fyschyn of

ye Langcraig. Assedatur dauidi 'hammylton de ouer manis de monkton soluendo duodecim salmones factum xij may anno 1551.

The Mwr.

Watte bowe j b. beyr. Jok brownsyd j b. beyr. Est syd of grenlaw.

Set to Watte bowe for vij b. beyr. Brownes.

akyr. Set to male cuyk for v f. beyr. Clayfauld x rud.

Set to wylle quhyt for iij b. beyr.
Oner ward quhen it is sawyn xxviij b. beyr.

Vna eius pars viz. fowr acris assedatur Joanni qulnt lapicidario pro qualibet acra
vriam bollam ordei £t pro eius seruitio vt cum eo conuentum est In dicto
seruicio lap . . . xviij Julii anno 1554 . . . Inde extendentes ad
bollas . . . ordei.
Nether ward quhen it is sawyn xxij b. bere t. xx b. corne.

Vna pars eiusdem \ix. quinque acre vocate brown holme cum duabus acris contigue jacens versus brunis akyr assedatur petro algeo soluendo quinque bollas ordei Reseruando nobis cuniculos et cuniculararios factos aut fiendos in dicta terra factum xxviij Julii anno 1554. The abbottis ij crofiis. The Casualites standis t. consistis in gersumes of landis change of tenandis eschettis

landis. vardis t. manage forfaltyng of tenandis for brekyn of ye statutis.

The kyrkis. Casualites of ye kyrkis set for moeny consistis in gersumes of xix zeris t&kis or in rasayving ane taxt man for ane wyn sic as ye

Gersum for xix zeir tak of Innerwik v* merkis t. may pay mair.
Gorsum of lydgerwod iij* merkis for xix zeir tak t. may pay mekill mair.
Gersum for largis t. Innerkeip for xix zeir ix* merkis t. may pay mair.
Gersum for xix zeir is tak of Rossneyth iiij* merkis t. may pay mair.
Gersum of Dundonald for xix zeris tak iij" lib. at ye lest or v° merkis.
Rentale R. P. Joannis Archiepiscopi Sanctiandree P. N. L. Monasterii que
de Pasleto Abbatis factum vigesimo Junii anno domini millesimo quin-
gentesimo quinquagesimo vbi nomina continentur tenentium et In-
habitantium de presenti qui occupant terram pro toto tempore vite
Ipsorum seruando acta et stilos nostre curie.

Dominium de pasleto.
The Inche.

Inche xviij merk land assedatur tenentibus suprascriptibus pro xviij celdris antique
mensure viz. xij peckis pro qualibus bolla xij dosane pultre viij* xl crelis pettis
vone t. stakit on ye vatter syd ye abbot payand ten s. for euery hundretht
creillis to ye tenandis cum aliis seruitiis.

hillynton ix merk land ix c. auenarum ij dd. capon.

Grenlaw ij merk land.

Corsflat xl s. land.

Brablo xxviij s. iiij d. assedatur pro ij c. j boll j f. ordei.

Oallohillis over iiij lib. land cum bonis mona.

GallohUlis neder ij merk land ij dd. pul.

lylisland xx boll auenarum.

Toddisholme ij s land.

Cariagehyll iiij merk land iiij dd. pul. ij lang cariagis.

Mycardbar xl s. land iij c. auenarum xij pultre ij s. bonsiluer.

Mekylryggis viij lib. iiij lang cariagis viij dd. pullorum.

fergusly vj lib. land In few to Jhone hammylton.

Bradyland xx s. land xviij pultre xij d. in bonsiluer j lang cariage wyth seruice.

Corsbar and Thomasbar v merk land.

Berschawen iiij merk land iiij c. auenarum xxxij pultre ij s. iiij c. creillis pettis for

tene s. euery hundrethe creillis.
Nevton iiij merk land iiij c. auenarum xxxij pultre.
Duskayth In few to William Stewart.
Candren i. quhitcruk iij lib. xvj s. viij d.
lyncleiff.

Ruthhank v. merkland.
Neder thornle v merkland.
knaiffisland v s. land.
Drumgrane cum molendino xiij lib. xiij s. iiij d. ix lang cariage xviij dd. pultre ix s.

in bonsiluer. fowlton cum molendino xxxvij lib. xvj s. viij d. iiij lang cariage xv dosane vj pultre

cum alio seruitio debito et consueto.

