Renfrew is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony and regality in the counties of Edinburgh, Haddington, Linlithgow and Renfrew. The earliest record identified so far is dated 1469.
The historical record
References identified
Register of the Great Seal
RMS vi, no.174, p.60 (4 October 1594); register entry not independently inspected.
Retours and Lyon records
Retours (Renfrew; Edinburgh; Haddington), e.g. Renfrew 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; Edinburgh 4, 152, 164, 167, 227, 353, 864, 870, 871, 1019; Haddington 70, 95, 126, 167, 178, 224, 282, 337, 380 — barony entries in the published vol. III index (1816); .
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