History of Renfrewshire
A
HISTORY
OF THE
COUNTY OF RENFREW
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.
BY
WILLIAM M METCALFE, D.D.
With a Map of the County.
PAISLEY: ALEXANDER GARDNER,
publisher by appointment to the late Queen Victoria,
1905.
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I - EARLY INHABITANTS
CHAPTER II - AFTER THE ROMANS
CHAPTER III - RELIGION
CHAPTER IV - THE STEWARD'S SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER V - THE RAGMAN ROLL
CHAPTER VI - SIR WILLIAM WALLACE
CHAPTER VII - THE WARS OF BRUCE
CHAPTER VIII - STUART AND PLANTAGENET
CHAPTER IX - THE ACCESSION OF THE STUARTS
CHAPTER X - FAMILIES
CHAPTER XI - FEUDS
CHAPTER XII - ROYAL VISITS
CHAPTER XIII - SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC
CHAPTER XIV - ECCLESIASTICAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND RELIGIOUS
CHAPTER XV - THE REFORMATION
CHAPTER XVI - THE PRESBYTERY
CHAPTER XVIII - THE CIVIL WARS
CHAPTER XIX - THE RESTORATION
CHAPTER XX - WITCHCRAFT
CHAPTER XXI - THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XXII - INDUSTRIES
CHAPTER XXIII - BURGHS
CHAPTER XXIV - PARISHES
APPENDIX