G f s, the D — m s and others; and from this servility, the Langs, the
Ferries the Martins, the Claytons and others, who, at that time were at the
head of their professions, and had done much to improve the mechanical trade
of the place, were not exempt.
During the first and middle part of this period, profane swearing was con-
sidered as a gentlemanlike qualification, and dissipation at dinner parties was
dignified with the appellation of hospitality and friendship; and he who did
not send his guest from his house in a state of intoxication, was considered
unworthy of genteel society. In the latter part of this division of time, the
state of society has undergone a thorough change; the trade and commerce
of the town is now diffused over a great proportion of the enterprising in-
habitants, and since the opening of the public coffee-house in 1781, the great
distinction of rank has disappeared, and a rational amalgamation taken its
place ; wealth is not now the only criterion of respect, for persons in the mid-
dle walk of life, who conduct themselves with propriety, and render them-
selves useful, have a higher place assigned them in the community than at
any former period of the history of the town. Tlie mode of conducting enter-
tainments is now greatly improven^ every man drinks what he pleases, after
which he usually retires to the drawing room ; drunkenness and dissipation at
dinner parties are now happily unknown, and profane swearing is considered as
uugentlemanlike and highly reprehensible; this has been carried so far, that
swearing in good society is seldom or never heard. The bible and mission-
arj' societies which have been instituted during this period, have done much
to break down every thing like distinction among individuals professing differ-
ent religious opinions.
The inhabitants of this city are justly characterised as charitable and humane,
and on all proper occasions, the feelings of compassion and the energies of active
benevolence are never awanting. Although this character is general to the po-
pulation, it is not universal; for in this community there are many persons who
act as if they lived only for themselves, and desire to know nothing but what
may be conducive to their own particular interest or pecuniary advantage.
The members of the community whose circumstances have placed them
above the rank of a labouring artizan, may be classed into three divisions.
The first in order, but last in respect, are those, who, though wealthy, or at
least easy in their circumstances, lend a deaf ear to the tale of woe, and who
neither contribute their time nor their means to the relief of the wTetched.
The second are those who give none of their time to the public, and whose
charities are in a manner extorted through the influence of respectable appli-
cants, or the favour of public opinion ; than this class, who may be considered
as the drones of society, there are none more ready to find fault with the ad-
ministrators of the municipal or charitable concerns of the place, and are ever
ready to grasp at that patronage which so justly belongs to those who give so
much of their valuable time to the general concerns of the community, without
fee or reward.
The third class are those who voluntarily contribute their time and their
money to the service of the community, in the various departments of useful-
ness. Through the providence of God, this class has, of late years, greatly
increased in numbers and respectability of character and worldly estate, which,
taken in connexion with other circumstances, have tended, in no small de-
gree, to the increase of morality, religion, and active benevolence, in this
great community.
As a summary of the whole. — A careful perusal of the foregoing historical
scraps, embracing a period of more than five hundred years, will satisfy every
unprejudiced reader, that his religious and political privileges are far superior
to that of his forefathers. The laws are now equally and mildly administered;
everj' man's house is his castle, property is protected,and liberty of conscience
is such, that he may worship God according to the dictates of his own mind,
no man to make him afraid: the unrestricted possession of these inestimable
blessings should tend greatly to prevent discontent, and mitigate sufferings in
times of distress.
INDEX.
Page.
Act of Grace, ... ... ... 86
Ages of Persons, ... ... ... ... ... 21
Andersonian Institution, ... ... ... ... 41, 193
Armorial Bearings of the Town, ... ... ... 167
Arts, Society of ... 42
Assembly, General ... ... ... •■• ••• 178
Assessed Taxes, ... ... ... ••• 131
Assessment for the Poor, 127, 172, 180
Assessors for the Poor, 112,180,191
Bagpipes prohibited, ... 169,170,172
Balloons, 192, 196
Bank, Provident 125, 156
Banks, 184, 188, 189, 190, 195
Banquets, 168, 174
Baptisms, 10, 19, 25, 170, 176, 184
Barony Parish, 172, 178, 1S2, 183, 193
BaiTacks, 193, 198
Beadles, Church 171, 177, 185
Beggars, 91, 121, 170, 179, 184
Bells and Bell-making, 171, 188, 196
Bill of Health, 88
Bill of Mortality, 17,175
Bishops of Glasgow, ... ... ... ... 36
Blackfriars Church, ,.. 165, 170, 174, 175, 176, 181, 185
Book Publishing Trade, 196
Botanic Garden, ... ... 196
Bowling Green, ... ... ... ... ... 184
Bread, 47,49,53
Bridewell, 89, 97, 176
Bridges, ... 164, 173, 175, 181, 182, 190, 191, 193, 194
Broomielaw Quay, 183, 193, 196, 198
Buildings, Increase of ... — 5Q
Burgess Oath, ... ... ... 33
Burials, 15, 20, 25, 175
Butcher Meat, 45, 53
Canals, 190,194
Carriage, Gentlemen's ... ... ... ... — 189
Castle, Bishop's 185,191
Cathedral, 36, 163, 164, 165, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 189
204 INDEX.
Page.