Dominium de Glene. Bar and Brygend ten merkland In feudefirma Jacobo glene pro x lib. xij s. vij dosane pultre ij lang cariage or xx s.

Mylbank.
Wester kers xliij s. iiij d. land ij s. in bone iij dosan pultre ij lang cariagis.
Eater kers xliij s. iiij d. land iij dosan pultre ij s. in bon ij lang cariage.
Joffra tak xxiij s. iiij d. xviij pultre ane lang cariage ane schort.
Bermoklo x s. land xij d. in bone ix pultre ane cariage.
Mavisbank x s. land xij d. in bone ix pultre ane cariage.
Langstaiule xv s. land xij d. in bon xij pultre ane cariage.
Caimhill xx s. land xviij d. in bone ij dosane iij pultre ane cariage.
Lorenbank.
Auldzard.

Dominium de Glen.

Langzard.

ffairhillis.

Gamlmoss.

hylliszard.

Littil Clook.

Langcroft.

Qwinsyd mur.

Monyabrocht.

Barnatht ouer.

Authynhame.

Lynthillis.

CandUmur.

Barnatht nedder.

Clook.

Came.

Molendinum xxiiij boll farine cum edificatione et sustentatione molendioarum. M.

THE BLACK BOOK OF PAISLEY.

The Black Book of Paisley, now in the Royal Collection in the British Museum, is a transcript of the Scot ichronicon, and is one of the oldest, if not the oldest manuscript of that work which is extant. It was known as the "Magnus et niger liber Passleti" as early as 1501, and there is reason to believe that it was in the possession of the Monastery from shortly after Bower's death in 1449. It is a large heavy volume of 271 folios, written in double columns, and is in beautiful preservation. The Scotichronicon occupies from folio 28 to folio 266 inclusive. The earlier folios are devoted to an Alphabetical Index, a Table of Monasteries, &c., Lists of Popes and Emperors and of Metropolitancies, Cardinalates and Bishoprics, an extract from the "Chronicon Rythmicum," and a short chronology, the "Scotichronicon Compendium Metricum," Extracts "de Pestilentia " from Isidore Hispalensis and others, St. Bernard's letter to Ranuldus, and two genealogical trees. A considerable number of these pieces likewise occur in the Schevez MS., in the Harleian Collection, in the Brechin Castle MS., and in the late transcript in the Edinburgh University Library ; and Goodall has printed some of them from the latter MS. in his edition of the Scotichronicon.

After the text of Scotichronicon in the Black Book come an Extract from Henry of Huntingdon, an extract from Seneca, a tract "De Fide Christiana," which has only recently been printed, and is ascribed to Boethius, St. Bernard's "Tractatus de Formula Honeste Vite," Prester John's letter to the Greek Emperor, a list of Councils, a selection of moral and religious precepts, and, lastly, a number of quotations from one of Bower's favourite authors, St. Brigitta of Sweden.

At the top of folio 16, on the upper margin, in a plain hand, but evidently from its position posterior in date to the text, is

Estr librr rst br Conbrntn $aslrti.

Similar inscriptions occur at various other places throughout the volume, and at the top of folio 28, and as a colophon, we have

lstr librr rst Sbantti Satobi rt Sbancti fflt"rtm br \3anltto.

A copy of this Manuscript was made about 1500 by John Gibson, Canon of Glasgow and Rector of Renfrew, which is now in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is remarkable for its coloured illustrations of incidents in the text. These were most probably executed in the Abbey of Paisley.

In 1501 the Black Book was abridged by John Gibson, junior, Notary Public and Chaplain of Canon Gibson, the Rector of lUmh'tw. The abridgement belonged to the latter, and afterwards to Henry Sinclair, Dean of Glasgow, to Sir William Sinclair of Roslin, Lord Justice General of Scotland, and to Sir Robert Hibbald, and is now in the Advocates' Library.

At the dissolution of the Abbey the Black Book itself passed into the hands of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin, and was nubt^jueiitly the property of Archbishop Spottiswood, and of his son, Sir Robert Spottiswood, lh<> I»rd President of the Court of Session, on whose death General Lambert obtained \*mm**um of it. He made a gift of it to his patron, Lord Fairfax, who, in his turn, presented it to diarles II. It thus found its way into the Royal Library at St. James, and was, with the rest of that collection, incorporated in the British Museum in 1759.