Hill Munimenta (volume II)

• Reference:GB 1784 HILL/30/135b
• Alternative Id:
  GB 1784 Sh83.2
• Dates of Creation:1700-1872

• Scope and Content

  Hill Munimenta Volume II

  Hill V: Reverend Laurence Hill of the Barony, 1700-1773

  1. Munimenta Universitatis Glasguensis, excerpts from in 1714, 1717, 1719, 1720, 1721 and 1724. *

  2. Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ. Synod of Glasgow & Ayr. Excerpts from in 1725, 1739 and 1750. *

  3. Presentation by “John Earle of Dundonald, Lord Cochrane of Pasley and Ochiltree” of Laurence Hill the Dundonald Bursary, at the University of Glasgow, dated 28th January 1720.

  4. Letter addressed “To the Reverend Mr John Stirling Principal of the College of Glasgow” by “Charles Cochrane, John Cochrane, Laurence Crawfurd” continuing Mr Laurence Hill as Bursar, dated 2nd December 1721.

  5. Contract of Marriage between “Mr Laurence Hill, Minister of the Gospell at Kilmarnock and Charlotte Maria Gardiner Relict of the deceast Mr William Wright, Minister of the Gospell at Kilmarnock. 20th November 1727.

  6.

  1) “Disposition and Assignation Mr Laurence Hill to Charlotte Maria Gardner, dated 7th June 1728, having Endorsed thereon

  2) Codicil by the said Mr Laurence Hill “Minister of the Gospel in the Parish of the Barony of Glasgow,” dated 20th November 1772.

  7. Double of Testament 1752 so endorsed, being an incomplete copy or the draft of a Testamentary Settlement, holograph, of the said Mr Laurence Hill, then Minister of the Barony Kirk of Glasgow.

  8. Copy Minute of the Town Council of Glasgow conferring the Honorary Burgeβship of Glasgow on Mr Laurence Hill, Minister at Kilmarnock, dated 2nd May 1735.

  9. Call by the Heritors and Elders of the Barony Parish of Glasgow to the Reverend Mr Laurence Hill, one of the ministers of Kilmarnock to be Minister of the Barony Kirk and Parish, dated 9th November 1749.

  10. Letter by Hew Crawfurd, Edinburgh “To the Revd Laurence Hill, Ministerof the Gospel at Kilmarnock,” dated 26th July 1737.

  11. “Letter from Mr Hew Crawfurd” to the Revd Laurence Hill “acknowleging the receit of Maly Hill’s Pappers” 1st February 1752.

  12. “Inventary of Writs sent to Hew Crawfurd 1752,” so endorsed by Revd Laurence Hill.

  13.

  1) Original M.S. titled “The Offspring of John Hutcheson of Lambhill as follows-”

  2) Copy thereof by William Henry Hill.

  3) Alphabetical Index of the names in M.S.

  14.

  1) Original M.S. titled “Descendants of Hutchisone” made about 1723 or 1724, and the additions by the Revd L. Hill, L.L.D. with Genealogy of the male branch of the Hills of Lambhill, dated 26th November 1858.

  2) Copy thereof.

  15. Note of the Hills of Lambhill etc. giving their ancestry to 1549 and their Representative Descendants in the male line to 1895.

  16. Copy of letter by Mr John Dunlop to L. Hill, L.L.D. with Genealogy of the male branch of the Hills of Lambhill, dated 26th November 1858.

  17.

  1) Copy of M.S. Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths of members of the Hill Family in the Pulpit Bible of the Revd Laurence Hill.

  2) Alphabetical Index of the Names.

  3) The family of the Revd Laurence Hill and Charlotte Maria Gardiner or Wright or Hill his wife extracted from the Register of Births and Baptisms of the Town and Parish of Kilmarnock, 26th March 1814 by William Thomson, Session Clerk

  18.

  1) Extracts from the Minute Books of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow respecting Ninian Hill, son of Revd L. Hill 1749-1757.

  2&3) Letters from Dep. Keeper of Records, Edinburgh of 25th and 27th August 1896, that Dr Ninian Hill died on -- ----- 1790.

  19. Printed letter of Revd Laurence Hill intimating the death of his daughter Janet on 10th March 1763.

  20.

  1) Letter (concluding portion only and no date) by Thomas Hill (son of Revd Laurence Hill) to James Hill Jr of Gartloch.

  2) Letter without date by Thomas Hill on the subject of agriculture and land farming in Lanark and Renfrewshire to his nephew Robbin (Robert Hill W.S.)

  3) Letter by Thomas Hill of Merrylee of 23rd December 1880 that neither James Hill of Cartside’s brother Thomas Hill, nor his brother Ninian was ever married.

