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till the ^Reformation. The monks enjoyed the rectorial tithes and the church
lands, and a vicarage was established for serving the cure (x). During many
years before the Reformation, the rectorial tithes of the church of Kirkintilloch
were let to the Lords Fleming for payment of a certain sum yearly, which the
ahbot and monks had much difficulty in recovering (y). At the epoch of the
Reformation the parsonage tithes of the parish of Kirkintilloch, which was then
called Lenzie (z), produced 33 chalders of meal and three chalders of hear
yearly, which were let by the abbot and monks of Cambuskenneth to Lord
Fleming, for payment of �80 yearly (a).
In the burgh of Kirkintilloch there was before the Reformation a chapel
which was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and it was endowed with the lands
and mill of  Drumteblay, in the barony of Lenzie (b). The chaplain had a
manse and glebe at Kirkintilloch, and the patronage of the chapel belonged
to the Lords Fleming, whose predecessor David Fleming of Biggar and Lenzie
was invested with the income.
In 1604 the advowson of the parish church, with the tithes and church
lands of Lenzie, were granted to John Earl of Mar, with the other property
of the monks of Cambuskenneth, and this grant was ratified in parliament
during 1606 (c). The advowson of this church was afterwards transferred
to the Earl of Wigton, who held the superiority and even the soil of nearly
the whole parish. In 1649 a decree of the commissioners for the plantation
of churches was obtained for dividing the parish of Lenzie into two parishes,
and a few years afterwards the establishment of the two new parishes was
(a) Chart. Cambuskenneth, No. 140, 145, 149. In Bagimont's Roll the vicarage of Kirkin-
tilloch was taxed �2 13s, 4d., being a tenth of the estimated value of its spiritual revenues. In
1522-3, the church of Kirkintilloch was served by a curate, who was employed and paid by the
vicar. Chart. Cambuskenneth, No. 141.
(y) Chart. Cambuskenneth, No. 141, 142, 143. In 1507 John Lord Fleming was admonished,
under pain of excommunication, to pay to David, the Abbot of Cambuskenneth, 500 marks Scots
as the line and rent of the corn tithes of the parish church of Kirkintilloch, which were let to him
for three years. Ib., No. 144.
(z) Sometime between 1507 and 1522 the name of the parish was changed from Kirkintilloch to
Lenzie. or Lenyie, which was the name of the barony. After that time Lenzie was the common
name of the parish, but the old name of Kirkintilloch was sometimes used.
(a) MS, Rental Book, fo. 40.
(b) David Fleming of Biggar and Lenzie granted to the chapel of the Virgin Mary at the burgh
of Kirkintilloch in pure alms, the lands and the mill of Drumteblay, with the pertinents in the
barony of Lenzie, and common of pasture in the same barony. This grant was confirmed by a
charter of  Robert III. on the 17th of August, 1399. Chart. Glasg., 331.
(c) Acta Parl, iv. 343.