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Provan Hall

Provan Hall(also known over time asProvanhall,Hall of Provanand 'Hall Mailings) is a historic place composed of two buildings built about the 15th century and situated in Auchinlea Park,Easterhouse,Glasgow.It is owned by theNational Trust for Scotlandand leased byGlasgow City Council.[1][2][3]The two parallel buildings, enclosing a courtyard, are protected as a category Alisted building.[4] The building has recently been renovated and now operates as a small museum. It is managed by Provan Hall Community Management Trust. It has been used as a set for filming ‘Outlander’.

Location

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Provan Hall is located in the twenty-acre (eight-hectare) Auchinlea Park adjacent to theGlasgow Fortretail centre.[5]

Naming

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The name "Hall of Provan" was used in early records.[6]Today, the use of the name "Provan Hall" is used to refer to the buildings collectively.

Residents

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After theScottish Reformation,Provan Hall became a residence of the lawyer andPresident of Session,William Baillie(died 1593) and his wife Elizabeth Durham.[7]In 1566 he was collector of theteindsor tithes known as the "Thirds of Benefices" for the parsonage of Glasgow. As a judge, he was known as Lord Provand.[8]He was called the "Prebend of BarlanerkaliasProvan ", and in November 1592James VI of Scotlandconfirmed his ownership of the mill and meadow of Provan.[9]

His daughter the heiress of Provan, Elizabeth Baillie (died 1609), married Robert Hamilton (died 1642), a son ofAndrew Hamilton of Goslington and Silvertonhill.They gave the house and lands to their eldest son, Francis Hamilton, on 31 October 1599.[10]James VI confirmed Elizabeth Baillie's gift of Provan to her son on 15 November 1600.[11]

Francis Hamilton of Silvertonhill (died 1645) married Agnes Hamilton, a daughter of the Laird ofInnerwickand a niece of the lawyerThomas Hamilton.He was known as poet and published verses in praise of the lateJames VI and Iin 1626, dedicated to theMarquess of Hamiltonand theChancellor of Scotland,George Hay of Kinnoull.In later life, Francis Hamilton claimed he had been the victim of witchcraft practiced against him before his marriage by Isabel Boyd, Lady Blair, a daughter ofThomas Boyd, 6th Lord Boyd.She had been contracted to marry him in 1607, and Francis Hamilton may have come to blame his misfortunes in life on her.[12]He sold the lands to his brother Edward Hamilton and ownership of Provan descended in the Hamilton of Silvertonhill family.[13]Above the arched entrance to the courtyard, a carved stone includes the initials "R.H" for Robert Hamilton, and the date 1647.[14]

In 1667, Robert Hamilton sold the property toGlasgow City Council.The council created the office of "Bailieof Provan "to manage the estate. In 1729 the burgh council sold the house and remaining lands to Robert Lang. Although all the lands were sold by 1767, the council appointment of a Bailie of Provan continued.[15]

Textiles and Elizabeth Durham, Lady Provan

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The will of Elizabeth Durham, Lady Provan (or Lady Provand), who died at Provan Hall on 11 December 1585 gives some details of the farmstock at Provan and her textile craftwork. She was probably a relation of the courtierSandy DurhamofDuntarvieand the main branch of her family lived at the Grange ofMonifieth.Elizabeth Durham's will includes money owed for buying linen and harding (a coarser linen fabric) from two men from Provan, William Watson and John MacNair. They were workers on the estate and administrators known as the Officers of Provan. It is likely that the linen cloth was made from local flax spun by women on the Provan estate and woven in Glasgow by professional weavers.[16]

Elizabeth Durham had an account with an Edinburgh textile merchant Mungo Russell (died 1593), who sold a wide variety of textiles and thread, mostly imported from Flanders. Russell had sold cloth toMary, Queen of Scots.[17]Elizabeth Durham owed £11Scotsto another merchant in Edinburgh for "ribbons, silk and small gear" for her own textile work. She also had an account with a merchant in Stirling, John Willesone (died 1593), owing him £11. Willesone sold velvets and silk fabrics for women's clothes, and also pepper and ginger, oak galls and alum for dying, soap, sugar, and confections in boxes. Elizabeth had borrowed money by pledging her gold chains. One lender was Jonet Gilbert, a daughter of the goldsmithMichael Gilbertand wife of theProvostNicol Uddert.Elizabeth Durham left 13 shillings to the old nurse, Isobel Adamson, who had looked after her children. In her last illness, Elizabeth Durham was looked after by Marion Bartilmo, a servant who had worked for the family for at least 13 years, but had not yet received her wages and hiring bounty payment.[18]

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Provan Hall
  • Gardens of the Provan Hall
    Gardens of the Provan Hall.
  • Provan Hall.
    The north range of Provan Hall
  • SProvan Hall
    Provan Hall

See also

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  • Provand's Lordship,built in 1471, also in Glasgow.
  • Provanhall,a small nearby residential district of East Glasgow that takes its name from Provan Hall.

References

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  1. ^Scottish Castles Photo Library - Provan Hall, Glasgow
  2. ^Provan Hall Heritage TrailfromGlasgow City Councilofficial site
  3. ^Provanhall Heritage Group website
  4. ^Historic Environment Scotland."Auchinlea Road, Provan Hall Road, Provan Hall (Category A Listed Building) (LB33863)".Retrieved20 March2019.
  5. ^Auchinlea ParkfromGlasgow City Councilofficial site
  6. ^Descendants of John HamiltonArchived15 March 2012 at theWayback Machine
  7. ^James Balfour Paul,Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, 1559-1566,vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1916), p. 308: John Maitland Thomson,Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1580-1593,vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1888), pp. 75-6 no. 232
  8. ^Gordon Donaldson,Accounts of the Collectors of Thirds of Benefices, 1561-1572(Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1949), p. 268.
  9. ^John Maitland Thomson,Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1580-1593,vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1888), pp. 756-7 no. 2209
  10. ^John Oswald Mitchell,'Blochairn and the Tenandrie of Provan',Publications of the Regality Club,1st series (Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1889), pp. 14-20
  11. ^John Maitland Thomson,Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1593-1608,vol. 6 (Edinburgh, 1890), pp. 323-4 no. 973
  12. ^Jamie Reid Baxter,'The Apocalyptic Muse of Francis Hamilton of Silvertonhill (c.1585-1645)',Journal of the Northern Renaissance,4, 2012
  13. ^Edmund Lodge,Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage(London, 1859), pp. 703-4.
  14. ^J. Jeffrey Waddell, 'Provan Hall',Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society,vol. 11 (1947), p. 93.
  15. ^John Oswald Mitchell, 'Blochairn and the Tenandrie of Provan',Publications of the Regality Club,1st series (Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1889), pp. 20-25.
  16. ^National Records of Scotland,Will of Elizabeth Durham, Lady Provan, NRS CC8/8/18 pp. 476-9: Robert D. McEwan,Old Glasgow Weavers(Glasgow 1908), pp. 25, 28, 48, 50.
  17. ^James Balfour Paul,Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland,vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1916), p. 511.
  18. ^National Records of Scotland,Will of Elizabeth Durham, Lady Provan, NRS CC8/8/18 pp. 476-9: Will of John Willesone, NRS CC8/8/24 pp. 611–615.
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