Series 6 > McCulloch examinations of the Cambuslang revival (1742) > Volume 6

INTRODUCTION
The Reverend William McCulloch’s Examinations of Persons under Spiritual
Concern (1742) and its background are described in detail in the Introduction
to Volume I.
In Volume II, the documents include:
1. the collective Examinations of Persons under Spiritual Concern (324 leaves
including the acquired title page, recto and verso);
2. a misplaced index of 48 respondents in Volume I (one leaf, recto);
3. an ‘index to the corrected copy’ (one leaf, recto and verso); and
4. an index of 88 ‘ministers and others’ (1 leaf, recto).
Besides the five duplicate accounts shared with Volume I, one narrative in
this volume (A. B. Janet Berry) contains duplicate fragments of text within
the same account (which is indicated with notes in square brackets within
the body of the text). This volume also contains a misplaced extraneous
page of text that, according to McCulloch, ‘belongs to another composure’;
however, because the textual fragment relates directly to the revival activities
at Cambuslang, it has been retained in its original location in the manuscripts
(see p. 11:42). Of the original narrative accounts and three indices in Volume
II, only two are not handwritten by McCulloch, but were submitted by Mary
Scot (II: 107—9) and an anonymous individual (II :286-97), presumably in their
own handwriting. Volume II was not circulated to the clerical redactors,
and thus contains only McCulloch’s editorial markings and no extraneous
marginal annotations. While most of the accounts in this volume have only
one set of pagination located at the top center of each page, five accounts
contain two sets of pagination.