 
 1875. Robert Buchanan Forrest, 20 Union Street. 
 
 1875. Andrew Brighton, 86 Hospital Street. 
 
 1876. James Park, 4 Bridge End Street, Rothesay. 
 1876. Archibald Maclaren Lindsay, 87 West Regent St. 
 1876. Matthew Morrison, 10 Royal Terrace, Crossbill. 
 1876, James Macgregor, City Chambers, Glasgow. 
 1876. John Sandford, 32 Stockwell Street. 
 
 1876. Walter Baine Jardine, 2 Baxter's Place, Leith 
 Walk, Edinburgh. 
 
 1876. Samuel Marks, 145 Great Eastern Road. 
 
 1877. John Davidson Smith, Druggist, Maryhill.
 
 List of Members of Cordinen, eh: 2 1 3 
 
 NAMES AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 Entrance 
 Year. 
 
 1877. Thomas Smith, 3 Burnbank Terrace, Burnbank 
 
 Gardens. 
 
 1877. John Morton Threshie, 72 Hutcheson Street. 
 
 1877. James Loutit, 63 George Street. 
 
 1877. Henry Burt, 143 Great Hamilton Street. 
 
 1877. James Young Merry, 143 Great Hamilton Street. 
 
 1877. Peter Ferguson, 2,0 Hope Street. 
 
 1877. John Cameron, 45 West Nile Street. 
 
 1877. William M'Culloch, 26'^ George Street. 
 
 1877. James W. Stevenson, 6 Wellington Street, 
 
 1877. Wm. Whyte Simmons, 3 West Campbell Street. 
 
 1877. James Graham, Treasurer, Clyde Navigation, 
 
 Robertson Street. 
 
 1877. John MacDonald, 63 St. Vincent Crescent. 
 
 1877. Donald Campbell, 44 Dalmarnock Road. 
 
 1877. George Love, 60 St. Vincent Crescent. 
 
 1877. Kenneth Macleod, 137 Ingram Street. 
 
 1877. Wm. Hume Lithgow, 137 Ingram Street. 
 
 1877. Hugh Haddow, 137 Ingram Street. 
 
 1877. Andrew M'Bryde, 21 Grafton Street. 
 
 1877. Stephen INIorris, Clyde Trustees' Buildings, Dal- 
 
 muir. 
 
 1878. Colin Campbell, 255 Gallowgate Street. 
 1878. George Gemmell, Nithsdale Villa, Langside. 
 1878. James Bowie, 2 Middleton Terrace, Paisley Road. 
 1878. George Morgan, 137 Ingram Street. 
 
 1878. Robert Pate. 5 Darnley Terrace, Shawlands. 
 
 1878. Wm. Aitken Davidson, Brownfield, Cambuslang. 
 
 1878. Dr. Hugh Miller, 298 Bath Street. 
 
 1878. William Mitchell.
 
 214 Iiicorporafio/i of Cprdiners. 
 
 NAMES AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 Entrance 
 Year. 
 
 1878. John Farc[uhar, 13 Belhaven Terrace. 
 
 1878. John Morrison, 106 Annfield Street. 
 
 1878. Robert Livingstone, 263 Argylc Street. 
 
 1878. William R. Hnnter, 108 Argyle Street. 
 
 1878. William Cochran, 68 Bath Street. 
 
 1878. Thomas A. Aitken, 44 Granby Terrace, Hillhead. 
 
 1878. George Ogilvie, 116 George Street. 
 
 1878. James Young, Greenhead Cottage, Uddingston. 
 
 1878. Murdoch M'Kenzie, 128 New City Road. 
 
 1878. Thomas Ballantyne, 172 Renfield Street. 
 
 1879. Thomas Buchan, 20 Kelvingrove Street. 
 1879. Wm. Veitch Orr, 31 Lansdowne Crescent; 
 1879. Robert F. Weatherston, 124 West Nile Street. 
 1879. William M'Leod, City Chambers, Glasgow. 
 
 1879. Archd. Hunter Ewing, 7 Broomhill Avenue, Par- 
 
 tick. 
 
 1880. Alexander Macgregor, 4 Victoria Place, Mount 
 
 Florida. 
 1880. David Wallace, Farmer, Ellerslie, Emmetsburg, 
 Iowa. 
 
 1880. John Calderwood, 17 Garden Street. 
 
 1 88 1. John Russell, 17 Garden Street. 
 
 1 88 1. William Rowan Russell, 17 Garden Street. 
 
 1 88 1. Alfred Talbot, Trades' House Office, Glassford 
 
 Street. 
 
 1882. Edward M'Larty, 131 Annfield Street. 
 1882. James Syme, 6 Newhall Terrace, Greenhead. 
 1882. James Brown, 48 Great Eastern Road. 
 
 1882. Wm. M'Lay, Surgeon, Blairs, Polmont Station. 
 1882. Robert Wylie, 45 Ingram Street.
 
 List of Members of Cordiners, etc. 215 
 
 ^Year'^^ NAMES AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 1882. Robert M'Arthur, 15 Princes Street, Pollokshields. 
 
 1883. John Anderson, 40 Kenmure Street, Pollokshields. 
 1883. Robert Anderson, Junior, 12 Albert Drive, Cross- 
 hill. 
 
 1883. Donald Brown, 218 Saracen Street, Possilpark. 
 1883. Robert Orr, 14 Langside Road, Govanhill.
 
 2l6 
 
 Incorporation of Cordmers. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 LIST OF THE DEACONS OF THE INCORPORATION OF 
 CORDINERS SINCE 1758, AS TAKEN FROM THE MINUTE 
 BOOKS — AND ALSO LIST OF THE PRESENT MEMBERS OF 
 THE MASTER COURT, 1 882-83. 
 
 I. — LIST OF DEACONS. 
 
 1758. 
 
 John Scott. 
 
 1781. 
 
 George Burns. 
 
 1760. 
 
 John Bannatyne. 
 
 1782. 
 
 George Burns. 
 
 I76I. 
 
 James Wardrop. 
 
 1785- 
 
 John Paul. 
 
 1762. 
 
 Andrew Hunter. 
 
 1786. 
 
 James Burns. 
 
 1765- 
 
 Robert Maclean. 
 
 1787. 
 
 John Jenkin. 
 
 1766. 
 
 Andrew Hunter. 
 
 1788. 
 
 William Miller. 
 
 1767. 
 
 James M'Nair. 
 
 1789. 
 
 John Paul. 
 
 1768. 
 
 WiUiam Ralston. 
 
 1790. 
 
 James Fergus. 
 
 1769. 
 
 William Ralston. 
 
 1791. 
 
 Daniel M'Millan. 
 
 1770. 
 
 James Bryce. 
 
 1792. 
 
 John Paul, Jun. 
 
 1772. 
 
 James Bryce. 
 
 1793- 
 
 James Bryce. 
 
 1774. 
 
 John Yule. 
 
 1794. 
 
 Robert Semple. 
 
 1776. 
 
 Henry Barton. 
 
 1795- 
 
 Robert Wilson. 
 
 1777. 
 
 Thomas M'Call. 
 
 1796. 
 
 James Bryce. 
 
 1778. 
 
 James Burns. 
 
 1797. 
 
 Robert Semple. 
 
 1778. 
 
 William M'Courty. 
 
 1798. 
 
 James Smith. 
 
 1779. 
 
 William M'Courty. 
 
 1799. 
 
 George Smith. 
 
 1780. 
 
 James Salmon. 
 
 1800. 
 
 John Graham. 
 
 1780. 
 
 Robert Scott. 
 
 iSoi. 
 
 James M'Culloch 
 
 1781. 
 
 James Steven. 
 
 1802. 
 
 John Craig. 
 
 I78I. 
 
 James Salmon. 
 
 1803. 
 
 Andrew Sellars.
 
 List of Deaco7is of Cordiners, etc. 
 
 217 
 
 1804. 
 1805. 
 1806. 
 1807. 
 1808. 
 1809. 
 1810. 
 1811. 
 1812. 
 1813. 
 1814. 
 1815. 
 1816. 
 
 1817. 
 1818. 
 1819. 
 1820. 
 1821. 
 1822. 
 1823. 
 1824. 
 1825. 
 1826. 
 1827. 
 1828. 
 1829. 
 1830. 
 1831. 
 
 William Neasmith. 
 
 George Smith. 
 
 George Osbourn. 
 
 William Skinner, 
 
 John Gentles. 
 
 John Craig, Jun. 
 
 Andrew Miller. 
 
 William Lochore. 
 
 John Sommerville. 
 
 Peter Gumming. 
 
 John Craig, younger. 
 
 Robert Lochore. 
 
 William M'Tyer, 
 (afterwards Master 
 Extraordinary, 24th 
 September, 1830.) 
 
 Peter Grosart. 
 
 Matthew Miller. 
 
 William Scott, Jun. 
 
 Lachlan Muckart. 
 
 Andrew Watson. 
 
 Daniel M'Farlane. 
 
 Robert Lochore. 
 
 Lachlan Muckart. 
 
 William Wood. 
 
 Thomas Williams. 
 
 Allan Campbell. 
 
 Peter Grosart. 
 
 William Wilson. 
 
 William Lochore. 
 
 John Gilchrist. 
 
 1832. Alexander Murray. 
 
 1833. Lauchlant Muckart. 
 
 1834. John Mackay. 
 
 1835. James Birrell. 
 
 1836. Alexander Murray. 
 
 1837. Peter M'Gregor. 
 
 1838. Robert Lochore, Jun. 
 I S3 9. John M'Kay. 
 
 1840. William Glass. 
 
 1 84 1. Robert Hepburn. 
 
 1842. Daniel Bell. 
 
 1843. Peter M'Gregor, 
 
 1844. John Muter Wilson. 
 
 1845. George Smith. 
 
 1846. Donald M'Nicol. 
 
 1847. Thomas Blyth. 
 1S48. James Craig. 
 
 1849. J^nies Kerr, 
 
 1850. Thomas Bell, 
 
 1851. Robert Woodside. 
 
 1852. James Craig, 
 
 1853. James Gebbie. 
 
 1854. James M'Farlane. 
 
 1855. Duncan M'Gregor. 
 
 1856. James Simpson, 
 
 1857. Matthew Paterson, 
 
 1858. Thomas Gebbie, 
 1 85 9. James Wilson. 
 
 1 86 1. James Brown. 
 
 1862. James Paterson, 
 
 I S63. Robert Lochore, Jun,
 
 2l8 
 
 Incorporaiioii of Cordiners. 
 
 1864. Eben. Walker Henry. 
 
 1865. James Craig. 
 
 1866. James Gilchrist. 
 
 1867. William Morrison. 
 
 1868. James Simpson. 
 
 1869. Matthew Paterson. 
 
 1870. Robert Lochore, Ter- 
 
 tius. 
 
 187 1. William Gibson. 
 
 1872. William Morrison. 
 
 1873- 
 1874. 
 
 1875- 
 1876. 
 
 David Aitken. 
 John Burt. 
 Andrew Mitchell. 
 David French. 
 
 1877. Robert Bishop. 
 
 1878. John Anderson. 
 
 1879. Thomas Mitchell. 
 
 1880. William Campbell. 
 
 1 88 1. Robert Anderson. 
 
 1882. Robert Paterson. 
 
 Note. — The minute books foi- several years after 175S are signed 
 by the clerk alone; names are rarely given — the minute merely 
 bearing that the deacon presided, without naming him. Hence 
 this list is not so complete as it might otherwise be. 
 
 II. — LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF MASTER COURT— YEAR 1882-83. 
 
 Robert Paterson, Deacon. 
 
 Robert Anderson, late Deacon. 
 
 James M'Gregor, Collector. 
 
 Samuel Marks, late Collector. 
 
 William Veitch Orr, Deacon's Goudie. 
 
 James Brown. 
 
 John Burt. 
 
 David French. 
 
 Andrew Mitchell. 
 
 James Young Merry. 
 
 George Ogilvie. 
 
 Andrew M'Bryde, Trades' Goudie. 
 
 A. M. Lindsay. 
 
 William Campbell. 
 
 Clerk, R. P. Lamond, Writer. 
 
 Office7-, John Scott.
 
 Trades' House: its Funds ^ cic. 219 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 trades' house of GLASGOW. — STATE OF ITS FUNDS 
 AND OF THE FOURTEEN INCORPORATIONS. 
 
 The constitution of the Trades' House has been given 
 in Chapters IX. and XL, but it may be desirable or 
 appropriate now to give some information respecting 
 the House itself, seeing that the Cordiners send six 
 representatives to the House. The House has much 
 important work to do, and, from the following annual 
 appointments made by the House of representatives out 
 of its own number to public bodies, it will be seen that 
 it has a deep interest in the successful working of these 
 public institutions: — 
 
 1. A Deacon-Convener and a Collector annually, who 
 
 are generally reappointed for a second year. 
 
 2. Four Dean of Guild Councillors of the craft rank. 
 
 3. Two Trustees of the Clyde Navigation, for two years, 
 
 one going out of office every alternate year. 
 
 4. Four Patrons of Hutchesons' Hospital. 
 
 5. Four Directors of the Buchanan Industrial Institution. 
 
 6. One Director of the College of Science and Arts. 
 
 7. Two Trustees on Glen's School. 
 
 8. Two Directors of Haldane's Trust. 
 
 9. One Director of Gardner's Free School. 
 
 10. Two Trustees on M'Millan's Bequest. 
 
 11. Two Managers of the Royal Infirmary.
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 12. Two Directors of the Western Infirmary. 
 
 1 3. Two Managers of the Lunatic Asylum. 
 
 14. Two Directors of the Blind Asylum. 
 
 15. One Director of the Maternity Hospital and Dis- 
 
 pensary. 
 
 16. A Manager of the Lock Hospital. 
 
 17. A Director of the Convalescent Home. 
 
 18. A Director of the Home for the Relief of Licurables. 
 
 19. Two Assessors under Coulter's Mortification. 
 
 20. One Director under Muir's Trust. 
 
 21. One Director under M'Alpine's Trust. 
 
 Note. — There are four Directors also sent by the Hammermen 
 annually to the Johnston and Logan School, the appointments 
 being simply intimated to the House. 
 
 The House has a vast deal of work of its own to do. 
 The following committees are appointed by the House 
 for carrying on its business : — 
 
 COMMITTEES OF TRADES' HOUSE. 
 
 1. On Kelvinbank and Sandyford Lands. 
 
 2. On Public Business. 
 
 3. On Finance. 
 
 4. On Pensioners. 
 
 5. On Bye-laws. 
 
 6. On Education. 
 
 Note. — There is a Committee on Hall Buildings. That com- 
 mittee is coinposed of representatives sent by the Incorporations. 
 These representatives must be members of the House. There is 
 likewise a Committee on the Gorbals Lands, composed of the 
 convener and the collector of the House, as representing the House, 
 and of delegates from the Incorporations having an interest in the 
 lands.
 
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 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 CHAPl'ER XXVII. 
 
 ROLL OF DEACON-CONVENERS OF TRADES' HOUSE FROM 
 1604 — SKETCH OF deacon's DAY, SHOWING FORMER 
 PREVAILING CUSTOMS AT ELECTION OF DEACON-CON- 
 VENER. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Trade. 
 
 Elected in 
 
 Duncan Sempill, 
 
 - Skipper, 
 
 - 1604. 
 
 John Braid wood, - 
 
 - Cordiner, - 
 
 - 1605-6. 
 
 Ninian Anderson, - 
 
 - Cordiner, - 
 
 - 1607-8. 
 
 Thomas Morrison, - 
 
 - Cooper, 
 
 1609-10. 
 
 Ninian Anderson, - 
 
 - Cordiner, - 
 
 1611. 
 
 Thomas INIorrison, - 
 
 - Cooper, 
 
 1612. 
 
 Patrick Maxwell, - 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1613-14. 
 
 James Fisher, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1615-16. 
 
 Patrick IMaxwell, - 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1617-18. 
 
 John Braidwood, - 
 
 - Cordiner, - 
 
 - 1619. 
 
 Thomas Morrison, - 
 
 - Cooper, 
 
 1620. 
 
 John Peadie, - 
 
 - Skinner, - 
 
 1621. 
 
 Walter Douglas, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 1622. 
 
 John Peadie, - 
 
 - Skinner, 
 
 - 1623. 
 
 David Shearer, 
 
 - Cooper, 
 
 - 1624. 
 
 William Neilson, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1625. 
 
 Ninian Anderson, - 
 
 - Cordiner, - 
 
 1626-27. 
 
 William Neilson, - 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1628^29. 
 
 J. Anderson, 
 
 - Cordiner, - 
 
 - 1630-31.
 
 Roll of Deacon- Conveners, etc. 
 
 223 
 
 Name. 
 
 Trade. 
 
 Elected in 
 
 Ninian Anderson, - 
 
 - Cordiner, - 
 
 - 1632-33. 
 
 Gavin Nisbet, 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1634. 
 
 Ninian Gilhazie, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1635-36. 
 
 Richard Allan, 
 
 - Tanner, 
 
 - 1637-38- 
 
 Ninian Gilhazie, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1639-40. 
 
 William Neilson, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 1641-42. 
 
 Menasses Lyle, 
 
 - Skinner, - 
 
 - 1643-44- 
 
 Ninian Gilhazie, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1645. 
 
 Menasses Lyle, 
 
 - Skinner, - 
 
 1646. 
 
 N.B. — From 1646 to 164S there was much confusion in 
 the elections, in consequence of the Civil War and the 
 intervening displacement of the magistrates and town 
 councillors. 
 
 Thomas Scott, 
 
 - Baker, 
 
 - 1647- 
 
 Menasses Lyle, 
 
 - Skinner, 
 
 - 1647. 
 
 W. Lightbody, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 1648-49. 
 
 Peter Johnstone, - 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1650. 
 
 W. Lightbody, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1651. 
 
 Menasses Lyle, 
 
 - Skinner, 
 
 - 1652. 
 
 Menasses Lyle, 
 
 - Skinner, - 
 
 - 1653-54. 
 
 Walter Neilson, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1655-56, 
 
 Menasses Lyle, 
 
 - Skinner, - 
 
 - 1657. 
 
 N.B. — Election deferred at the desire of his Highness the 
 Lord Protector. 
 
 Patrick Bryce, 
 
 - Weaver, 
 
 - 1658. 
 
 John Buchanan, 
 
 - Weaver, 
 
 - 1659. 
 
 Menasses Lyle, 
 
 - Skinner, - 
 
 1660-61 
 
 John Miller, - 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 1662-63, 
 
 Walter Neilson, 
 
 Maltman, - 
 
 - 1664-65
 
 224 
 
 Jjicorporatioii of Cor diners. 
 
 Name. 
 John Miller, - 
 Menasses Lyle, 
 William Wallace, - 
 James Ferrie, - 
 Partick Bryce, 
 William Wallace, - 
 James Ferrie, - 
 William Watson, 
 James Ferrie, - 
 Alexander Ross, 
 Robert Telfer, 
 John Wallace, 
 John Smith, - 
 John Wallace, 
 John Wardrop, 
 John Gilchrist, 
 John Wardrop, 
 Simon Tennant, 
 George Nish, - 
 Simon Tennant, 
 John Wardrop, 
 Simon Tennant, 
 Thomas Hamilton, - 
 George Robertson, - 
 George Buchanan, - 
 John Brown, - 
 Matthew Gilmour, - 
 John Graham, 
 Stephen Crawford, - 
 Matthew Gilmour, - 
 
 Trade. 
 Tailor, 
 Skinner, 
 Maltman, - 
 Hammerman, 
 Maltmari, - 
 Maltman, - 
 Hammerman, 
 Tailor, 
 
 Hammerman, 
 Wright, 
 Hammerman, 
 Maltman, - 
 Hammerman, 
 Maltman, - 
 Cordiner, - 
 Tailor, 
 Cordiner, - 
 Tailor, 
 Wright, - 
 Tailor, 
 Cordiner, - 
 Tailor, 
 Tailor, 
 Tailor, 
 Maltman, - 
 Cordiner, - 
 Hammerman, 
 Tailor, 
 Tailor, 
 Hammerman, 
 
 Elected in 
 1666-67. 
 1668. 
 1669-70. 
 1671. 
 1672-73. 
 1674. 
 1675-76. 
 1677-78. 
 1679-80. 
 1681. 
 1682. 
 1683. 
 1684-85. 
 1686-87. 
 1688. 
 1689-90. 
 1691. 
 1692-93. 
 1694-95. 
 1696-97. 
 1698-99. 
 1700-I. 
 1702-3. 
 
 1704-5- 
 1706-7. 
 
 1708-9. 
 
 1710-I I. 
 
 1712-13. 
 
 1714-15- 
 1716-17,
 
 Roll of Dcacon-Convetiers, etc. 
 
 225 
 
 Name. 
 
 Trade. 
 
 Elected in 
 
 John Armour, 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1718-19. 
 
 Matthew Gihiiour, 
 
 - Hammerman, 
 
 1720-21. 
 
 James Mitchell, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 1 722-2 X. 
 
 John Armour, 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1724-25- 
 
 James Mitchell, 
 
 ■ - Maltman, - 
 
 1726. 
 
 Robert Reid, - 
 
 - Wright, - 
 
 - 1727-28. 
 
 John Clarke, - 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1729-30- 
 
 John Craig, - 
 
 - Hammerman, 
 
 - 1731-32- 
 
 Walter Lang, - 
 
 - Hammerman, 
 
 - 1733- 
 
 Robert Robertson 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1734- 
 
 James Drew, - 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1735-36- 
 
 Thomas Wodrop, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1737-38 
 
 
 Andrew Armour, 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1739-40 
 
 
 Robert Mackie, 
 
 - Hammerman, 
 
 - 1741-42 
 
 
 Thomas Scott, 
 
 - Baker, 
 
 - 1743-44 
 
 
 Matthew Gilmour, 
 
 - Hammerman, 
 
 - 1745-46 
 
 
 John Hamilton, 
 
 - Hammerman, 
 
 - 1747-48 
 
 
 Robert Finlay, 
 
 - Cordiner, - 
 
 - 1749-50 
 
 
 James Buchanan, 
 
 - Tailor. 
 
 - 1751-52 
 
 
 James Clarke, 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1753-54 
 
 
 George Nisbet, 
 
 - Wright, 
 
 - 1755-56 
 
 
 J. Wotherford, 
 
 - Hammerman, 
 
 - 1757-58 
 
 
 Daniel Munro, 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1759-60 
 
 
 Duncan Niven, 
 
 - Baker, 
 
 1761-62. 
 
 
 James Clarke, 
 
 - Tailor, 
 
 - 1763-64. 
 
 
 Francis Crawfurd, 
 
 - Wright, - 
 
 - 1765- 
 
 N.B. — Mr. Crawford died in office, and his 
 
 funeral was 
 
 attended by the 
 
 members of the Trades' House and the 
 
 freemen of the fourteen Incorporations. 
 
 
 John Jamieson, 
 
 - Skinner, 
 p 
 
 - 1766. 

 
 226 
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Trade. 
 
 Elected in 
 
 George Buchanan, - 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 176768. 
 
 Walter Lang, - 
 
 - Baker, 
 
 1769-70. 
 
 William Craig, 
 
 - Wright, . - 
 
 - 1771-72. 
 
 William Ewing, 
 
 - Baker, 
 
 - 1773-74- 
 
 John Craig, - 
 
 - Baker, 
 
 - 1775-76. 
 
 Duncan Niven, 
 
 - Barber, 
 
 - 1777-78. 
 
 John Jamieson, 
 
 - Skinner, 
 
 - 1779-80. 
 
 W. Auchincloss, 
 
 - Cooper, 
 
 - 1781-82. 
 
 Robert Mann, 
 
 - Wright, 
 
 - 1783-84- 
 
 Ninian Glen, - 
 
 - Wright, - 
 
 - 1785-86. 
 
 John Tennant, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1787-88. 
 
 John M 'Asian, 
 
 - Gardener, - 
 
 - 1789-90. 
 
 James M'Lehose, - 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 - 1791-92. 
 
