Eastwood
Subtitle: notes on the ecclesiastical antiquities of the parish
Publisher: A. Gardner
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Paisley
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I., 9; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER II., 31; title: 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.; title: CHAPTER III., 39; title: 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 death and effects — His family — His Latin poem — Story of his daughter's abduction, a curious and romantic account — Erection of Church of 1577 — Its inscription stone — Other remains — Plan and division of the Church — Burial vault — Recollections of old inhabitants — Next two ministers.; title: CHAPTER IV., 53; title: Rev. George Maxwell — Rev. John Maxwell — The latter's checkered history — The Glasgow Assembly of 1638 — Mr. Hew Blair's ministry — Mr. Maxwell's eventual return to Eastwood — His second ministry there — Enlargement of the parish — Failing health and demission of the charge — His son succeeds to Pollok — Mr. Maxwell's addition to Auldhouse — Memorial stone there.; title: CHAPTER V., 64; title: Soldiers of the Commonwealth invading the Presbytery — Mr. Hugh Smith called and ordained at Eastwood — His brother, William, minister of Largs — Mr. Hugh's persecution — Deprived of his charge — Mr. Jamieson of Govan, and his wife's testamentary inventory.; title: CHAPTER VI., 69; title: Mr. Robert Hume, Mr. Hector M'Laine, and Mr. William Fisher, incumbents under Episcopacy — The latter shelters the persecuted laird — He himself " rabbled" — Deserts his charge from fear — The parish under Episcopacy — Sir George Maxwell persecuted, imprisoned, and lined — Mr. Smith's outed ministry — The Sacrament dispensed at Haggs Castle and at Kennishead — Mr. Wodrow's father preaching in Haggswood — Characteristic account from Galt's Ringan OUhaize of Sir George's benevolence — His son. Sir John, suffers like his father — Sufferings of other parishioners — Thomas Jackson persecuted and banished — John Park and James Algie suffer martyrdom — Robert King submits and escapes — Banner of the Covenant at Eastwood Mains.; title: CHAPTER VII. 86; title: Witchcraft at Polloktoun — Sir George assailed by hags, and soon after dies — His son's descriptive account of the case — Professor George Sinclair and his celebrated book — An extraordinary girl and her revelations — Making and roasting of images — Mr. Hugh Smith, minister, also bewitched, and his sufferings — Four women and a young man found guilty and executed — Scene at the gallows — The girl Douglas and her subsequent history.; title: CHAPTER VIII., 96; title: Mr. Hugh Smith's death — Mr. Matthew Crawford privately called and ordained — His early life — In Holland with Carstairs — His published writings — His history of the Church in MS. — His public services to the Church after the Revolution settlement — His regular appointment to the parish at that period — Repairs on the church and manse — Declining health and death — His family — Commencement of the Session Records — Their contents — Place-names — Character and habits of the people.; title: CHAPTER IX., 106; title: Mr. Wodrow's appointment and ordination — The Wodrow family and their connections — Professor James Wodrow — Merkdaily meeting-house — His persecution before the Revolution — Stirring scenes, especially at Wodrow's birth — Early recollections — Landing of the Prince of Orange — Wodrow's life of his father — Librarian of the College — Residence at Pollok- — Study of mineralogy and of antiquities — Parish work — Pulpit oratory — Proposed translation on different occasions.; title: CHAPTER X., 117; title: Circumstances which led him to contemplate his history — Diligence in collecting materials for it — Apologies for its imperfection in style — Its publication — List of names of subscribers — Grant to the author from State Exchequer — Evidences to its trustworthiness — New edition in 1829-30 — Other publications — His published correspondence — The Holy Communion at Eastwood — His Analecta.; title: CHAPTER XI., 127; title: Mr. Wodrow's marriage — His widow's removal to Glasgow — His sons, daughters, and descendants — His catechetical lists — The Session Records in his time — Lord Pollok — Communion Cups — Parochial schools and schoolmasters — Stewart of Pardovan — His collections — His death at Pollok — Interment at Eastwood, and memorial tablet — Wodrow's last illness, death, and burial.; title: CHAPTER XII., 138; title: Mr. Wodrow's son succeeds him — The parish in his time — His retirement, and death at Cumbrae — Mr. Simpson appointed — Objections to his settlement — Removal of the Church to a new site — That Church's history — Is replaced by the present edifice in 1862-3 — Description of the same — Change of site of manse, and excambion of glebe in 1854 — The King's Covenant — Mr. Simpson has Mr. M'Caig appointed as assistant and successor — His brief ministry and death — Mr. Stevenson McGill becomes incumbent — His translation to Glasgow — Mr. Robert Anderson the next minister, and his translation to Edinburgh — Rapid succession of ministers, and memories of them — Mr. George Logan — His student life, earlier charges, aud appointment to Eastwood — His characteristics and his ministry — Anecdote — His intended demission — His death — His family — Mr. McIntyre's appointment — Low state of the congregation after the Secession — His death, and appointment of a successor — Church extension in the latter part of last century — Memories of Sir John and Lady Matilda Maxwell, of Darcy Brisbane (Lady Maxwell), of Mrs. Ewing, of Sir William and Lady Anna Stirling Maxwell, and of others — Conclusion.