Early records of an old Glasgow family

AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 95
one of which, that by the tenant of the quarry on the lands
(Crackling-house Quarry), describes the stone most disparagingly
but graphically, as "a dour stone, ill to work, and wanting in baith
back and belly."
Provanside Acres.
The remaining subjects of which Mr. Ninian Hill of Lambhill
was possessed, by succession through his mother, Helen Hutcheson,
were : 2 acres of land lying discontiguous in Provanside, 1 situated
to the north-west of, and in proximity to Ramshorn and Meadowflat.
These subjects, or part of them, ultimately came into the
possession of the North British Railway Company, which so far
enables their position to be located. 2 From an Inventory (see Hill
& Co.'s Titles Book, 1867, vol. xn., p. 62), it appears that one acre
of this land originally belonged to George Hutcheson, his title
thereto being confirmed by Charter by James King, Chaplain
of the chaplainry of St. Kentigern's, founded in the Laigh
Kirk by Patrick Blackadder of Tulliallan, dated 2nd July, 1587,
the acre being described as " one acre and 2 riggs," and in said
Inventory referred to as included in a Charter under the Great Seal
by King James VI. in favour of Mr. Thomas Hutcheson, dated
1 8th April and sealed 1st May, 1612. 3 The two acres, in the
above-mentioned Inventory, are indicated as being included in the
Instrument of Sasine in favour of Mr. Ninian Hill, dated 9th
August, 1 642,* following upon a Contract of Division, — apparently
one of several contracts, — dated 6th August, 1642, between the
three heiress-portioners of the brothers Hutcheson, to which sub-
jects Ninian Hill of Lambhill, Jean Caldwell's son, made up his
1 Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part III., No. 5.
3 Hutcheson, Munimenta, vol. 11. (Titles), Part V. 4, No. 2.
* Registrum Magni Sigilli, a.d. 1612, No. 643.
4 Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part III., No. 5.