Statistical and population tables, relative to the city of Glasgow, with an abstract of the conversion of weights and measures for the counties of Edinburgh, Lanark, Renfrew, Dumbarton, Ayr, Bute, Stirling, and Perth / By James Cleland.

  • Cleland, James, 1770-1840.
Date:
1828
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Statistical and population tables, relative to the city of Glasgow, with an abstract of the conversion of weights and measures for the counties of Edinburgh, Lanark, Renfrew, Dumbarton, Ayr, Bute, Stirling, and Perth / By James Cleland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

    15/248 (page 1)
    PROGRESSIVE POPULATION OF GLASGOW. There was no enumeration of the inhabitants of Glas- gow that can be relied on, before the year IfjlO, but there are grounds for supposing that about the time of the Re- formation in 1,560, the Population mignt amount to 4500; this estimate of the number is rendered probable from the circumstance, that in 1581, during the ministry of the first Presbyterian Clergyman who officiated in Glasgow, the Confession of Faith was subscribed by ^250 individuals, although at that time there were certainly not so many persons in the City who could write, yet they might assent, and even include their children in the number: and the struggle between the professors of the Roman Catholic and Reformed Religion was then so warmly contested, that it is probable their numbers were nearly equal. In 1610, the Episcopal mode of Government having been resumed in the Church, Archbishop Spottiswood directed the Population of the City to be ascertained, when it was found to amount to 7644; although during the plague which raged in Glasgow in I6O8, the number of its inhabitants must have been greatly reduced. In 1652, the dreadful fire which began on 17th July m that year, and destroyed about one-third of the Town, caused a number of its inhabitants to leave the place M