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30 THE iir)T)SE OF DUNUOD.
being regularly carried on by bis agents. lint tlie
opportunity for securing municipal freedom was too
good to be missed. So tbe provost and magistrates,
baving made formal searcb for tbe arcbbisbojj at tbe
episcopal palace and at tbe catbedral, and baving failed
to find bim, proceeded to cboose tbe ])ailies tbemselves.
By witnessing tbe notarial instrument setting forth
tbe transaction, tbe provost and bis two brothers
assumed a large sbare of tbe responsibility.* Altbough
tbe privilege usurped in tbis way was afterwards lost
for a time, tbe precedent was not without value in the
later settlement of municipal government.
Immediately to tbe north of tbe old College of
Glasgow there stood in the sixteenth century an ancient
mansion belonging to the College, and known as Arthur-
lees Place. Tbis Provost Lindsay acquired in feu from
the Principal and Regents ; and he may have used it
as his town house in the last year of his provostship,
1562, but two years later he resigned it again to the
superiors in redemption of a mortgage over bis lands of
West Pogerton. f
In 1570 Robert Lindsay of Dunrod was present at
the meeting of tbe Protestant leaders at which Matthew,
Earl of Lennox, was chosen Regent in room of tbe Earl
of Moray, assasinated by Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh. |
The election was tbe signal for tbe outbreak of civil
war. There is no mention of Dunrod's doings in tbe
sanguinary struggle tliat ensued, but it is impossible
that a man of his public spirit could have remained
* Charters and Documents relating to Glasgow, Pt. II., pp. 128, 129.
t Glasgoio Protocols, Vol. III., No. 683 ;
Mun. Uniuer. Glas., Vol. I. p. 70.
I Calendar of Scottish Papas, Vol. III., p. 2G6.
Vol. V., No. 1500.