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Annals of Glasgow - Volume 1: Comprising an Account of the Public Buildings, Charities, and Rise and Progress of the City

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1st Regiment of Glasgow Volunteers raised in 1803, 281
1st Regiment Royal Glasgow Volunteers, raised in 1794, 277
2d Regiment raised in 1797, 278
2d, or Trades' House Regiment, 282
3d, or Highland Regiment, 285
4th, or Sharp-Shooters, 284
5th, or Grocers' Corps, 285
6th, or Anderston Corps, 286
7th, or Armed Association, 286
8th, or Canal Corps, 287
Addition made to the Cathedral, 5
Aged Woman's Friend Society, 260
Aid to Government, 39
Ale, Two pennies on the pint of, 25
Alteration in Set of Burgh, 32
Altitude of Streets, 333
Andersonian Institution, 39, 99
Anderson's Institution Buildings, 99
Anderston and Calton Sabbath-Day School Society, 250
Anderston formed, 29
Arch of Bridge fell, 20
Archbishop Beaton, Regent, is succeeded by the Earl of Arran, 8
Ardrossan Harbour, 321
Armed Association, 280
Armorial Bearings of the City, 42
Assembly Rooms, 39, 80
Assessment for maintenance of Poor, 34, 227, 228, 360
Association for promoting the Translation of the Sacred Scriptures into the Oriental Languages, 259
Auxiliary Society for the support of Gaelic Schools, 258
Ayrshire Society, 268
Badge of Merit Highland Society, 268
Baillies of Port-Glasgow, 199
Baillies of the Barony of Gorbals, 197
Baillies of the River and Frith of Clyde, 193
Bakers receive the ground at Partick for their Mills, 14
Bakers, Sons of, Society, 270
Balloon, 41
Banks established in the City, 33, 36, 40, 41
Baptisms, Fees of Registrations, 246, 359,
Barony Church, 39, 59, 64
Barracks, 39, 82
Barrowfield feued, 22
Baths, Public, 4O4
Battle of Langside, 13
Battle of the Butts, 10
Battlement of High Church Steeple destroyed, 53
Battles of High-Street, 3,
Beef, Dues on, 336
Bellman's Rates, 341
Bells and Clocks in Steeples, 352
Bells in Steeples, and Tolling at Funerals, 247, 359
Benevolent Society for Clothing the Poor, 264
Benevolent Society, 262
Bible Society, British and Foreign, 285
Bill for Repeal of Duty on French Cambrics, 36
Billeting of Soldiers, 382
Toll-Bars - Amount and Rate. 383
Police Establishment, 388
Public Wells, 392
Former Supply of Water, 396
Bishops and Bishopric, 2, 7, 107, 109, 113, 115
Bishop's Castle stormed, and the Garrison put to death, 9
Bishop's Palace, 100
Black Friars' Church, 15, 60, 127, 185
Borrowfield projected, 22
Bothwell Absconds and dies in prison, 12
Bothwell Acquitted, 12
Bothwell Marries the Queen, 12
Bothwell tried for murder, 12
Bottle-house first built, 30
Boundary of City, 25
Bowling Green formed, 21
Bowling Green in Candleriggs-Street, 21
Bridewell, 38, 82
Bridges, 5, 20, 34, 35, S9, 40, 70, 71, 72
British and Foreign Bible Society, 235
Broomielaw Quay, 34, 39, 41, 292
Browns' Society, 269
Buchanan's Society, 222
Building Ground, 45
Buildings, 43
Buildings, Public, and how erected, 44, 54, 70
Burgess Fines and Tickets, 356
Burgh Dues, or Common Good, 355
Burgh of Glasgow, 3, 7, 14, 16, 17, 21.24, 32, 45, 48
Burying Grounds, 33, 34
Butter and Butter-milk, Dues on, 335
Calton used as a Common, 22
Canals, 34, 298, 310, 314
Carriages, &c. number of, 33, 377
Carriages, Horses, Clerks, Men-Servants, etc. in the City and Barony, and in the Parishes of Gorbals and Govan, Number of 377
