Early records of an old Glasgow family

84 THE EARLY RECORDS OF
In 1678 we find Mr. Ninian Hill disponing Lambhill, with
Garioch, Gairbraid, Ramshorn and Meadowflat, and "a great
Ludging and yeard adjacent thairto lyand in the Rottounraw of
the Burghe of Glasgow, laitlie conqueist and acquyrit be me from
the deceist Laird of Lusse " after-mentioned, to his said son Ninian
Hill by Disposition dated 31st January, 1678, the Sasine on which
is of the same date, and is recorded in the Sasine Register, 8th
February, 1678. 1 He also executed another Disposition of said
lands to his son Ninian with a destination to " the aires lawfullie to
be procreat of his bodie, q lks - ffailzeing to Jean, Elizabeth, Helein
and Margratt Hills, my lawfull dough ters," under the burden of
" Jean Caldwell, my spous, her lyfrent of the pairts of the foir-
named lands wherintill shoe stands infeft," and also of the
payment of such provision to his other children as he might
appoint. This Disposition is dated at Paisley, 13th November,
1678, and upon it infeftment followed in Ninian and his sisters'
favour, dated 21st November, and recorded in the Sasine Register,
nth December, 1678. 2
The final notices respecting Lambhill, as a possession of the
Hill family, will be found in subsequent chapters.
Gairbraid — Respecting it and its Divisions.
Mr. Ninian Hill also succeeded through his mother, Helen
Hutcheson, to the Four pound and forty penny {i.e. £4. 3s. 4d.)
land of " Over and Nether," or, as described in the more modern
titles, " Easter and Wester " Gairbraid.
" Rental Rights" and " Rentallers."
" Over " (i.e. Upper), in the present instance the north-eastern
portion of Gairbraid, is that part or division of the original ,£5
'Hill, Munimenta, vol. I,, Part IV., No. 25, Item 7.
2 Hill, Munimenta, vol. 1., Part IV., No. 25, Items 5 and 6,