 R. Auchincloss, 
 
 - Cooper, 
 
 - 1793-94- 
 
 Robert Robertson, - 
 
 - Cooper, 
 
 - 1795-96- 
 
 Robert Waddell, - 
 
 - Wright, 
 
 - 1797-98. 
 
 Archibald Newbigging, 
 
 - Weaver, 
 
 - 1 799-1800. 
 
 John Morrison, 
 
 - Wright, - 
 
 1 80 1-2, 
 
 George Lyon, , 
 
 - Hammerman, 
 
 - 1803-4. 
 
 Robert Austin, 
 
 - Gardener, - 
 
 - 1805-6. 
 
 William Brand, 
 
 - Dyer, 
 
 - 1807-8. 
 
 James Cleland, 
 
 - ^Vright, - 
 
 1809-10. 
 
 Basil Ronald, 
 
 - Skinner, 
 
 - 1811-12, 
 
 Walter Ferguson, - 
 
 - Barber, 
 
 - 1813-14. 
 
 Robert Ferrie, 
 
 - Wright, - 
 
 - 1815-16. 
 
 John Graham, 
 
 - Baker, 
 
 - 1817-18. 
 
 Robert Hood, 
 
 - Cooper, 
 
 1819-20. 
 
 James Hunter, 
 
 - Maltman, - 
 
 1821-22. 
 
 William M'Tyer, - 
 
 - Cordiner, - 
 
 - 1823-24. 
 
 William Rodger, 
 
 - Wright, - 
 
 - 1825-26.
 
 Roll of Dcaco7i-Cofivenen, etc. 
 
 227 
 
 Name. 
 
 Trade. 
 
 Elected in 
 
 William M'Lean, - 
 
 Dyer, 
 
 - 1827-28. 
 
 John Alston, - 
 
 Weaver, - 
 
 1829-30. 
 
 Archibald M'Lellan, 
 
 Hammerman, 
 
 - 1831-32. 
 
 James Graham, 
 
 Wright, 
 
 - 1833. 
 
 Archibald M'Lellan, 
 
 Hammerman, 
 
 - 1834- 
 
 James Graham, 
 
 Wright, - 
 
 - 1835. 
 
 Thomas Neilson, - 
 
 Flesher, 
 
 - 1836-37. 
 
 John Neil, 
 
 Weaver, 
 
 - 1838-39- 
 
 George Dick, 
 
 Skinner, 
 
 1840-41. 
 
 Andrew Fowler, 
 
 Gardener, - 
 
 - 1842-43. 
 
 Thomas Brownlie, - 
 
 Mason, 
 
 - 1844-45. 
 
 John M'Callum, - 
 
 Hammerman, 
 
 - 1846. 
 
 John Stewart, 
 
 Cooper, 
 
 - 1847-48. 
 
 WiUiam York, 
 
 Mason, 
 
 - 1849-50. 
 
 David Yuile, - 
 
 Maltman, - 
 
 - 1851-52. 
 
 James Craig, - 
 
 Cordiner, - 
 
 - 1853-54- 
 
 James Wilson, 
 
 Wright, - 
 
 - 1855-56. 
 
 John Morrison, 
 
 Hammerman, 
 
 - 1857-58. 
 
 Adam M'Lellan, 
 
 Tailor, 
 
 - 1859-60. 
 
 Anthony Inglis, 
 
 Hammerman, 
 
 - 1861-62. 
 
 James Graham, 
 
 Wright, 
 
 - 1863-64. 
 
 Thomas Blyth, 
 
 Cordiner, - 
 
 - 1865-66. 
 
 Walter Bannerman, 
 
 Wright, 
 
 - 1S67-68. 
 
 Thomas Warren, - 
 
 Hammerman, 
 
 - 1S69-70. 
 
 James Neilson, 
 
 Maltman, - 
 
 1871-72. 
 
 William Smith, 
 
 Hammerman, 
 
 - 1873-74. 
 
 Archibald Gilchrist, 
 
 Hammerman, 
 
 - 1875-76. 
 
 Robert Alexander Bogue, 
 
 Tailor, 
 
 - 1877-78. 
 
 Andrew M'Onie, 
 
 Hammerman, 
 
 - 1879-80. 
 
 Thomas Reid, 
 
 Dyer, 
 
 - 1881-82.
 
 2 28 Incorporation of Cordiiicrs. 
 
 From 1604 till now it appears there were 159 Deacon- 
 Conveners, of whom fifteen hailed from the Cordiner 
 craft, which shows a very fair percentage of honours 
 attained by the Cordiners ; but during a more recent 
 period it is to be regretted that the Cordiners have not, 
 from some unexplained cause, gained such a good 
 percentage of the honours, although they have had 
 many good and able men amongst them. 
 
 In olden times, and even well on in the present 
 century, the Deacon's Day was one of the most eventful 
 days of the year for the craftsmen, and the following 
 humorous sketch by Mr. Finlay, which we extract from 
 Whistle-Binkie, shows in some measure the customs 
 which prevailed on such occasions : — 
 
 "the deacon's day. 
 " A 1 R — Kebbockstane Wcddin\ 
 
 " O rise man, Robin, an' rin you wa's, 
 
 The sun in the lift is bleezing brightly; 
 Put on the best o' your Sunday braws, 
 
 And your gravat tie round your thrapple tichtly. 
 Then whip on your castor, and haste to the muster. 
 
 The Trades i' the Green hae this hour been convenin', 
 And our wits we maun use, a good Deacon to choose — 
 
 'Tis a day ' big with fate,' at your post then be leanin'. 
 
 " Now Robin has risen, and aff he has gane 
 
 To meet wi' the leaders o' ilk Corporation — 
 And awa they parade wi' their banners displayed — 
 
 There has ne'er been its like sin' the Queen's Coronation. 
 There were Tinklers and Tailors, and Wabsters and Nailers, 
 
 And Barbers and lilacksmiths, and Gardeners sae gaudy — 
 A' life to the heels, and as guid-looking chiels 
 
 As e'er cam' to light by the help o' a howdie.
 
 Roll of Deacon- Conveners^ etc. 229 
 
 " ' Gentlemen, — We hae this day met for the purpose of electing a 
 head to our Master Court. It is true that new-fangled notions hae 
 ta'en possession o' men's minds since the date o' our Charter, and 
 niair particularly since the date o' our late Magna Charta, the 
 Reform Bill ; but will ony man possessed o' his seven senses argufy 
 me into the belief that the Incorporation of Wrights that I hae, 
 during the currency o' the last twalmonth, been the head o' — or 
 rather, I may say, the centre upon which a' its hinges turned — has 
 not been productive of substantious and manifest advantage to the 
 public in general, and to the craft in particular. Noo, Gentlemen, 
 to the square o' my speech — rough and knotty though it be, and 
 micht be a' the better o' a strip frae a jack plane — I like to be special 
 in a' my specialities, and to keep to the dove-tail o' the matter; I, 
 therefore, before proceeding to the election, have to request that you 
 will allow me to say a word or twa touching the matter in hand. 
 Although I am yet the tongue o' the trump, it would, nevertheless 
 and notwithstanding, be unwise, as well as ill-bred, to tak' up much 
 o' your time at the present moment, seeing how much we have 
 before us this day, independent of what we have to o'ertak', and 
 tak' o'er too — the better tak' o' the twa — before bed-time ; there- 
 fore, I will be exceedingly brief, for I 'm beginning to fear that 
 ye '11 think me a boring-bit ; to use the words of my frien', the late 
 Deacon-Convener, I will be ' very whuppy in the matter o' my 
 speech.' Weel, Gentlemen, we have all heard o' my friend and 
 brother in the management o' his ain Corporation, Geordy Wriggles, 
 present Deacon of the Incorporation of Weavers. Our man is nae 
 man of mere thrums, or a piece of veneer manufacture — put the 
 wummle through him, ye wad find the same piece outside and in — 
 nane o' your fley-the-doos, but a man o' means and measures, and 
 who will dress up and keep in thorough repair a' the building about 
 our Corporation. Wha seconds Deacon Wriggles?' ' Me, Deacon,' 
 answers Deacon Snipe, the Tailor. ' Weel, lads, I see my friend is 
 carried unamous (at least, I 'm unamous) by a great majority. — 
 Cheer the Deacon till the kebars shake.' 
 
 " A shout of applause, which rent the air. 
 
 Was heard at the grand master deacon's election ;
 
 230 Incorporation of Cordlncrs. 
 
 And awa to his dwelling they now repair, 
 
 That his friends may rejoice in the happy selection. 
 
 His comely guidwiffie sprang out in a jifhe, 
 
 And stood at the door in her best, every steek on ; 
 
 Joy danced in her e'en as she welcomed them in 
 To dine, and to drink to the health o' the deacon. 
 
 "The dinner was tasty, their appetites guid— 
 
 For tradesmen hae stomachs as weel as their betters ; 
 And they syned doun the sappy, substantial food 
 
 Wi' a capfu' o' yill and a glass o' strong waters. 
 Then up raise the auld deacon, a subject to speak on. 
 
 For which he lamented his powers were not fitting ; 
 But he scarted his lug, gied his wig a bit rug, 
 
 And thus, after boasting, broke forth to the meeting : — 
 
 " 'After what I hae this day spoken in anither place, there's nae 
 occasion again to put the bit through the same bore, or to run the 
 plane o'er a dressed plank, sae I'll gie ye Deacon-Convener Wriggles' 
 good health, no forgetting wife and sproots — they'll be a' trees belyve 
 — and may every guid attend him and them ; and may he aye be 
 able to keep a guid polish on the face o' our Corporation affairs, and 
 leave them without a screw loose to his successor. Umbrells* to 
 Deacon Wriggles ! ' 
 
 "The health was drunk aff wi' three times three ; 
 
 And, the roar and the ruffing a' fairly subsided. 
 The young deacon blush'd, and sat fidging a wee, 
 
 For he saw that a speech couldna weel be avoided. 
 He scarcely, we reckon, for gospel was takin' 
 
 A' that the auld deacon had said on his merit ; 
 But, like a' men in place, he received it with grace, 
 
 Then raise up to his feet, and address'd them in spiiit — 
 
 " ' Really, freens, it's out o' the power o' speech or language, 
 whether in print or out o't, to tell ye the feelings o' my heart. Did 
 ever a bairn o' Willie Wriggles' think to come to such preferment ; 
 
 * Toast drunk ofi' and glasses inverted.
 
 Roll of Dcacon-Convencn, etc. 231 
 
 really, if I could speak, there's plenty o' room for scope, but my 
 heart is tumbling the wullcat, and I canna trust the tongue in my ain 
 head. I doubt that I'll no be able to ca' a pirnfu' o' waft into the 
 wab o' my discourse on this occasion, but hae to gather up the ends 
 afore I begin ; but, ultimately, in the end, and in the middle o' the 
 meantime, my gratitude and respect for ye a' will never hae done, 
 for the lasting, permanent, and never-ending honor ye hae conferred 
 on me this day. I expect to learn my duty as I get mair into the 
 marrow o' our Corporation matters — you'll no expect me to be perfited 
 in ae day. My father used to say to me, ' Geordy, my man, keep 
 aye a canny hand — ^just get on by degrees gradually,' whilk I hae 
 aye tried to do ; for, when I took langer steps than the length o' my 
 limbs would allow, I aye spelder'd mysel', and cam' down to my 
 knees, and lost my time and my standing — forbye being laught at. 
 I ca' canny, and never draw back my shuttle till it is clear o' the 
 selvidge, and this preserves my wab o' life free o' cluds and scobs — 
 a' ways even. I would advise ane an' a' o' ye to do the like, and then 
 the fabric o' your wark, in the ways o' the world, will be a pattern 
 for ithers ; and, when your shaft is at the beam-head, you may cut 
 your wab by the thrum-keel, wi' credit to yoursel'. I hae now 
 gotten to the hill-tap o' my ambition, and to think o' me being 
 advanced to be deacon o' deacons is an honor that's reserved for 
 but few. It hasna cost me a great strussel either, sic preferment — 
 but this may be fleeching mysel', but I canna help it — ye a' ken it's 
 true ; nae doubt the watering-cant has been gaun about, and been 
 geyan often filled sin' I set my e'e on the deacon's chair, but I hae 
 stood my water and corn brawly.' (Noise iit the street). 'Dear me, 
 freens, what's that I hear? the very weans on the street crying, 
 'Gude day to you. Deacon.' 'No, no. Deacon, it's Hawkie crying 
 a hanging speech, or maybe his cure for ill wives.' 'Is that a'? 
 Weel, lads, that would be better than Soloman's balm, for, wise as 
 he was, he couldna help himsel' when he got his wab misbet. I 
 was saying, wasn't I, that I had stood my corn and water? Aye lay 
 in your corn first, and ye'U be the better able to stand a tap dressing ; 
 do like the Kilbarchan calves — drink wi' a rip i' your mouth. Mony 
 
 t Gill stoup.
 
 Incorporation of Cordi7iers. 
 
 a time and often hae I gaen, or was taen hame, wi' as mony great 
 thochts in my liead, working like a crock fu' o' sour dressing, as 
 vvoukl sair ony o' our town's ministers to work wi' for a towmond ; 
 but, when I lifted my e'e neist morning, the warp o' my ideas had 
 lost the fees ; I couldna mak onytbing o' them ; but, had onybody 
 been able to put it througli a right ravel, they wad hae benefited 
 mankind, an' been the very best stroke ever drawn through a reed. 
 Noo, ultimately in the end — as I am on my last pirn — I may just 
 relate to you, for your encouragement, frae what a sma' beginning I 
 hae come to this pinnacle o' honour and prosperity as ye see this day, 
 so that nane o' ye may be discouraged, although ye begin wi' a wab 
 o' ill yarn ; and it's possible you may get up the ladder o' preferment 
 — yea, e'en to the last step — gin ye put on your feet steadily, and 
 aye put the richt ane first ; this thing and that may gie ye a jundie, 
 but keep a firm grip wi' baith hands o' the ladder rails, and your e'e 
 fixed on the tap, and nae fear. Weel, after I was done wi' my 
 'prenticeship — and mony a time my stomach thocht my wizen was 
 sneckit during that time, for what wi' gauze parrich, and muslin 
 kail, ae barley-pile a hale dressing frae the ither, and dancing 
 curcuddie in the pot a-boil — I thocht mony a time my heart wad 
 ne'er been able to send a shot mair through the shed ; but I got 
 through, and then tried a bit shop in the Kirk-raw, wi' the house in 
 the ben end, and a bit garter o' garden ahint ; sae on I wrocht as 
 my father advised, by degrees gradually, and made a fendin' o't, and 
 bettered my condition ; and, by and bye, I says to my laird, ' Man, 
 could ye no put back the yard dykes a bore, and gie me mair elbow- 
 room, for I could yerk my shuttle in at the ae side, and catch't at 
 the ither without stressing mysel';' that's the very words I said to 
 him, but he laughed me aft" frae ae Martinmas till anither, till at last 
 — for the bit property was only his in name — a burden o' debt that 
 lay on it's back brack down the shouthers o' the laird and landed it 
 on mine, whilk I could easily bear, for mair has been added till't 
 since, and tlie shouthers hae stood it a'. Noo, ye see what can be 
 done. Keep Providence aye on ae side o' ye and a consistent life 
 on the other, and you'll work your last thrum into the very heddles 
 wi' comfort to yoursel', and leave an example to the youngsters wha 
 are just beginning to put their feet on the treddles.'
 
 Roll of Deacon-Coiiveiicrs, etc. 23 j 
 
 ' At length, in his chair, the deacon sat down, 
 
 And the sweat, for a wee, frae his haffets he dichtet ; 
 The glass, and the song, and the joke gaed roun', 
 
 Till'ilka ane's wit by his neighbour's was lichted : 
 Sic laughin' and daffin' and roarin' and riiffin' — 
 
 Care couldna a hole see to stap his cauld beak in ; 
 And, when they broke up, the glorious group 
 
 Gaed hobblin' hame, hiccupin', 'Health to the Deacon.'"
 
 234 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 CHAPTER XX A^ III. 
 
 UNION BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND — COMMOTION 
 AMONGST THE PEOPLE — ACTION OF CORDINERS AND 
 OTHER CRAFTSMEN. 
 
 This Union, especially in Scotland, seems to have created 
 a most wonderful ferment amongst the people ; and, in 
 so far as Glasgow was concerned, especially amongst its 
 craftsmen. We find that the crafts represented, in a 
 great measure, the views of the citizens, and that the 
 Cordiners took an important part in connection with the 
 then disputes, for Mr. John Stevenson, the deacon of 
 the Cordiners, formed one of a deputation of three 
 appointed to go to Parhament to state the grievances 
 of the people of Glasgow. 
 
 When Princess Anne, in 1702, ascended the throne, 
 to the satisfaction of all parties, the kingdoms of Scot- 
 land and England had been governed by one sovereign 
 since the days of James I. of England, yet each nation 
 continued to be ruled by its respective parliament — each 
 of which often pursued opposite interests. To avoid this 
 a union between the kingdoms had often been attempted 
 and failed; but it was at last concluded and ratified 
 by the Scotch Parliament on 25th March, 1707. The 
 terms of this Union were very obnoxious to the people 
 of Scotland, for, although the Scottish Parliament had 
 deputed twenty commissioners to meet twenty-three
 
 Union bctn'ccn Scotland and England. 235 
 
 commissioners appointed by the English Parliament, the 
 people maintained that they had been deceived, that the 
 terms of the Articles of Union had been carefully con- 
 cealed, and that they were not known till they were laid 
 before Parliament. The commotion was so great that all 
 ranks of the people raised their united voice against what 
 they considered a detested treaty. The nobility and gentry 
 were exasperated at the abolition of the Scottish Parlia- 
 ment, and, as they thought, their consequent loss of 
 influence. The main body of the people conceived that 
 they saw the independence of the nation sacrificed, and 
 they confidently afhrmed that the necessary residence of 
 the Scotch members in London would involve the with- 
 drawal of a large amount of money from circulation in 
 Scotland. The commercial portion of the inhabitants 
 was also dissatisfied v.-ith the Union, for a variety of 
 reasons adduced by them, the principal one being its 
 probable evil effect on the interests of trade and 
 commerce. Very violent disputes took place in the 
 Scottish Parliament. Lord Belhaven, in a vivid and 
 impassioned speech, deplored the situation into which 
 the Union would bring the Scottish nation, and drew 
 tears from the eyes of many of his audience. Almost 
 every article of the Treaty was made the subject of a 
 protest; addresses against it were prepared and pre- 
 sented to Parliament by the Convention of Royal 
 Burghs, the Commissioners of the General Assembly, 
 the shires, burghs, towns, and parishes, and by others, 
 without distinction of creed or politics. 
 
 In Glasgow the disturbances in connection with the 
 Union assumed for a time a somewhat serious aspect.
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 and addresses against it were presented by all 
 classes. Messrs. Jofin Bowman, dean of guild, Robert 
 Scott, deacon of the Tailors, and John Stevenson, 
 deacon of the Cordiners, were sent to Parliament with, 
 and presented, the united remonstrances of their fellow- 
 citizens of Glasgow. 
 
 The Commission of the General Assembly appointed a 
 fast to be held on Thursday, 7th November, to implore 
 the Divine protection from what was considered an 
 impending calamity. On this occasion Mr. James Clark, 
 the minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow, preached 
 from these words in Ezra viii. 21, "Then I proclaimed a 
 fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might afflict 
 ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for 
 us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance." 
 After the discourse was finished the preacher said, 
 " Wherefore, up and be valiant for the city of our God !" 
 The people instantly rose, and being joined by those 
 from other towns, armed themselves, and burned the 
 proposed Articles of Union. They then resolved to 
 take their way to Edinburgh and dissolve the Parlia- 
 ment. Meantime the Privy Council had issued a 
 proclamation against riots, and ordered the guard to 
 fire on the discontented. Soon after this the ministry, 
 in consequence of the defection of a number of the 
 nobility and gentry who had formerly favoured the 
 the popular feeling against the Union, succeeded in 
 obtaining a majority, and the articles were passed by 
 the Scottish Parliament on the 3rd October, 1706, on 
 which occasion the Duke of Queensberry, who was a 
 great supporter of the Union, dissolved that ancient
 
 Union between Scotland and England. 237 
 
 assembly, and Scotland from that time ceased to be a 
 separate and independent kingdom. After this the two 
 kingdoms, as stipulated by the Treaty, took the name 
 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. On the ist 
 May, 1708, the British Parliament, by fifty against 
 forty, dissolved the Scotch Privy Council, whereby the 
 last vestige of the ancient national government of Scot- 
 land was removed. 
 
 The commotion against the Union had not been 
 allayed when the religious sentiments of the Scottish 
 people were aroused by an Act of Parliament passed 
 in 17 12, which conferred the patronage of the Scotch 
 Church upon certain public bodies and individuals. 
 This was considered by the people as an infringement 
 of their religious liberties, as, since the Scotch Act of 
 Parliament of 1690, the heritors and elders of every 
 parish elected their own ministers. By the recent Act 
 of 1874 abolishing patronage, the principles of the old 
 Act of 1690 have been reverted to, but in a more 
 extended form, inasmuch as the right of electing 
 ministers to fill the charges in the Church of Scotland 
 is now conferred on the congregations of the church. 
 
 Whatever may be thought of the union of the two 
 kingdoms in a pofitical point of view, it is undeniable 
 that the predictions of the objectors to it at the time have 
 not been fulfilled, but that, on the contrary, the Union has 
 tended greatly to the advantage and commercial prosperity 
 and enrichment of Scotland as well as of England ; and 
 we of the present day, it is thought, have every reason to 
 be thankful for the accomplishment of a Union which has 
 brought in its train so many substantial advantages to us.
 
 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 The Union has not impaired in any way, as is well known, 
 our national independence ; and, although there may be 
 some who hold a different view, it is hoped we are now, 
 and ever will be, as true and independent Scotchmen 
 as before the accomplishment of the Union, which was 
 the occasion of so much excitement and a source of 
 bitter complaint at tlie time.
 
 Grorvth of Glasgow — Population, etc. 239 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 GROWTI-I OF GLASGOW — HARBOUR REVENUE IN 1771 AND 
 1882 — POPULATION IN 1708 AND 1882 — RENTAL — AND 
 PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL CONSTITUENCY. 
 
 In the preceding pages we have endeavoured, as far as 
 possible, to avoid giving statistics except where it was 
 considered -absolutely necessary to explain the subject 
 in hand. But, with a view to illustrate the rapid growth 
 of Glasgow, we deem it essential to give the following few 
 statistics showing that growth : — 
 
 The first harbour revenue of Glasgow was for the year 
 1 77 1, and amounted to ;^i,o34, while for the year 1882 
 it had increased to ^264,549 odds. 
 
 The population of Glasgow in the year 1708 — the year 
 after the union of Scotland with England — was 12,766, 
 while it is estimated that at June, 1882, it had increased 
 to 536,000, and if the inhabitants in the suburbs were 
 added it would amount to no less than 724,000. This 
 surely shows a growth which can only be termed 
 prodigious. 
 
 In 1855, when the valuation roll was made up for the 
 first time by a statutory public assessor, the rental of the 
 present Glasgow was ^1,377,892, while it now stands at 
 the large sum of ^3,425,653. 
 
 In 1856, when the roll of the parliamentary or male 
 electors was made up, also for the first time, by a statutory
 
 240 Incorpomtiou of Cordincrs. 
 
 public assessor, the number of electors was 1 8,009. At the 
 present time, the roll of the parliamentary constituency 
 contains 63,714 electors. 
 
 'Fhe present municipal burgh is more extensive in area 
 than the parliamentary burgh, and hence the constituency 
 of the municipal is larger than the parliamentary burgli. 
 as will be seen below. 
 
 The municipal constituency for 1882 is as follows : — 
 
 Male Electors, - . - . 66,786 
 
 Female Electors, enfranchised under 
 
 Dr. Cameron's Act of 1881, - 12,986 
 
 Or a total Municipal Constituency of 79,772
 
 APPENDIX.
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 I. — Table of Scots Money. 
 
 Scots money 15 the twelfth of the same denomination of sterling money. 
 
 .Sterling. 
 
