Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . art of the sixteenth century. The provision madefor the services embraced a j^rovost, eight canons or prebendaries, andthree chaunters. The number of the prebendaries was increased by sub-sequent benefactors. All the prebends were endowed, partly from landsand houses within or near Glasgow, and partly from the fruits of theparish churches of Dairy and Maybole. After the Reformation therevenues within the city were appropriated by the magistrates, but theprebendaries were allowed to draw their stipends
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . art of the sixteenth century. The provision madefor the services embraced a j^rovost, eight canons or prebendaries, andthree chaunters. The number of the prebendaries was increased by sub-sequent benefactors. All the prebends were endowed, partly from landsand houses within or near Glasgow, and partly from the fruits of theparish churches of Dairy and Maybole. After the Reformation therevenues within the city were appropriated by the magistrates, but theprebendaries were allowed to draw their stipends until they died out. 1 Rurgh Records, 24th Dec. 1588. The Gallowgntc. 139 Even subsequent to the Reformation, however, the church received (in1650) an endowment of some vahie by a deed granted by the magistrates,with consent of the Stewarts of Minto, for the use and profeit of their two ministers serving the cure at the New Kirk [the Tron] as part of their stepend. What has come of this endowment I do not know, butcertainly it cannot be said of this church, whatever may be the case as to. the others in the city, that the support of its ministers has come from the common good, Tlie Trongate has undergone many changes. The above view is froma drawing made in 1845. Early in the fourteenth century the formation of the Gallowgate musthave been commenced, as in the charter of 1325 already referred tomention is made of a tenement in vico qui dicitur le Galogate. Inother charters it is variously called via furcanim; viais furcaruiii jiixtatorrentem Malyndoner; and via furcanim tendciis a a-iicc forali adorieiitem portam. On the site now occupied by the old Saracens-Head Inn, and justoutside the City Port, stood the chapel called Little St. Mungos, sur- 140 The Mo/cndinar Burn. rounded by a buiying-ground. It was founded some time before 1500by David Cunningham, archdeacon of Argyll. In a deed granted byhim in that year, endowing the chapel, he describes it as unam capel- l
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