16. Friar Andrew 66 6 'tulye wes commitit upone suddantie, and na partie is slane be ather, "etc. The defenders appeared, and desyrit the said Prior and con"vent to schaw thair said privilege of girthe and sanctuary.' This is thought reasonable, and the court accordingly grant letters to the Prior "to summon the Provinciale Prior of the Freris Predicatouris [of Scot"land, and the Prioris] of the Places following, that is to say, Inverness, 66 6 Elging, Aberdene, Montros, Dundee, Perthe, Sanctandrewis, Wygtoun, "and Air, to bring and produce the saide priviledge of girth granted to "thame, and sanctuary, to be sene and considerit,' etc.; the magistrates "in the meantime to 'keip the said Williame Culquhoun undisponit upone.' In consequence whereof, the Priors of the above Places emit "a written declaration 'that thai nevir newe sic privilege of girth grantit "to thame as above written, and sua denyit the samyn;' whereupon the "court assoilzies the defenders." 66 6 993 6 Friar John Huntar was succeeded by Friar Andrew Leich, who, together with his Sub Prior, Friar John Law, made an effort to save some portion of the conventual property from the wreck of the Reformation, by appending the common seal of the house, to a deed conveying the gardens fellony." (Diurnal of Occurrents in Scotland, p. 13. 5 Mr. Riddell's Remarks upon Scotch Peerage 6 The last Prior of the Dominicans of Glasgow, may, perhaps, be identified with the Preaching Friar of the same name, of whose courage, during the siege of Leith in 1560, this anecdote is told by a Scotish ecclesiastic of the succeeding century: "Nec silendum videtur quod die [14 Aprilis], qui triumphanti de morte Christo sacer est, in magna hominum frequentia contigit. Scotti Gallique dignitate ac virtute praecipui, in maiore Leythi Ecclesia, ad solemne sacrum conuenerant: hoc Andreas Lecho ex Divi Dominici familia peragebat: hostis cui notus erat publicorum votorum inter Catholicos ritus, quo securam in maximo hominum conuentu cladem faceret, maiora aliquot tormenta, quae a colubris nomina habent, tanto artificio contra Ecclesiam disposuit, vt globi fenestra, quae iuxta altare erat, exciperentur. Sacerdos nisi absoluto rite sacrificio ab altari non recessit, caeterique magna constantia velut confirmati coelitus astiterunt: ita globi, dirigente by which it was surrounded to a burgess of the city. This grant, which is dated on the thirteenth of November 1560, perhaps, never took full effect, and in a few years it was formally set aside. By a charter under the great seal, dated at Edinburgh on the sixteenth of March 1566-7, Queen Mary bestowed the Black Friars' Place with its endowments, and all other ecclesiastical revenues within the city, upon the provost, bailies, council, and community, for the support of the ministers of the gospel, and the erection of an hospital for the poor and infirm of Glasgow. The donation was confirmed and extended by a deed of the fifth of June 1568, under the privy seal of King James the Sixth; and on the eighth of January 1572-3, the greater part of the rights which the municipal corporation had thus acquired, were transferred to the University by a The Friars' charter' to which the sanction of parliament was immediately interposed.2 The College, in the name of its principal, Mr. Andrew Melville, then University. instituted an action, before the lords of council and session, for the reduction of "the pretendit charter of fewferme alledgit maid be Freir Andro "Leich, Priour of the Freiris Predicatouris of Glasgow, with consent and "assent of Freir Johnne Law, Suppriour, and of the remanent convent of the "Place, vnder their comoun seale and subscriptiounnis, and speciallie vnder numine per oppositam portam plane impetu delati, nulli penitus nocuerunt." (G. Conaevs De Dvplici Statv Religionis apvd Scotos, p. 129.). 7 Process of reduction at the instance of Maister Andro Meluil, principall of the College of Glasgow, against John Grahame, citiner of Glasgow, 7 June 1578. (MS. in archiv. Univ. Glasg., Blackh. Invent. no. 312.). 