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428 RENFREWSHIRE.
Bvrges • of • Paisley & Cirstin-Keibill • his * spovs • qvlia • deseisit
. ye • zeir of God 1660."
The Algeo family came from Italy with one of the Abbots, and
were connected with the monastery. John Algeo or Aldjoy, was
proprietor of Bladoyard in 1490. One of the descendants, Peter
Algeo, married Margaret Morton, heiress of Easter Walkingshaw,
about the end of the sixteenth century.
The tombstone of William Skeoch, cordiner, and his wife Marion
Kerlie, presents the following inscription : —
" Eemember ■ all • that • come • this • rod
Hou • your • meeting • uill • be • uith • God
If • it • be • sueet • you • may ■ be • shour
That • Christ • is • been • the • opening • door."
Skeoch was one of the twenty founders of the Cordiners or Shoe-
makers' Society of Paisley, formed on 16tli December, 1701. The
motto of the society was —
" god's providence is our inheritance."
William Skeoch was first deacon of the craft. His grandson,
Alexander Skeoch, was town clerk of Paisley and laird of Gockston.
The Shoemakers' Society, after existing 158 years, was dissolved
in 1859.
A tablet, now forming the door lintel of a house in Wallneuk
Street, commemorates Abbot George Schawe. The inscription, in
Saxon letters, is as follows : —
" Ha calU't a*" at&ot gtorg of 0cl)atoe
about 213 abliag prt make gis toaiB
31 HjousanliE four !)untimt}} jijcgr,
Slucijtg antie fgtoe t\)z tiatc but 'max,
^rag for tit's souU'^ salbacioun,
^at matie Hjas nobil CunUacioun."
Son of the laird of Sauchie and Greenock, George Schaw was
born in 1434. He was elected Abbot of Paisley in 1476, demitted
in 1498, and died in 1506, aged seventy-two. In great favour with
the government of King James IV., he held high offices in the
state. The great wall named in the inscription was nearly a mile