 A Doyt or Penny is - - 1'^ 
 
 A Bodle or Twopence is y-j 
 
 A Plack, Groat, or Fourpence, is - - - - ,% 
 
 A Shilling is - - - id. 
 
 .\ Merk is 13/4, or ftds. of a Pound, . . _ . i/ij^ 
 A Pound is - - 1/8 
 
 II. — Regulations by the Provost, Bailies, etc., of Glas- 
 gow, IN Favour of the Craftsmen of Cordiners, 
 dated 27TH June, 1460. 
 
 To All and Sundrie to whose knowledge ihir present 
 Letters shall come — 
 
 The Provost, Baillies, Council, and Communities of the 
 Burgh and Citie of Glasgow, Greeting, in God's ever- 
 lasting will. Your Universities. 
 
 That, the day and date of thir presents. Compeared before us, the 
 Craftsmen of the Cordeners and Barkers, being Cordeners of our said 
 city, and presented to us, sitting in judgment, our Council gathered, 
 their Bill and supplication, of the which the tenor follows in thir 
 words :— 
 
 My Lord Provist, Bailies, and worthy Councill of this good town 
 of Glasgow — Unto your discretions, humbly meaning and shows
 
 244 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 your scivanls the craftsmen of the Cordeners and Barkers, being 
 Cordcners, in-dvvellers of this burch and citie, burgesses and free- 
 men of the same : they are to say — Allan Matthie, Allan Simson, 
 James Brodwood, younger, Gilbert Craig, Nicol Snodgrass, John 
 Gilmour, John Anderson, elder, Matthew Barnhill, Michael Ridzeaul, 
 James Brodwood, elder, Matthew Cameron, Hector Galbreatli, 
 Patrick Ker, Robert Young, Patrick Paterson, John Craig, William 
 Hill, John Barton, William Cullen, Archibald Craig, Robert Mour, 
 Thomas Craig, John Allan, and the remanent freemen of the said 
 occupation, that, where for^ the loving of the Almighty God's 
 worship, and holy kirk, and common wealth of this good town, and 
 for the profit of all and sundry our loving Lord the King's Grace' 
 leidges, and others repairing and resorting thereto, and for the help 
 and support of our poor decayed brethren of our craft, failzied in 
 goods, both present and to come, and for the sustentation and relief 
 of our common charges, and to be laid upon our said craft ; we 
 desire that we may have the statutes, articles and rules following, 
 granted and given unto us by your authorities, where, through 
 good-will of us and our brethren, set furthward, and inconveniences 
 avoyded, which in time past has been to our disprofit, namely : the 
 banquets that we were used to cause ilk freeman of our craft make 
 at his entry and upset \\\ this burch, which we willing remit and 
 discharge as unprofitable, and alter the same in money, less than 
 they would expend before, to be bestowed upon our common 
 charges, and for support of our poor brethren of craft ; and con- 
 sidering it is said by common authority bot order make confusion, 
 and for to eschew the inconveniencies thereof, in all time coming, 
 ihir articles and statutes following are our rational desires, we desire 
 and ask to be approven and ratifyed by your wisdoms. 
 
 Articles petitioned for, and granted, by the Council 
 OF Glasgow, to the Cordiners and Barkers being 
 Cordeners. 
 
 Item. — In the first place. That craftsmen of the said craft, most 
 habile and convenient thereto, shall have power equally to choose 
 their own Deacon and Masters of craft, who shall be defended by
 
 Regulations of Cordiners, 1460. 245 
 
 the Provost and Baillies in all their leisom acts and statutes for the 
 common weill of the burch and city foresaid : also, that every man 
 of the said craft, pretending to set up within this good town, shall 
 be made first freemen and burgess with the town, and before he set 
 up booth, shall pay for his upset as follows : viz. — If he be a free 
 burgess man's son of this town, the sum of four pounds money ; and 
 if he be an unfreeman's son, and was prentice, and learned within 
 this town, shall pay of upset the sum of five pounds money ; and if 
 he be a stranger unfreeman's son that was not learned or apprentice 
 in this town, shall pay the sum of ten pounds money of upset, to be 
 bestowed upon the common charges of the craft, and supporting of 
 the poor decayed brethren thereof — which sum being compared with 
 the banquet used of old by the upset of many, is of less value than it 
 was before, but redounds to the more profit of the craft. 
 
 Item. — That every apprentice, at his entry to the said craft, if he 
 be a freeman's som of this good town of Glasgow, shall pay the sum 
 of twenty shillings money ; and if he be a stranger or unfreeman's 
 son of this town, shall pay for their entries the sum of forty shillings 
 silver money, to be bestowed in the foresaid uses. Also, that every 
 master of the said craft shall pay weekly one Scots penny to the box, 
 for the supporting of their poor brethren and charges specified ; and 
 every servant, prentice being excepted, shall pay, in like manner, 
 one halfpenny to them who happens to be depute to the gathering 
 of the same. And, also, every man of the said occupation, both 
 free and unfree, that presents any work to the mercate, or any 
 Barker any leather to sale, shall pay each time they present work 
 one penny to the said box and collector forsaid. 
 
 Item. — That each outen town's child, before he be admitted to 
 serve under a master of the said craft, shall pay the sum of twenty 
 shillings money to the box of the said craft, to be used and bestowed 
 in the uses as written. 
 
 Item. — It is statuted and ordained that ilk one of the said 
 craftsmen who happens to be absent from the four quarter accounts, 
 being duly warned and required by the officer of the said craft, shall 
 pay to the said box four shillings. 
 
 Item. — It is statute and ordained, that no freeman of the craft 
 take a prentice for shorter time nor the space of seven years, and
 
 >46 l7icorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 shall have no power to take Init one apprentice allenarly in the seven 
 years ; and if any be found doing in the contrarie, he shall pay a new 
 upset to the box, to be bestowed as said is. 
 
 Item. — It is statuted and ordained, that no manner of man of 
 the said craft-freemen, or others in their names, fitch another man's 
 stand in the mercate, after it is laid down, or seat as use is, under 
 the pain of eight shillings, to be payed to the Provost and Baillies, 
 and six shillings to the box forsaid. Also, it is statuted and 
 ordained, that no manner of man, freeman, or others, present any 
 work to the mercate until nine hours of the day, under the pain of 
 eight shillings, to be payed to the said box ; and attour it shall not 
 be allowed to no unfreeman to stand betwixt freemen and the Cross, 
 under the pain of eight shillings, to be paid to the said box ; and 
 that no freeman shall have on his stand an unfreeman's work, 
 under the pain of four shillings, unforgiven, to be paid to the 
 box of the said craft ; and it shall be lawful to the Deacon 
 and the Masters of the craft, for the commonweil of our Sovereign 
 Lord's lieges, to search and examine both the made work and 
 leather barked, being presented to the mercate or any other 
 place ; and sic like the Deacon and Masters shall search the whole 
 made work within this town ; and if there be found any work 
 unsufficient, or leather viel unsufficient barked, the Deacon shall 
 advertise the oveisman of the town thereof, and thereafter the 
 owner thereof, the unsufficient work or barked leather, shall tyne 
 the same. 
 
 Item. — It is statuted and ordained, that no master of the said 
 craft shall take another man's servant, nor his apprentice, Mathout 
 his leave licensed of his master that he was serving last to, and unto 
 the time to be made out and accounted for, and reckoned for, and 
 payment of his intromissions with his master's goods wherewith he 
 intermitted ; and if there be any found doing the contrary of this 
 statute, he shall pay eight shillings to the Baillie and six shillings to 
 the box of the craft. And in case any freemen of the said craft 
 receive again in service any servant that left his master, being feied 
 with him without time, and yet be feied and served others of any 
 other craft, he that receives again to serve shall pay a new upset tf) 
 the said box of the craft.
 
 Regulations of Cordiners, 1460. 247 
 
 Item. — If any man of the said craft, dwelling^ within the said 
 town, and break, disobey the said Deacon, masters of craft, or their 
 officer, in any points forsaid, or in the execution of his office, shall 
 pay ane new upset to the said craft, and twenty shillings to the 
 Baillie of the town, as oft as there shall be any found and tryed 
 culpable by the brethren of the craft. 
 
 Item. — It is statute that the last entered that shall come to be 
 freeman with the craft, shall be Officer to the same, unto the time 
 another come to be a freeman with the said craft. And also it is 
 statute and ordained, that the said Deacon of the craft, accompanied 
 with the officer of the toun, shall have power to poynd and dis- 
 trenzie for the duties and the unlaws as written, and in default of 
 payment, conform to this erection, with power to close the debtor's 
 or disobedient's booth window unto the time he make full payment 
 and satisfaction. Also, the said Deacon, with the advice of the best 
 and worthiest craftmen of the said craft, shall have power to make 
 statutes to their own craft, for the common weil and profit of the said 
 burgh and city, and the support of their poor, and therein in all 
 time coming, as Officers and Deacon. 
 
 To do which statutes, articles and rules being read, and heard, 
 and understood, and diligently considered, that they are, in first, for 
 the loving of Almighty God, and for the common weil of our 
 Sovereign Lord's lieges, and for the goodwill in time coming, to 
 themselves, and tend to the profit of them and their poor distressed 
 brethren of craft, and of their common charge, — We, the said 
 Provost, Baillies, and Council, has ratified, approven, and confirmed, 
 and be these presents ratify, approve, and confirm, for us and our 
 successors, the said articles, in all and sundry other points as written, 
 to the said trade craftsmen, and their successors of the said craft, in 
 perpetual memorie, in time to come ; and thir premises, to all and 
 sundry whom it effeirs, we make manifest and known, be these our 
 presents letters, — To the which, in witness verification of the same, 
 the common seal of our said burgh and city, with our subscriptions 
 manual, and our Scribe of Court, as after follows, is hanging at the 
 said seal of Glasgow, the twenty-seventh day of June, the year o 
 God one thousand four hundred and threescore years. 
 {Duly Signed and Scahd. )
 
 248 Incorporation of Cordiiicrs. 
 
 III. — Skai. oi' Causk ky iHK Provost and Maciistkatks ok 
 Glas(;o\v in Favour of the Incorporation of Cok- 
 DiNEUs, 27TH February, 1558, and Ratification thekkof 
 liY James, Archbishop of Glasgow. 
 
 ( Revised 'ioith Original by James D. Marwick, LL.D., Toion-Cler/:, 
 Glasgoio, January, iSSi.) 
 
 Till all and syndry liuliais knawlage thir present lettres sail to cum : 
 The Prouest Bailies counsell and comunitie of the burght and cietie 
 of glesgw gretinge, in God euyrlastinge wittis zour vniuersiteis that 
 the day and dait of thir presentis comperit befoir ws the craftismen 
 of the cordownaris and barkaris of our said cietie and prescntit till 
 ws sitand In Jugement our cownsell gaddirrit thair bill and Suppli- 
 catioune of the quhilk the tennour followis In thir wordis^ 
 
 My lorde prouest bailies and worthy counsell of this gude toune 
 of glesgw, wnto zour discretiouneis humilie menis and schewis zour 
 seruatouris the craftismen of the cordownaris and barkaris Induellaris 
 of this burght and cietie burgessis and fremen of the sammyn, thay 
 ar to say patrik pudzen, androw craige, Johne androw, elder, robert 
 mwre, gilbart craige, allane Stevynsoune, James braidwod, elder, 
 NicoU Snodgers, patrik patersoune, mychaell morsone, Johne Sym, 
 James braidwod, zowngar, thomas craige, Johne bog and mathow 
 bernehill and the remanent fremen of the Saidis occupatiouneis : 
 That quhair for the louynge of almychty god the honour of holy kirk 
 wirschep and commowne veile of this gude towne and for the profifet 
 of all and syndry our souerane lorde and ladyis the king and quene 
 graceis leigeis and wtheris reparing thairto, and for augmentatioune 
 of deuine seruice at the alter of Sanct niniane situat In the metro- 
 politane kirk of glasgw, the honour of the Sanctis crispine and 
 crispinani our patrones we dissire that we may haue thir statutis 
 articlis and rewlis followinge grantit and gevyn to ws be zour auto- 
 rities, quhair throw gude rewle and gidinge may be had amangis ws 
 and oure successouris of the said craft baytht maisteris and seruandis 
 In time commynge, considirringe It is said be commowne autoritie 
 that mwltitude Init ordour makis confusioune and for to eschew the 
 onconuenient thairof in all tyme commynge Thir articulis followinge 
 ar our ressonabile dissires :
 
 Seal of Cause of Cordiners, 1358. 249 
 
 Item, In the first that the craftis men of the said craft maist habill 
 and worthy thairto sail half povvar zeirlie to cheis thame ane deikin 
 and kirk maister quhilk sal be defendit be the prouest and bailies in 
 all thair lesum actis and Statutis for the commowne veile of this 
 burght and cietie foirsaidis Alsswa that euyrry man of the Saidis 
 craftis pretendinge to set wp bwitht In this gude toune he sal be 
 maid first freman witht the toune and pay to the wphaldinge and 
 reparatioune of the said alter the sowme of thre pundis sex schilling 
 awcht penneis for his vpset, Alsswa that all fremen sonneis within 
 this said burght and cietie In the vpsetinge of thair bwithtis of new, 
 sal pay allanerlie for thair vpset to the reparatioune of the said alter 
 sex schillinge awcht pennyis money, Item that euyrry prenteiss at his 
 entres to the saidis craft sail pay to the reparatioune of the saidis 
 alter the sowme of twenty schillingis money, Alsswa that euyrry 
 maister of the said craft sail pay oueklie to the reparatioune of the 
 said alter ane penny scottis and euyrry seruand (prenteissis being 
 exceptit) sail pay Inlykmaner oueklie ane half penny to thame 
 quhilkis hapins to be deput to the gaddirringe of the Sammyn, and 
 als that euyrry man of the saidis occupatioune baytht fre and unfre 
 that presentis to the markat ony werk or tarkit leddir to sell sail 
 pay ilk time thay present werk ane penny to the vphald of the suf- 
 fraige of the said Alter, Alsswa It is statut and ordaneit that all thay 
 quhilk ar absent fra the four quarter comptis beand dewlie warneit 
 and requirit be the ofSciare of the craft sail pay to the alter foure 
 schillingis, Alsswa It is statut and ordaneit that nayne freman tak 
 ane prenteiss for schortar space nor the space of sevyn zeiris and sail 
 half powar to tak bot ane prenteis allanyrlie In the sevyn zeir, and 
 gif ony beis fwndyn doand in the contrer he sail pay to the alter thre 
 pund sex schillinge aucht penneiss, Item It is statut and ordaneit 
 that nayne maner of man freman nor wthir be thayme self thair ser- 
 uandis nor wthir In thair naymeis, feiche ane wthir mannis stand in 
 the mercat eftir that It be laid or set as vse is wnder the payne of 
 aucht schillinge to be payit to the prouest or bailies and sex schil- 
 linge to the alter, Alsswa It is statut and ordaneit that nayne maner 
 of man, freman nor wthir present ony werk to the mercat quhill nyne 
 houris of the day wnder the payne of ane pund of wax, and attour It 
 sail nocht be leswm to nayne wnfreman to stand betuix ane freman
 
 250 Incorporation of Coniiners. 
 
 and the corce wntlerthe payne of ane pund of wax, and at nayne fre- 
 man ressaue vpone his stande ane wnfremanis werk wnder the 
 payne of four schillingis wnforgiftin, and alsswa It sail be lefull to 
 the deikin and kirk maistiris for the commowne veile of oure souerane 
 lorde and ladyis Igieis to seirs and exenie baitht maid werk and barkit 
 leddir presentit to the nierkat or ony wthir place, and be thair fwndyn 
 ony werk insufficient or leddir evill and Insufficientlie barkit the 
 deikin sal aduerteis the ourmen of the toune thairof and thaireftir 
 the awner of the Insufficient werk or barkit leddir sail tyne the 
 sammyn, Item It is statut and ordaneit that nayne maister sail tak 
 ane wthir mannis seruand nor his prenteis without he haif licence of 
 his maister that he was seruand last to and wnto the tyme he haif 
 maid compt reknynge and jDayment of his Intromissione with his 
 maisteris gudis quhair — witht he intromittit, and gif ony dois in the 
 contrer of this statut he shall pay awcht schillingis to the bailies and 
 sex schillingis to the alter, Item gif ony man of the saidis craft 
 dueliand within the said burght and cietie disobayis the saidis deikin 
 and kirk maister or thair officiar In ony of the poynteis foirsaidis or 
 in the executioune of his office sail pay ane new vpset and twenty 
 schillingis to the bailies als oft as thair beis ony fwndyn culpabile, 
 and attour it is statut and ordaneit that the said deikyn sail haif 
 power to poynde and distrenze for the dewteis and wnlawis abone 
 vrittyn and in defaidt of payment conforme to this erectioune witht 
 powar till clois the dettour or disobayaris bwitht and wyndo wnlo the 
 tyme he mak full payment and satisfactioune, Alsswa the said deikin 
 witht the aduyis of the best and worthyest craftismen of thair craft 
 sail haif power to mak statutis to thaire awne craft for the commowne 
 veile and proffet of the said burght and cietie and for the vphald of 
 the said alter and suffraige to be done thairat In all tyme commynge 
 as efferis ane deiken to do, Quhilkis Statutis articlis and rewlis being 
 red hard and wndirstande and diligentlie considvirit that thay ar in 
 the first for the lovynge of almychty god awgmentatioune of diuine 
 serulce and for the veile of our souerane lorde and ladyis liegis and 
 for gude revvile In tyme commynge amangis thayme of the said craft, 
 we the saidis prouest bailies and counsell witht the consent assent 
 approbatioune and I'atificatioune of ane maist reuerend fadir James 
 be the mercie of God archbischop of glesgw hes ratefyit appreuit and
 
 Seal of Cause of Cordincrs^ ^5^9- 
 
 confirmeit and be tliir presentis ratefyis appieuis and confirmeis for 
 ws and oure successouris the foirsaid articlis In all and syndry thir 
 prymeissis abone vrittyn to the saidis craftismen and thair succes- 
 souris of the said craft in perpetuall memoreall In tyme to cum, and 
 thir premissis to all and syndry quhame it efferis we mak manifest 
 and knawin be thir our present lettres to the quhilkis In witnes and 
 verificatioune of the Sammyn the Seile of the said maist reuerend 
 fadir oure lorde and prelat In verificatioune of his consent and appro- 
 batioune togiddir witht oure commowne seile to thir presentis ar 
 appendit at our burght and cietie foirsaid the twenty sevyn day of 
 febuar the zeir of god Jm ^'c and fyftie awcht zeiris (27 February 
 1558). 
 
 IV. — Seal of Cause my the Provost and Magistrates or 
 Glasgow in favour of the Incorporation of Cor- 
 DiNERS, 27TH June, 1569. 
 
 (Revised with Original by fames D . Manoic/c, LL.D., Tcnvn-Clerk, 
 Glasgoic, yanuar\\ iSSi.) 
 
 To all and sindry to quhais knawlege thir present Letres sail to cum : 
 The Prouest Baillies counsale and communitie of the burght and 
 Citie of glasgw greting In God euirlesting Wittis zour vniuersities 
 That the daye and dait of thir presentis Comperit befoir ws The 
 craftismen of the Cordinaris and barkaris being Crodinaris of oure 
 said citie And presentit to ws sittand In Jugement oure counsale 
 gadderit thair bill and supplicatioun of the quhilk the tenour followis 
 in thir wordis — 
 
 My lord prouest Baillies and worthie counsale of this gude toun of 
 glasgw vnto zoure discretioun humilie menis and schawls, zoure 
 seruitouris The craftismen of the cordinaris and barkaris being 
 Cordinaris Induellaris In this burght and citie, Eurgessis and fremen 
 of the samyn, Thai are to saye Allane steinsoune, James braidwod, 
 zoungare, Gilbert craig, Nichol snodgers, Johne gilmoure, Johne 
 andro, eldar, James braidwod, eldar, Matho camrone, Hectoure 
 galbrayth, patrik ker, Robert zoung, patrik patersoune, Allane 
 Mathie, Williame hill, Johne bartoune, Williame culane, archibald 
 craig, Robert mure, Thomas craig, Johne craig, matho bornhill and
 
 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 Johne allane and Michael pudzane and the Remanent fremen of the 
 said occupatioune, That quhair for the loving of almychtie god 
 worschip of halie kirk and common weltht of this gude toune and 
 for the proffit of all and sindry oure souerane Lord the kingis grace 
 Liegis and wtheris reparing and resorting thairto, and for the help 
 and support of oure puir dekeyit brethir of oure craft failzeit In 
 guddis, baith present and to cum, and for the sustentatioune and 
 releif of oure commone chargis Laid and to be laid vpone our said 
 craft we desire that we maye have thir statutes articulis and rewlis 
 following grantit and gevin to ws be zoure authoriteis, Quhair 
 throucht gude rewle and gyding mai be had amangis ws and oure 
 successouris of the said craft baith maisteris and seruandis in tyme 
 to cum and the commone weill of ws and oure said brethir sett 
 furthwart and Inconuenientis evoydit quhilkis in time bipast hes 
 bene to oure disprofifitt, namelie the bancatis that we war vsit to 
 causs ilk freman of our craft mak at his entre to vpsett his buitht 
 Quhilkis we are willing to remitt and discharge as Improfitable and 
 alter the samyn in money (Less nor thai wald expend befoir) to be 
 bestowit vpon oure commoune chargis and for support of oure puire 
 brethir of craft, And considering It is said be commoune authorite 
 That multitude but ordouremakis confusioune and for to eschew the 
 Inconuenient thairof In all tymes cuming Thir articulis and statutis 
 following arc oure rationable desyris quhilkis we desyre and askis to 
 be apjDiovin and Ratifeit be zour wisdomes. 
 