Castle, Bishop's, or Palace, 9, 14, 35, 100
Castlemilk Family, 67
Cathedral, 2, 3, 5, 33, 54 to 59, 113
Catholics, Roman and Chapel, 35, 41, 66, 147
Cattle, Slaughter of, 324
Chamberlains, Town, 204
Charities, Public, amount of, 273
Charity Sewing School, 267
Cheese, Dues on, 395
Chief Magistrate does not receive a salary, 48
Church Accommodation, 151, 157
Church originally constructed of timber, the 2
Citizens hanged in the streets on account of religion, 18
City Guard-House, 82
City, Length and Breadth of, 44
Clergy, Society, Sons of, 24,8
Clergymen, Dissenting, 139 to 151
Clergymen, Presbyterian, 123, 191
Clerks, Commercial, number of, .377
Clerks, Town, 203
Climate, 42
Clocks in Steeples, 355
Clough Light-House, 297
Clyde, River, 24, 36, 37, 42, 289
Coffee-Room opened, and Chamber of Commerce instituted, 36
Coffee-Room, 74
Collection at Church doors, amount of, 247
College Buildings, 41, 72
College Church, 60
College, and College Buildings, 15, 32, 41, 72
Commerce, Chamber of, 36
Common Good, amount Elf, 338
Common Sewers, 44, 329
Comparative Statement for the Maintenance of the Poor in 1804 and 1816, 360
Contribution for carrying on the war, 39
Conveners of the Trades' House, 185
Convent of Grey Friars, 67
Corn Bill, 41
Corporation formed, 3
Coulter's Mortification, 221
Courts of Justice, Civil and Criminal, 363
Courts, Criminal and Civil, 3, 30, 38, 363 to 369
Cow Loan, 50
Cowfeeders and Cows, 341, 371
Cow-Feeders, Cows, and Quantity of Milk sold in the City, 370
Cranston-Hill Water-Works Company, 401
Cumbrae Light-House, 297
Darien Settlement, 22
Deacons and Craftsmen, 57, 409
Deaf and Dumb Auxiliary Society, 261
Deaf and Dumb, Society for instructing the, 261
Deans of Guild, 182
Deans of Guild, 182
Dispensary, Glasgow, 263
Dissenting Clergymen, Chapels and Meeting-Houses, 139 to 151
Disturbances at the Union, 23
Dogs, number of in the City, 878
Drury, Sir William destroys Hamilton Castle, 14
Dues of the Burgh, 333
Dumfries-shire Society, 267
Dumfries-shire Society, 267
Eggs, Dues on, 335
Election of Magistrates, 20
Episcopal Chapel built, and Theatre erected, 33
Episcopal Chapel, 66
Episcopal Chapel, and Clergymen, 33, 66, 139, 140
Episcopal palace founded, 5
Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, 207
Faculty of Procurators, 215
Fair, when appointed, 3
Famine in the City, 17
Female Society, 249
Female Society, 249
Finnieston formed, 34
Finnieston projected, 34
Fires, Engines, and Insurance Companies, 17, 20, 30, 40, 406
First Mail Coach arrives in Glasgow, 38
Fish, Dues on, 335
Flesher's Free School, 268
Fleshers' Free School, 268
Former places of Worship, 67
Forth and Clyde Navigation, 298
Fourteen Incorporations, 207
Funeral Donations for toning Church Bells, 247
Gaelic Auxiliary School Society, 258
Gaelic Chapels, 137, 138, 139
Galloway Brotherly Society, 269
Gaol and Court-Houses, 86
Gaol, and Public Offices, Old and New, 15, 40, 75, 86
Gardeners, Incorporation of, 31
General Charities, 275
General Session, 245
Glasgow again declared free, 21
Glasgow and Cranston-Hill Water-Works, 4O
Glasgow Auxiliary Bible Society, 241
Glasgow Bank established, 40
Glasgow Dispensary, 263
Glasgow Galloway Brotherly Society, 269
Glasgow inferior to other towns in Scotland, 7
Glasgow Observatory, 98
Glasgow Society of the Sons of the Clergy, 248
Glasgow the second town in Scotland, 20
