Excerpt from The Spottiswoode Miscellany, Vol. 1: A Collection of Original Papers and Tracts, Illustrative Chiefly of the Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland As each Article in the present Volume has prefixed to it such remarks as occurred to the Editor, it may be only necessary here to state generally, that it has been his endeavour to make the Volume as interesting as possible. With that view, he has been at great pains to select from the mass of papers to which access had been obtained, such portions as he hoped would be acceptable to the Members of the Society. It may be observed, that the previous portion was originally in tended to have been formed into a separate volume, to be entitled the spottiswoode papers. Upon te flection, itwas determined that these documents should be included in the miscellany, as they were not sufficiently bulky to make a separate publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.