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ounces weight, with all diligence, for one horse-race 

 yearly, to be appointed within this burgh, and the 

 bounds on the day of the running thereof to be set 

 down by advice of my Lord Earl of Abercorn, Lord 

 Paisley and Kilpatrick/^^ 



" Act setting downe ane horse-raise. Apud Paisley 

 decimo tertio de mensis Maij, 1620. 



" The quhilk day Andro Crawfurde, and Jon. Algeo, 

 younger baellies of ye burghe thereof, with the coun- 

 selle of the samyn, being convenit in the tolbuith of 

 the said burghe, for ordour taking with sundrie thingis 

 concerning the commone will of the samyn and manelie 

 anent the conclusion of their bell-race and efterschot 

 quhilk was of auld set downe and not effectual. Thar- 

 foir, It is now concludit and ordainit be the saidis 

 baillies ane counsell with advyse and consent afore- 

 said. That yeirlie in the time cuming thair bell raice 

 sal be rune on the saxt day of Maij in mander follow- 

 ing, viz. : To be start at the Gray Stane callit St. 

 Connalis Stone, and fra that rich eist to the by till 

 house at the calsay end of Renfrew, and fra that the 

 till Kingis way to the Walnuik of Paislaye, and quhat 

 horse first comes over a score at . . . Renfrew sail 

 have ane dowbill aingell, and the horse and mister 

 yairof that first comes over the scoir at the said 

 Walnuik of Paislaye sail have the said bell with the 

 said burghes airmes yair oponn for yat zeir." * 



^^^ Lord Claud Hamilton — third son of James Hamilton, 

 2nd Earl of Arran, Duke of Chatelherault, and Lady Margaret 



* "Saint Miiin : an Historical Account of Paisley," by David Temple, 

 P 154- 



