The document is written on parchment in a rather careless secretary hand, without any ornamentation. It bears the signatures of Archibald Gibson and of three witnesses, J. Colquhoun, Walter Douglas and S. Chirnside.
Obligation by Archibald Gibson, commissary clerk of Glasgow, to the masters of the College, that they shall never be troubled by him for any kind of warrandice for the property resigned in their favour by his father, in consideration of their having granted him and his heirs a new charter of the croft called Snaw's Yet, part of the property so resigned.
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- ReferenceGB 248 GUA BL/305
- Dates of Creation03 May 1599
- Language of MaterialScots
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Previously numbered GUA 16502
Blackhouse charters catalogue description: 'Obleidgement by Mr. Archbald Commissar clerk of Glasgow narrating that the Masters of the University had receaved his father's resignation of two ackers and a half or therby called Snawsyet and Bogcroft And had granted to him his airs and assignies a new charter thereof Therefor he obleidges him and his airs that the saids Masters or their successors in office shall never be distrest upon yr warrandice in the said Charter dated 3 May 1599'.
Bibliography
Munimenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis, Records of the University of Glasgow from its Foundation till 1727, ed. by Cosmo Innes (Glasgow : the Maitland Club, 1856), I, p.152 (entry no 88).