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2-'<i s. VI. 137., Aug. 14. '58.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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(A tablet below, tlie inscription now nearly 

 worn out, notices the more remote descent of the 

 family.) 



" Here lyes the body of Patrick Maxwell 

 of Allhouse * Mercht. Taylor who died 

 deacon Conveener f Septr. 1623, & 

 Bessy Boyd, his Spouse." 



the father's side. It is cited simply as a curiosity to show 

 the readers of " N. & Q." a specimen of what was called 

 a Church Certificate or " Sine," given to a person when 

 removing from one 'place to another parish or district of 

 the countrj', viz.: — "That the Bearer Jean Whyte * a 

 Widdow resided in this parish for the most part from her 

 Infancy Untill the date hereof Behaveing her Self Soberly 

 and Honestly, free of publick Scandal or Ground of Church 

 Censttre known to us Was Allowed to partake of the Sa- 

 crament of the Lords Supper In this place. And for any 

 thing Known here at her removeal from this parish Maj' 

 be Admitted a Member of Any Christian Congregation or 

 Societj' where providence shall Determine her Lott (to 

 the Interval of Session) Is Attested Att Stewartoun 

 This SO"- Day of May 1772 years .... By ... . 



" Tho= Maxwell Min''. 



" John Bell Sess. Clk." 

 * Or Auldhouse, near Pollock Shaws, the latter the 

 Seat of Sir John Maxwell of Pollock. 



•f The head of ihe fourteen Incorporations of the Trades' 

 House of Glasgow. The property of Auldhouse had come 

 into the hands of Robert Sanders, Printer in Glasgow, 

 who by a Deed of Mortification dated 9th February, 1728, 

 made provision in it in favour of a student who has passed 

 the course of philosophy, and is following his studies in 

 divinity in the University, in order to become a preacher 

 of the Gospel, value 100/. of Scots money, to be held for 

 five years, as also to the Merchants' House of the city of 

 Glasgow for " the use, well, and behoove of the poor de- 

 cayed Members thairof," and for having five poor boys 

 bound apprentices to lawful trades. He also subsequently 

 left his whole moveable estate to the Merchants' House 

 for the same benevolent purposes. The heritable estate 

 is described in the deed as " All and hail, that my fyve 

 merk land of old extent of Auldhouse with the mannour 

 place theirof, houses, biggings, yeards, orchards, mosses, 

 muires, meadows, and haill parts, privileges, and perti- 

 nents thereto belonging ; and sicklyke, all and haill, that 

 my maines of Kirkland of Eastwood, extending to ane 

 thirteen shilling four pennie land of old extent (&c.) all 

 lying within the parochine of Eastwood (of this parish 

 the eminent historian Robert Wodrow was long minister) 

 and Sberiffdome of Renfrew." Sanders was a bookseller 

 as well as a printer, and kept a shop first above the Gram- 

 mar school Wynd (High Street), and afterwards in the 

 Salt Market. In ackpowledgment of his bounty a fine 

 full-length oil-portrait of him was placed in the Mer- 

 chants' Hall, still to be seen. His father Robert Sanders 

 (but who was a printer only) was the first who took the 

 title of " Printer to the City," and frequently used the 

 city arms on his title-pages with the old motto. From 

 the press of both father and son (but particularly from 

 that of the former) emanated a great many books, tracts, 

 poems (some of the latter good specimens oi block letter), 

 and curious publications, several of which I have seen oc- 

 casionally in London Catalogues, and are now much 

 prized by Bibliophilists and those persons concerning 

 themselves with old-world literature, respecting whom a 

 large portion of the Scotch people would pronounce 

 " half daft," and for whose benefit the information of this 

 Xote is principally intended. Mr. Sanders, _;«nior, left no 



• Her maiden name. 



In the Cliurchyard of the village of Cathcart. 



THIS . IS . THE . STONE . TOMB . OF . ROBERT . THOME 

 THOMAS . COOKE . AND . JOHN . URIE . MARTYRS . 



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This is a fine original stone in good preserva- 

 tion, a fac-simile of which I made nearly forty 

 years ago. The scene of this inhuman trans- 

 action, " Lone of Polmadie," lies two miles south- 

 east of Glasgow, and about three miles from the 

 place of interment. An author who had been a 

 "living witness" of these barbarities, commenting 

 on the times in a " Warm and Serious Address, 

 Glasgow, printed for Robert Smith, and sold by 

 him at his shop at the sign of the Gilt Bible, Salt 

 Marcat, 1742," 12mo. pp. 16., thus most graphic- 

 ally and feelingly speaks : — 



"Indeed at the Restoration there were Divisions 

 amongst our Pastors and Teachers, and the Lord of 

 the Vineyard was angry and made the fire of his Anger 

 bum hot against his own Altar, that the Blood of the 

 Martyrs of our Lord behov'd to be shed for the guilt of a 

 broken Covenant. Indeed at that Time the Gospel was 

 banished from the Churches, for Tyranny was then upon 

 the Throne and in the Court, and Prelacy and Hierarchy 

 were then in the Church ; yea Truth was banished out of 

 the Land, and Profhanity of all Kinds was tollerate and 

 approven of without restraint, and serious Godliness durst 

 not appear, neither in Publick nor Private, for the Law 

 then made it Death if known in Publick or in private 

 Families. The Soldiers had Orders to stop family Wor- 

 ship, of which I am a living Witness : Yea, Major Bal- 



issue. I think it may be inferred from the tenour of the 

 deed, that at the time he executed it, he was a widower, 

 but had not given up hopes of a " future marriage," and 

 of children being " procreat of his body." 



