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includes the selection of the matter, and is the chief element
in shaping
the editorial narrative and commentary.
The vast increase in knowledge of Glasgow's history must
be credited, it goes without saying, to Mr. Renwick, whose
Glasgow Protocols, not second to the Burgh Record volumes
themselves, are a quarry of precise
local topography and
biography of the sixteenth century such as scarcely any city
in the United Kingdom can rival.
The preface to the Extracts from Glasgow Records \ 1691-1717,
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In one
begins with an emphatic recognition and homage.
capacity or another,' says Mr. Renwick, '
I have had the great
privilege of being associated with Sir James Marwick in the
work of the Society since its formation, and having been
specially conjoined with him in the preparation of this volume,
the loss of my revered friend, the memory of whose unfailing
kindness to myself must ever remain with me a treasured
possession, has laid on me the duty of completing the book.'
During the period covered by the selection of Extracts the
Union of 1707 and the Jacobite rising of 1715 were the great
public facts of history. Yet it is
significant of life burghal and
record that neither event engrosses much attention in the proceedings
of the town council. In 1706 the tumult caused by
the anti-Union populace stoning the council-house led to a
in arms of
proclamation by tuck of drum for the mustering
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the haill fencible men of this burgh to put down any
disturbance. A detachment of troops from Edinburgh settled
the rioters, but the incident, which bulks so largely in Defoe, is
not recorded in the town's minutes at all.
The community was divided about the Union. On the
Jacobite question in 1715, on the other hand, there was no
division. Glasgow stood firm by the house of Hanover,
sending assurances of loyalty to *
King George in the face of a
designed invasion from abroad in favour of a Papal Pretender
and of the
preparations of a restless Papal and Jacobite faction
at home for
subverting our happy constitution in church and
state.' The city further sent 500 of its militia to recruit the
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royal forces. Other reminiscences of this tyme of common
danger' appear in the pious and partly executed purpose
whereby 'the toun should be put in a better posture of
defence by drawing lynes of entrinchment about the toun in
case of ane attack,' and in the confinement of 353 *
rebell
prisoners' under guard in the castle prison in December, 1715.