_In Fcap. 8vo, Half Morocco, price 12s. 6d._
REPRINTED IN FACSIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1581
=With an Introductory Memoir of the Author=
THE HISTORY OF LIDDESDALE ESKDALE, EWESDALE, WAUCHOPEDALE AND THE DEBATEABLE LAND
=Part I. from the Twelfth Century to 1530=
The Edition will be limited to 275 Copies, demy quarto, and 105 Copies on large paper (10 inches by 13).
With an Appendix of 70 documents, arranged in chronological order down to 1566. The selection has been made from private Charter-chests, MS. collections in London and Edinburgh, and rare printed works, and comprises Charters, Rent-Rolls, Excerpts from the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer, Bonds of Manrent, Bonds for the Re-entry of Prisoners, Lists of Scottish Borderers under English Assurance, Injuries inflicted by the English and by Scottish Borderers under English Assurance from September 1543 to June 1544, Interesting Letters and a Military Report on the west march of Scotland and Liddesdale by an English Official, etc. etc.
The Volume will be illustrated by Maps, Etchings, Lithographs, and Woodcuts, all of which, with the exception of Blaeu’s Maps of Liddesdale and Eskdale, and the Etchings of James IV., James V., and the Earl of Angus, by C. Lawrie, will either be from the author’s drawings or wholly executed by himself.
The Lithographs in colour will include facsimiles of four interesting representations of Scottish Border Castles and Towns drawn between the years 1563 and 1566, Plates of Arms of the Lords of Liddesdale, of the Clans of the District, of Lindsay of Wauchope, also of the Seals of John Armstrong and William Elliot, etc. etc.
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The very few errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here.
The references are to the page and line in the original.
59.29 Thus we are told that[ a] great store of goods Inserted. 140.32 is found in these British Islands along.[”] Added.
Corrections to footnotes are denoted by page, resequenced note number, and line.
98.51.22 _Memoires de la [Societe/Société] Royale des Corrected. Antiquaires du Nord:_