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dale ; the burgh of Lanark being the chief town and seat of justice of the
former division, and the burgh of Eutherglen of the latter (g). At what
time this policy was established, and the term ward was applied to those
divisions, cannot easily be ascertained (h). The appellation of ward for
such divisions was not peculiar to this county. It appears in several other
counties in the south of Scotland. The three divisions of Lothian, which
now form the counties of Haddington, Edinburgh, and Linlithgow, and are
usually called East, Mid, and West Lothian, were formerly called East Ward,
the Middle Ward, and the West Ward of Edinburgh (i). The three divi-
sions of Selkirk were formerly called the ward of Tweed, the ward of
Ettrick, and the ward of Yarrow, being the three principal rivers of that
shire; and these divisions continued during the reign of James VI. and
throughout the 17th century (j). In the 14th century, Teviotdale formed two
divisions, which were called the Easter ward and Wester ward of Teviotdale (k).
By an act of parliament in 1800, for regulating the police of Glasgow, that city
was divided into wards (l).
The county of Lanark continued to form only two wards till the last
century, when it was formed into three wards, namely: the upper ward, of
which the chief town is Lanark; the middle ward, of which the seat of justice
is Hamilton; and the lower ward, of which Glasgow is the metropolis. For
each of those wards there is a sheriff-substitute appointed by the sheriff-depute
of the shire (m).
§ III. Of its Natural Objects.] The upper division of this shire, where it
bounds with Dumfries, is very mountainous, and in those mountains rises
the celebrated Clyde, the Cluyd of Wales, a country more mountainous and
(g) Those divisions wore not uniformly so, the influence of the Hamiltons obtained the town of
Hamilton to be substituted for Rutherglen as the seat of the courts for the lower ward. Acta Parl.,
v. 206. But this circumstance was afterwards altered, and Ruthei'glen was restored to its rights.
See Hamilton of Wishaw's account of Lanarkshire in 1702, MS. i. ; and Campbell's Hist, of Glasgow,
1736, p. 88.
(h) The divisions of Lanarkshire are not the only examples of wards in that shire. The extensive
barony of Glasgow was divided into four wards—Badermonach ward, Cook's ward, Govan ward, and
Partick ward. [Rental of the Archbishopric of Glasgow, 1689.]
(i) The Treasurer's accounts in 1495 and 1496.
(j) Acta Parl., 4. 564; Inquisit. Speciales, passim.
(k) Rot. Scot., i. 819.                                   (l) See Dr. Johnson's Diet, in vo. Ward.
(m) Acta Parl., iv. 171—173. v. 266, vi. 117 ; Hamilton of Wishaw's MS. Account; Campbell's
Hist, of Glasgow, 88 : and see Burn's Hist, of Westmoreland and Cumberland.