Instrument of sasine upon a sale by John Wyschard burgess of Glasgow of an annual rent of 13 shillings and 4 pence out of a tenement to David de Cadzow canon of Glasgow.

Scope and Content

Seal in excellent condition of Thomas Wishart (or Wyschard), father of John Wyschard burgess of Glasgow, pendant on a tag. The seal represents a shield bearing arms: three piles in point, and on the right a canton. On the crest is a roebuck's (or hart's) head couped upon a closed helmet with capeline and torse. There is foliated ornament in the flanks. The legend is inbetween beaded borders: S' THOME WYSHCARD.

The document was written on parchment by the notary John of Reston and it is bearing his authentification mark. It is written in a very neat cursive hand. The first capital letters are ornamented, and the first words are in bookhand.

Custodial History

Previously numbered GUA 12446.

Blackhouse charters catalogue description: 'Instrument of seasine upon a venditio and Disposition of a yearly annual rent of 13 shillings 4 pence out of a tennement belonging to John Wilson with yard and roods extending to the Molendiar Lying in the prinll Street of Glasgow betwixt the tennemnts of Wm de Banachtyne on the south and of Allan de Kirkland on the north Disponed by John Wysthard burges of Glasgow to Mr David de Cadzow cannon of Glasgow dated 16 August 1463'.

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. 413-414 (entry no 389).