pennant’s SECOND TOUR IN SCOTLAND .. 2J5
The country fromBothwell bridge is open, very fertile, compofed of gentle rifmgs,diverfified with large plantations. Reach ■
Glafgow, the bell built of any fecond-rate city I ever faw ; the houfes of Hone, andin general well built, and many in a good tafte, plain and unaffe&ed. The principalftreet runs eaft and weft, is near a mile and a half long, but unfortunately not ftraight ;yet the view from the crofs, where the two other great ftreets fall into this, has an air ofvaft magnificence. The tolbooth is large and handfome, with this apt motto on the front ?
Hxc domus odit, amat, punit, confervat, honocat,nequitiam, pacem-, crimina, jura, probos.
Next to that is the exchange: within is a fpacious room, with full-length portraits ofall our monarchs fince James I. ; and an excellent one, by Ramfay, of Archibald Dukeof Argyle in his robes as lord of feflions. However expert he might have been in thelaws of his land, the following form of refpite to a wretched conviCt does not fpeakmuch in favour of his regard to decency.
Edinr FebrS 28 th, 1728.
“ I Archibald Earl of May, do hereby prorogate and continue the life of John Rud-dell, writer in Edin r , to the term of Whitfunday next, and no longer, by G—d.
Before the exchange is a large equeftrian ftatue of King William. This is the fineftand broadeft part of the ftreet: many of the houfes are built over arcades, but too nar-row to be walked in with any conveniency. Numbers of other neat ftreets crofs this atright angles.
The market-places are great ornaments to the city, the fronts being done in very finetafte, and the gates adorned with columns of one or other of the orders. Some ofthefe markets are for meal, greens, filh or flefh: there are two for the laft whichhave conduits of water out of feveral of the pillars, fo that they are conftantly keptfweet and neat. Before thefe buildings were conftruCted, moft of thofe articles werefold in the public ftreets; and even after the market-places were built, the magiftrate^with great difficulty compelled the people to take advantage of fuch cleanly innovations.
Near the meal-market is the public granary, to be filled on any apprehenfion offcarcity.
The guard-houfe is in the great ftreet, where the inhabitants mount guard, and regu-larly do duty. An excellent police is obferved here; and proper officers attend themarkets to prevent abufes.
The police of Glafgow confifts of three bodies; the magiftrates with the town-council, the merchants houfe, and the trades houfe. The lord provoft, three bailies,a dean of guild, a deacon convener, a treafurer, and twenty-five council-men, compofethe firft. It muft be obferved that the dean of guild is chofen annually, and can con-tinue in office but two years. The fecond confifts of thirty-fix merchants, annuallyeleCted, with the provoft and three bailies, by virtue of their office, which make thewhole body forty. The dean of guild is head of this houfe, who, in conjunction with .bis council, four merchants, and four tradefmen (of which the preceding dean is to beone), holds a court every Thurfday, where the parties only are admitted to plead, alllawyers being excluded. He and his council have power to judge and decree fn allactions refpeCting trade between merchant and merchant; and thofe who refufe to'fub-m it to their decifions are liable to a fine of five pounds. The fame officer and hiscouncil, with the mafter of work, can determine all difputes about boundaries, and noproceedings in building fhall be flopped except by him; but the plaintiff muft lodge a
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