Catholics, Roman ... ... 155, 190, 191, 193, 196
Cattle, Slaughter of 4.3
Change Houses, ... ... ... ... ... ••• 8
Christmas keeping, ... ... ... ••• 172, 176
Chronology, ... ... ... ... ... ••• 163
Church Accommodation, ... ... ... ••• 30, SI
Churches, &c 29, 169, 170, 171, 174, 175, 177, 181, 193, 195
Church Yards, 168, 172, 175, 178, 190
Church Government, ... ... ... 28
Church Seat Rents, 35
Circuit Courts in Glasgow, ... ... ... ... 92, 94?
Clergj'men of Glasgow, ... ... ... ... 35,38,191
Clyde, River 186, 190, 192, 196
Coaches, 183, 189, 192
Coal, 186, 192, 199
Commerce and Manufactures, ... ... ... 53, 192
Commission Special, ... ... ... ... ... 93
Communion, Celebration of ... 166, 168, 170, 178, 182
Contribution to Government, ... ... ... 178
Conventicles, 182, 183
Cotton Spinners, ... ... ... ... ••• ♦•• 133
Coulter's Donation for Ingenuity, ... ... ... 42
Court Dress for the Lord Provost, ... ... 186
Court Houses, ... ... ... ... ... • • Si
Crime, Amount of 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 101
Crops, Failure of 167, 194, 195
Deacons, ... ... ... ... ... ... 184, 188
Dead Bell, 171
Dean of Guild Court 64,187,192
Dearth, 167, 194, 195
Debtors, 82, 106, 158
Dehnquent Prisoners, ... ... ... 89
Dissenters, ... ... ... 10, 31
Diseases of Children, ... ... ... ... ... 23
Distress of Working Classes, ... ... 196,197
Divorcement, ... ... ... ... ... 169
Drinkers, ... ... ... 184
Dumbarton Harbour, ... ... ... ... 181
Elders, ... ... ... ... ... 184
Enumeration, ... ... ... 24, 173, 180
Episcopacy, ... ... ... ... 177, 181
Excommunication, ... ... ... ... 169
Executions, Number of in Glasgow, ... ... 92,178
INDEX.
'205
Fast Day, when appointed,
Fire, Houses destroyed by
Flour Mills at Partick,
Fruit, weight of
Gaelic Chapel,
Gas Light,
Gibson's Land, fall of
Gorbals, Barony
Govan Parish,
Grammar School,
Grain, Weight of.
Green, Public
Hamilton Street, Great
Historical Scraps,
Hospital, Town's
Houses in the City,
Hutcheson's Hospital,
Income Tax,
Infirmary,
Jail,
Jury List for Lanarkshire,
Justiciary, Lords of
King's Visit to Scotland, ... ... ... J 99
Lamps, Street ... ... ... ... 186, 191
Lancasterian School, ... ... ... ... 196
Land Tax, ... ... ... 131
Langside, Battle of ... ... ... ... 167
Leper's House, ... ... ... 164,168,169
Letter- Press Printing, ... ... ... ... 176
Licences for the Sale of Spirits, ... ... ... 8
Live Cattle Market, ... ... ... ... 44
Longevity, ... ... ... ... ... 24
Lunatic Asylum, ... ... ... ... 195
Magistrates 179, 190, 194, 196
Manufactures and Commerce, ... ... ... ... 33
Mary Queen of Scots in Glasgow, ... ... ... 1 67
Markets, 163, 170, 175, 176, 177, 185, 193, 195, 197
Martyrs, 183
Marriages, 13, 19, 25, 171, 176, 177, 178, 183, 184, 189
1'
'age.
...
...
172
173,
180,
182
48
74
...
...
••
29
197
200
179
...
.
168,
175
...
40,
171,
173
...
...
72
â– â– â–
177,
198
196
...
...
163
Ill,
119,
127,
152
129
...
177,
194
... ...
.,
..
131
...
18, 44,
193
81. 89, 95,
103,
174,
, 195
...
...
147
,„
...
92
VOO INDEX.
Page.
Meal,
127
Measures,
57
Merchants' Hall and Land,
180, 184
Milk,
51, 53, 135, 180, 184
Mill, Town's,
187
Minto, Stewarts of.
