Br 250.1.2 Mino jund. IMPRESSION LIMITED TO TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES. EDINBURGH PRINTED BY J. & W. PATERSON, 489, Lawnmarket. PREFACE. THIS volume has been drawn to a close sooner than its projector contemplated. He finds that the patronage it has elicited-though flattering in a literary point of view-is by no means sufficient, pecuniarily, to warrant him in continuing it. He, however, feels the less regret in abandoning a favourite pursuit, that there is some prospect of the field being occupied by a periodical emanating from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. That such a vehicle is a desideratum among those who feel an interest in the history and literature of the past there can be no doubt; and though the present attempt to supply it has not been successful, it is to be hoped that it will speedily be succeeded by one combining a degree of influence and talent fully calculated to gain the requisite support. The Editor cannot part from his labours without warmly returning thanks to those correspondents who so promptly came forward at the outset to aid him in his undertaking, and who have so zealously continued their gratuitous labours to the last. Edinburgh, 30th Nov., 1848. Buttery College at Slains, The Institution and Progress of the, Canoes, Ancient, found at Glasgow, Charles the First, Letters from, Court of Review, Labours of the, Couttie and Bendochy, Baronies of, Covent Garden Garland, The, 1832, Cromwellian Period, Papers Illustrative of the, Cross at Kilmory, Description of an ancient, in Argyleshire, Don, The,-A Poem, Dundonald and Auchans, ... Dundonald and Crossby, The Parish Church and Churchyards of, Dunse, The Vallowed Rent of the Parish of,-1643, ... Ecclesiastical Annals, Jottings of the, of Aberdeenshire, ... |