Instrument of sasine upon a disposition by the vicars of the choir of Glasgow to Michael Fleeming of the lands and yard belonging to the said vicars as there bounded for certain prestations as there bounded.

Scope and Content

Two seals, of which one is only fragmentary. The other one is the seal of Robert Blackadder, Bishop then Archbishop of Glasgow.

The seal represents St Kentigern with nimbus, wearing episcopal vestments and a mitre. With his right hand he holds a salmon with a ring in its mouth, and with his left hand a crozier. he stands wihtin a niche of Gothic style with a pinnacled canopy and flanking side niches, supported upon pillars. Beneath the niche is a heater-shaped shield bearing arms: three roses on a chevron. The legend is within a raised border: S' ROTUDU ROBERTI EPI GLASGU.

The document neat, angular cursive with some pre-secretary hand elements such as the final s looking like a Greek sigma, the p looking like an x, the attacking stroke on a. The first letter is ornamented, and the first word are written in bookhand.

Custodial History

Previously numbered GUA 16372.

Blackhouse charters catalogue description: 'Instrument of Seasine upon a Disposition by the viccars of the Queer of Glasgow to Mr. Michaell Fleeming of the Lands and yard belonging to the said viccars as there bounded for certain prestations therein mentioned dated 21 May 1491'.

Bibliography

Registrum episcopatus Glasguensis : munimenta ecclesie metropolitane Glasguensis a sede restaurata seculo ineunte XII ad reformatam religionem, ed. by Cosmo Innes (Edinburgh: Maitland Club, 1843), II, p. 475-478 (document no 460).