... 174, 175, 184
Montrose Lodgings,
169, 178
Monuments and Statues,
195, 195
Monteith Row,
197
Mortality, Bill of,
17
Music Bells,
188
Newspapers, ... ... ... ... ... ... 186
Occupations in which the community are engaged, ... 8
OUver Cromwell, ... ... ... 179, 180, 181
Organ in St. Andrew's Church, ... ... ... 30
Outer High Church, 178, 181
Parliament, Members of, ... ... ... 1 85
Parliamentary grant to the town, ... ... ... 188
Parochial Establishments, ... ... ... 114,123
Patronage, Church, ... ... ... ... 190
Pavements, Foot, ... ... ... ... 191
Pawnbrokers, ... ... ... ... 8, 198
Persecution of Citizens, ... ... ... 182
Physicians and Surgeons, ... ... ... 173, 180
Plague, ... ... ... 164,173,174,178,179
Police, ... ... ... ... 90, \^^
Poor, 107, lis, 121, 127, 150, 16S, 169, 173, 179, 181, 185, 192
Poor Rates, ... ... ... ... 56, 127
Ports of the City, ... 177,178,189
Port Glasgow, ... ... ... ... 182
Power-Loom Mill, ... ... 194
Population, ... ... ... ... ••• 1,9
Potatoes, Weight of, ... ... ... ... 74
Preaching days, ... ... ... 173, 174, 180
Presbytery of Glasgow, ... ... ... 184
Prisoners, ... ... ... .•• 82, 89, 98
Printing, ... ... ••. •■. ... 188
Processes, Number of, ... ... ... ... 86
Property Tax, Amount of, ... ... ... 131
Property, Value of, ... ... ... ... 130
Pi-ovan, Lands of, ... ... ... ... 180
Provisions, ... ... ... ... 132, 134
Provosts of Glasgow, ... ... ... ... 92
Psalms, Version of ... ... ... ... 179
INDEX. ^^07
Page.
Rectors of the University, ... ... ... ... 39
Registers, Parochial, 10, 25, 27, 168
Regiments belonging to Glasgow, 183, 18G, 188, 191, 193
Religious Denominations, ... ... ..- ... 30, 155
Rental of Houses, &c 128
Repentance Stools, ... ... ... ... ... 178
Riot, Weavers' 192
River Clyde, 186, 190, 192, 196
Rope Manufactory, ... ... ... ... ... 184*
Sabbath, observance of 170, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 184.
Saint Andrew's Church, ... ... ... ... ... 188
Saint Enoch's Church, 165,192
Saint George's Church, ... ... ... ... ... 195
I Schools, 4.1, 123, 157, 171, 174, 179, 181-, 192, 193, 196, 198
Scots, Mary Queen of, in Glasgow, ... ... ... 167
See of Glasgow, 36, 163, 164..
Session General, 110, 116, 179, 180, 184-
Sewers common, ... ... ... ... 192
Shawfield's mob, ... ... ... ... ... ... 187
Shipping Port for Glasgow, ... ... ... 180, 181
Shops, number of ... ... ... ... ... 128
Society, state of, in Glasgow, ... ... ... ... 201
Societies, Friendly ... ... ... ... ... IHQ
Special Commission, ... ... ... ... ... 94<
Statistical Table, 1 32
Steam Boats, ... ... ... ... ... ... 196
Steam Engines, 190, 193
Stipend of Ministers, ... ... ... ... 34, 170
Squalor Carceris, ... ... ... ... ... 88
Swearers, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 177
Taylor's, Principal, Funeral, ... ... ... 200
Taxes, 131
Teachers, ... ... ... ... ... 8
Theatre, ... ... ... ... 175, 189
Town Hall, ... ... ... ... 187, 188
Trades' Land, ... ... ... ... 184
Trade, state of, in Glasgow ... ... 5o, 164, 166
Tread Mill, ... ... ... 105
Treason, Commission for trying High, ... ... 93
Tron Church, ... 166, 171, 177, 193
Typhus Fever, ... ... ... ... ... ... 197
Type making, 188
Union with England, ... ... ... 2, 185
University, 39, IG5, 172, 175, 18J, 182, 194, 196, 200
^08 INDEX.
Vaccination,
Volunteers,
Wages of Workmen,
War, unla^^•fu]ness of,
Water, supply of
Water Baillie,
Weavers unemployed,
Weights and Measures,
Wells, Public,
Whipping, Public,
Witchcraft,
Working Classes,
Wynd Church,
Page.
...
22
193
132
178
...
194
..
176
...
197
57,
135
,,,
191
...
105
179
,184
56, 196,
. 197
183,
190
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