Instrument of sasine upon a sale by Janet Pyd, daughter and heir of Hugh Pyd burgess of Glasgow, to Sir John de Dalgleish vicar of Deghorn of an annual rent or 'ground annual' of 5 shillings out of the tenement of William Smith and 3 shillings and 8 pence out of the tenement of John the prebendary in the same street.

Scope and Content

The document, written on parchment, bears the authentification mark of John of Hawick and is written in his formal handwriting: the cursiveness is not prominent, the first capital letter is ornamented, and the first words are in modified bookhand.

Custodial History

Previously numbered GUA 12381.

Blackhouse charters catalogue description: 'Instrument of Seasine upon a vendition and a Disposition of a yearly annual rent or Ground annuall of 5 shillings out of the tennemt of Wm smith Lying on the east side of the Great Street leading from the freers church to the Cross of Glasgow betwixt the tennements of the viccarage of the queer which formerly belonged to Martine Goldsmith on the north and of the land sometyme belonging to John Gibson burges of Glasgow on the south and a yearly annual rent of of 3 shillings 4 pence out of the tennement of Bryse Taylour Lying on the east part of the great Street betwixt the Lands of St Tannew on the south and the tennement of Margaret on the north and 3 shillings and 8 pence out of the Tennement of John the prebend in the same street betwixt the tennement of the said Margraret Kyle on the south and of Agnes Burke on the north Disponed by Janet Pyd daughter and air of Hugh Pyd sometyme burges of Glasgow To Sir John de dalgless presbiter viccar of Deghorn'.

Bibliography

Liber Collegii Nostre Domine registrum Ecclesie B.V. Marie et S. Anne infra muros civitatis Glasguensis MDXLIX : accedunt munimenta fratrum Predicatorum de Glasgu / domus Dominicane apud Glasguenses carte que supersunt MCCXLIV-MDLIX, ed. by Joseph Robertson (Glasgow: the Maitland Club, 1846), p. 245-246.