Glasgow Water-Works Company, 397
Glasgow Water-Works, 397
Cranstonhill Water-Works, 4O1
Public Baths, 404
Fire Insurance Offices, 406
Stamp Duties collected in the Glasgow Office, 406
Deacons and Visitors of the Fourteen Incorporations, from 1604 till 1816, 409
Glasgow, Paisley, and Ardrossan Canal, 314
Gorbals Barony and Church, 16, 65, 133, 197, 366
Gorbals bought, I6
Gorbals' Church, 65
Graham's Society, 224
Grahams' Society, 224
Grain, Supply of, 39, 41
Grammar School, 38, 81
Grammar School, 81
Grazing Cows in Public Green, 341
Great Dearth, 39
Great Fire, 20
Great Fire,I7
Great flood in the River, 24
Great Flood, 42
Great Frost, 37
Green, 44
Green, Public, 31, 33, 34, 38, 44
Grocer's Society, 267
Grocers' Society, 267
Ground, Building, value of, 45
Guard-House, 40, 82
Guild, Deans of, 182
Hair Powder, Number of Persons in the City, who wear it, 378
Hamilton Castle, Sir William Drury destroys 14
Harbour at Broomielaw enlarged, 41
Harbour of Ardrossan, 321
Harleian Dairy, 371, 374
Harleian Dairy, 374
Harley's Cow-House, 371
Hide-Searchers appointed, 30
Highland I11ld Badge of Merit Societies, 30, 223, 268
Highland Society, 223
Horses Number of; in tl1e City, 378
Houses, Number of, in the City, 343
Humane Society, 224
Humane Society, 224
Hunterian Museum, 40, 85
Hunterian Museum, 85
Hutchisons' Hospital rebuilt, 40
Hutchisons' Hospital, 216
Hutchisons' Hospital, 84
Hutchison's Hospital, and School, 16, 40, 84, 216, 218
Impost on Ale, Beer, and- Porter, 340
Incorporations, 207, 358
Infirmary, 77
Infirmary, Royal, 38, 77 230
Inhabitants reside near the Cathedral, 7
Inhabitants, Number of 6
Institutions, Public, 205, 270, 276
Jamaica-Street Bridge built, 34
James VI crowned, 13
King and Queen at Glasgow, 11
King murdered, 12
Ladles and Multers, 334
Laigh Kirk steeple built, 16
Lamps, Street, of a conical form first used in Glasgow, 24
Lanarkshire Local Militia, 289
Lancasterian School Society, 258
Langside, Battle of, 13
Lanoasterian School Society; 258
Length and Breadth of City, 44
Lennox made Provost of Glasgow, l5
Lennox, while in Dumbarton Castle, receives 30,000 crowns from France, 9
Lepers' Hospital, 68
Light-Houses, 297, 298
Lock Hospital, 256
Lock Hospital, 40, 100, 256
Lock Hospital, l00
Lock, Lunatic, and Magdalene, Asylums, 40
Lord Nelson's Monument, 40
Lunatic Asylum, 253
Lunatic Asylum, 40, 89, 253
Lunatic Asylum, 89
Lyceum, 40, 99
Lyceum, 99
Magazines and Periodical Publications, 351
Magdalene Asylum, 250
Magdalene Asylum, l00
Magistracy, in what families, 5
Magistrates and Council elected by the burgesses, 21
Magistrates and Council, 46
Magistrates apprehended, 28
Magistrates are Justices of the Peace, 47
Magistrates fix the price of provisions in Glasgow, 10
Magistrates of Glasgow, 158
Magistrates wear Gold Chains, 48
Markets and Weigh-House, 83
Mary arrives in Scotland, 11
Mary crowned, and embarks for France, 8
Mary is delivered of a son, 11
Mary Marries Henry Darnley, 11
Masters of Works, 201
McAlpines Mortification, 257
McAlpine's Mortification, 257
Member of Parliament, by whom returned, 48
Members paid for their attendance in Parliament, 24
Merchants' and Trades' Banks and Houses, 49
Merchants' and Trades' Ranks submit their differences, 15
Merchants' Hall 75
Merchants' Hall built, 17
Merchants' House, 205
Millar's Charity, 222
