Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . k as a country seat for the archbishops; and elsewherehe speaks of it as situated on an elevated site on the west bank of the Kelvin, the ruins being called the bishops castle. By this name itwas no doubt known for nearly a century, but it is certain that the housereferred to was built by George Hutcheson, one of the founders of thehospital of that name, as a residence for himself, and the contract forbuilding it, dated in 1611, is still extant.^ The view which I have givenon p. 114 of this well-known
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . k as a country seat for the archbishops; and elsewherehe speaks of it as situated on an elevated site on the west bank of the Kelvin, the ruins being called the bishops castle. By this name itwas no doubt known for nearly a century, but it is certain that the housereferred to was built by George Hutcheson, one of the founders of thehospital of that name, as a residence for himself, and the contract forbuilding it, dated in 1611, is still extant.^ The view which I have givenon p. 114 of this well-known old landmark is from a drawing made 1 History of Partick Castle, by Laurence Hill, Esq., Glasgow: privately printed. H 114 Partick Castle. in 1828. Of the old manor-house erected by the bishops, there remainsno trace, but it is not improbable that Mr. Hutcheson may have built hishouse on the site of the bishops residence, and that, indeed, he mayhave used in its construction some of the stones of the old castle. While mentioning Partick, it is interesting to note that in one of the. earliest charters, granted by Bishop Herbert in 1152, mention is made oflands in Partick with the adjacent islands between Guvan and these islands no trace now remains. But there were till a compara-tively recent period several islands in the Clyde below the mouth of theKelvin, some of which may be recognized although now joined to theland. They are shown on Blaeus map, which was published in cut on p. 115 is a fac-simile of the portion of that map containing theislands. One was the Water Inch, lying immediately west of the mouthof the Kelvin. Another, farther down and much larger, was the WhiteInch, comprising the district which still bears that name. Still fartherdown was the Sand Inch, and below the mouth of the river Cart was theNew-shot Isle. There were other islands in the Clyde above the har-bour. One, according to the map, was below the bridge, and another. Islands
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