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21. The present parish of KILBRIDE, which is sometimes called East Kil-
bride, to distinguish it from the parish of West Kilbride in Ayrshire, compre-
hends the two old parishes of Kilbride and Torrans. The ancient church of
Kilbride was dedicated to St. Brigid, and was thence named Cil-brighid,
which is pronounced Kilbride, and signifies in the British and Gaelic lan-
guages the church of St. Bride. Many churches and chapels in Scotland
were dedicated to this celebrated saint, who has been an object of contention
between the Scottish and Irish sanctologists. The church of Kilbride
belonged in early times to the bishops of Glasgow, and was confirmed to
them by the bulls of several popes (g). A controversy between Jocelin, the
bishop of Glasgow, and Roger de Valoniis, the lord of the manor of Kilbride,
about the church of this parish, was settled before William the Lion and his
court at Lanark, sometime between 1182 and 1189, when it was found that
the donation of the church of Kilbride belonged of old to the church and
bishops of Glasgow; and Roger de Valoniis renounced to the bishop and his
successors all claims to the said church and a carucate of land, with com-
mon of pasturage and all other easements in the parish pertaining to the said
church; and Bishop Jocelin conceded to Roger that he should have a
chapel and a chaplain, supported by himself, in his castle of Kilbride (h).
In the 13th century, the church of Kilbride, with all its property and
revenues, parsonage and vicarage, was constituted a prebend of the cathedral
church of Glasgow ; and it was afterwards made the appropriate prebend of
the chantor (i). The parochial cure was served by a vicar pensioner, who
had a settled allowance out of the revenues (j). In Bagimont's Roll the
chantory of Glasgow was taxed �16, being a tenth of the estimated value
of the spiritual revenues of the benefice. At the Reformation Mr. John
Stevenson, the chantor of Glasgow, held the parsonage and vicarage of
Kilbride as his appropriate benefice, and he reported the value of it as
.�266 13s. 4d. Scots yearly (k).
(g) By a bull of Pope Alexander in 1178, by one of Pope Lucius in 1181, and by one of Pope
Urban in 1186. Chart, Glasg., 81, 91, 104.
(h) Chart, Glasg., 39. William the Lion granted a charter attesting this settlement, and confirm-
ing to Bishop Jocelin and his successors the church of Kilbride, with a carucate of land and common
of pasture, as above mentioned. Ib., 41.
(t) In 1319 Edward II. made a vain attempt to present an Englishman to the prebend of Kilbride
in the church of Glasgow. Rym. Foed., iii. 785. By a taxatio in 1401 of the prebends of Glasgow
for the use of the cathedral church, the prebend of Kilbride was taxed ,�5 yearly. Chart.
Glasg., 490.                  (j) John de Falsyde was vicar of Kilbride in 1470. Chart. Lennox, 177.
(k) MS. Rental Book, fol. 8.