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PREFATORY NOTICE.
The following historical Memoir lias been selected by the
Editor as the subject of his contribution to The Abbotsford
Club — as well from the consideration of the interesting, but
still obscure, period of Scottish history to which it refers, and
which it materially tends to illustrate in many minute parti-
culars — as from the fact that the transcript, or rather abridg-
ment, of the original j\IS. by Lord Herries, now belonging to
the Faculty of Advocates, is nearly all that is known to have
been preserved of the valuable historical Collections made by
the members of the Scots College of Douay, which, unfortu-
nately, appear to have been totally destroyed during the French
Revolution.
Nothing farther can be traced regarding the transcript from
which this volume has been printed, than that it was purchased
at a sale in jNIartin's Rooms, Edinburgh, in June 1796; and that
it was presented by Charles Kirkpatiick Sharpe, Esquire, to the
late Archibald Constable, Esquire, in the year 1817. The
Editor has been informed that Mr Constable had at one period
contemplated the publication of this work, with suitable historical
illustrations, &c. under the superintendence and editorship of
Sir Walter Scott; but their various other and more important
mutual engagements prevented the accomplishment of that
design. The ]MS. was subsequently acquired by the Faculty of
Advocates at the sale of jNIr David Constable's \aluable Library,
in November 1828.
From internal evidence, and especially from the style and
manner of tlie person by whom the original jNlS. has been
The following historical Memoir lias been selected by the
Editor as the subject of his contribution to The Abbotsford
Club — as well from the consideration of the interesting, but
still obscure, period of Scottish history to which it refers, and
which it materially tends to illustrate in many minute parti-
culars — as from the fact that the transcript, or rather abridg-
ment, of the original j\IS. by Lord Herries, now belonging to
the Faculty of Advocates, is nearly all that is known to have
been preserved of the valuable historical Collections made by
the members of the Scots College of Douay, which, unfortu-
nately, appear to have been totally destroyed during the French
Revolution.
Nothing farther can be traced regarding the transcript from
which this volume has been printed, than that it was purchased
at a sale in jNIartin's Rooms, Edinburgh, in June 1796; and that
it was presented by Charles Kirkpatiick Sharpe, Esquire, to the
late Archibald Constable, Esquire, in the year 1817. The
Editor has been informed that Mr Constable had at one period
contemplated the publication of this work, with suitable historical
illustrations, &c. under the superintendence and editorship of
Sir Walter Scott; but their various other and more important
mutual engagements prevented the accomplishment of that
design. The ]MS. was subsequently acquired by the Faculty of
Advocates at the sale of jNIr David Constable's \aluable Library,
in November 1828.
From internal evidence, and especially from the style and
manner of tlie person by whom the original jNlS. has been
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