Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . ch.^ Over the door of the school were the arms ofGlasgow, with this inscription: Scola grammaticor. a senatu civibusque Glasguensis bonar. liter, patronis conditu. At the foot of the High Street stood the old Tolbooth. We haveno account of its appearance, or when it was erected. In the records ofOur Lady College it is mentioned as the Pretorium burgi de Glasgujacens in via S. Teneu ex parte boreali ejusdem. And in the ancientcharters it is repeatedly mentioned as the place of meeting of the burgh 1 The
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . ch.^ Over the door of the school were the arms ofGlasgow, with this inscription: Scola grammaticor. a senatu civibusque Glasguensis bonar. liter, patronis conditu. At the foot of the High Street stood the old Tolbooth. We haveno account of its appearance, or when it was erected. In the records ofOur Lady College it is mentioned as the Pretorium burgi de Glasgujacens in via S. Teneu ex parte boreali ejusdem. And in the ancientcharters it is repeatedly mentioned as the place of meeting of the burgh 1 The front of the College has since been removed, as noticed in the concluding chapter of thiswork. 2 Lii-, Protocoll. No. 342. Presbytery Records, nth March, 1601. 132 The Old Tolbooth. courts—the heid court of the burcht and citie of Glasgow haldcn in the Tolbuithc thairof From an entry in the council records in 1574 itappears that there were buythis vnder the tolbuyth, the rents of whichwere appointed to be applied in mendyng- and reparyng of the tolbuyth and to na vther vse. This old \. building having become dilapi-dated was taken down, and a newtolbooth erected in 1626. This,as will be seen from the cut, wasa fine picturesque structure. Atraveller in the time of the Com-monwealth describes it as a verysumptuous, regulated, uniform fabric, large and lofty, most in- dustriously and artificially carved from the very foundation to thesuperstructure, to the great ad- miration of strangers, and is with- out exception the paragon of beauty in the west.^ This build-ing served as a prison and as theplace for the council meetings till early in the present century, whenit was removed and the present building erected on its site. When the old jail was taken down the magistrates had the goodtaste to preserve and repair the beautiful tower attached to it, nowknown as the Cross steeple. But it nearly experienced at the handsof their less worthy successors the fate which, somewhat later, b
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