John McKenzie

One of the real treasures in the Faculty’s archives is its oldest Minute Book, which opens rather abruptly with the words “The Tuell of November, 1668”. There’s no grand introduction – just a practical list of names and contributions, collected to support “poore

Tucked away in the gallery of the coffee lounge library in the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow building lies a remarkable and often overlooked piece of the city’s legal and social history: the mortification boards. These black-painted wooden panels, with their gilt lettering and formal