 Item In the first that the craflismen of the said craft maist liable 
 and conuenient thairto sail have power zeirlie to cheis thame ane 
 dekyn and maisteris of craft who sail be defendit be the prouest and 
 Ijaillies In all thair lesum actis and statutis for the commoune weill 
 of this burght and ciete foirsaid, Alsua that euery man of the said 
 craft pretending to sett vp buitht in this gude toune sail be made 
 first freman and burgess with the toune and befoir he set up buith sail 
 paye for his vpsett as followis, viz., Gif he be ane fre burges mannis 
 sone of this towne the sowme of foure pundis money and gif he be 
 ane vnfremannis sone and was prenteiss and lernit within this toune 
 sail paye of vpsett the sowme of sax pundis money and gif he be ane 
 stranger or vnfremannis sone that was nocht prenteis nor lernit in 
 this toune sail paye the sowme of ten jjundis money of vpsett To be
 
 Seal of Cause of Cordiners, f^6g. 253 
 
 bestowit vpouu the commone chargis of the craft and supporting of 
 the puire dekeyit brethir thairof, Quhilk sowmes being conferrit witht 
 the bancat vsit of auld by the vpset of money Is of Les valoure nor 
 it wasbefoir bot redoundis to the mair profStt of the craft, Item that 
 euery prenteis at his entre to the said craft gif he be ane fremanis 
 sone of this gude toune sail paye the sowme of tuenty schillingis 
 money and gif he be ane stranger or vnfremannis sone of this towne 
 sail paye the sowme of fourty schillingis money for thair entres 
 siluer to be bestowit in the foirsaidis vsis, Alsua that euery maister 
 of the said craft sail pay owklie ane Scottis penny to the box for the 
 supporting of thair brethir and chargis abone specifeit and euery 
 seruand (prenteisis being except) sail paye in lik maner ane half 
 penny to thame quhilk happennis to be depute to the gaddering of 
 the samyne, and als that euery man of the said occupatioune baytli 
 fre and vnfre that presentis to the marcat ony work or barkit Leddir 
 to sell, sail paye Ilk tyme thaj present work ane penny to the said 
 box and collectouris foir saidis, Item that ilk owtyntownes child or 
 he be admittit to serve vnder ony maister of the said craft sail paye 
 the sovme of twenty schillingis money to the box of the said craft to 
 be vsit and bestowit in the vsis abone vrittin, Item It is statute and 
 ordanit that ilk ane of the said craftismen quhilkis happennis to be 
 absent fra the foure quartar comptis beand dewlie warnit and 
 requyrit be the officiare of the said craft sail paye to the said box 
 foure schillingis money, Item it is statute and ordanit that na freman 
 of the said craft tak ane prenteis for schorfare space nor the space 
 of sevin zeiris and sail have poware to tak bot ane prenteis alanerlie 
 in the sevin zeir and gif ony beis fundiu doand In tlie contrare he 
 sail paye ane new vpsett to the box to be bestowit as said is, Item 
 It is statute and ordanit That na maner of man of the said craft 
 freman or wtheris In thair names fitche ane vther mannis stand In 
 the marcatt efter It be laid downe or sett as vse is vnder the pane of 
 aucht schillingis to be payit to the prouest and baillies and sax 
 schillingis to the box foirsaid, Alsua It is statute and ordanit that na 
 maner of man freman or wthir present ony work to the marcat 
 quhil nyne houris of the daye vnder the pane of aucht schillingis to 
 be payit to the said box, and attoure, It sail nocht be lesum to na 
 vnfreman to stand betuix ane freman and the corce vnder the pane
 
 254 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 of aucht schillingis to be payit to the said box and that na freman 
 ressaue vpon his stand ane vnfremannis work vnder the pane of four 
 schillingis vnforgevin to be payit to the box of the said craft, and 
 alsua it sail be lefull to the dekyn and masteris of the craft for the 
 commone wele of oure souerane Lordis Liegis to serche and examc 
 baitht maid work and leddir barkit being presentit to the marcat or 
 ony wthir place, and siclik owklie the dekyn and maisteris sail 
 serche the haill maid work within this toune and be thair fundin ony 
 work Insufificient or leddir ewill and Insufficienlie barkit The dekyn 
 sail aduertis the ourismen of the towne thairof and thaireftir the 
 awnaris of the Insufficient work or barkit leddir sail tyne the 
 samyne, Item it is statute and ordanit that na maister of the said 
 craft sail tak ane vthir mannis seruand nor his prenteis without he 
 half licience of his maister that he was seruand last to and on to the 
 tyme he have maid compt reknyng and payment of his Intromis- 
 sioune with his maisteris guddis quhair with he Intromittit, and gif 
 ony dois In the contrar of this statute he sail paye aucht schillingis 
 to the baiUies and sax schillingis to the box of the craft and in cais 
 ony freman of the said craft ressaue agane In service ony servand 
 that left his maister being feit with him within termes and zed to be 
 feit and servit wtheris of ony vther craftis he that resauis agane to 
 service sail pay ane new vpsett to the box of the said craft. Item gif 
 ony man of the said craft duelland within the said toune and burght 
 disobeyis the said dekyn and maisteris of craft or thair ofificiare In 
 ony of the poyntis foirsaid or In the executioune of his office sail 
 paye ane new vpsett to the said craft and twenty schillingis money 
 to the baillies of the towne als oft as thair beis ony fundyn and tryit 
 culpabill be the brethir of the craft, Item it is statute that the last 
 Intrant that cumis to be freman with the craft sal be officiare to the 
 samyn on to the tyme ane vthir cum to be freman with the said craft 
 and attour it is statute and ordanit That the said dekyn of craft 
 accompancit with ane officiare of the towne sail have power to poynd 
 and distrenze for the dewiteis and vnlawis abone vrittin, and In 
 defalt of payment conforme to this erectioune with power to clois 
 the dettoure or disobeyaris buith wyndo on to the tyme he mak full 
 payment and satisfactioune, alsua the said dekyn witht the advise of 
 the best and worthiest craftismen of the said craft sail have power to
 
 Seal of Cause of Cordi/iers, Ts6g. 255 
 
 mak statutis to thair awne craft for the commone wele and proffitt of 
 the said burght and citie and for support of thair puir bretliir In all 
 tymc's earning as efferis ane dekyn to do. Quhilkis statutes articulis 
 and reulis being Red hard and vnderstand and diligentlie considerit 
 That thaj ar In the first for the lovyng of almichtie god and for the 
 commone wele of oure souerane Lordis Liegis and for gude reule In 
 tyme cuming amangis thameselfis and tendis to the proffitt of thame 
 and thair puir dekeyit brethir of craft and of thair commone chargis. 
 We the saidis Prouest Baillies and counsale hes ratifeit apprevit and 
 confermit and be thir presentis ratifeis apprevis and confermis for ws 
 and oure successouris the saidis articles In all and sindry thir poyntis 
 abonevritten to the said craftismen and thair successouris of the said 
 craft In perpetuall memorie In tyme to cum and thir premissis to all 
 and sindry quhome It efferis we mak manifest and knawin Be thir 
 our present lettres, to the quhilkis In witnes and verificatioune of 
 the'samyne The commone sele of oure said burght and citie witht 
 oure subscriptiones manuales and our scribe of court as eftir followi;; 
 Is to hungin at the said citie of Glasgw the tuenty sevin day of 
 Junij The zeir of god ane thousand fyve hundredtht and thre scoir 
 nyne zeiris (27 June 1569). 

 
 256 
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 
 
 O^-^yrt 
 
 C\^ 
 
 (JHONE STEWARD of Mynto 
 
 Knycht prouest 
 Maister ADAM WALLACE 
 
 Baillie. 
 RITCHERT ROSS 
 
 Bailie. 
 Maister JHONE HALL 
 MATTHOW HAROTTE 
 ARD LYONE 
 JAMES FLEMYNG) 
 Ita est Heniicus Gibsoun notaiius ac sciiba curie burgalis glas- 
 guensis Manu propria. 
 
 Henricus Gibsoun notarius de mandatis dauid Lyndsay Johaniiis 
 arbuklet Willehni wat Jacobi riche et Johannis fleming nescientium 
 scribere manibus suis. 
 
 [So it is, Henry Gibsoun notary and clerk of the burgh court of 
 Glasgow with his own hand.] 
 
 [Henry Gibson notary by the directions of David Lyndsay John 
 Arbuklet, William Wat, James Riche and John Flemyng, not 
 knowing to write with their own hands.] ■
 
 Act of Deacoji-Convetier's House. 257 
 
 V. — Act of the Deacon Conveners House of Glasgow in 
 
 FAVOUR OF THE INCORPORATION OF THE CORDONERS THER, 
 
 AND Ratification thereof by the Provost, Bailies, 
 AND Council of Glasgow. 
 
 ( Revised with Original by yames D. Marwick, LL.D., Town-Clerk, 
 Glasgoiv, Jaujcary, 1881.) 
 
 At Glasgow The ihirty day of September jm vjc nyntie Three years 
 (30th Sept.,, 1693) The Whilk day The Provost Baillies and 
 Council of the said Burgh being conveened Anent ane Act of 
 Recommendation made and granted be the Deacon Conveener, 
 Deacons and Remanent Members of the Deacon Conveeners 
 house of the said Burgh in favours of Andrew Mainie present 
 Deacon of the Cordoners of the samen Burgh and Remanent 
 Members of the said Incorporation for themselves and in name 
 and behalf of the Poor thereof; of the Whilk Act the Tenor 
 follows At the Crafts Hospitall of Glasgow the last day of 
 Jun jm vjc nyntie and three yeares. The Whilk day the Deacon 
 Conveener, Deacones and remanent members of the Deacon Con- 
 veeners house of the said Burgh being conveened Anent the Petition 
 given into them bye Andrew Mainie present Deacon of the Cordoners 
 of the samen burgh and remanent members of the said Incorporation 
 for themselves and in name and behalfe of the poor thereof 
 Makeand Mention That where be Contract past and perfyted betwixt 
 the said Incorporation of Cordoners of Glasgow and the Cordoners 
 in Gorballs dated the Eightein of day December jm vjc sixtie eight 
 yeares Containing severall heads articles and clauses thereintill And 
 particularie the said Incorporation of the Cordiners of Glasgow 
 Grants only Libertie be the said Contract to the saids Cordoners 
 and Shoemakers in Gorballis To stand in the mercat of Glasgow vpon 
 the mercat day for selling of their shoes and vthers thereontill for 
 payment be ilk ane of them of the soume of Eighteen shillings scots 
 yearlie for their mercat dewes Yet notwithstanding therof the saids 
 Cordoners and Shoemakers in Gorballs and there servants contrare 
 to the said Contract and Liberties of the said calling And several other 
 Cordoners strangers living about this Burgh comes into the samen 
 Not only upon the mercat day Bot also vpon other dayes and tackes 
 
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 258 lucorporafion of Co?-iitiiers. 
 
 measures of the Burgesses and Inhabitants feet and makes shoes and 
 other work to them Wherethrow the said Incorporation of Cordoners 
 of Glasgow are heavily wronged and prejudged be the encroachment 
 of the Cordoners in Gorballis Express contrare to the words and 
 meaning of the said Contract and custome of the rest of the Incor- 
 porationes of the crafts of Glasgow And will terminat to the mine of 
 their Trade and occasion many debates not only amongst themselves 
 Bot also betwixt them and strangers. Craveand therefore the said 
 Deacon Conveener Deacones and remanent members of the said 
 Deacon Conveeners house to consider the premissis And if they 
 should find the desire of the said petition reasonable To Represent 
 the samen to the Proveist Baillies and Toune Counsell of the said 
 Burgh That they may Discharge the saids Cordoners and Shoemakers 
 in Gorballs and all other Cordoners vnfreemen and strangers and 
 their servands in all tyme hereafter from comeing in to this Burgh 
 on any day whatsomever and tackeing measures of any j^ersones feet 
 within the samen for makeing of shoes boots slippers or other Cor- 
 doner work to them or bring in the samen to the imployers That 
 they may try the sufficiencie or insufificiencie of the work and to 
 pryce the same accordinglie (And when they are not pleased with 
 the work and piyce thereof they returne the samen back to the 
 makers Whilk is the same Libertie the Cordoners of Glasgow 
 have themselves) Except upon the mercat day To be presented 
 and sold in the publict mercat and sighted there before they be sold 
 or taken into any houses as to the sufficiencie of the work To be 
 tryed be the Deacon of the said Incorporation of Cordoners of 
 Glasgow and his Masters conforme to use and wont That the 
 Leidges may not be prejudged vnder such paines and penalties 
 as the said Deacon Conveener, Deacones and members foresaid 
 should think fit As the said Petition beares Whilk being tacken to 
 the said Deacon Conveener Deacones and remanent members fore- 
 said their consideration And after mature advyce and deliberation 
 had be them thereanent They find the desire thereof most just and 
 reasonable And that the Cordoners in Gorballs and all other Cor- 
 doners vnfreemen and strangers Be obleidged to performe what is 
 desired be the said Petition And they Discharged to doe any thing 
 to the contrare therof in tyme comeing vnder the paine of fyve
 
 Act of Deacon-Convener' s House. 259 
 
 punds scots money To be exacted aff the Cordoners in Gorballs and 
 all other Cordoners vnfreemen and strangers their servants or any of 
 them toties quoties they shall happine to contraveen the premissis 
 in any tyme comeing And that it shall be Lawfull and in the power 
 of the said Deacon of Cordoners and his masters and their successors 
 in all tyme hereafter To seize vpon all work brought into this Burgh 
 Except upon the mercat day as said is contrare to this present act 
 To be applyed for the use of the Poor of the Cordoners of Glasgow 
 And Recommends to the Proveist Baillies and Counsell of this Burgh 
 Not only to Ratifie the said Contract past betwixt the Cordoners of 
 this Burgh and Gorballs Bot also thir presents in the haill heads 
 articles and clauses thereof vnder the penaltie above-written ; as the 
 said act bears. Which Act and Recommendation and desire thereof 
 being read in presence of the said Magistrates and Council was by 
 their Act Dated the Twenty-eighth day of September instant Recom- 
 mended to John Anderson Late Provost, John Waddrop Baillie The 
 Dean of Guild, and Deacon Conveener to be considered be them, and 
 to give their opinion thereof to the said Magistrates and Council at 
 their next ^Meeting. And Whilk persons forsaid liaving accordingly 
 met and considered the said Act, They be their Report Declare they 
 Find the Desire thereof Just and Reasonable. Whilk Act and 
 Recommendation with the said Report Being tacken to the said 
 Provost Baillies and Council Their Consideration and after Mature 
 Advyce and Deliberation had be them thereanent They for them and 
 their successors in Office have given and Granted and hereby gives 
 and Grants To and in favours of the said Incorporation of the 
 Cordoners of Glasgow what is desired thereby and not only Ratifies 
 the foresaid Contract of Agreement Betwixt the Cordoners of Glasgow 
 and Gorbels in manner foresaid and act of the Deacon Conveeners 
 house above mentioned in the haill heads articles and clauses thereof. 
 But also ordains the samein to take Effect and be put in all Due 
 Execution in Time coming against the Controveeners thereof conform 
 to the Tenor of the samein in all poynts under the pain of five pund 
 Scots alse oft as they shall be apprehended contraveening the premisis 
 or any part thereof By and Attour the Apprehending the work frae 
 these who shall happen to contraveen and confiscation of the samein 
 for the use of the Poor of the said Cordoners in Glasgow. But
 
 26o Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 prejudice to the Burgesses Inhabitants of this Burgh to goe to the 
 Gorbels that the Cordeners thereof may take their measure for 
 making any shoemaker work for themselves and bring in the samein 
 when made Be themselves or Servants upon any Day of the week 
 they please Except sundayes and ordaines the Clerk to give out 
 Extracts hereof. 
 
 ExtracUun &'c. , Sic Subscribitur. 
 
 G. ANDERSON. 
 
 VI. — Letter of Guildry. 
 
 At the burgh and city of Glasgow, the 6th February, 1605 years. 
 Forasmuch as the whole inhabitants within this burgh and city of 
 Glasgow, burgesses and freemen thereof, as well merchants as 
 craftsmen, having* duly considered and deeply weighed the great 
 hurt, interest, damage, loss, and skaith, which their haill common- 
 weil, these many years by-gone, have sustained, by strangers and 
 unfreemen using and usurping the privileges and ancient liberties 
 of this burgh, as freely as the freemen and burgesses, indwellers 
 within the same ; and partly, by some mutual contraversies, and civil 
 discords, arising amongst the said freemen and burgesses, anent 
 their privileges, places, ranks, and prerogatives ; by the which 
 occasions, not only their trade, traffic, and handling, has been 
 usurped by strangers and unfreemen, as said is, to the great depau- 
 perating of the haill inhabitants within this town ; but also, all 
 policy and care of the liberties of this burgh has been overseen and 
 neglected, to the great shame and derogation of the honour of this 
 burgh, being one of the most renowned cities within this realm ; 
 and having found the only causes thereof to be for the want of the 
 solid and settled order amongst themselves. Therefore, and for 
 remead thereof in time coming, and for conforming of themselves, 
 the said burgh and city, to other well reformed burghs within this 
 realm, and for the common-weil and particular profit of the haill 
 inhabitants thereof, in their own ranks, and posterity, in all time 
 coming ; and especially to the advancing of God's glory, and better 
 ability to serve our sovereign lord, the King's Majesty, and for 
 settling of peace, concord, and amity, among themselves, as faithful
 
 Letter of 'Guildry. 261 
 
 Christians, and loving citizens ; and their assistants of both the 
 ranks, and whole body of this town, after many meetings and con- 
 ventions, long disputation and reasoning, concerning their quietness 
 and standing thereof, having nominate and chosen, now, William 
 Anderson and Tliomas Mure, baillies ; Matthew Turnbull, Robert 
 Adam, and James Bell, John Dickson, William Stirling, Archibald 
 Faulls, James Inglis, James Fleming, George Muir, and Thomas 
 Brown, for the hail) merchant rank, and their assistants ; John 
 Anderson, bailie, Robert Rowat, Mr. Peter Low, Duncan Semple, 
 James Braidvvood, John Scott, deacon, John Muir, skippir, Mr. 
 Robert Hamilton, William Muir, flesher, and James Fisher, malt- 
 man, for the haill craftsmen and their assistants ; and the right 
 honourable Sir George Elphinstone, of Blythswood, knight, provost, 
 Mr. David Weems, Parson of Glasgow, Mr. John Bell and Mr. 
 Robert Scott, ministers thereof, as oversmen and oddsmen, mutu- 
 ally chosen, betwixt the said merchants and crafts, in case of 
 variance ; the saids persons having accepted the said matter in and 
 upon them, being several times conveened to treat and reason upon 
 the said matters, concerning the common- well of the said burgh, 
 after long reasoning had thereintill, for the better advancement of 
 the said common-weil, and settling any controversies that may fall 
 out thereafter, betwixt any of the saids ranks of merchants and crafts- 
 men, and their assistants and successors, and the better enlarging 
 of both their liberties, freedoms, and privileges, whereby they may 
 live, in time coming, in the fear of God, obedience to His Majesty, 
 and in good love, peace, amity, and concord, among themselves, so 
 as both states may flourish afterwards. 
 
 After great pains, long travelling, and mature deliberation, heard, 
 seen, and considered, and ripely advised, by both the states of the 
 saids merchants and craftsmen, and their assistants, has concluded, 
 that there shall be, in all time coining, a dean of gild, and a deacon 
 convcener, luith one visitor of the maltinen, whose elections, statutes, 
 and privileges, as follows : — 
 
 1st, That the dean of gild shall be always a merchant, and a 
 merchant sailor, and a merchant venturer, and of the rank of a 
 merchant, and shall be chosen yearly by provost, baillies, council, 
 and deacons of this burgh in time coming, and that fifteen days
 
 262 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 after that the baillies of the said burgh are chosen ; there shall be of 
 merchants and craftsmen an equal number at his election. 
 
 2iid, The dean of gild, bearing office in the year preceding, shall, 
 with the advice of twenty-four persons of the merchant rank, whom 
 he shall choose, nominate two of the merchant rank to be in the leet 
 with himself, whose names shall be presented, in writ, before the 
 provost, baillies, council, and deacons, as is above specified, of the 
 which three they shall choose one to bear office the year following, 
 and so to be leeted and elected in all time coming, and sworn in 
 presence of the provost, baillies, council, and deacons, for the dis- 
 charging of his duty faithfully, as becomes. And the dean of gild 
 shall not bear office above two years together. 
 
 yd. The dean of gild's council shall be composed yearly of eight 
 persons, viz., four merchants, whereof the dean of gild, bearing 
 office the year preceding, shall be one, and four craftsmen and gild 
 brether, who shall be men of good fame, knowledge, experience, 
 care, and zeal, to the common-weil, the most worthy men of both 
 ranks. The dean of gild, his council of the merchant rank shall be 
 chosen yearly by the dean of gild and twenty-fo.ur persons of the 
 merchant rank, whom he shall choose to that effect ; and his council 
 of the craftsmen rank shall be chosen by the deacon conveener, and 
 the deacons of' crafts, and their assistants, and their haill council, to 
 be sworn yearly at their election, in presence of the dean of gild ; 
 and shall be elected the next day after the dean of gild is chosen. 
 
 ^h. The dean of gild and his council shall conveen every Thurs- 
 day, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, and oftener, as the necessity 
 of the common affairs, committed to their charge, shall require, 
 being warned thereto by the dean of gild, or his officer ; and the 
 persons absent the said day weekly, but farder warning, at the said 
 hour, and at other times (excepting sickness, or being necessarily 
 three miles out of the town), shall pay an unlaw of six shilling and 
 eight pennies for the first, and thirteen shilling and four pennies for 
 the second, and twenty shilling Scots for the third; and if the dean 
 of gild himself be absent at any of the said times (excepting sickness, 
 or being three miles out of town, as said is), he shall pay twice so 
 much of the unlaw, at each time, as any of his council pays for their 
 absence.
 
 Letter of Guildry. 263 
 
 ^th, In absence of the dean of gild (which shall not be allowed, 
 excepting as is before said, or some necessary and urgent cause, to 
 be known and tried by his council, and obtaining their leave), he 
 shall elect, by their advice, the old dean of gild, or any one of his 
 council, in the merchant rank, to supply his place, as his substi- 
 tute, during his absence, who shall be sworn ; and if any one or 
 more of the merchant rank, of the dean of gild's court, be absent, it 
 shall be leasome to the dean of gild to bring in a gild brother of his 
 own rank, one or more, to supply that place of the merchant rank 
 being absent, during the absence of the other. And if any of the 
 crafts rank, one or more, belonging to the dean of gild's council, be 
 absent, the eldest gild brother, or his council of the crafts rank, 
 shall choose another, one or more of the saids crafts, to supply the 
 place of the absent, and likewise must be sworn. 
 
 ()th, The dean of gild shall always be an ordinary counsellor of 
 the great council of the town ; he shall have a principal key of th 
 town's charter chest in keeping. 
 
 7M, The dean of gild, and his council, or the most part thereof, 
 shall have power to decern in all matters committed to his charge 
 and office, and that within three days, if need requires ; and shall 
 elect a clerk yearly, for the better discharge of his office, who shall 
 be sworn before the dean of gild and his council. 
 
 %th, No procurator, or man of law, shall be admitted to speak for 
 any person before the dean of gild and his council, but the patties 
 allenarly. 
 
 9///, The dean of gild and his council shall have power to judge, 
 and give decreets in all actions, betwixt merchant and merchant, and 
 other gild brothers, in matters of merchandise, and other such like 
 causes ; and the party refusing to submit his cause to the dean of gild 
 and his council, shall pay an unlaw of five pounds money, and the 
 cause being submitted, the party found in the wrong shall pay an 
 unlaw of twenty shilling for two several unlaws, and shall be paid 
 to the dean of gild, and applied to such use as he and his council 
 thinks best. 
 
 \oth. The dean of gild and his council, with the master of work, 
 shall bear the burden in discerning all questions of neighbourhood, 
 and lyning within this burgh ; and no neighbour's work shall be
 
 264 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 stayed but by him, who shall cause the complainer consign in his 
 hand, a pledge worth twenty shilling in value, and the damage of 
 the party Avho then shall stay the work, each day to be assigned by 
 him to the complainer to give in his complaint, warning the parties ; 
 which day shall be witliin twenty-four hours after the consignation, 
 and the which day the dean of gild and his council, or the most part 
 of them, shall conveen upon the ground, and the complainer not 
 compearing, and found in the wrong, shall pay an unlaw of twenty 
 shillings Scots, with the parties' daniage for hindering the work, to 
 be instantly past and modified by the said dean of gild and his 
 council, and paid furth of the said pledge ; and the party finding him 
 grieved by the dean of gild and his council, upon consignation of 
 the double unlaw, he is to be heard before the said great council of 
 the town, and if he hath complained wrongfully, he is to pay the 
 said double unlaw. 
 
 wtJi, The dean of gild and his council shall have power to dis- 
 charge, punish, and unlaw all persons, unfreemen, using the liberty 
 of a freeman within the burgh, as they shall think fit, ay and while 
 the said unfreemen be put off the town, and restrained, or else be 
 made free with the town and their crafts ; and sicklike, to pursue 
 before the judges competent, all persons dwelling within this burgh, 
 and usurping the liberty thereof, obtain decreets against them, and 
 cause the same to be put to speedy execution. 
 
 I2.th, The dean of gild and his council to oversee and reform the 
 metts and measures, great and small, pint and quart, peck and fir- 
 lot, and of all sorts within the ell-wand, and weights of pound and 
 stone, of all sorts, and to punish and unlaw the transgressors as they 
 shall think expedient. 
 
 \2,th. The dean of gild and his council shall have power to raise 
 taxation on the gild brethren, for the welfare and maintenance of 
 their estate, and help of their decayed gild brethren, their wives, 
 children, and servants ; and whoever refuses to pay the said tax, 
 shall be unlawed in the sum of forty shilling so oft as they fail ; 
 providing the same not exceed the sum of one hundred pounds 
 money, and'at once upon the whole gild brethren ; which tax being 
 uplifted, the same shall be distributed by the dean of gild and his 
 council, and deacon conveener, as they shall think expedient.
 
