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form of row. The patronage of the parish of Bow was settled on the patron of
the old parish of Rosneath out of which it was formed. The Duke of Argyle
is now patron of both the parishes of Bow and Bosneatb. The church of Bow
was rebuilt in 1763, and the manse in 1737. [The present parish church (1850)
has 360 communicants; stipend, �355. Three quoad sacra churches at Helens-
burgh and Garelochhead have among them 1119 communicants. Four Free
churches have 1143, and a U. P. church 637 members. There are also Epis-
copal, Boman Catholic, Congregational, and Baptist churches]. Thus much
then with regard to the ten parishes of this county in the presbytery of Dum-
barton. The remaining two parishes of this shire belong to the presbytery of
Glasgow.
11 and 12. The present parishes of KIRKINTILLOCH and CUMBERNAITLD,
were formerly comprehended in one parish which was called Kirkintulach
till the end of the reign of James IV., and afterwards Lenzie or Lenyie, from
the name of the barony. The old parish obtained the appellation of Kirkin-
tilloch from the town of that name, which is an ancient burgh of barony. The
name of this place is said to have been in ancient times Caer-pen-tulach, which
in the Cambro-British speech signifies the fort on the head or end of the hill.
The town of Kirkintilloch stands on the end of a ridge of hill, and on a summit
at the west end of the town there is the remains of a Boman fort, which was
one of the posts on the great Boman wall that passes this place. After a
church was founded here, the name of Caerpentulach was easily changed by the
Scoto-Saxon people to Kirkintilloch, which appears as the name of the place in
charters that were granted in the end of the twelfth century. The ancient
church of Kirkintilloch was dedicated to St. Ninian, to whom many other
churches and chapels were consecrated in Scotland. Before the year 1195,
William the son of  Thorald, the sheriff of Stirling, who held the manor of
Kirkintilloch, granted to the monks of  Cambuskenneth the church of Kirkin-
tilloch, with half a carucate of land, and this grant was confirmed by
Jocelin the bishop of Glasgow, under a bull of Pope Innocent in 1195,
and afterwards by a charter of Walter the bishop of Glasgow (w). The
church of Kirkintilloch continued to belong to the monks of Cambuskenneth
(w) Chart. Cambuskenneth, No. 137, 29, 139. William Cumin, who afterwards became Earl
of Buchan, held the manor of Kirkintilloch in 1201. Chart. Glasg., 47, 49. William Cumin, the
Earl of Buchan, resigned to the monastery of Cambuskenneth all right which he had to the
church of Kirkintilloch, and he granted to this church a bovate of land lying adjacent to it. This
resignation and grant were confirmed by Alexander II. on the 27th of March, 1226. Chart. Cam-
buskenneth, No. 138.