Glasgow Past and Present Author:Robert Reid General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Original Publisher: D. Robertson Subjects: Glasgow (Scotland) History / Europe / Great Britain History / Europe / Ireland Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or... more » missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. Cleland's Sketch of the Green--Improvements in the Green, 1638-1664 -- Fleshers' Haugh in 1792 -- The Green as it stood in 1816 -- Coal under the Green, and proposal to work it in 1858 -- Discussion in the City Council -- Proposed Improvements in 1813 -- Subsidence of the Green in 1754 -- The Point Isle in 1760 -- Dowcot Green Island -- The Horse Ford -- Battle of the Bell of the Brae. Dr. Cleland in his Annals, vol. ii. p. 457, has given us a more detailed statement of the history of the Green of Glasgow than our other Glasgow historians, and in particular has narrated the improvements made on it during the time that he held the municipal office of superintendent of public works. He says that although it is by no means certain at what period the Green became the property of the community, it is more than probable that it was included in the grant which James II. made to William Turnbull, bishop of Glasgow, on 2oth April 1450. The original grant, whether it emanated from King James or any other having power to confer it, was of very small extent when compared with what the Green is at present, being wholly comprehended in what is now known by the name of the Laigh Green, bounded on the west by what was termed the Skinners' Green, now the site of the Gaol and public offices, on the north by the Molendinar Burn and Camlachie Burn, on the south by the River Clyde, and on the east by the lands of Kinclaith, at the west end of the High Gre...« less