 Letter of Gtcildry. 265 
 
 \\th. Every burgess dwelling, and hav-ing his residence within this 
 town, and so has born, and bears burthen within the same, shall 
 pass gild brother for paying a merk at his entry to the dean of gild, 
 with forty pennies to the hospital of his calling ; and shall use all 
 kind of handling and trade that is lawful during all the days of their 
 lifetime at their pleasure ; secluding from this benefit all kind of 
 infamous and debauched men of evil life and conversation who are 
 not worthy of such a benefit, who, nevertheless, during their lifetime 
 shall be overseen thereintill, and their bairns after their decease, if 
 they be found worthy and habile by the dean of gild and his council, 
 shall have the like benefit that other gild brother's bairns have : and 
 all burgesses and freemen, above written, who are not off the country, 
 shall be bound to enter gild brother betwixt and the first day of May 
 next to come, otherwise to be reputed and holden as strangers ; and 
 who are absent off the country, shall enter gild brother within fifteen 
 days after their home coming ; secluding also from this benefit of gild 
 brother, all burgesses who have not their residence within this burgh, 
 and all burgesses within the same, who have not born, or bear 
 burden, with the freemen of this burgh (noblemen excepted). 
 
 \^th, Every gild brother's son or sons, that desires to be gild 
 brother, shall pay at his entry for his gildry, twenty shilling, with 
 five shilling to the hospital of his own calling, whenever he designs 
 to pass, either before or after his father's decease; with this restric- 
 tion, that if he be a merchant of that calling, he shall be worth in 
 lands, heritage, and moveable gear, five hundred merks money, and 
 their assistants to give an account of as much ; if he be a craftsman, 
 and their assistants, he shall be worth two hundred and fifty merks 
 money before he be admitted and received gild brother, who shall 
 be tried by the dean of gild and his council; and, as concerning 
 the. infamous and debauched persons, not worthy of the benefit of 
 gild brother, they shall be tried by the dean of gild, with the advice 
 of a certain number of the merchant rank, as he shall choose for that 
 effect, and shall inroll all the names of these of the merchant rank 
 and their assistants who are unworthy; and every deacon shall try 
 their own crafts, and that by the advice of the deacon conveener, 
 who shall try their assistants who are unworthy; and the persons 
 shall be inrolled in the dean of gild's books.
 
 '.66 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 \6th, Every gild brother's daughter, that marries a freeman bur- 
 gess of this burgh, shall pay at his entry for his gildry, twenty 
 shilling, with five shilling to the hospital of his calling ; and he shall 
 be worth so much lands, heritages, and moveable gear, as is above 
 mentioned, whether merchant or craftsman, and tried worthy by the 
 dean of gild and his council; and this privilege to extend to the gild 
 brother's daughters, as many as he has, providing, that the daughter 
 hath no further benefit of the gildry but to her first husband allen- 
 arly, and this benefit shall only appertain and extend to the sons and 
 daughters of gild brothers who are lawfully begotten. 
 
 ijih, And because there are several bairns, whose fathers have 
 been freemen and burgesses of this burgh, and who are dead within 
 these ten years, who, of equity, conscience, and good reason, should 
 not be secluded from the benefit : It is therefore concluded, that 
 such bairns shall, either by themselves, or by their friends, in case 
 they be minors, compear before the dean of gild and his council, 
 and book themselves as lawful bairns to their father, who there- 
 after, when occasion offers, shall have the benefit of gild brother, 
 paying only twenty shilling, and five shilling to the hospital of 
 their own calling ; always being tried meet and worthy of such a 
 benefit, and be worth the foresaid sum ; merchant and craftsman to 
 be tried by the dean of gild and his council ; providing, that the 
 saids bairns, or their friends, compear before the dean of gild and 
 his council to be booked in his books, and that betwixt and the 
 first day of May next to come; otherwise, afterwards to have no 
 benefit. 
 
 i^th. All burgesses' wives witltin this burgh for the present, shall 
 enjoy such privileges and liberties during the time of their widow- 
 hood, as if their husbands were in life ; for the benefit of gildry, 
 paying to the dean of gild thirteen shilling and four pennies, with 
 three shilling and four pennies to the hospital of their husband's 
 calling; the saids widows being always tried by the dean of gild 
 and his council to be of good life and honest conversation ; and the 
 widows to come shall have the same liberty, if their husbands have 
 been gild brothers ; if otherwise, not to enjoy that benefit. 
 
 igt/i, And concerning the apprentices of gild brothers, burgesses, 
 of merchants and crafts, and their assistants. First, for the better
 
 Letter of Guildry. 267 
 
 trial and proof of their good condition. Secondly, they ought to 
 be so far inferior to their master's bairns, as touching their right 
 through their master. And, thirdly, to move them to take their 
 master's daughter in marriage before any other ; which will be a 
 great comfort and support to freemen. That, therefore, no appren- 
 tice be received burgess by right of his apprenticeship, without 
 he served a freeman, after his apprenticeship, for the space of two 
 years, for meat and fee, and then be received burgess ; paying 
 thereafter, for his burgess-ship to the town ten merks ; and then, 
 not to be received gild brother by that right, without he be 
 burgess for four years, and so to continue thirteen years before 
 he be gild brother by the right of his apprenticeship, paying then 
 only to the dean of gild ten merks money for his gildry ; and 
 before his being received gild brother, he is to bring, and produce, 
 before the dean of gild and his council, a sufficient testimonial, 
 subscribed by that nottar who is clerk, viz., if he be a merchant's 
 apprentice, or any of their assistants, he shall have his testimonial 
 subscribed by the dean of gild's clerk; and if be be an ajDprentice to 
 a craftsman, or any of their assistants, he shall bring a sufficient 
 testimonial from the deacon conveener's clerk ; and this no ways 
 shall be extended against burgesses' sons, farther than the old use 
 and wont. But if the apprentice marry his master's daughter, or the 
 daughter of a freeman burgess and gild brother, and if he be found 
 by the dean of gild and his council, to be worthy of the forenamed 
 sum, merchant or craftsman, and be of an honest conversation, and 
 of such a benefit, and being so tried, he may be received gild brother 
 at any time by right of his wife, paying only twenty shilling, with 
 five shilling to the hospital of his calling ; otherways to pay the 
 extremity. 
 
 20th, That every man out of town, whether merchant or craftsman, 
 being not as yet neither burgess nor freeman within this buigh, who 
 shall enter hereafter, shall first be tried by the dean of gild and his 
 council, and being found worth the sum above specified, according 
 to his calling, and of honest and good conversation, shall pay for his 
 gildry, after he is made burgess, thirty pounds Scots, and to the 
 hospital of his calling thirteen shilling and four pennies, except he 
 marry a gild brother's daughter, who then shall only pay for his
 
 2 68 hicorporatioii of Coniiners. 
 
 gildry twenty shilling, and forty shilling to the hospital of his 
 calling. 
 
 list. Whatever person, who is not presently burgess and freeman 
 of this burgh, and enters hereafter burgess gratis, shall pay for his 
 gildry forty pounds money, with forty shilling to the hospital of his 
 calling. 
 
 27.d, The haill sums of money, that shall happen to be gotten in 
 any time hereafter, for entries as gild brother, shall be divided in 
 this form, viz., all that enters gild brother as a merchant, or any of 
 their assistants, the money shall be applied for the weil of the 
 merchants hospital, and their decayed brethren, or to any other 
 good and pious use which may tend to the advancing of the common- 
 weil of this town, which shall be distributed by the dean of gild, 
 with advice of the merchant council, and such other of the merchant 
 rank as he shall choose for that effect. And all that is gotten and 
 received from any craftsmen, and their assistants, who shall enter 
 gild brother, shall be applied to their hospital, and decayed brethren 
 of the craftsmen, or to any other good and pious use which may 
 tend to the advancement of the common-weil of the burgh, and that 
 by the deacon conveener, with advice of the rest of the deacons. 
 
 23^, It shall no ways be leasome to any gild brother, who is not 
 at present burgess and freeman of this burgh, but enters hereafter to 
 be burgess and gild brother, according to the order set down before, 
 and according to his ability and worth, to tapp tar, oil, butter, or 
 to tapp eggs, green herring, pears, apples, corn, candle, onions, 
 kail, straw, bread (except bakers, who may sell bread at all licit 
 times at their pleasure), milk, and such like small things, which is 
 not agreeable to the honour of the calling of a gild brother. 
 
 24^/2, It shall not be leasome' to a single burgess, who enters here- 
 after to be burgess, and becomes not a gild brother, to tapp any 
 silk or silk-work, spices or sugars, drugs nor confections, wet or dry, 
 no lawns or cambricks, nor stuffs above twenty shilling per ell, no 
 foreign hats, nor hats with velvet and taffety, that comes out of 
 France, Flanders, England, or other foreign parts ; nor to tapp 
 hemp, lint, or iron, brass, copper, or ache ; neither to tapp wine in 
 pint or quart, great salt, wax, waid, grain, indego, nor any other 
 kind of litt ; neither to buy nor sell, in great, within the liberties of
 
 Letter of Guildry. 269 
 
 this burgh, salt beef, sahnond, herring, nor yet to salt any of them, 
 to sell over again, but for their own use allenarly ; neither to buy 
 plaiding, or cloth, in great, to sell again, within this liberty ; nor to 
 buy tallow, above two stones together, except only candlemakers, 
 to serve the town, or any honest man for his own use ; nor to buy 
 any sheep-skins, to dry and sell over again, or hides to salt and sell 
 again, nor any wild skins, within this liberty, as tod's skins above 
 five together, otters, not above three together, and other like skins. 
 And sicklike, not to sell any kind of woolen cloth, above thirty- 
 three shilling and four pennies per ell, linen cloth, not above thirteen 
 shilling and four pennies per ell, except such cloth as is made in 
 their own house, which they shall have liberty to sell, as they can 
 best ; neither buy wool, to sell over again within this liberty, nor to 
 buy any linen yarn to sell over again, or to transport out of the 
 town, either in great or small parcels, excepting the weavers of the 
 burgh, who buy yarn to make cloth, and sell the same at pleasure. 
 
 ■z^th, It shall not be allowed to cremers to set any cremes upon 
 the High Street, except upon Wednesday and fairs allenarly ; and 
 to use no ware but such as are permitted to any single burgess. 
 
 26//5, Farder, it shall not be licensed to any single burgess or gild 
 brother, to buy with other men's money, under colour and pretence 
 that it is their own, any wares, within the liberty of this burgh, to 
 the hurt and prejudice of the freemen thereof, under the penalty of 
 twenty pounds money, and attour crying of their freedom, being tried 
 and convicted by the dean of gild and his council, and that in respect 
 of the great hurt and damage that the freemen of this burgh hath 
 sustained by such doings heretofore. 
 
 27//;, It shall not be leasome to any person holding shops, at any 
 time to creme upon the High Street ; but such as sells Scots cloth, 
 bonnets, shoes, iron-work, and such like handy-work used by crafts- 
 men, under the penalty of twenty shilling, toties qiioties, 
 
 2.%th, It shall not be leasome to any unfreemen to hold stands 
 upon the High Street, to sell anything pertaining to the crafts, or 
 handy-work, but betwixt eight of the morning and two of the clock 
 in the afternoon, under the penalty of forty shilling ; providing that 
 tappers of linen and woolen cloth be suffered from morning to even- 
 ing, at their pleasure, to sell. All kinds of vivers to be sold from
 
 270 T)icorporatio7i of Cordiiicrs. 
 
 morning to evening ; but unfreemen wlio shall sell white bread, to 
 keep the hours appointed. 
 
 29///, All burgesses that enters hereafter freemen, and a simple 
 burgess, if he gives ujj his name to be a merchant, or any of their 
 assistants, shall pay to the hospital of his calling five merks Scots 
 money ; and if he be a craftsman, or any of their assistants, he shall 
 pay to the crafts hospital five merks money ; and all burgesses who 
 enter hereafter ^o-;-rt/^■J•, and remaining a simple burgess, either mer- 
 chant or craftsman, shall pay to the hospital of his calling ten merks 
 money. 
 
 30/72, There shall be no bui-gess made or entered hereafter, except 
 if (he be a merchant, or of their assistants) he be tried by the dean 
 of gild to be worth one hundred pounds Scots of free gear, and 
 booked in the books, and have a testimonial subscribed with the 
 dean of gild's hand ; and if he be a craftsman, or of their assistants, 
 he shall be worth twenty pounds money of free gear, besides his 
 craft, and shall be booked in the deacon conveener's books, and 
 have the deacon conveener's testimonial subscribed with his hand ; 
 and either of them presenting the said testimonial to the provost, ■ 
 bailies, and council, shall be received burgess, paying their burgess 
 fines as usual ; olherways no burgess, whether merchant or crafts- 
 man, are to be admitted or acknowledged at no time thereafter. 
 
 31^/, The dean of gild and his council, for observing the privi- 
 leges, shall have power to set down unlaws and penalties, and to 
 mitigate and enlarge the same, according to the time and place, 
 person and quality, of the trespass. And farder, to make laws and 
 statutes, and set down heads and articles, to be observed for the 
 well of the town ; and the provost, baillies, and council, to approve 
 of the same. 
 
 32«£/, The haill unlaws mentioned in the laws above written, 
 and such other laws, acts and statutes, to set down by the dean of 
 gild and his council, shall be applied, viz., the one-half thereof to 
 the dean of gild and his council, and the other half to be applied by 
 the dean of gild and his council, and deacon conveener, to any good 
 and pious work, as they shall think fit. 
 
 33;'£/, It shall be leasome to the dean of gild and his council, 
 yearly, to elect one of their own number to be treasurer or collector
 
 Letter of Giiildry. 271 
 
 of the whole entries money and unlaws that shall happen to be gotten, 
 who shall be bound to make a faithful account of his intromissions 
 thereof, upon eight days' warning, as he shall be required by the 
 said dean of gild and his council ; of the which entry-money of gildry, 
 he shall deliver and make payment of the whole that is to be received 
 of the gildry of the merchant ranks, and their assistants, to be em- 
 ployed to the use foresaid ; and the whole unlaws that is received, 
 are to be delivered to the dean of gild and his council, to be bestowed 
 on the uses foresaid. 
 
 Tfifth, It shall be leasome to the dean of gild and his council, 
 yearly, to choose an officer for poinding, and putting to execution 
 all the foresaid acts and statutes that are to be set down, and decreets 
 to be pronounced by the dean of gild and his council, and for gather- 
 ing in and poinding for all rents and duties pertaining to the 
 merchants' hospital, who shall be allowed by provost, and baillies, 
 and the council, and all the town officers to concur and assist the 
 said officer in the execution of his office, as oft as they shall be 
 required, under the penalty of an unlaw of twenty shillings money, 
 upon every one of the said town officers who refuses, being desired, 
 totics quoiies. 
 
 '^^th, The dean of gild shall have full power to conveen the haill 
 merchants, and their assistants, at such times as he shall think 
 expedient, for ordering their hospital, and such other necessary 
 affairs that occurs. 
 
 36//?, It is thought expedient, and agreed upon, that the annuals 
 of the back almshouse, pertaining to the town, behind the Bishop's 
 Hospital, shall be equally divided, betwixt the merchants and crafts 
 hospital, in all time coming. 
 
 37//;, It is agreed and concluded upon, that there shall be a 
 common metster of woolen cloth, whom the dean of gild and his 
 council shall have power to elect yearly, who shall be sworn to be 
 leal and true in such things as shall be committed to his charge, 
 and find sufficient caution ; and that he shall measure all packs or 
 loads of woolen cloth, that comes out of Galloway, Stewarton, or 
 any other parts, to be sold within this burgh : and shall have for 
 the measuring of every hundred ells, from the seller, two shilling ; 
 and no other but he that is to measure this sort of cloth shall
 
 272 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 measure any but himself; he shall also measure all other woolen 
 cloth, that is either bought in small or in great, and so require the 
 buyer or seller, upon the price foresaid ; and likewise, he shall 
 measure all sorts of plaiden, which is sold in great, viz., about 
 twenty ells, and sliall have for the measuring thereof, two shilling 
 per hundred ells, if the buyer or seller require him ; and no other is 
 to measure tliis sort of plaiden but he; and further, he shall measure 
 all kind of unbleached cloth, linen or harn, if the buyer or seller 
 requires him, and he shall have for measuring every dozen thereof, 
 from the seller, four pennies ; and if any person, in defraud of the 
 common metster's interest, shall measure the cloth, or plaiden, above 
 mentioned, he shall try the same before the dean of gild, who, after 
 trial, shall compell the seller or buyer, as he shall think fit, to pay 
 to the metster double duty. 
 
 1%th, Whatever acts and statutes the dean of gild and his council 
 shall happen to make, and set down, further than what is above 
 exprest, at any time afterwards, he shall be obliged to make the 
 provost, baillies, and council, acquainted therewith, and shall crave 
 their ratification and allowance from them, otherways to be of no 
 effect; providing, there be a like number of merchants and craftsmen, 
 at the ratification of this act, in council ; and, for this purpose, shall, 
 once in the year, being required, produce his book containing his 
 whole acts and statutes, before the said provost, baillies, and council, 
 to be seen and considered. 
 
 y)th, It is likewise agreed and concluded, that Matthew Turnbull, 
 merchant, bear office as dean of gild, till fifteen days after the 
 magistrates of this burgh are chosen, for the year to come, who has 
 accepted the said office upon him, and has given his oath in presence 
 of the provost, bailies, council, and whole of the deacons, for dis- 
 charging of his said office faithfully as becomes. 
 
 ^oth. Further, it is agreed and contracted, that, yearly, in time 
 coming, there shall be a deacon conveener, who shall ever be of the 
 rank of craftsmen, and their assistants, who shall, yearly, be chosen 
 that same day eight days after the baillies of this burgh are chosen ; 
 and is to be one of the most wise and worthy amongst the said 
 craftsmen, and their assistants, who shall, yearly, be leeted, in 
 time coming, in this form, vizi, all the deacons of the crafts, and
 
 Letter of Guildry. 273 
 
 their assistants, shall choose two with the deacon conveener, to be 
 given in leets before the provost, baillies, council, and all the 
 deacons of crafts, and their assistants, who shall make choice of 
 any of them to be deacon conveener for the year thereafter following : 
 with this provision, that there be a like number of merchants and 
 craftsmen at his election, and the deacon conveener shall not bear 
 office above two years together, and shall always be an ordinary 
 counsellor of the tozvn''s great council, and have a principal key of 
 the town's charter-chest to keep, and shall be sworn in presence 
 of the provost, baillies, council, and deacons, to be faithful in his 
 office. ■ He shall convecn all the deacons of crafts, and their assist- 
 ants, at such times as occasion shall require, and shall judge betwixt 
 them, and any of them, in matters pertaining to the crafts and 
 callings, and shall make acts and statutes for good order among 
 them, with the advice of the rest of the deacons, and their assistants; 
 providing always, that these acts neither prejudge the common- 
 weil of this burgh, merchant rank, or their assistants, nor any 
 privileges granted to any deacons of this burgh, by their letter 
 of deaconry granted to them, which acts shall be approven of by 
 provost, baillies, and council ; and shall, with advice of the rest of 
 the deacons, and their assistants, have power to choose an officer, 
 who shall be authorised to poind and distrinzie, being accompanied 
 with one town officer for putting his action in execution ; as like- 
 wise, for poinding for all rents, annuals, and duties pertaining to 
 the crafts hospital ; and whatever town officer refuses to assist the 
 said officer, shall pay twenty shillings, as often as he shall refuse. 
 And if any deacon or deacons of crafts, among themselves, or their 
 assistants, refuse the deacon conveener's judgment in matters con- 
 cerning their crafts and callings, shall pay an unlaw of three pound 
 money, to be paid to the deacon conveener. 
 
 4 1 J-/, All apprentices who shall hereafter become apprentices to 
 any craftsman within this burgh, shall pay at his entry, forty shil- 
 lings, and twenty merks of upset, he serving out his apprenticeship 
 faithfully ; with this provision, that burgesses' sons pay conform to 
 use and wont ; and when he is made a freeman, he shall pay only 
 two pennies ; and all men out of town, who enters freemen with 
 any craft, shall pay for his upset twenty pound, with thirteen 
 
 S
 
 2 74 IncorporatioJi of Cor diners. 
 
 shilling and four pennies to the crafts hospital, and his weekly 
 two pennies. 
 
 42^, The deacon conveener, with advice of the rest of the 
 deacons, and their assistants, shall have power to elect collectors, 
 one or more, for the gathering in of the rents, annuals, and duties, 
 pertaining to their hospital, who shall be countable to the deacon 
 conveener, and the rest of the deacons, and their assistants, for his 
 intromissions, upon eight days' warning, as he shall be required. 
 Farder, the deacon conveener shall be obliged to produce his 
 book, containing the Avhole acts and statutes, which he shall 
 happen to set down, before the provost, baillies, and council, to 
 be seen and considered by them yearly, when required, and shall 
 crave their ratification and allowance thereto ; if otherways to be 
 of no effect. 
 
 43^, It is condescended and agreed, that Duncan Semple, 
 skipper, bear office as deacon conveener, while that same day eight 
 days after the baillies of this burgh are chosen, for the year to come, 
 who has accepted the same office upon him, and has given his oath, 
 in presence of the provost, baillies, council, and deacons, for faith- 
 fully discharging his duty in the said office. 
 
 44^/;, It is concluded that there shall be a visitor of maltmen 
 and mealmen, who shall be chosen yearly in time coming, the same 
 day that the deacon conveener is chosen in this form ; the whole 
 maltmen and mealmen shall give in four men's names, of the 
 worthiest and discreetest men of the rank of maltmen, and the old 
 visitor in leet, and present them to the provost, baillies, and council, 
 who shall make choice of any one of them to be visitor for that 
 year, and so furth, in all time coming, and he shall be sworn. 
 
 Of^th, The visitor shall take special notice of those of his calling, 
 who profane the Sabbath-day, by cleaning, receiving, or delivering 
 meal, bear, corn, or malt, carrying of steep water, kindling of fire 
 in kilns or such like ; and such transgressors, being convicted, shall 
 pay to the visitor, ten shilling, and the unlaw to the session of the 
 kirk. The visitor, also, shall have power to try all meal and bear, 
 either in kiln, houses, or shops, except freemen's bear, meal or malt, 
 coming to their own houses, for their own use, and which the 
 visitor shall have power to visit, if he be required by the buyer, or
 
 Letter of Guildry. 275 
 
 in the markets ; and when they find insufficient stuff, as hot, rotten, 
 frostie stuff, either mixt among good stuff, or by itself, and like- 
 ways, where they find good stuff spoiled in the making, he shall 
 report the same to the baillies, and the owners thereof are to get no 
 more for the said stuff than what the visitor and two or three of his 
 assistants think it, upon their conscience, really worth; providing, 
 that the visitor and his brethren give their oaths, before any of the 
 baillies of this burgh, on the same ; and if any countrymen, seller, 
 refuses that price, he shall take it away with him, paying the custom 
 of the ladles of the town. And if any bear be tried by them, and 
 found to be flourished with good above, and under, bad, the owner 
 shall pay sixteen shilling to the baillie, and ten shilling to the visi- 
 tor; and if any malt be found to be rotten, and spoiled in the 
 making, or good malt and bad mixt together, being sighted, and so 
 found by the visitor, they shall report the worth thereof to the 
 baillie, and if the owner is pleased with that price, he shall have the 
 liberty so to sell it, or brew it himself, or to transport it to any 
 other part, paying always forty shilling for every making ; and if 
 any such spoiled stuff be found by the visitor, by men not living in 
 town, they shall pay sixteen shilling for every mask, the one-half 
 whereof to be paid to the baillie, the other half to the visitor. 
 
 46^/2, It shall not be allowed to maltmen, or others, to buy malt, 
 meal, or bear, within this town, either before or in time of market, 
 to tapp over again, under the penalty of five pounds, and to be 
 divided, viz., the one-half betwixt baillies and visitor, the other half 
 betwixt the merchants and crafts hospital. 
 
