Series 4 > Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland

SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY
REPORT
of the 95th Annual Meeting
The 95th Annual Meeting of the Scottish History Society was held in the
North British Hotel, Princes Street, Edinburgh, on Saturday 12th December
1981, at 11.15 a.m. Professor Rosalind Mitchison, President of the Society,
was in the chair.
The Report of Council was as follows:
During the past year the sixteenth volume of the Fourth Series, the
Autobiography of John McAdam, with selected letters, edited by Dr Janet Fyfe,
has been issued to members, and received a favourable reception. The
volume for the current year, Stirling Presbytery Records, 1581-1587, edited
by Dr James Kirk, is now in the press and will be issued to members very
shortly. The volume for 1982 is also well advanced; it will be Government
under the Covenanters, edited by Dr David Stevenson.
At the last Annual Meeting some members asked that more information
about forthcoming volumes be included in the Annual Report. The follow¬
ing volumes have been accepted for publication by Council (in addition to
those mentioned above) and are in active preparation by their editors: The
Knights of St John, edited by Rev. P. H. R. Mackay, Dr I. B. Cowan, and
Dr Alan MacQuarrie (provisional publication date 1983). A Scottish Firm
in Virginia: William Cunningham and Co., 1769-1775, edited by Dr T. M.
Devine (provisional publication date 1984). The Jacobean Union: six Anglo-
Scottish tracts of 1604, edited by Dr Brian Levack and B. R. Galloway. The
Charters of the Lords of the Isles, 1354-1493, edited by R. W. and Dr Jean
Munro. Cupar Town Council Minutes, 1640-1655, edited by John di Folco.
Ninian Winyet at Ratisbon, 1577-89, edited by Rev. Mark Dilworth.
It was also suggested at the last Annual Meeting that Council should take
a more active part in deciding on sources for publication and finding suitable
editors, instead of relying entirely on would-be editors making proposals
for publication. After discussion the Council agreed that members should be
invited to make suggestions as to sources which they believed were of such
significance that editors should be actively sought for them. Identifying
such sources is, however, easier than finding editors willing to edit them, so