Provan Hall

Provan Hall is located in the twenty-acre (eight-hectare) Auchinlea Park adjacent to the Glasgow Fort retail centre.

After the Scottish Reformation, Provan Hall became a residence of the lawyer and President of Session, William Baillie (died 1593) and his wife Elizabeth Durham.

He was known as poet and published verses in praise of the late James VI and I in 1626, dedicated to the Marquess of Hamilton and the Chancellor of Scotland, George Hay of Kinnoull.

[13] Above the arched entrance to the courtyard, a carved stone includes the initials "R.H" for Robert Hamilton, and the date 1647.

It is likely that the linen cloth was made from local flax spun by women on the Provan estate and woven in Glasgow by professional weavers.

[18] Elizabeth Durham owed £11 Scots to another merchant in Edinburgh for "ribbons, silk and small gear" for her own textile work.

Willesone sold velvets and silk fabrics for women's clothes, and also pepper and ginger, oak galls and alum for dying, soap, sugar, and confections in boxes.

In her last illness, Elizabeth Durham was looked after by Marion Bartilmo, a servant who had worked for the family for at least 13 years, but had not yet received her wages and hiring bounty payment.