 47/>^, It shall not be allowed to any person to buy any stuff com- 
 ing to the market, on horseback, or otherways, till it first present 
 the market, except freemen for their own use only, and being first 
 spoken for, or bought before, and so the hours of the market to be 
 kept both by free and unfreemen, according to the statutes of the 
 town, provided, that freemen be suffered in seed-time, to buy their 
 seed at any time they please. Further, if any stuff be kept, or hid, 
 in kilns, houses, shops, or barns, in time of market, except necessity 
 constrain them to put their meal in houses, or under stairs, for fair or 
 foul weather, the contraveener of the foresaid statute to pay, viz., 
 the seller, an unlaw of sixteen shilling, and the buyers, who buy
 
 276 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 above one boll, one load or more, shall pay to the visitor sixteen 
 shilling and eight pennies. And if any cake bakers, be found buying 
 meal before eleven of the clock, conform to the town's acts, they 
 shall pay an unlaw of sixteen shilling to the baillies, and six shilling 
 and eight pennies to the visitor, and that as often as they have 
 contraveened. 
 
 Of^th, All persons, who are at present burgesses, shall have liberty 
 to make malt for their own use, or to sell ; and all burgesses' sons, 
 that shall use that trade hereafter, shall pay to the visitor, at his entry, 
 twenty shilling ; and men not living in town, who marry burgesses' 
 daughters, shall pay conform ; and every unfreeman, who is not as 
 yet burgess, and entered to that calling of maltmaking, shall pay to 
 the visitor of maltmen, twenty merks money, to be bestowed upon 
 the decayed brethren ; providing, that all persons, freemen, either 
 present or to come, shall make meal, without any kind of entries. 
 
 49///, The visitor of maltmen shall have power to try if any 
 unfreemen sell or tapp any kind of stuff, out of the market place, 
 and shall report the same to the dean of gild ; the seller to pay an 
 unlaw of twenty shilling, one-half thereof to the dean of gild, and 
 the other half to the visitor, and that as often as they shall contra- 
 veen ; to be tried before the dean of gild. 
 
 ^oth, All rubbers of meal are discharged, by the acts of the town, 
 as hurtfull to the.common-weil; and it shall be leasome to the visitor 
 to unlaw the sellers in twenty shilling, and that as often as they 
 shall contraveen, the one-half thereof to be given to the baillies, and 
 the other half to the visitor ; and discharges all rubbers to rubb or 
 measure the meal, but the owner himself only. And what further 
 acts and statutes the visitor, with advice of his brethren, being con- 
 veened as occasion occurs, can devise for their well, not prejudging 
 the common-weil, shall be put in writ, and presented to the provost, 
 baillies, and council, and deacons, and they to repel or allow the 
 same, as they shall think proper. 
 
 ^\st, Every person, who enters burgess hei'eafter, and gives up 
 his name to be a merchant, or craftsman, it shall not be leasome to 
 him to make malt for the space of three years ; and if, after that, 
 he desires to make malt, being a simple burgess, he shall pay to the 
 visitor of maltmen ten merks money ; and if he be a gild brother,
 
 Letter of Guildry. 277 
 
 shall pay twenty shilling at his entry, and their children to have 
 that same privilege and benefit that burgesses' children have, who 
 are now at present free ; as also, the visitor and his brethren shall, 
 diligently and carefully, exerce the office committed to their charge. 
 And it shall not be leasome to the provost, baillies, and council, to 
 augment their upset, among men not living in town, who enters to 
 be maltmen, as they shall think expedient. 
 
 52a?, Every making of malt, made by a freeman maltman, dwelling 
 within this town, how many soever he makes, shall pay eight pennies 
 for each making ; and every mealman shall pay, for every crop or 
 kiln of corn, eight pennies ; to be appllied to the well of their 
 decayed brethren, providing the freemen's malt and corn made for 
 their own use, be free of payment. 
 
 53^', Farder, the visitor of maltmen shall be obliged, yearly, in time 
 coming, if required, to produce before the provost, baillies, and 
 council, the book containing all the acts and statutes that shall 
 happen to be made hereafter, further than is granted to them, as 
 said is, to be seen and considered by them, that they may allow or 
 repel the same, as they find occasion, otherways to be of no effect. 
 
 54//^, It is agreed and concluded, that John Wallace, maltman, 
 bear office as visitor to the maltmen and mealmen, while that same 
 day eight days after the baillies of this burgh are chosen, for the 
 year to come, who has given his oath, in presence of the provost, 
 baillies, and council, for his discharging his duty in the said office. 
 And for declaration of the crafts assistants, viz., they are maltmen, 
 mealmen, fishers, and all such mariners, and others, who pleases to 
 officiate with the crafts for contribution to their hosjiital, and 
 decayed brethren. And because the foresaid election of the said 
 dean of gild, deacon conveener, and visitor of the maltmen, with 
 their statutes and privileges, above narrated, redounds altogether 
 to the advancement of the common-weil of this burgh, the saids 
 commissioners, for themselves, having power and commission 
 granted to them by the whole body of the rank of merchants, 
 craftsmen, and their assistants, humbly requesting the provost, 
 baillies, and council of this burgh and city of Glasgow, for them, 
 and their successors, to ratifie and aprove this present letter, after 
 the form and tenour thereof, in all points ; and to that effect to grant
 
 278 Incorporation of CorJi/iers. 
 
 their express consent and assent to the foresaid dean of gild, deacon 
 conveener, and visitor of maltmen, and haill privileges, statutes, and 
 ordinances, particularly above mentioned ; and to interpone their 
 authority thereto, that the same may take effect, and have full exe- 
 cution, as is above specified ; and to ordain the same to be insert 
 and registrated in the burgh court-books of the said burgh, to the 
 effect foresaid, therein to remain, in perpetual remembrance, and 
 to declare that all and whatsoever person or persons, that shall here- 
 after oppose the foresaid letters, force and effect thereof, haill 
 statutes and privileges, shall be reputed and holden as seditious 
 persons, and troublers of the common-well of this burgh, and quiet 
 state thereof, and shall incur the mark and note of infamy, and 
 otherways to be punished with all rigour. 
 
 In witness whereof, these presents, written by John Craig, nottar, 
 the foresaids haill commissioners, for themselves, and in name and 
 behalf foresaid ; likeas, the said provost, baillies, and council, in 
 token of their consent and ratification thereof in all points, have 
 subscribed with their hands, as followeth, at day, year, and place, 
 foresaid. 
 
 For the merchant rank, William Anderson, Thomas Muir; 
 baillies, Matthew Turnbull, James Bell, James Inglis, William 
 Selkrig, James Fleming, Humphrey Cunningham for Thomas 
 Brown, in his absence, Robert Adam, John Wardrop for George 
 Muir, Archibald Faulls. Ita est Archibaldus Haygate, de man- 
 dato, Joannis Dickson, scribere nescientis. For the crafts rank, 
 John Anderson, Robert Rowat, Mr. Peter Low, Duncan Semple, 
 Mr. Robert Hamilton, John Muir, James Fisher, David Shearer, 
 James Braidwood, Thomas Fauside. Ita est, Archibaldus Haygate, 
 notarius, de mandato, Joannis Scott, scribere nescientis. Oversmen, 
 Sir George Elphinston, Mr. David Weems, Mr. John Bell. 
 
 At Glasgow, 9th February, 1605. In the council house, produced 
 before the provost, baillies, and council, to be admitted, approven, 
 and ordained to be registrated in the burrow court-books, and, in 
 testimony hereof, subscribed as follows, the provost, baillies, and 
 council, William Anderson, Thomas Muir, baillies ; James Braid- 
 wood, James Fisher, William Robertson, Thomas Pettigrew, James 
 Bell, William Wilson, treasurer. Ita est, Archibaldus Haygate,
 
 Letter of Guildry. 279 
 
 de mandatisjoannis Dickson et Gulielmi IMuir, scribere nescientium. 
 To the which letter of dean of gild, deacon conveener, and visitor of 
 the said maltmen, the said provost, baillies, and council, for them- 
 selves, and their successors in office, by the tenour hereof, have 
 interponed .and interpones their authority, and ordains the same, 
 with all and sundry privileges and liberties specified and contained 
 therein, to be observed, keeped, executed and used by the saids dean 
 of gild, deacon conveener, and visitor of maltmen, in all time coming, 
 after the form and tenor thereof, in all points, for the common-weil 
 of both merchant rank and crafts. 
 
 A, Heygate. 
 
 In the council house, being conveened the i6th February, 1605 
 years, the right honourable Sir George Elphinston of Blythswood, 
 knight, provost ; William Anderson, Thomas Muir, and John An- 
 derson, baillies ; Matthew Turnbull, dean of gild ; Robert Rowat, 
 John Rowat, Robert Adam, Humphry Cunningham, John Wardrop, 
 William Fleming, William Wallace, William Stirling, William 
 Robertson, John Dickson, Mr. Peter Low, James Fisher, John 
 Scott, deacon, Thomas Pettigrew, John Muir, skipper, William 
 Wilson, and James Bell. 
 
 The which day the provost, baillies, and council, being careful, 
 that, hereafter, all manner of mutiny, contraversies, question and 
 debates, shall be removed furth of the common-weil, especially 
 betwixt the merchant rank and rank of craftsmen, that the mutual 
 bond set down upon them lately concerning the dean of gild and 
 deacon conveener, for the common-weil of this burgh, and well of 
 both the states, may take happy effect, without any particular 
 respect either to merchant or craftsman, with consent of the dean 
 of gild and deacon conveener, for themselves, and the remanent of 
 their ranks, has concluded and ordained, that, in all musters, 
 weapons showing, and other lawful assemblies, that there shall be 
 no question, strife, or debate, betwixt merchant and craftsman, for 
 prerogative or priority ; but that they, and every one of them, as 
 one body of the common-weil, shall rank and place themselves 
 together, but distinction, as they shall happen to fall in rank and 
 otherways, as shall be thought expedient by the provost and baillies
 
 2 So Incorporation of Cordifiers. 
 
 for the time ; declaring by these presents, that whatever he be, 
 either merchant or craftsman, who makes question, mutiny, or 
 tumult for their rank, by prerogative or property, and repines at 
 the will and discretion of the provost, shall be judged and reputed 
 as a seditious person, and furder punished on sight. And furder, 
 for taking away all partiality and particular respect of persons 
 amongst the said merchants and crafts, if it should happen here- 
 after that any question or quarrel fall out amongst them judicially, 
 or by way of deed, the dean of gild, nor deacon conveener, nor 
 either of their ranks, shall show themselves particularly affected to 
 any of their parties, in respect that the one is a merchant and the 
 other a craftsman, nor yet assist them, or any of them, tumultuously, 
 in judgment, otherways ; but to be careful to see the offender con- 
 dignly punished, according to justice. And because several burgesses 
 of this burgh, when they happen to commit disturbance with their 
 neighbours, within the same, do boast themselves, and vaunt of 
 their friends, to the great trouble of this burgh and judgment-seat 
 of the same, by convocating their friends out of town to assist 
 them ; therefore it is concluded and ordained, that whatever burgess 
 of this burgh, that hereafter commits disturbance, and falls out 
 with his neighbour, and makes convocation of his friends without 
 the town, to take part with him, and to make furder tumult without 
 the town, and in judgment, his freedom shall be taken away, and 
 never to be esteemed worthy to enjoy the liberty of a freeman here- . 
 after ; but they shall civilly and quietly seek their redress and 
 remead of their wrong, by way of justice. And sicklike, that all con- 
 ventions and meetings of the dean of gild and deacon conveener, shall 
 be for putting their statutes to execution, and exercising the liberties 
 and privileges granted by the provost, baillies, and council to them. 
 
 VII. — Ratification of the Letter of Guildry. 
 Statute i6'j2. Chap. i2g. 
 Our sovereign lord, taking to consideration the great and many 
 debates, differences and contests, which were betwixt those of the 
 merchant rank, and those of the crafts, within the burgh of Glasgow, 
 in the time of his royal predecessors, and particularly in the reign 
 of His Majesty's grandfather, of ever blessed memory, until the
 
 Ratification of Letter of Guildry. 
 
 year 1605, at which tune, by the mediation, interposition, and 
 endeavours of several persons of quality, and wise men burgesses of 
 the said burgh, the said differences came to be settled and com- 
 posed, and thereupon, on the 6th day of February, the said year, a 
 submission having been made, following upon a commision, granted 
 by the great council of the town, for the said parties, their entering 
 in a submission, which submission is dated the loth day of Novem- 
 ber, 1604, whereupon the settlement after-mentioned followed, and 
 is entituled The Letter of Guildry Deacon Convener and Visitor 
 of Maltmen and Mealmen, dated the 6th day of February, 1605 
 years, wherein the particular powers and authorities condescended 
 upon, to belong to the said respective employments, are specially 
 enumerated by the magistrates, in manner contained in the said 
 agreement ; which visitors are for visiting markets of meal, and all 
 kind of victual, and appointed to try the sufficiency and insufficiency 
 thereof: By virtue of which agreement and decreet arbitral, the 
 inhabitants of the burgh of Glasgow have lived in great peace, 
 unity, and concord amongst themselves, as also thereby good order 
 has been observed in the respective ranks and callings, and orderly 
 contributions made for maintenance of the poor. Therefore His 
 Majesty, with the express advice of the estates of parliament ratifies, 
 confirms, and approves of the said guildry decreet and agreement, 
 whereby the said merchants and crafts have lived peaceably and in 
 good order, and the said merchants and crafts have met and made 
 orderly contributions for the maintenaiKe of the poor. Declaring 
 the said decreet and agreement to have the force and strength of an 
 Act of Parliament. 
 
 VIII. — Charter by King Charles I., to the Royal Burgh 
 OF Glasgow, and the Provost, Bailies, Dean of Guild, 
 Treasurer, Councillors, and Community thereof, dated 
 AT Newmarket, i6th October, 1636, and confirmed by 
 Acts of the Scotch 'Parliament, i Sess., i Parlt., 
 Charles II., and i Parlt., Will. & Mary, 1690. 
 
 Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and 
 Ireland, Defender of the Faith, To all Good Men of his whole
 
 Iticorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Land, Clergy, and Laity, Greeting, Know ye, Tliat we now, after 
 our lawful and perfect age, and all our revocations, as well special 
 as general, having been made certain of the ancient erection of our 
 Burgh of Glasgow, by our most noble progenitors of most worthy 
 memory, into ane entire Royal Burgh, and of the high antiquity of 
 our said Burgh, and that by the integrity and industry of the same 
 in foreign trade and navigation, and the skilfulness of the burgesses 
 and inhabitants of the same, our revenue and population have received 
 an increase, and that part of our kingdon advanced in riches and 
 civilization ; and that the said Burgh, in all public expences of our 
 said kingdom (such as are taxations, impositions, and exactions) has 
 borne not a small part of the burden imposed on the Burghs, and 
 that it has been esteemed, and in these many past ages was the chief 
 and most worthy Burgh situated in the western parts of our kingdom, 
 and greatly fitted for state and ornament. And understanding, also, 
 that the Provost, Baillies, Councillors, and community of our said 
 Burgh and City of Glasgow have undertaken not a few excellent 
 works, and expended great charges and expences these many years 
 past, in rendering the River of Clotta, that is the River of Clyd, 
 upon which the said City is founded and situated, navigable for ships, 
 boats, and barks, and other vessels, for importing and exporting 
 native and foreign commodities, to the great comfort of our lieges 
 dwelling there, and to those coming to the bounds and counties 
 next adjacent to the same : and for the advancement and increase of 
 the commonwealth of our foresaid kingdom of Scotland, and for 
 improving, repairing, and upholding of the bridge over the said 
 river, which greatly conduces to the promoting of commerce. And, 
 considering their care and expences, in providing a minister to that 
 church, within the said Burgh of Glasgow, called the Blackfriar 
 Kirk, and their solicitude for the repairing and enlarging of the 
 same, and provision of the minister serving the cure there with a 
 regular local stipend, and also recalling to memory what great 
 charges, expences, and care they not long ago expended in the 
 building of a Court-house for the administration of Justice, and 
 of other affairs to the advancement of the commonwealth and 
 the ornament of our foresaid kingdom, and in the building and 
 repairing of that other church called the New Church of Glasgow,
 
 Charter by King Charles I. 28- 
 
 situated in the Trongaitt thereof, with the steeple corresponding 
 thereto, and in repairing of the public ways and streets, and in 
 building and repairing of several bridges over rivers and waters 
 in different parts, where travellers may make their journey more 
 conveniently from and to our kingdom of Ireland, and other 
 parts within our said kingdom of Scotland, not only to the 
 comfort and advantage of our lieges of every kind of our said 
 kingdom, but also to the comfort of all travellers and foreigners 
 frequenting these parts, and also in building of large halls and 
 markets for the receiving and selling of victuals and other provisions 
 coming to market, and in the erection of a large collasterum, the 
 correction house, for the suppression of scoffers, vagabonds, and 
 that young and idle people may betake themselves to work ; and 
 also considering the great charge hitherto expended by them in 
 upholding and improving of the great metropolitan church of that 
 city ; and we, mindful of former works worthy of praise, tending to 
 the public good of our said kingdom, and that courage may be 
 imparted to them in prosecuting such good endeavours, likewise for 
 the good, faithful, gratuitous service rendered and furnished to us 
 and our illustrious progenitors by the Provost, Baillies, Councillors, 
 and community of our said Burgh and City of Glasgow, and their 
 predecessors in time past. Therefore we, with special advice and 
 consent of our very beloved cousin and councillor, John, Earl of 
 Traquair, Lord Lintoun and Caberston, &c., High Treasurer, 
 Computer of the Rolls, Collector General and Treasurer of our new 
 augmentations within our kingdom of Scotland, also one of the 
 remaining two of our Commissioners of our Exchequer of our said 
 kingdom, have ratified, approved, and by this our present charter 
 have confirmed, and by the tenor thereof ratify, approve, and for us 
 and our successors for ever, confirm all and sundry cliarters, infeft- 
 ments, precepts, instruments of sasine, confirmations, acts, sentences, 
 decreets, donations, concessions, mortifications, rights of jjatronage 
 and other rights, titles, evidents, and securities, liberties, profits and 
 privileges contained therein, of whatever nature, kind and quality, 
 the same are made and granted to our foresaid Burgh and City of 
 Glasgow, Provost, Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Councillors, 
 and community thereof, and their successors, by us or whatever
 
 284 Iiicorporatioi of Coj'diners. 
 
 others our most illustrious progenitors, ICings, Queens, Princes, and 
 Seneschals of our said kingdom, their Regents and Governors for 
 the time being, or by the Lords of the Supreme Senate and College 
 of Justice, together also with all acts of burghs and other rights, 
 liberties, and possessions enjoyed by our said Burgh in any time 
 past, and with churches, colleges, infirmaries, and hospitals within 
 the same, of whatever form, tenor, and contents the same are given 
 or granted, and especially (without prejudice to the said generality) 
 a Charter of Donation and Concession, made and granted by our 
 most noble progenitor, Alexander, King of Scotland, of the liberties 
 and privileges of our said Burgh, of the burgesses and inhabitants 
 thereof, of date at Maden Castle the iSth day of the month of June, 
 and the 26th year of his reign ; also, another Charter granted by 
 our most noble progenitor. King Robert, confirming the foresaid 
 Charter, under our Great Seal, of date the 15th day of the month of 
 November, and the twenty-third year of his reign ; also, a certain 
 other Charter made and granted by King Robert to the Provost, 
 Baillies, Councillors, and community of our said Burgh of Glasgow, 
 the foresaid Charter confirming, giving, and granting to the same cer- 
 tain new liberties, dated at Scone the 28th day of the month of July, 
 and the l8th year of his reign ; also, another Charter granted by our 
 most dear grand-mother Mary, Queen of Scotland, to the Provost, 
 Baillies, Councillors, and community of our said Burgh of Glasgow, 
 of certain lands, tenements, churches, chaples, chaplaniries, pre- 
 bendaries, altarages, and others therein mentioned, of date the 17th 
 day of the month of March, in the year of the Lord 1 566 ; also 
 another Charter by our most dear father of eternal memory, granted 
 under his Great Seal, ratifying former donations, concessions, and 
 other privilleges, in favour of the said Provosts, Bailies, Councillors, 
 and community, made and granted of date at Roystoun, the 8th day 
 of the month of April, in the year of the Lord 161 1 ; also, a decreet 
 of Parliament in favour of our said Burgh of Glasgow, pronounced 
 of date the 29th day of the month of November, in the year of the 
 Lord 1469, concerning their liberties in the said River of Clyd; also, 
 a certain ratification of the said decreet, of date the first day of the 
 month of December, in the year of the Lord 1479 ; also, a certain 
 act of Secret Council in favour of our said Burgh concerning their
 
 Charter by King Charles I. 285 
 
 liberties, of date the loth day of the month of September, in the 
 year of the Lord 1600 ; also, a certain act interlocutory of the Lords 
 of Council and Session in their favour, against our Burgh of Dum- 
 bartane, given of date the 25th day of the month of July, in the year 
 of the Lord 1607 ; also, a certain decreet of the said Lords of our 
 Council and Session, granted in favour of our said Burgh of Glasgow, 
 the 4th day of the month of June, in the year of the Lord 1575, 
 concerning the laydellfuU of all kinds of victuals sold in their 
 markets ; also, a certain Charter made and granted by our most 
 dear father to our said Burgh of Glasgow, the Provost, Baillies, 
 Councillors, and community thereof, and their successors, of all and 
 whole the tenements as well built as not, with pastures, gardens, 
 barns, and barnyards, lying without the port of the said Burgh 
 called the Rottenrow Port, eight acres of lands, or thereabout, lying 
 in Deansyde, and of certain acres of land lying in Crubbies, Provan- 
 syde ; and at the back of the said barns, of date the 21st day of the 
 month of December, in the year of the Lord 1613; also, a certain 
 other Charter and Donation made and granted by us, under our 
 Great Seal, to our foresaid Burgh and City of Glasgow, the Provosts, 
 Baillies, Councillors, and community thereof, of that Church called 
 the Blackfriar Kirk, situated near the College of Glasgow, and of 
 the right of patronage thereof, of date at Oattis, the first day of the 
 month of July, in the year of the Lord 1636 ; likewise the liberty, 
 use, and possession in which our said Burgh of Glasgow, and 
 Magistrates thereof, had, in any time past, in the suckning, thirling, 
 and astricting the burgesses and inhabitants of our said Burgh, to 
 their Mills pertaining to them., whether in property or tenantry, or 
 tack, and in payment of multures, knaveship, and other duties there 
 observed in any time past ; and also the liberty, use, and possession, 
 which our foresaid Burgh of Glasgow, and Magistrates thereof, had 
 of electing a Baillie, who may rule over the water, that is, ane 
 Water Baillie, within the said River of Clyde, where the sea flows 
 and ebbs, and within the entire bounds thereof, under the Bridge of 
 Glasgow to the Clochstaine, and of correcting all injuries and 
 enormities committed upon the said river, within the bounds thereof, 
 in all and singular heads, articles, conditions, and circumstances 
 of the same whatever. And M'e will and grant that this our
 
 286 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 present confirmation is, and in all future time will be, in itself, 
 of such value, strength, efficiency, and effect, in all respects, 
 to our foresaid Burgh and City of Glasgow, the Provost, Baillies, 
 Councillors, Burgesses, and community thereof, and their succes- 
 sors ; and if all and singular the foresaid charters, infcftments, con- 
 formations, acts, sentences, decreets, concessions, donations, mor- 
 tifications, rights of patronage, and others, particularly and generally, 
 above mentioned, are not here inserted from word to word at length, 
 concerning which we, for us and our successors, dispense, and by 
 the tenor of our present charter dispense for ever. Moreover, we 
 in further corroboration of the same, with advice and consent fore- 
 said, for the good, faithful, and gratuitous service rendered and 
 furnished to us and our most illustrions progenitors, by the Provost, 
 Baillies, Councillors, and community of our said Burgh ahd City of 
 Glasgow, aud their predecessors, and that to them may be given 
 better occasion of persevering in said service, we have given, granted, 
 and disponed, dc novo, and by the tenor of our present charter, we 
 give, grant, and dispone to the Provost, Baillies, Councillors, and 
 community of our said Burgh and City of Glasgow, all and whole 
 our said Burgh and City of Glasgow, with all and singular lands, 
 houses, edifices, tenements, gardens, orchards, churches, rights of 
 patronage, burial places, chapels, chaplainries, tithes, walls, gates, 
 ways, passages, streets, heights, parts, lakes, torrents, tofts, crofts, 
 the infield and outfield, territory and community thereof, mills, 
 mill lands, multures, sequel, the sucken, and thirlage, dams, in 
 lairis, laidis, and watergaugis, banks, stones, fishings of salmon, 
 and other fishings in the said water and river of Clyde, hospitals, 
 coUasteria, the correction house, moors, marshes, meadows, com- 
 mons, the hues, bridges, coals, coalfields, quarries, limestone, 
 annual-rents, feiifarm duties, mansions, ripe fruits, emoluments, 
 foundations, donations, presentations, mortifications, the almes dail 
 silver, obitts, together with all other privileges and immunities what- 
 soever, as well ecclesiastical as secular, pertaining to the same, 
 lying within our said Burgh, liberty, territory, and jurisdiction 
 thereof, and with liberty of the said river of Clyde, and width either 
 side from the Bridge of Glasgow to the Clochstaine ; likewise with 
 liberty and immunity of ship stations that is of the Roidis of Iiisch-
 