8 Appendix to the Preface, No. III., printed from the original. (MS. in archiv. Univ. Glasg., Blackh. Invent. no. 287.). Dunbartonshire, which belonged to this convent, 9 Appendix to the Preface, No. IV., printed 1 It is printed at length in the Appendix to the Burgh Records of the City of Glasgow, M.D.LXXIII. -M.D.LXXXI., pp. 139–144. By a charter under the privy seal, of date the 2 Parliamentary Ratification, 22 January 1572-3. eighteenth of February 1565-6, the lands of (MS. in archiv. Univ. Glasg., Blackh. Invent. Balagan, with the pertinents called Friarland in no. 289.). Place is con "the subscriptioun of the said Freir Andro Leich, to Johne Grahame citiner "of Glasgow, of all and haill the greit tenement "vnder and aboue, ocupeit be the said Johnne, togidder with all thair yardis "pertening to the said Place (the kirkyaird alanerlie exceptit); Togidder "with the vther pretendit charter of the saidis landis tenement and yairdis 66 allegeit maid be the said Freir Andro with consent and assent foirsaid, and "nocht subscrivit be him bot allegeit subscrivit be the said Freir Johnne "Law and certane vtheris of the said convent, and vnder thair allegeit commoun seale, of the dait at Glasgow the xiij day of Nouember the yer "of God jm ve lx yeiris ; Togidder with the pretendit seasing following thairvpoun, of the dait the aucht day of Maij the yeir "of God jm velxvij yeiris; and the pretendit charter of confirmatioun, gran"tit be our Souerane Lordis dearest mother, ratefeand and apprewand the "said pretendit infeftment, of the dait the xxvij of Aprile the yeir of God "jm vlxvij yeiris." The judgment of the court was given on the seventh of June 1578, setting the grant aside, among other reasons, "becaus the samyn, gif ony be, wes maid lange efter the monethe of August the yeir "of God jm ve lix yeiris, at the quhilk tyme, and be the space of twa "monethis immediatlie preceding or thairby, the haill Places of Freiris "within this realme wes demolischit and cassin downe and the conuentis 66 66 quhilkis maid residence within the samin wer dispersit, sua that efter that tyme thair wes na conuent, bot the Places and Monastereis than and con"tinewallie sensyne dissoluit in sik sort that fra that tyme the haill landis "and rentis pertening to the saidis Freiris of befoir, returnit to our Souerane "Lordis derrest motheris and His Grace dispositioun to sik vsis as mycht “best aggrie with the word of God and sinceir religioun. 3 Process of reduction at the instance of Maister Andro Meluil, principall of the College of Glasgow, against Johne Grahame, citiner of Glas 993 gow, 7 June 1578. (MS. in archiv. Univ. Glasg., Blackh. Invent. no. 312.). In consequence of this judgment, a formal surrender was made to the University, on the twenty-seventh of February 1578-9, of the property in dispute, which is described as "the Great Yaird sumtyme per"tening to the Freiris Predicatouris of Glasgw, with the small yairdis "adiacent thairto as the West Freir Yarde, the Colhowse, and Closter Knot, the Paradyce1 Yairdis uver and neather, with the remanent small "yardis adiacent thairto."5 Church. The conventual Church, founded as we have seen in the thirteenth The Friars' century, seems to have been the only building of the Friars which long survived the Reformation. It remained, though more than once in a ruinous state, until about the year 1670, when it was destroyed by lightning, and another church, which still exists, was built on its site. 4 The name of " Paradise" was given not merely to the enclosures of Monasteries and Friaries, but to gardens generally. It is defined by Minsheu as "a place of pleasure; hortus domesticis et fructus edules ferentibus arboribus consitus: generale nomen est, omnes significans hortos in quibus animalia viuunt, quique amoenitate quadam gaudent singulari." (Minsheu's Gvide into Tongves, p. 347. n. 8961. Lond. 1617.). The word, in its more extended sense, is, perhaps, not yet altogether obsolete in Scotland. See F. Douglas' Description of the East Coast of Scotland, p. 235. Paisley 1782. 