  21. Epitaph to the Revd William Wright, Minister of the Gospel, Kilmarnock, 1735.

  22. Pulpit Bible of the Revd Laurence Hill, with entries of the dates of Births, Marriages and Deaths of his Children. *

  23. Volume of the Psalms of David. *

  24. Diamond Ring gifted by William, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock to the Revd Laurence Hill. *

  25.

  1&2) Letters dated 24th and 28th March 1868 from John Buchanan L.L.D. to W. H. Hill on the subject of the above mentioned Ring.

  Hill VI: James Hill of Cartside, 1731-1791.

  1.

  1) Letter from Mr W. J. Addison, Assistant Clerk of the University, Glasgow, 26th March 1896 asking information respecting James Hill who obtained the Degree of MA in 1747, and

  2) Notanda of Information afforded.

  2.

  1) Extract from Sederunt Book of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow of 7th February 1757, appointing James Hill, Writer in Glasgow to be their Clerk.

  2) Copy Minutes of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of 7th October and 2nd December 1765.

  3. Note from the Records of the Incorporation of Bakers of Glasgow of the Appointment of James Hill to be their Clerk, on 5th September 1758. *

  4. James Hill was elected by the Patrons of Hutcheson’s Hospital as Factor on their Gorbals Lands on 27th September 1758, and on 13th November 1789 as Clerk and Chamberlain. *

  5. James Hill held an appointment in 1745 from the University of Glasgow and as Facot in 1784, till his death in 1791. *

  6.

  1&2) Notes of Entries in the Record of the appointment to the Keepership of the Particular Register of Sasines for Renfrewshire and Barony and Regality of Glasgow.

  7. James Hill matriculated as a member of the Merchants House in 1763, elected Collector on 15th October 1767. *

  8. Letter by Mr John Bell, Edinburgh, dated 21st December 1758 to Mr James Hill, Writer in Glasgow, respecting Renfrewshire Turnpike Roads.

  9. Inventory of Writers delivered to James Hill, 28th May 1760.

  10.

  1) “Genealogy of the Hutchesons” - Hills also.

  2) Copy thereof amplified and added to.

  11. Copy of Genealogical Notes by Laurence Hill W.S. titled “Tree of my Mother’s friends.”

  12. The Family of James Hill and Elizabeth Robertson, his wife. *

  13. Genealogical Table (printed) of the Descendants of James Hill Senior, Writer in Glasgow.

  14. Extracts from the Family Bible of James Hill of Cartside.

  15. Note of the Children of James Hill of Cartside, burried in Greyfriars Church Yard, Edinburgh. Notanda respecting John Hill (son of James Hill) 1756-1818. Notanda respecting Ninian Hill (1st son of that name of James Hill) 1758-1774.

  16. Letter from James Hill of Cartside dated Glasgow Buchanan Street 5th May 1790, to his son Lt. Thomas Hill, Bengal.

  17. Letter by Laurence Hill W.S. to Lt. Thomas Hill, Bengal, dated 21st May 1790.

  18. Letter from James Hill Sr to Thomas Hill Esq. Lieut. Hire Worker “in the Honble East India Co. Service at present Madrass,” dated 10th February 1791.

  19. Letter from James Hill Jr Glasgow 4th May 1801 to Lieut. Thomas Hill, Calcutta, Bengal.

  20. Notes respecting Members of the Hill Family from Law Processes in Volume titled Hill Cases.

  21. Description of the lands of Cartside and Cathcart Castle with Notanda of their sale to Lord Cathcart in 1804.

  22. Letter from James Grahame (Auldhouse) to W. H. Hill, dated 31st August 1896 containing Information respecting the Family of Robert Hill W.S.

  Hill VII (1): Laurence Hill W.S. 1755-1793

  1.

  1) Letter by Sir Henry Steuart Bart. Of Allanton to Laurence Hill, L.L.D. dated 7th August 1830, sending:

  2) Copy of the “Valedictory Oration” by Laurence Hill, W.S. at Lanark School, in the year 1770.

  Letter by Laurence Hill, W.S. to his brother, Lt. Col. Thomas Hill, Bengal, dated 21st May 1790. *

  2. Letter by Laurence Hill, W.S. Edinburgh to Archibald Grahame, Thistle Bank, Glasgow, dated 16th July 1791.

  3. Discharge by Peter Blackburn, Merchant in Glasgow, to Laurence Hill, W.S. dated 17th April 1784.

  4. Letter from Laurence Hill, W.S. to his brother Robert Hill or possibly his cousin Robert Grahame on various business matters, dated 4th December 1787.

  5. Draft of letter by Laurence Hill, W.S. to His Grace the Duke of Portland, dated 21st June 1789, sending the two first volumes of “A Political State of the Scotch Counties taken from the Roll of Freeholders.”

  1) Scroll of part of these Volumes bound in thin folio volume by itself.