 Charter by King Charles I. 287 
 
 green, Newark, Pot of the Rig, or of any other station of ships 
 within the said river of Clyde, between the Bridge of Glasgow and 
 the said Clochstaine, for loading and unloading merchandise and 
 goods belonging to the said Burgh, burgesses, and inhabitants there- 
 of; as well imported and exported by them in ships and other 
 vessels of this our kingdom of Scotland, as imported and exported 
 in ships belonging and pertaining to foreigners and strangers ; like- 
 wise, de novo, (and without prejudice of their former rights,) we 
 have erected and incorporated our foresaid Burgh into a free Royal 
 Burgh, with all and singular liberties, privileges, immunities, and 
 jurisdictions, which, by the laws and customs of our kingdom per- 
 tained, or could justly pertain, to any other free Royal Burgh ; and 
 with special power and liberty to the Provost, Baillies, Councillors, 
 Community, Burgesses, and the Freemen of our said Burgh, and 
 their successors for ever, (and to no others whatever, the freemen 
 and burgesses of our said Burgh only being,) of having, frequent- 
 ing-, using and exercising mercantile business, the trade and 
 traffick of merchandize, blok, buy, cope, sell all kind of merchandise, 
 as well native as foreign ; and this within the entire bounds of our 
 said Burgh of Glasgow, and Barony of Glasgow, and the whole 
 liberties and privileges thereof, and of holding, enjoying, and 
 possessing, within our said Burgh and bounds foresaid for ever, one 
 Merchant Gildry, with Courts of Dean of Gild, the Gild Courts, 
 Members of Council and jurisdictions thereto belonging, with the 
 liberties and privileges of the same, in the same manner and as 
 freely in all respects as is granted by us or our predecessors to our 
 said Burgh and City, or to any other free Royal Burgh within our 
 kingdom, and as freely as the Provost, Baillies thereof, Deans of 
 Gild and Councillors, or any one of them or their predecessors have, 
 held, used, and exercised the said Burgh office, liberties, and privi- 
 leges of the same, merchandise and the foresaid Guildry in any time 
 past, and with all liberties, immunities, privileges, and exemptions, 
 which by the laws of this kingdom belonged or may belong ; and 
 also of holding, having, possessing, enjoying, and exercising weekly 
 within our said Burgh, on each day of Monday, Wednesday, and 
 Friday, or any other three days weekly, as to the said Provost, 
 Baillies, and Councillors may appear proper to fix, with common
 
 288 Incorporatio7i of Coniiners. 
 
 consent and public intimation, their public and open market days, 
 together with four free fairs four times yearly, viz. , one thereof on 
 the 13th day of the month of January, called the twentie day of 
 Yule ; the second thereof yearly in future on the day called Skyre 
 Thursday ; the third annually in future on the Whitsunmonday ; 
 and the fourth thereof annually, beginning on the seventh day of 
 the month of July, and holding and continuing for the space of eight 
 days next following, according to use and wont, together with 
 Baillies gloves, tolls, custom-s, and all other feudal privileges, 
 immunities, and duties, which are reckoned to pertain of right and 
 custom thereof to the said markets and fairs, or any other markets 
 and fairs of this our kingdom, in the same manner and as freely as 
 themselves or their predecessors have enjoyed and possessed in any 
 time past. Moreover we, with consent foresaid, have created, made, 
 and constituted, and by the tenor of our present Charter create, 
 make, and constitute, the present Provost and Baillies of our said 
 Burgh, and their successors, Justices of Peace within our said Burgh 
 of Glasgow, and whole territory and liberties thereof, and within 
 the said harbours of Inchgreen, Newark, and Pot of the Rig, and 
 we have given, granted, and disponed, and by the tenor of our 
 present charter we give, grant, and dispone to our said Burgh of 
 Glasgow, the Provost, Baillies, Councillors, and community thereof 
 for ever, coUasteria, the correction house newl)' erected by them 
 therein, together with the liberties, privileges, and immunities 
 belonging thereto, with power to them of having, using, and exercis- 
 ing the same in future in the same way and in the like manner as 
 our Burgh of Edinburgh, or any other Burgh within our said king- 
 dom, have used or could exercise such ; together also with that house 
 called the Lepper House and that called Saint Ninian's Hospitall, 
 with gardens and pertinents of the same, built upon the south side 
 of the said River of Clyd, near the Bridge of Glasgow, with all 
 revenues, tithes, and duties belonging to the same, with power 
 to them and their successors of intromitting and levying the 
 taxes, tithes, and duties of the said Hospital for the maintenance of 
 the sick and poor in the same ; together also with all and singular 
 the small customs of whatever goods coming and departing from 
 the gates of our said Burgh, and coming and departing through the
 
 Charter by King Charles I. 289 
 
 great Bridge thereof, and coming from the Markets thereof, with 
 the duties and customs of the Tron of our said Burgh, and of the 
 markets called the Meill Merkat, Beir Merkatt, Salt Merkatt, 
 Flesche Merkatt, Horse Merkatt, Clothe Merkatt, and of all other 
 merkatts within our said Burgh, and .with the customs and duties of 
 the said great Bridge and Green Market, and all other duties and 
 exactions in which themselves or their predecessors now are or were 
 in possession, and which in future, with consent of the Council and 
 community of the said Burgh, they may happen to impose. We 
 also, with consent above specified, have given, and by the tenor of 
 our present Charter give, full power to the said Provosts, Baillies, and 
 Councillors, and their successors de novo of astricting and compelling 
 all the inhabitants of our said Burgh to their Mills pertaining to 
 them in heritage or tack, in like manner as the said inhabitants were 
 in use and in time past to do, with power also to them of levying the 
 multures, the sucken and sequels of the said I\Iills, and exacting such 
 other customs at all the gates of our said Burgh during the time of 
 the said Markets and Fairs, in like manner as they were accustomed 
 in use to exact at the gate of the great Bridge of our said Burgh ; and 
 also with power to the said Magistrates of our Burgh of Glasgow, and 
 their successors, of electing annually a Baillie who may rule over the 
 water, that is, ane Water Baillie for correcting injuries and enormities 
 committed upon the said river, within the bounds above specified, 
 reserving in every manner to our dear cousin James, Duke of Lennox, 
 and his successors, and their Baillies and Deputies, the liberties and 
 privileges during the whole time of the last of the fairs, called the 
 Fair of Glasgow, similarly and in the same manner as they enjoy 
 and were accustomed to in times past, commanding and ordaining 
 that no person or persons of whatever kind, whether they be of the 
 regality or royalty who are not burgesses, shall undertake, nstirpy 
 exercise, and occupy within the liberty of our said Burgh, Barony, 
 and Regality of Glasgow, mercantile business, the trade and traffic 
 of merchandise, whether native or foreign, belonging to a free Royal 
 Burgh, under pain of incarcerating their persons, and reducing their 
 goods and effects into escheat wherever they can be found. More- 
 over we, with advice and consent foresaid, have given and granted, 
 and by the tenor of the present Charter, give and grant full power, 
 
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 !90 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 commission, and authority to the Provost, Baillies, and Councillors 
 of our said Burgh and their successors, of making and constituting 
 acts, statutes, and ordinances for the good and advantage of our 
 said Burgh, for defending and protecting the liberties and privileges 
 thereof, in every manner agreeable to and not contradicting the laws 
 and acts of our Parliament, to be observed by all and singular the 
 burgesses and inhabitants of our said Burgh, and all other persons 
 coming and frequenting there, under such penalties as to them may 
 seem expedient ; with power to them of calling, prosecuting, arrest- 
 ing, and incarcerating persons acting contrary to the said privileges, 
 acts, and constitutions, and intromitting with their goods and 
 reducing them into escheat, applying the half of the same to our 
 use, and the other half to pious uses of our said Burgh, according 
 to the acts and constitutions of our Parliament made thereanent. 
 Also we, with advice and consent foresaid, have given and granted, 
 and by the tenor of our present Charter give and grant free power, 
 liberty, and privilege to our said Burgh of Glasgow, burgesses and 
 inhabitants thereof, to the trad traffick of selling and making mer- 
 chandise within all the parts of the said river and water of Clyde 
 with Foreigners, and all other persons coming and resorting thither, 
 and of building harbours and stations of ships, embankments, and 
 the gittie-heads, for rendering the said river more navigable, within 
 the entire bounds of the said river, from the said Bridge of Glasgow 
 to the Clochstane, and for receiving their ships, boats, and barks, 
 within the bounds of the said river, as far as the greatest tide flows, 
 and for taking stones and sand within any part of the said river, so 
 far as the said greatest tide the spring tide flows, for building em- 
 bankments, harbours, stations of ships, and the gitlie-heads, and for 
 repairing and improving the same, and with the same ballasting 
 their ships, boats, barks, and other vessels, together also with power 
 and privilege to them of exacting, asking, and levying anchorage 
 dues, and the shore siller and other duties of all merchandise, boats, 
 barks, and other vessels arriving at the Broomielaw of Glasgow, or at 
 any other port within the said River of Clyde, according to use and 
 custom. And because it is sufficiently testified by the Lords of our 
 Council and Exchequer, that the Provost, Baillies, and Councillors 
 of our said Burgh have not only built and enlarged the foresaid
 
 Charter by King Charles I. 291 
 
 church, called the New Church of Glasgow, but also have provided 
 the same with a minister, to whom for his service they pay annually 
 a competent and sufficient stipend; and we, mindful of their zeal and 
 piety in this part, therefore we, with advice and consent foresaid, 
 have made and constituted, and by the tenor of our present Charter, 
 make and constitute the Provost, Baillies, Councillors, and com- 
 munity of our said Burgh, and their successors for ever, undoubted 
 and irrevocable heritable patrons of the said church, called the New 
 Church, situated in the Trongate of the said Burgh, with free 
 power to them and their successors of presenting fit and qualified 
 persons to the Archbishop of Glasgow now being, and who for the 
 time may be, for the service of the cure at the said church, as often 
 as the same may happen to be vacant, through demission, depriv- 
 ation, incapacity, or otherwise, and making, using, and exercising 
 all other and singular acts which pertain to the advocation, dona- 
 tion, and right of patronage ; moreover we, from our certain know- 
 ledge and proper motive, with consent foresaid, have united, 
 annexed, and incorporated, and by the tenor of our present Charter 
 unite, annex, and incorporate our foresaid Burgh and City of Glas- 
 gow, together with all lands, tenements, territories, communities, 
 the infield and outfield parts, stations of ships, fairs, markets, 
 mills, multures, sequels, and the thirlage, churches, rights of 
 patronage, customs, hospitals, collasteria, the correction houses, 
 and others particularly and generally above specified, into one 
 free Royal Burgh ; and we will and grant that our sasine taken 
 thereof by the Provost or any ane of the Baillies of our said 
 Burgh, at the market cross or court house, will stand and will 
 be perpetual sasine to them and their successors, Councillors, and 
 community of our said Burgh, without renewing of the said sasine, 
 notwithstanding the particulars foresaid, or whatever of them may 
 by discontiguous, holding and having all and whole our foresaid 
 Burgh of Glasgow, comprehending the whole lands, tenements, 
 territories, churches, chapels, communities, harbours, stations of 
 ships, fairs, markets, mills, multures, the sucken customs, hospitals, 
 collasteria, and others, particularly and generally above mentioned, 
 by the foresaid Provost, Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Council- 
 lors, Burgesses, and community of our said Burgh of Glasgow, before
 
 292 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 mentioned, and their successors, of us and our successors, in free 
 burgage for ever, by all the righteous meiths, ancient and divided, 
 according as they ly in length and breadth ; in houses, edifices, 
 forests, plains, muirs, marshes, ways, paths, waters, pools, rivulets, 
 meadows, grazing-fields and pastures, mills, multures, and their 
 sequels ; fowlings, huntings, fishings, peats, turfs, coals, coal-fields, 
 rabbits, rabbit warrens, pigeons, dovecots, work-shops, brass 
 foundries, breweries, and broomfields, trees, groves, and twigs, 
 woods, beams, quarries, stone, and lime, with courts and their 
 entries, herezelds, bloodwits and merchetis of women ; with gibbet, 
 ditch, sok, sak, thoile, thane, vest, wrak, waith, vvair, vennysoun, 
 infangthieff, outfangthieff, pit, and gallows, with common pasture 
 and free entrance and exit, and with all other and singular liberties, 
 commodities, profits, and easements, and their just pertinents what- 
 somever, as well named as not named, as well under ground as 
 above ground, far and near, belonging to the said Royal Burgh, 
 with pertinents or justly belonging, enjoying them in whatever 
 manner in future freely, quietly, fully, entirely, honorably, well, and 
 in peace, without any revocation, contradiction, impediment, or 
 obstacle whatever. The said Provost, Baillies, Dean of Guild, 
 community and inhabitants of our said Burgh and City of Glasgow, 
 and their successors, delivering hereafter annually to us and our 
 successors, the sum of twenty merks of usual money of our Kingdom 
 of Scotland, at the Feasts of Pentecost and Saint Martin, in the 
 winter, by equal portions, our Burgh revenue, with service of Burgh, 
 used and wont ; also, paying yearly to the most Reverend Father in 
 Christ, Patrick, Archbishop of Glasgow, and his successors, the 
 sum of sixteen merks of money aforesaid, at whatever term of pay- 
 ment our foresaid Burgh of Glasgow by its former Charter is bound. 
 Finally, by the tenour of our present Charter, it is declared and 
 expressly provided that neither this our present Charter and infeft- 
 nients, nor anything following thereupon, shall prejudge or bring 
 damage to our foi^esaid most dear cousin, James, Duke of Lennox, 
 his heirs or successors, their baillies or deputies, concerning what- 
 ever of their liberties and privileges may belong to them within our 
 foresaid Burgh and Royalty of Glasgow, which they or their pre- 
 decessors were in use and possession in any time past. In Witness
 
 Act William and Mary, i6gi. 293 
 
 whereof, we have commended our Great Seal to be appended to 
 this our present Charter, the witnesses as in other similar Charters 
 formerly granted, At Newmarket, the sixteenth day of the month of 
 October, in the year of the Lord 1636, and in the twelfth year of 
 our reign. 
 
 IX. — Act William and Mary. 
 
 i6gi. Chap. 18. 
 
 Our sovereign lord and lady, taking to their consideration that 
 the city of Glasgow is amongst the most considerable of the royal 
 burrows, within their ancient kingdom of Scotland, both for the 
 number of inhabitants and their singular fitness and application to 
 trade, and the convenient situation of the place upon the river 
 Clyde; and that the common good of the said city hath been greatly 
 wasted and exhausted, by draining vast sums of money from magis- 
 trates who were not freely elected and chosen, as is usual in other 
 royal burrows ; and likeways considering the firm adherence and 
 constant zeal for the Protestant religion of the community of the 
 said city, their Majesties did grant a full and ample charter in 
 favours of the said city of Glasgow, and the common council thereof, 
 confirming all former charters granted to them by any of their 
 royal predecessors in favours of the community of the said city or 
 gild brethern, tradesmen, or any society, or deaconry, within the 
 samen ; and also of new granting and disponing to the said city and 
 common council thereof, a full and ample power, right, and faculty 
 of electing their provost, baillies, and other magistrates, at the ordi- 
 nary time of election, als freely as any other royal burgh might do 
 within their said ancient kingdom ; promising to confirm the fore- 
 said charter in the next parliament. Therefore their Majesties, 
 with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, do statute, 
 enact, and ordain, that the city of Glasgow and town council thereof 
 shall have power and privillege to choose their own magistrates, 
 provost, baillies, and other officers, within burgh, als fully and als 
 freely in all respects as the city of Edinburgh, or any other royal 
 burgh within the kingdom enjoys the same ; beginning the first elec- 
 tion at jNIichaelmas next, and so furth yearly in time coming. And
 
 294 Iiicorporatio?i of Cordiners. 
 
 fuither, their Majesties, with consent foresaid, do ratify, confirm, 
 and approve the foresaid charter, granted by them in favours of the 
 community and common council of Glasgow, of the date the fourth 
 day of January, 1690, in the whole heads, articles, and clauses 
 thereof, als fully and amply as if the samen were, word by word, 
 herein engrossed ; whereanent their Majesties, with consent foresaid, 
 do hereby dispense for now and ever. It is always hereby expressly 
 provided and declared, that this present Act shall be without pre- 
 judice or derogation to their Majesties of their rights to the regality 
 of Glasgow, or other rights, except as to the power and freedom of 
 the burgh of Glasgow in relation to the choosing of their own 
 magistrates, and the several erections of incorporations and deacon- 
 ries within the same. 
 
 X. — An Act for the Abolition of the exclusive Privilege 
 OF Trading in Burghs in Scotland (14TH May, 1846). 
 
 Whereas in certain Royal and other Burghs (in Scotland) the Mem- 
 bers of certain Guilds, Crafts, or Incorporations possess exclusive 
 Privileges of carrying on or dealing in IMerchandize, and of carrying 
 on or exercising certain Trades or Handicrafts, within their respec- 
 tive Burghs ; and such Guilds, Crafts, or Incorporations have 
 corresponding rights, entitling them to prevent Persons not being 
 Members thereof from carrying on or dealing in Merchandize, or 
 from carrying on or exercising such Trades or Handicrafts, within 
 such Burghs : And whereas it has become expedient that such 
 exclusive Privileges and Rights should be abolished : Be it there- 
 fore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with 
 the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 
 and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the 
 Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act 
 all such exclusive Privileges and Rights shall cease, and it shall be 
 lawful for any person to carry on or deal in Merchandize, and to 
 carry on or exercise any Trade or Handicraft, in any Burgh and 
 elsewhere in Scotland, without being a Burgess of such Burgh, or a 
 Guild Brother, or a Member of any Guild, Craft or Incorporation : 
 Provided always, that in lieu of the Stamp Duties of One Pound
 
 Act Abolishing Exclusive Privileges. 295 
 
 and Three Pounds now payable on the admission of any Person as 
 a Burgess, or into any Corporation or Company in any Burgh in 
 Scotlajid, for the Enrohnent, Entry, or Memorandum thereof in the 
 Court Books, Roll, or Record of such Corporation or Company, 
 there shall from and after the passing of this Act be paid on every 
 such Admission a Stamp Duty of Five Shillings. 
 
 II. And be it enacted, That notwithstanding the Abolition of 
 the said exclusive Privileges and Rights all such Incorporations as 
 aforesaid shall retain their Corporate Character, and shall continue 
 to be Incorporations, with the same Names and Titles as heretofore ; 
 and nothing herein contained shall anywise affect the Rights and 
 Privileges of such Incorporations, or of the Office Bearers or Mem- 
 bers thereof, except as hereinbefore enacted. 
 
 III. And whereas the Revenues of such Incorporations as afore- 
 said may in some Instances be affected, and the Number of the 
 Members of such Incorporations may in some Instances diminish, 
 by reason of the Abolition of the said exclusive Privileges and 
 Rights, and it is expedient that Provision should be made for facili- 
 tating Arrangements suitable to such Occurrences ; be it therefore 
 enacted, That it shall be lawful for every such Incorporation from 
 Time to Time to make all Bye-Laws, Regulations, and Resolutions 
 relative to the Management and Application of its Funds and 
 Property, and relative to the Qualification and Admission of Mem- 
 bers, in reference to its altered Circumstances under this Act, as 
 may be considered expedient, and to apply to the Court of Session, 
 by summary Petition, for the Sanction of the said Court to such 
 Bye-Laws, Regulations, or Resolutions ; and the said Court, after 
 due Intimation of such Application, shall determine upon the same, 
 and upon any Objections that may be made thereto by Parties having 
 Interest, and shall interpone the Sanction of the said Court to such 
 Bye-Laws, Regulations, or Resolutions, or disallow the same in whole 
 or in part, or make thereon such Alterations, or adject thereto such 
 Conditions or Qualifications, as the said Court may think fit, and gener- 
 ally shall pronounce such Order in the whole Matter as may to the said 
 Court seem just and expedient ; and such Bye-Laws, Regulations, 
 or Resolutions, subject to such Alterations and Conditions as afore- 
 said, shall be, when the Sanction of the said Court shall have been
 
 296 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 interponed thereto, valid and effectual and binding on such Incor- 
 porations : Provided always, that nothing therein contained shall 
 affect the Validity of any Bye-Laws, Regulations, or Resolutions 
 that may be made by any such Incorporation without the Sanction 
 of the said Court, which it would have been heretofore competent 
 for such Incorporation to have made of its own Authority or without 
 such Sanction. 
 
 IV. And be it enacted. That this Act may be amended or repealed 
 by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament. 
 
 XL — Rules and Regulations ok the Incorporation of 
 Cordiners in Glasgow, 
 
 Enacted 23rd January, 1868, and Revised aitd Amended, February, 
 iSyy, February, 1878, and February, 1881. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 1. The Incorporation shall be called, as heretofore, the 
 " Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow." 
 
 Office-Bearers and Management. 
 
 2. The affairs of the Incorporation generally, and in so far as not 
 restricted by the Incorporation, shall be managed by the Master 
 Court, which shall consist of the Deacon, the Collector, the last or 
 late Deacon, the last or late Collector, nine Masters, and one 
 Master, who shall be nominated by the Deacon as after-mentioned, 
 to be called the Deacon's Goudie, in all fourteen members — of whom 
 five shall be a quorum. The three of the nine Masters longest in 
 office shall retire annually, as after-mentioned. 
 
 At the annual meeting of the Incorporation the following Office- 
 Bearers shall be elected in the manner following, viz. : — 
 
 (A.) A Deacon, to hold office for one year only, from 
 among such of the members of the Master Court as have 
 previously held the office of Collector of the Incorporation, 
 and been honourably discharged of their intromissions, and 
 been one year out of office, or from such members of the 
 Incorporation, although not members of the Master Court
 
 Rules and Regulations of Cordiners. 297 
 
 at the time, as have previously held the office of Deacon or 
 Collector, and been honourably discharged of their intro- 
 missions. 
 
 (B.) A Collector, to hold office for one year, who shall 
 have served one year as a member of the Master Court ; 
 and it shall not be lawful to re-elect the same person as 
 Collector until he has been two years out of office as 
 Collector. 
 
 (C. ) Three Masters, to hold office for three years, in 
 room of the three Masters who retire by rotation annually. 
 Those retiring by rotation are eligible for re-election. 
 
 (D.) One Master, to hold office for one year, shall be 
 nominated and appointed by the Deacon, and be called the 
 Deacon's Goudie, or keeper of a key of the Box. 
 
 (E.) A Trade's Goudie or keeper of a key of the Box, 
 from among the nine Masters, to hold office for one year. 
 
 AND ALSO, 
 
 (F.) Six Representatives to the Trades' House of 
 Glasgow, who shall, for the time, be members of the 
 Master Court, and of whom the Deacon, for the time, and 
 the late Deacon shall always be members ex officiis. 
 
 (G.) A Member of the Building Committee of the 
 Trades' House, who shall be one of the Representatives of 
 the Incorporation in the Trades' House at the time. 
 