5 Contract between the College and John Grahame, 27 February 1578-9. (MS. in archiv. Univ. Glasg., Blackh. Invent. no. 313.). from the Registers of the Kirk Session of Glas- "7 March 1588. The commissioners appointed "25 Aprile 1588. Appoints some to go to the Laigh Kirk beneath the High Kirk, and see what of the pavements contained therein are unstollen away, which the session thinks good should be transported to the Laigh Kirk of Glasgow to pavement it. Next day, it's concluded that these pavements should be transported to the Laigh On the part of the College the deed is sub- Kirk, called the Blackfreirs. scribed 51. "A Melvine principal." 6 M'Ure's View of the City of Glasgow, pp. 50, The history of the Black Friars' Church after the Reformation, may be traced in the extracts "20 February 1589. Some are ordained to go to the principal and masters of the Colledge, that they may repair the Blackfrier Kirk, and hold the same wind-fast and water-fast. This is repeated 7 January 1605. "2 May 1594. The session appoints as much iii. Appendix. Enough, it may be hoped, has been said to show that the contents of these sheets are not without their interest and value as a contribution to The College, or cloath of green collour to be bought as will cover "23 May 1588. Because the exercise of the "5 October 1639. That no benefite will be granted to any, unless they come to the preaching and prayers, and that in the Blackfriers Kirk only, till they get moe preachers. "1586. The session seems at this time to meet in the Blackfriers Kirk, and afterward; only publick and more solemn meetings for changing the session, fasts, etc., were in the Chapter House. "22 May 1606. The session ordains a ward house to be made in the Blackfriers Kirk steeple. "December 1648. The session recommends it to the magistrates to provide a seat for the grammar school in the Blackfrier Kirk. "2 March 1648. The session appoints visitation of triviall schools to be in the Black frier Kirk on Teusday next, by the magistrates and minis"28 February 1611. Mention of candles fur- ters, and all the masters to be warned thereunto. nished to the Blackfrier Kirk this season. 27 January 1659. The magistrates are to be dealt with about repairing the Blackfreir Kirk, which is like to be ruinous. "7 March 1587. The session appoints sermons on the week days in the Colledge Kirk; and the first pastor to exercise on Wednesday, the second, on Friday. "26 March 1601. Sermons to be in the High Kirk till the grammar school be bigged, because the bairns are learning in the Blackfrier Kirk. "7 November 1605. It is intimat the Tuesday's preaching to be in the High Kirk, and Thursday's in the Black frier Kirk. "2 February 1660. The session find it proper that sermon on Tuesday be in the Black friers, till cause be found to alter it. "14 November 1594. The beddalls are ordered to open the Blackfrier Kirk door at seven, and close it at nine, forenoon. "1 November 1638. That all who have children to be baptized and cannot attend on the ordinary preaching dayes, bring them to the Blackfriers Kirk at the morning or evening prayers, where there will be a preacher attending to baptize them. "2 December 1596. It's noticed that the Colledge made their masters (that is, had a publick laureation), in the Blackfrier Kirk." Some farther notices of the building occur in the registers of the Town Council. "1574, April 24. It is statute, thocht gude, and ordanit be the prouest, baillies, and counsale, that the westir ruinous gavill of the Blackfreir Kirk, and the stanes thairof, be tane doun, and be the skellat [i. e. hand-bell] precedyng, rowpit and sauld to the maist avale, and the price thairof conuertit and applyit to the mendyng of the vyndois and ministeris sait in the said Kirk." (Burgh Records of the City of Glasgow, M.D.LXXIII.-M.D.LXXXI., p. 8.). The burgh treasurer in his account for the year 1575, takes credit for a payment of fourteen shillings, on the fifteenth of March, "to the barrow men, at the maister of workis command, for bering of the stanes that fell aff the Blackfreir Kirk." (Id. p. 61.) In 1578 there is an entry of |