Ministers'Stipends, and amount of Accommodation in the several places of worship in 1816, 151
Mint House in Glasgow, Coins struck, 5
Mitchell's Mortification, 219
Monkland Canal, 310
Monuments and Statues, 101
Mr. William Harley's Cow-House, Mr. William Harley's, 371
Murray made Regent, 13
New Jail, 40
Newspapers and Magazines, 345
Nobles appointed Baillies of Regality, 6
North-West Church, 61
Number and Value of Cattle Slaughtered within the Royalty, 324
Number of Cow-Feeders, Cows, and Quantity of Milk sold in the City, 370
Number of inhabitants, 6
Observatory, 40
Old Jail, 75
Old Man's Friend Society, 260
Opposition to the Corn Bill, 41
Partick, Bakers receive the ground for their Mills, 14
Patrimonies of the Church erected into a Regality,
Percy in an action in the High-Street, Sir William Wallace kills Earl 3
Pitt's Statue, 41
Plague rages, 4
Plague, 17
Point of Towart Light-House, , 298
Police Act, 40
Port-Glasgow formed, 19
Post Office, 99
Prebends' houses sold, 15
Presbyterian Clergymen, from the Reformation down to 1816, 123
Pretender lays the Town under contribution, 32
Price of Poultry and Game, 327
Private Charities, 274
Proclamations of Marriages, and Registrations of Baptisms, 559
Procurators, Faculty of, 215, 216
Property Tax, 344
Protector, Cromwell, defers the election of Magistrates, 17
Protestant Archbishops, from the Reformation down to the Revolution, 120
Provan Barony, 17, 30
Provident Bank, 41
Public Buildings, 54
Quantity of Rain, 42
Queen confined in Loch Leven Castle, 13
Queen Dowager appointed Regent, 10
Queen Dowager, the Earl of Lennox, and Beaton, oppose the Regent, 8
Queen escapes from Loch Leven Castle, 13
Queen Mary betrothed to the Dauphin, afterwards King of France, 11
Queen Mary Stuart, Birth of 8
Queen resigns the Crown, 13
Rain, Quantity fallen, 42
Ranks, Merchants' and Trades', 49
Rates of Admission to the Fourteen Incorporated Trades, 358
Rates, or Fees, for the Common Crier, Dr Bellman, 341
Rebellion in 1715, 24
Rebellion, Effects of it in Glasgow, 31
Reformers destroy places of worship, 15
Regality, Baillie of, 6
Regent obliged to resign, 10
Regent succeeded by the Earl of Lennox, 14
Regiment of 1000 men raised at breaking out of the American War, 35
Regiment of 500 men raised, 20
Regiment of 600 men raised, 24
Regiments of 600 men each raised, 31
Relics, Exhibition of, 113
Religious Tract Society, 259
Religious Tract Society, 259
Rental of Glasgow, 341
Rental of Houses in 1712 and 1815, 341
Revenue and Expenditure of Burgh, 48
Riding School, 39, 99
Riding School, 99
Riot in consequence of proposed repeal of certain Penal Statutes against Roman Catholics, 35
Riots, 23, 25, 36, 37, 41
River Clyde, 289
Roman Catholic Bishops and Archbishops of Glasgow, from the foundation of the See down to the Reformation, 107
Roman Catholic Chapel, 66
Royal Infirmary built, 39
Royal Infirmary, 230
Royal Volunteer Light Horse, 280
Royal Volunteer Light Horse, 288
Ruth Society, 263
Ruth Society, 263
Rutherglen Bridge built, 35
Sabbath Evening School Society, 265
Saltmarket-Street Bridge fell, 39
Scriptures, Association for translating the, 259
Seceding and Dissenting Clergymen, from the formation of their respective Societies, down to 1816, 139
Servants, Male, Number of, 377
Session, General, 245
Set of the Burgh, 45
Sewers, Common, 38, 44, 329
Sewing School, Charity, 267
Shawfield's mob, 25
Ship Bank established, 33