  6. Draft of letter to William Adam, Esq. by L. Hill, W.S. of the same date and on the same subject.

  7.

  1&2) Autograph letter by His Grace the Duke of Portland to Laurence Hill, dated 30th August 1789.

  8.

  1&2) Autograph letter by His Grace the Duke of Portland from Welbeck to L. Hill, dated 7th April 1790.

  **(unnumbered) Contract between James Dennistoun, Esq. and Mrs Margaret Dreghorn, dated 26th February 1802

  9. Autograph letter by the Earl of Lauderdale to L. Hill, dated 30th May 1791.

  10. Autograph letter by William Adam, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to L. Hill, dated 31st May 1791.

  11. Autograph letter by James Chalmer, Abingdon Street, Westminster, to L. Hill, 31st May 1791.

  12. Autograph letter by G.K. (Lord) Elphinstone (London) to L. Hill, 31st May 1791.

  13. Autograph letter by G.K. (Lord) Elphinstone to L. Hill, 2nd June 1791.

  14. Autograph letter by His Grace the Duke of Portland to L. Hill, 3rd June 1791.

  15. Autograph letter by David Dalrymple (Lord Hailes) to L. Hill, dated New Hailes, 12th June 1791.

  16. Letter by the Honble William Pulteney to L. Hill, 26th May 1792.

  17. Letter by L. Hill, W.S. to his brother Lt. Thomas Hill, Bengal, dated 21st May 1790. *

  18.

  1&2) Inscriptions on the tombstone of Laurence Hill, W.S. in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh.

  19.

  1) Circular letter from W.I. Addison, Assistant Clerk of the University of Glasgow, dated 12th March 1896, asking information respecting John Richardson of Westminster, who obtained the Honorary Degree of L.L.B. in 1830, and-

  2) Notanda of information sent him.

  20. Genealogical notes by Laurence Hill, W.S. titled “Tree of my mother’s friends.”

  Hill VII (2): Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hill 1761-1821

  1.

  1&2) Letter from Assistant Clerk of Senate of the University of Glasgow, as to matriculation in 1774, as M.A. in 1779, and replies to queries.

  2.

  1) Print of Brigade Orders, Camp Dum Dum, 20th May 1789.

  2) Print of letter by Alexander Lord Abercromby to Sir Robert Abercromby recommending Lieutenant Thomas Hill, 19th November 1793.

  3. Letter from James Hill of Cartside, 5th May 1790, to “Thomas Hill, Lieut. Hireworker, Bengal.” *

  4. Letter by Laurence Hill, W.S. to Lieut. Thomas Hill, Bengal, dated 21st May 1790. *

  5. Letter by James Hill of Cartside to “Thomas Hill Esq. Lieut. Hireworker” 10th February 1791. *

  6. Copy or draft of letter by Laurence Hill, W.S. to the Honble William Elphinstone, 24th May 1792.

  7. Letter from Lord Elphinstone, Cumbernauld House, to Laurence Hill, W.S. 29th May 1792.

  8. Letter from James Hill of Gartloch, Glasgow, 4th May 1801, to Lieut. Thomas Hill, Calcutta. *

  9. Letter by James Hill Jr to “Mr Robert Hill,” dated 21st May 1813.

  10. Notanda obtained by Elizabeth Richardson Hill in 1882 from Mrs Louisa Piffard or Vanrenen, respecting the family of Lieut. Colonel Thomas Hill.

  11.

  1&2) Letter from Mrs Louisa Elizabeth Piffard or Vanrenen to William H. Hill, dated 19th November 1896.

  Hill VII (3, 4a & 4b) relating to James Hill Jr of Gartloch (1764-1819), Robert Hill, W.S. (1771-1842) and Thomas Hill of Merrylee (1813-1888) have no minumenta in the possession of William Henry Hill.

  Hill VII (5): Ninian Hill, W.S. 1775-1814.

  1. Class Tickets and Certificates of Ninian Hill

  2. Indenture of Apprenticeship, James Hill Jr, Writer in Glasgow, and Ninian Hill, 1792.

  3.

  1) Indenture as apprentice with Robert Hill, W.S. 1795.

  2) Receipt for Dues to Poors Fund of Society of W.S.

  4.

  1) Commission as Writer to the Signet, 1801.

  2) Receipt for Dues to Poors Fund of Society of W.S.

  3) Certificate by Professor Robert Bell as to trials.

  5.

  1&2) Commission as Notary Public, 1803.

  6. Class Ticket - Political Economy, 1806.

  7. Class Ticket - Agriculture and Rural Economy, 1808.

  8. Receipt on Apprenticeship of James Lang to Ninian Hill W.S. 1805.

  9. Inventory of the Personal Estate of Ninian Hill, W.S. 1815.

  10. Biographical Notices of Henry Wight

  Hill VIII: Laurence Hill, L.L.D. 1791-1872

  1.

