It is 602 year fae the auldest kent document that wis baith wrutten in Scots an datit at Glesca. In 1422 George Cambeel, or Campbell, laird o Waster Gallystoun, wadset his lands o Gallisholme, in Ayrshire, tae Weelum Stirlin laird o Cadder. A wad is anither word for a pledge, sae for a body tae wadset til anither is tae pledge lands, or ither richts, in return for a lend o siller, on the unnerstaunin that the lands or richts wadset will be redeemed aince the siller haes been peyed back. In this case, George Campbell haed a lend o 20 merks Scots fae Weelum Stirlin an hechtit that he wad pey “in the hee kyrke o Glasgu, a pon the hee alter” an gree’d tae pey intress shuid the siller no be peyed back in time. Campbell pit his seal tae the wadset “at the cete o Glasgu” on 3 August 1422 for in thae days maist fowk cuidna write but raither pit thair seals in wax til a paper for tae shaw thay haed consentit. It is throu documents o this ilk that we can read an see the Scots leid as it wis, an is, in Glesca, doun tae this day.

Photie: Dr Dauvit Horsbroch

The'r a soond file o this story in Scots abuin.