Shops, Number and Rents of, 342
Sick and destitute Stranger's Friend Society, 260
Sick and Destitute Strangers' Friend Society, 260
Sir John Moore, 40
Situation of the City, 42
Situation, origin, and appearance of Glasgow, 1
Slaughter House, 31, 40, 83
Slaughter-House, 83
Society of Fishers, 7
Society of Teachers, 267
Soil, 43
Soldiers raised by the Community, 20, 24, 31, 35
Soldiers, Billeting of, 382
Sons of Freemen Bakers' Society, 270
Spire of the Cathedral destroyed -by lightning, 5
Squares in the City, 37, 44
Squares, 44
St. Andrew's Church, 61
St. Andrew's Church, 61, 130
St. Enoch's Church, 36, 62, 131
St. Enoch's Church, 62
St. George's Church, 40, 62, 129
St. George's Church, 62
St. Nicholas' Hospital founded, 6
St. Nicholas' Hospital, 219
St. Nicholas' Hospital, founded, 6, 219
Stamp Duties, Rate and amount of, 406
Stationers' Company, 269
Stationers' Company, 269
Statues and Monuments, 30, 40, 41, 101 to 106
Statute Labour Conversion Money, 328
Statute Labour, Conversion, or Road Money, 328
Stipend, Ministers', 151
Stirling's Library instituted, 38
Stirlingshire Society, 263
Stirlingshire Society, 263
Streets, 7, 23, 25, 30, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 333
Sunday Schools instituted, 37
Sunday Schools Society, 249
Sunday Schools, 37, 249, 250, 265
Superintendents of Public Works, 203
Surgeons' Hall Buildings, 81
Surgeon's Hall, 28, 81
Taxes, Assessed and Property, 344, 377
Teachers, Society of, 267
Tennent's Mortification, 219
Tennent's Mortification, 219
Theatre, 33, 40, 83
Theatre, 83
Thistle and Rose Society, 269
Timber Bridge replaced by one of Stone, 5
Timber Bridge, 4O
Tolbooth built, 15
Toll Bars, Number and Rates of, 383
Tonnage on the Clyde, 293
Tontine, 74
Tower and Vestry of the Cathedral founded with stone, 5
Town and the Patrimonies of the Church erected into a Regality, 6
Town Clerks, 203
Town Hall and Tontine Buildings, 16, 36, 74
Town Hall Buildings, 74
Town Hall built, 16
Town Hospital, 30, 34, 76, 225
Town Hospital, 76
Town made a Royal Burgh, and a Fair appointed, 5
Town-Clerk stabbed in Council Chambers, 21
Town's Hospital, 22S
Trades' Hall and Free School, 38, 78, 206
Trades' Hall Buildings, 78
Trades' House and List of Conveners, 51, 185, 206
Trades' House, 206
Trades' Land built, 21
Treasurers of the City, 190
Treasurers, 190
Tron Church de6troyed by fire, 39
Tron Church founded, 6
Tron Church, 6, ]5, 16, 39, 60, 126
Tron Church, 60
Trusts committed to the Magistrates, 49
Two pennies on the pint of Ale, 25
University erected, 6
Vaccination, 213
Vaccination, 213
Visiters of Maltmen, List of, 421
Volunteer and Local Militia Corps formed, 39
Volunteer Corps, 39, 277
Wallace, Sir William kills Earl Percy in an action in the High-Street, 3
Warehousemen, Number of. in the City, 378
Warlocks and Witches imprisoned in Gaol, 22
Washing-House, Dues of, 337
Water Baillie, and Court, 16, 193, 366
Water, Former and present supply of, 40,392,396
Water-Baillie appointed, 16
Watsons' Society, 269
Watsons' Society, 269
Weavers Riot, 37
Weigh-House, and Dues of, 37, 83, 336
Wells, Public, 35, 392
Wilson's Charity 220
Wilson's Charity, 220
Works, List of Masters of, 201
Works, Public, List of Superintendents of, 203
Worship, Former places of, 67
Wynd Church built, 20
Wynd Church, 20, 24, 62, 129

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