  1&2) Class Certificate of Laurence Hill, 1706-1707.

  2.

  1&2) Petition by Robert Hill, W.S. for indenture of Laurence Hill as his apprentice with receipts for the Library Fund of W.S. 1808.

  3) Indenture between Robert Hill, W.S. and Laurence Hill, 3rd May 1808.

  3.

  1-4) Letters from James Hill Jr, Writer in Glasgow, to Robert Hill, W.S. as to L. Hill joining him in business, 23rd February 1810, 26th & 30th October and 8th November 1811.

  4. Commission to Laurence Hill as a Notary Public, dated 7th March 1812.

  5. Letter from James Hill Jr to Robert Hill, W.S. anent Laurence Hill coming to Glasgow 17th March 1812.

  6. Contract of copartnery between James Hill, Writer in Glasgow and Laurence Hill, Writer in Edinburgh, dated 9th and 24th April 1812.

  7.

  1) Laurence Hill, Burgess of Glasgow, 12th January 1814. *

  2) L. Hill, Member of the Merchants House of Glasgow, 8th March 1814. *

  3) L. Hill, Collector of the Merchants House, 1819-37.

  8. Copy of proof etc. in the service of Laurence Hill as heir male of line of Helen Hutcheson, sister and heiress portioner of George and Thomas Hutcheson of Lambhill, dated 11th August 1819.

  9. Extract of the service of Laurence Hill as heir male foresaid, 11th August 1819.

  10.

  1) Retour of the service of Laurence Hill as heir male foresaid. Extracted from Chancery 1819.

  2) Copy of the above

  11. Burgess ticket of the Burgh of Lanark, 10th July 1826.

  12. Copy letter by Laurence Hill to Thomas Campbell, Lord Rector, anent University affairs, 6th January 1827.

  13. Class ticket of Professor Robert Davidson, Glasgow College, to Laurence Hill for lectures on “Justinian,” 11th December 1827.

  14. Letter from Mr Adam Longmore, Exchequer Chambers, Edinburgh, of date 9th February 1828, enclosing commission, dated 28th November 1826, by the Barons of Exchequer, appointing Laurence Hill “Collector of the Archbishop of Glasgow.”

  15.

  1) Letter from James Jeffray, Professor of Anatomy, College, to Laurence Hill, of date 26th October 1836.

  2) “Travelling Book No 2” by L Hill from October 1823 to December 1847.

  16. Note by J.P. Nichol, Professor of Astronomy to L. Hill, 25th October 1855.

  17.

  1) Letter from Revd James Arthur, the Manse, Springburn, to L. Hill, anent the Parish & Kirk of the City and Barony of Glasgow &c, dated 20th February 1855.

  2) Reply by L. Hill to the above (draft) dated 21st February 1855.

  18. Letter from John Riddell to L. Hill, dated 24th July 1855.

  19. Letter from A. Wood (Lord Wood) to L. Hill, dated 25th July 1856.

  20. Membership ticket of L. Hill with the Glasgow Agricultural Society, dated 20th October 1858.

  21. Diploma of Laurence Hill, L.L.B. of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, dated 17th November 1858.

  22. Letter to L. Hill from and holograph of the Marquess of Westminster, dated 22nd September 1859.

  23.

  1) Diploma of Doctor of Laws of the University of Glasgow in favour of Laurence Hill, L.L.B. Writer in Glasgow, dated 17th April 1863.

  2) Letter from the Revd Duncan H. Weir, Clerk of Senate of the University of Glasgow, informing Laurence thereof, dated 18th April 1863.

  24.

  1&2) Letters of condolence etc. to W.H. Hill by Dr William Weir on the death of L. Hill, dated 29th February 1872.

  3) Extract from the Minutes of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, dated 4th March 1872.

  25.

  1&2) MS notanda respecting Laurence Hill, L.L.D. and his ancestors

  3) Letter from James Maclehose to W.H. Hill on the above, dated 6th May 1885

  4) Proof sheets of the above

  26. Verse from the Lord of the Isles, holograph of Sir Walter Scott.

  27. Verses in Latin, Dies Irae and translation, by James Hopkirk, Advocate.

  28. Parody in handwriting of Laurence Hill, on T. Campbell’s “Hohenlinden” addressed “per pulchra et admirator Annae Baillie,” 1812.

  29.

  1&2) Inscriptions on Laurence Hill’s tombstone in Glasgow Necropolis and translation.

  30. List of Persons to whom notice of Laurence Hill’s death was sent and of those invited to his funeral and also of those to whom notice of Mrs Marion Hill’s death was sent etc.

  **(unnumbered) Diploma from the council of the Statistical Society of Glasgow to Laurence Hill

  **(unnumbered) Diploma of Bachelor of Law from the University of Glasgow to Laurence Hill

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