Eastwood: notes on the ecclesiastical antiquities of the parish

Eastwood: notes on the ecclesiastical antiquities of the parish

Author: Campbell, George, Rev

Year: 1902

TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I., 9 Origin of parishes, and of Eastwood — Early Christian teachers in Scotland — S. Oonval, his identity — Others of a like name — His arrival in the West — Inchinnan — His ordination and labours — Condition of neighbourhood — Some early places and names — Carwadric — Auldhouse — Old well beside the Saint's settlement here — Bangor's hill — Burnfield — The monastery — Difficult question as between Pollok and Eastwood — Grant of the Church of Pollok — Early names of the Church — Other place names — S. Conval's public services — Funeral of King Aidan — Coronation of Kenneth I. — S. Conval's writings — S. Conval's day — Death and interment — His stone — Archdeaconry. CHAPTER II., 31 Obscurity of mediaeval period — The Celtic Church reappears — Church of Westwod in 1265 — Various of its vicars — Controversy as to an appointment — Layng successful — His character as rural dean — Robert Maxwell, Bishop of Orkney — His services and benefactions. CHAPTER III., 39 The Reformation — Office of reader — Mr. Thomas Jak first Protestant vicar — His prior offices and history — Several parishes under his charge — Imprisonment and molestation — Eglinton family — His dea