Huchesonia

House in the Trongate. 25
George Hucheson's dwelling-house in Glasgow, al-
ready alluded to, and where he also carried on business,
was on the north side of the Trongate, next the old
Tolbooth or market-place, apparently on the site of the
Tontine Exchange and coffee-rooms. It is described
in this old infeftment " as magnum tenementum ex
" boreali latere vici vocat. Trongate bondan inter pre-
" torium dicti burgi ad orien." &c; and in this subse-
quent liferent infeftment of Mrs. Thomas, it is called
" that large heich tenement, bak and foir, at the corse."
He had here the accommodation of a stable, as other
gentlemen had in this neighbourhood ; for this is a
conveyance to him in February 1600, by a neighbour-
ing gentleman, one Norman Mackynie, " of a piece of
" waiste grund lying between our staibills, and contain-
" ing sax elnes in length, and the breid of the said Nor-
" man's aune tenement, as presently bigget for the price
" of £24 Scots." The description is unfortunately in-
sufficient for calculating the exact price per square yard,
which he gave Mr. Mackenzie for this small piece
of vacant ground, but it may satisfy us that the value of
such ground in that neighbourhood 255 years ago, was
sufficiently understood and appreciated by the parties.
If he had not also the advantage of a garden at his
tenement at the cross, he had certainly one within the
city, independently altogether of the old site of the Hos-
pital ; for here is a burgage infeftment in favour of his
three sisters, as his heirs in a house and garden there.
His counting-house or chambers were no doubt on the
first or ground floor of the heich tenement. The