POLLOK 



RENFREWSHIRE 



|N the year of grace 1270 or thereabouts 

 Sir Ayiner Maxwell of Caerlaverock 

 granted to his third son, Sir John 

 Maxwell, the lands of Nether Pollok 

 in the county of Renfrew, from whom 

 the present owner, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, is 

 twenty-third in direct descent, through his grand- 

 mother, who married Archibald Stirling of Keir. Six 

 hundred and thirty-seven years have wrought much 

 change in nearly every part of King Edward's realm, 

 but nowhere has the landscape undergone more 

 wholesale metamorphosis within a like period than 

 in the valley of the White Cart. 



When Sir John Maxwell took possession of his 

 estate in the thirteenth century, Glasgow was a 

 modest hamlet, clustering round the brand-new 

 cathedral of Bishop Joceline ; it has now overflowed 

 upon 11,861 acres on both banks of the Clyde, 

 which winds through the municipal area for a 

 distance of five miles and a half. 



It is not only the land surface which has altered 



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