 (H.) A Member of the Educational Committee of the 
 Trades' House. 
 
 (I.) A Delegate for the lands of Gorbals, belonging 
 jointly to the said Trades' House and to this and certain 
 of the other Incorporated Trades of Glasgow. 
 
 (J. ) The Educational Committee, in terms of Rule No. 44. 
 
 (K.) A Clerk. 
 
 (L.) An Officer. 
 
 For the purposes of the foregoing Elections, the Master Court 
 shall make up, or cause to be made up, not later than the Monday 
 preceding the Annual Election, a Roll, to be called the Qualified 
 Roll, containing the names of those members who have been on the
 
 298 Incorporation of Cor diners. 
 
 Roll for at least one year and a day, and who shall have paid all 
 annual contributions, and be otherwise free of debt to the Incorpor- 
 ation, and who are not pensioners of the Incorporation or the 
 Trades' House; such Roll to distinguish betwixt those members 
 who have redeemed their quarter accounts and those who pay them 
 annually, by keeping in a tabulated form the names of each class 
 separate from the other. Such persons only whose names are on 
 this Roll shall be entitled to vote or to be voted upon at any 
 meetings of the Incorporation, 
 
 The Annual Election of the Office-Bearers to be appointed by the 
 Incorporation, as hereinbefore provided, shall (excepting always the 
 appointment by the Deacon of his Goudie) be conducted according 
 to the following Rules, and not otherwise, viz. : — It shall not be 
 competent to elect the Office-Bearers unless they shall, at the 
 annual meeting, have respectively been nominated by a qualified 
 member, and the said nomination seconded by another qualified 
 member, for the particular office or offices they are respectively 
 intended to fill ; and, in the event of there being in any case more 
 persons nominated than there are offices to be filled, the Clerk or 
 his substitute — who shall always have a supply of voting papers at 
 the meeting in the Form A hereunto annexed — shall hand one such 
 voting paper to each of the qualified members present, and such 
 members shall thereupon respectively place a X on the right-hand 
 side opposite the name or names of the person or persons, or 
 question, they vote for, and put the voting papers, when so marked, 
 in the place directed by the Clerk or his substitute. The Clerk and the 
 Collector, whom failing, two persons to be appointed by the meeting, 
 upon the voting papers being all deposited, shall then take possession 
 of the marked voting papers, and sum up the votes, and report the 
 result to the Chairman, who shall forthwith, in the case of Elections, 
 declare to be elected the person or persons to whom the majority of 
 of votes have been given, and in the case of a question the Chairman 
 shall also declare to be carried the question for which the majority 
 of votes has been given. In case of an equality of votes at any 
 meeting the Chairman shall have a casting vote besides his deliber- 
 ative vote. Votes given by voting paper shall be invalid if given 
 for two or more candidates when there is only one office to be
 
 Rides and Regidatmis of Cor diners. 299 
 
 filled. Where there is more than one office to be filled, votes shall 
 also be invalid if given for a greater number of candidates than there 
 are offices to be filled. 
 
 3. At all meetings, e.\cept the annual meetings, where a division 
 may arise, the vote shall be taken by a show of hands, but, if a 
 majority present at any such meeting shall demand it, the vote may 
 be taken in the same way as is provided for in Rule 2. 
 
 4. It shall not be competent for any member to be elected a 
 member of the Master Court, or a representative in the Trades' 
 House, or to any of the Committees thereto belonging, or to con- 
 tinue to be such, who at the time is an office-bearer in any of the 
 other Incorporated Trades of Glasgow; and no minor shall be 
 qualified to vote or to hold any office in the Incorporation. 
 
 5. In the event of any vacancies occurring, by death, resignation, 
 or otherwise, of the Deacon, Collector, or any member of the Master 
 Court, or any of the representatives of the Trades' House, member 
 of the Building Committee, and member of the Educational Com- 
 mittee of the Trades' House,' delegate for the Gorbals Lands, any 
 member of the Educational Committee of the Incorporation, clerk, 
 or officer, such vacancy shall be filled up by election at the annual 
 meeting, or at the first stated meeting after the time at which such 
 vacancy may occur, in the same manner as the offices so becoming 
 vacant were originally filled : and the person or persons so chosen 
 shall assume and hold the position and rights of their respective pre- 
 decessors in office. 
 
 6. The existing office-bearers shall continue in office until others 
 shall be elected in their place, in terms of these Regulations. 
 
 Duties and Powers of Office-Bearers. 
 
 7. The Master Court shall collect and administer the funds of the 
 Incorporation, and manage and disiDOse thereof, subject to the con- 
 trol hereby prescribed and in accordance with the Rules and 
 Regulations herein contained, and .such others as may from time 
 to time be enacted by the Incorporation. They shall annually, at 
 the Lammas Court Meeting, by themselves or a committee of not 
 less than two members, carefully examine and audit the accounts of 
 the Collector's intromissions for the preceding financial year^ as well
 
 300 lnco7-poration of Corditiers. 
 
 as those of any factors or agents who may have been appointed 
 to manage any part of the Incorporation's affairs ; and they shall 
 cause an abstract of the accounts, showing the revenue and expendi- 
 ture, together with a statement of the capital stock, to be prepared, 
 printed, and circulated among the members annually, along with 
 the circular calling the meeting for the annual election. 
 
 8. They shall set apart each year from the revenue such sum as 
 they shall from time to time fix, to form a fund to be called the 
 depreciation fund, in order to meet any depreciation of, or any 
 contingency which may happen to any heritable property which 
 belongs or may belong to the Incorporation. 
 
 9. The Deacon shall act as Chairman of all meetings of the 
 Incorporation and Master Court at which he is present, and, in his 
 absence, the late Deacon, and failing them the meeting shall elect 
 a Chairman for the time being ; and the Deacon, or the person 
 acting as Chairman shall, besides a deliberative vote, have also 
 a casting vote in all cases of equality. 
 
 10. The Collector shall pay the pensioners and manage the whole 
 cash transactions of the Incorporations, keep exact, regular, and 
 distinct accounts of his intromissions, and shall submit these accounts 
 along with the vouchers thereof to the Master Court at their quarterly 
 meetings, for the purpose of being then examined by them, and shall 
 submit the same annually for the purpose of examination and audit 
 to the Master Court or their Audit Committee, and, if required, 
 shall also exhibit the same to the annual meeting, along with the 
 report of such committee. 
 
 11. The intromissions of the person elected to the office of 
 Collector shall be guaranteed, to the extent of two hundred pounds, 
 either by private cautioners or one of the associations formed for 
 such purposes, or by a sufficient deposit of money or property, 
 and the expense of the necessary deed shall be paid by the 
 Incorporation. 
 
 12. The funds received by the Collector shall be regularly lodged 
 in bank, and he shall not retain in his hands more than fifty pounds 
 at any one time ; and the funds of the Incorporation, so far as not 
 invested, shall remain in bank, and shall not be drawn out except 
 by cheques, signed jointly by the Deacon and Collector, whom
 
 Rules and Regulations of Cordiners. 301 
 
 failing, two other members of the jNIaster Court, to be named by 
 the Master Court. 
 
 13. The Master Court may appoint a factor, for the purpose of 
 managing the heritable properties of the Incorporation, drawing the 
 rents, and paying the necessary repairs and taxes thereon, who 
 shall, if required, find security for his intromissions to such extent 
 as shall from time to time be fixed by the Master Court, and shall 
 immediately after the terms of Whitsunday and Martinmas, pay over 
 the rents received to the Collector, and the Master Court shall fix 
 such remuneration to the Factor, for his services, as they may deem 
 sufficient. It shall be competent for the Court to appoint a member 
 of the Incorporation as factor, but it shall not be competent for such 
 factor to hold office in the Master Court while he holds the factorship. 
 
 14. The Goudies, or keepers of the keys of the box, shall examine 
 into the security of the records and documents of the Incorporation, 
 and shall attend, on all necessary occasions, to open the box, and 
 shall, from time to time, report to the Master Court as to the safe 
 custody of such records and documents. 
 
 15. The Clerk shall intimate and attend the Meetings of the In- 
 corporation and Master Court and their committees, and keep regular 
 and distinct minutes thereof. He shall give the Incorporation and 
 the Master Court his best advice in all matters affecting the interests 
 of the Incorporation. He shall keep records of applications for ad- 
 mission into the Incorporation and for pecuniary benefits, and shall 
 exhibit the Minutes of the Incorporation and Master Court to any 
 Member when required. 
 
 16. The Officer shall deliver the notices calling meetings of the 
 Incorporation, Master Court, and Committees, to such of the mem- 
 bers as reside in the City of Glasgow, and to all other members he 
 shall post such notices, and he shall attend the whole meetings of 
 the Incorporation, Master Court, and Committees, and, if required, 
 shall also attend the Collector in paying the jDensioners. 
 
 17. The Representatives in the Trades' House shall watch over 
 the interests of the Incorporation in all matters affecting the Incor- 
 poration which may be brought before the house, and act, to the 
 best of their judgment, in promoting the well-being of the Trades' 
 House, and the advantage of all concerned.
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 i8. The member of the Building Committee of the Trades' House 
 shall represent and support the interest of the Incorporation in the 
 Committee chosen l)y the Incorporations to manage the Trades' 
 Hall buildings. 
 
 19. The member of the Educational Committee of the Trades' 
 House shall support the interests of this Incorporation in that Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 20. The delegate for the Lands of Gorbals shall watch over the 
 interests of the Incorporation in all matters affecting the Incorpor- 
 ation that are brought before the delegates appointed by the Trades' 
 House and the Incorporated Trades interested in these lands, and 
 act, to the best of his judgment, in managing the same, for the good 
 of all concerned. 
 
 Entrants. 
 
 21. Every applicant for admission must make a declaration of his 
 name, age, and calling, agreeably to a printed form to be furnished 
 by the Clerk, and lodged with him three days before the meeting at 
 which tlie same is to be considered. 
 
 22. All sons or sons-in-law of members shall, subject to these 
 Regulations, be entitled to become members, provided their father 
 or father-in-law, as the case may be, shall have been a member for 
 a year preceding the date of application, and provided, in the case 
 of sons-in-law, that the wife, through whom they claim admission, 
 shall be in life. The entry-money of sons and sons-in-law shall be 
 two pounds ten shillings if the entrant shall then be under twenty-five 
 years of age, and if above that age the sum specified in the Schedule 
 No. I, hereunto annexed, is applicable to the age of the entrant, 
 besides the accumulated Quarter Accounts as provided for in Rule 26, 
 with interest and compound interest thereon, from the aforesaid age 
 of 25, and such fees to the Clerk and Officer as may be apjjointed. 
 
 23. The Master Court shall have the absolute power to admit or 
 reject strangers as members. The entry-money payable by strangers 
 shall be twelve pounds ten shillings, if the entrant shall then be 
 under 25 years of age, and if above that age, then the sum specified in 
 Schedule No. 2, hereunto annexed, or such other sum as may, from 
 time to time, be enacted by a regulation proposed at one Master
 
 Rules and Regulations of Cordiners. 303 
 
 Court and agreed to at the following, and sanctioned by a vote of 
 the Incorporation. 
 
 24. No son shall be admitted a member under fourteen years of 
 age, and no other person shall be admitted under twenty-one years 
 of age ; and no person shall be admitted a member unless he be a 
 burgess and guildbrother either of the merchant or trade rank of the 
 burgh of Glasgow, and produce his certificate of admission as such 
 along with his application for admission, provided always that no 
 applicant for admission, who is in minority, shall be admitted a 
 member without proof of the consent of his parents or guardians, and 
 no person shall be admitted a member except at a meeting of the 
 Master Court. 
 
 25. All persons joining the Incorporation shall be bound by the 
 Rules and Regulations thereof in force for the time being. 
 
 Quarter Accounts. 
 
 26. Each member shall pay annually two shillings into the funds 
 at or previous to the Lammas Court Meeting of the Incorporation, 
 and no member in arrear of such payment shall be entitled to vote 
 or be voted upon, or to be entered on the qualified roll. Any 
 member upon payment of the sum set opposite his age in Schedule 
 No. 3, hereunto annexed, shall be freed from the payment of these 
 annual contributions. 
 
 Funds. 
 
 27. The Funds belonging to the Incorporation are and shall be 
 vested in the Incorporation for behoof of the members and their 
 widows and children as hereinafter expressed, and as provided by the 
 22nd Section of the Letter of Guildry, dated 6th February, 1605, and 
 according to the usage of the Incorporation, for aiding the education 
 of the children and grandchildren of members, and for encouraging, 
 by occasional donations, benevolent, public, or local institutions, 
 tending to promote the good of the Incorporation or of the 
 Community ; and the grants for these purposes to be made from the 
 funds, and the management and disposal of the funds otherwise shall 
 be exercised by the Master Court and general meetings according to 
 the rules herein contained.
 
 304 Incorporation of Co7-diners. 
 
 28. No loans shall be made from the funds on personal security 
 alone. 
 
 29. The monies of tlie Incorporation shall be lodged in such 
 chartered or joint stock bank as the Master Court may direct, or 
 vested in the purchase of land, feu-duties, or ground annuals, or in 
 the public funds, or lent out on first heritable securities, or on the 
 security of the property or revenue of any company, trust, or com- 
 mission incorporated by or under Act of Parliament or Royal 
 Charter, as may seem best to the Master Court, provided always 
 that the Master Court shall not be responsible for the sufficiency of 
 the securities or properties in or upon which the funds of the 
 Incorporation are or shall be invested or lent. 
 
 30. It shall not be competent for the Master Court to lend any 
 portion of the funds to any of their own number. 
 
 31. No portion of the funds, except as hereinafter provided, shall 
 be expended, unless the same shall have been previously agreed to at 
 one meeting, and resolved upon at a subsequent regularly constituted 
 meeting either of the Incorporation or of the Master Court, as the 
 case may be, and shall have been entered in the Minutes. 
 
 Pensions and Precepts. 
 
 32. Pensioners shall be admitted and enrolled only at the quarterly 
 meetings of the Master Court. 
 
 33. All applications for pensions and precepts shall be lodged 
 with the Clerk, and shall state the name, age, calling, and circum- 
 stances of the applicant, agreeably to a form to be furnished by the 
 Clerk, and to be lodged with him three days before the meeting at 
 which the same are to be considered, and the same shall be presented 
 by the Clerk to the Master Court, who shall examine into, and, if 
 deemed necessaiy, appoint a committee to examine and report upon 
 the same, and shall, with or without such report, grant or refuse the 
 same, subject to such conditions, if any, as to them may seem fit. 
 
 34. Aid shall be given only to the really necessitous and deserving 
 of the following classes : — 
 
 1st. Members. 
 
 2nd. Widows of Members, so long as they remain unmarried. 
 
 3rd. Children of Members in the manner after-mentioned.
 
 Rules and Regulations of Cor diners. 305 
 
 35. No pension shall be awarded until the expiry of three years 
 after the admission of the person in respect of whose membership 
 the aid is asked. 
 
 36. As the services rendered by the Deacons and members of the 
 Master Court are gratuitous, more favourable consideration sliall be 
 given by the Master Court to the applications of persons who have 
 held the office of Deacon, or been members of the Master Court, as 
 also to their widows and children than to other applicants. 
 
 37. Any person who is proved to have knowingly made any false 
 statement in his or her application, shall thereby, in the option of 
 the Master Court, forfeit all claim to aid. 
 
 38. Pensioners shall be paid quarterly in advance. All payments 
 of Pensions and Precepts shall, as far as possible, be made in the 
 Trades' Hall. 
 
 39. On due intimation and proof of the death of a member, or 
 widow of a member, being received by the Deacon or Collector, an 
 allowance may be given for funeral charges, to be paid by the 
 Collector on an order by the Deacon, or two masters, such an 
 allowance not to exceed, in the case of Deacons or their widows, 
 ;^5, and other members or their widows, ^^3. 
 
 40. The Master Court shall have power, if they see fit, to award 
 precepts to the children of deceased members ; but none such shall 
 be placed upon the regular pension roll. 
 
 41. The Pensioners, as well as those in regular receipt of pre- 
 cepts, shall be visited at least once a year by the Master Court, or 
 a Committee of their number, who shall investigate and report as to 
 the propriety of continuing, increasing, reducing, or withdrawing 
 their aliment. 
 
 42. The Deacon shall have power in any extreme case, pending 
 an application for aid, to award a precept, not exceeding £\, to any 
 member or widow or child of a member. 
 
 43. No jDerson shallhave any legal right to demand aid; and the 
 granting, withholding, or withdrawing the same, or increasing or 
 reducing the amount thereof, shall be entirely in the discretion of 
 the Master Court, and the allowance given shall be an alimentary 
 provision, and not liable to be affected by the deeds or attached for 
 the debts of the receivers, 
 
 U
 
 3o6 Incorporation of Cordincrs. 
 
 Education. 
 
 44. There shall be a Standing Committee, to be elected annually 
 by the Incorporation, and called the Educational Committee, to 
 consist of Five Members, including the Deacon and Collector for 
 the time being (who shall be members ex officiis), to which Com- 
 mittee shall be entrusted all matters connected with the education 
 of children and grandchildren of Members, subject to the approval 
 of the Incorporation in common form. The Committee to make a 
 Quarterly Report to the Master Court, to be engrossed in the minute 
 book of the Master Court, and which report shall show the names 
 and addresses of the children receiving educational aid, distinguish- 
 ing betwixt those who claim in right of their father and those in 
 right of their grandfather. 
 
 Clerk and Officer. 
 
 45. The Clerk and Officer shall be paid from the corporate funds, 
 such annual salary or other remuneration for their services as the 
 Incorporation may consider to be just and reasonable. 
 
 Meetings of the Incorporation and Master Court. 
 
 46. Four stated quarterly meetings of the Incorporation and the 
 Master Court shall be held yearly, namely, at or about Candlemas, 
 Whitsunday, Lammas, and Martinmas, respectively. An annual 
 meeting of the Incorporation shall also be held on the first Friday 
 after the 15th day of September in each year, for the election of 
 office-bearers, and for receiving and considering the report of the 
 audit of the Collector's account of intromissions. The Deacon shall 
 have power to call special meetings, and shall be bound, on written 
 requisition by at least seven members, to call such meetings forthwith. 
 
 47. Not less than four days' notice shall be given of all meetings 
 of the Incorporation, and not less than two days' notice shall be 
 given of all meetings of the Master Court, or of any of the Com- 
 mittees of the Incorporation or of the Master Court; and if any 
 meeting shall be special, the purpose thereof shall be stated on the 
 notice calling the same. 
 
 48. No irregularity in calling any meeting of the Incorporation or 
 Master Court, or any Committee thereof, shall affect the validity of
 
 Rtiles and Regulations of Cor diners. 307 
 
 tlie proceedings thereat, nor shall the proceedings of the Master 
 Court, or any Committee thereof, be invalid by reason of any vacancy 
 among the members composing the Master Court, or such Committee. 
 
 49. Seven Members shall constitute a quorum of meetings of the 
 Incorporation. 
 
 50. Any ^lember may appeal from any resolution of the Master 
 Court, not being a resolution relating to the admission of strangers, 
 nor to any pension or precept, or application therefor, to the next 
 meeting of the Incorporation ; or if the next meeting of the Incor- 
 poration shall happen on the same day as that at which the resolu- 
 tion objected to was arrived at, then to the ordinaiy meeting of the 
 Incorporation to be held next thereafter ; or if despatch shall, in the 
 opinion of the member appealing, be required, to a special meeting 
 to be held not later than ten days from the date of such resolution, 
 on the requisition of at least seven members. Any resolution of the 
 Master Court, if not appealed against, so far as it has been acted 
 upon, shall be linal. 
 
 51. Any Meeting of the Incorporation or Master Court or Com- 
 mittee may be adjourned from time to time ; but no business other 
 than the business unfinished at the adjourned meeting shall be taken 
 up at any adjournment thereof. 
 
 Ru;hts and Privileges of the Trades' House. 
 
 52. It is hereby provided and declared that nothing contained in 
 any of the foregoing Rules shall interfere with, or affect in any 
 degree the rights and privileges of the Trades' House of Glasgow, 
 all which ai^e hereby declared to be fully reserved. 
 
 Amendment of Rules. 
 
 53. No alteration or amendment shall be made on the Rules and 
 Regulations hereby enacted, and no new rules shall be adopted, 
 unless notice thereof shall be given at a general meeting of the 
 Incorporation, at least three months prior to the time of holding the 
 general meeting at which the subject is to be taken into considera- 
 tion. 
 
 54. All rules, laws, and usages of the Incorporation, so far as 
 inconsistent with the foregoing regulations, are hereby rescinded.
 
 3o8 
 
 Incorporation of Cordiners. 
 
 Schedule No. i. 
 {Applicable to Sons and Sons-hi-La-cO of Members.) 
 
 Age of Entrant 
 
 Entry-Money at 25, 
 
 Quarter Accounts 
 
 
 next Birth- 
 
 with Compound 
 
 Accumulated with 
 
 Total 
 
 day. 
 
 Interest till age 
 of Entrant. 
 
 Compound Interest. 
 
 Entry-Money. 
 
 
 £ S. D. 
 
 £ S. D. 
 
 £ S. D. 
 
 25 
 
 2 10 
 
 000 
 
 2 10 
 
 26 
 
 2 12 6 
 
 020 
 
 2 14 6 
 
 27 • 
 
 2 15 I 
 
 4 I 
 
 2 19 2 
 
 28 
 
 2 17 II 
 
 063 
 
 342 
 
 29 
 
 3 10 
 
 088 
 
 396 
 
 30 
 
 3 3 II 
 
 II 8 
 
 3 14 II 
 
 31 
 
 3 7 I 
 
 13 7 
 
 408 
 
 32 
 
 3 10 5 
 
 16 3 
 
 468 
 
 33 
 
 3 13 II 
 
 19 
 
 4 12 II 
 
 34 
 
 3 17 8 
 
 I I II 
 
 4 19 7 
 
 35 
 
 4 I 7 
 
 I 5 
 
 5 6 7 
 
 36 
 
 4 5 7 
 
 I 8 3 
 
 5 13 16 
 
 37 
 
 4 9 10 
 
 I II S 
 
 6 I 6 
 
 38 
 
 4 14 4 
 
 I 15 3 
 
 697 
 
 39 
 
 4 19 I 
 
 I 19 
 
 6 18 I 
 
 40 
 
 540 
 
 230 
 
 770 
 
 41 
 
 5 9 3 
 
 272 
 
 7 16 5 
 
 42 
 
 5 14 9 
 
 2 II 6 
 
 863 
 
 43 
 
 606 
 
 2 16 
 
 8 16 6 
 
 44 
 
 6 6 6 
 
 309 
 
 9 7 3 
 
 45 
 
 6 12 10 
 
 3 5 9 
 
 9 18 7 
 
 46 
 
 6 19 5 
 
 3 II 
 
 10 10 5 
 
 47 
 
 7 6 5 
 
 3 16 6 
 
 II 2 II 
 
 48 
 
 7 13 9 
 
 424 
 
 II 16 I 
 
 49 
 
 8 I 5 
 
 4 8 5 
 
 12 9 10 
 
 50 
 
 896 
 
 4 14 10 
 
 13 4 4 
 
 51 
 
 8 iS 
 
 5 I 7 
 
 13 19 7 
 
 52 
 
 9 6 II 
 
 588 
 
 14 15 7 
 
 53 
 
 9 16 3 
 
 5 16 I 
 
 15 12 4 
 
 54 
 
 10 6 I 
 
 6 3 II 
 
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 Schedule No. 2. 
 
 
 Schedule No. 3. 
 
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 Age of Entrant 
 
 Single Payments to 
 
 next Birth- 
 
 Entry-Monej'. 
 
 next Birth- 
 
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 3IO Incorporation of Cordincrs— Voting Paper. 
 
 Form A.— Incorporation of Cordimcks. — Voting Paper. — 
 Office to p.e filled, or Question voted upon. 
 
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 Name of Candidates, or Questions to be 
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 be placed in this 
 column opposite the 
 
 name or names, 
 
 or question, to be 
 
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