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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 740375

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/740375

NS56NE 94 59 65

King William granted to the bishop of Glasgow in 1175 x 1178 a burgh at Glasgow with a weekly market and all the liberties of a king's burgh. Glasgow was erected a burgh of regality in 1587, and became legally a royal burgh in 1611. (Cf burghs of Anderston, Pollokshaws and Rutherglen, NS56NE 95, NS56SE 91 and NS66SW 69 respectively).

G S Pryde 1965.

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