Abbotsford Club > Historical memoirs of the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a portion of the reign of King James the Sixth

xl PREFATORY NOTICE.
Scotland and Ireland.* And on 23d October of the same year,
the Report of the Ecclesiastical Committee gave in their account
of the English, Scotish, and Irish Religious Establishments, in
France. They then amounted to Txienty-ciglit in number, in-
cluding Monasteries, Convents, and Colleges; and the sum total
of their revenues extended to Three hundred and t-dsenty-nine
thousand livres, of which more than one-third was expended in
charges of various kinds, and out of it were maintained about
Fifteen hundred individuals, including Professors, Students, and
Religious. The Assembly passed a decree for their being con-
tinued in their existing situation, under certain modifications.
At the same sitting, the claim of the Irish College of St Omer
for a pension of Six thousand livres was referred to the Com-
mittee of Finances.!
The Editor is in possession of various important Papers re-
lative to the Families of Nithsdale, Maxwell, and Herkies,
which he had at one time intended to have presented in the
shape of an Appendix to this volume. He readily abandoned
that plan, as soon as it was suggested to him that it would be
more acceptable to the INIcmbers were he to communicate them
to the Editor of the forthcoming Miscellany or the Abbots-
ford Club, a collection which promises to be equally honour-
able to our Association, as assuredly it will be valuable and
important as a series of rare Documents and Papers from ori-
ginal sources, illustrative of the History and Antiquities of
Scotland.
ROBERT PITCAIRN.
Eoi.NBunoH, 50, Castle Street,
December 2U, 183C.
• Scots Mag. lii. June 1790.] f lb. Oct. 1790.