Excerpt from Abstracts of Protocols of the Town Clerks of Glasgow, Vol. 2 Elucidation of the early history of Glasgow by the publication of original documents may be said to have been initiated by the Maitland Club, and perhaps none of the works issued by it has been more successful in that direction than a volume published just half-a-century ago, and edited by Dr. Joseph Robertson, then resident in the city.1 Though relating primarily to the Collegiate Church of St. Mary and the Monastery of the Friars Preachers, the ...
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Excerpt from Abstracts of Protocols of the Town Clerks of Glasgow, Vol. 2 Elucidation of the early history of Glasgow by the publication of original documents may be said to have been initiated by the Maitland Club, and perhaps none of the works issued by it has been more successful in that direction than a volume published just half-a-century ago, and edited by Dr. Joseph Robertson, then resident in the city.1 Though relating primarily to the Collegiate Church of St. Mary and the Monastery of the Friars Preachers, the book was not confined to material obtained from the registers and charters of these religious establishments, but was made to include also a selection from miscellaneous deeds illustrative of the ancient topography of the city. It was probably in consequence of the value attached to this latter part of the collection that the prosecution of similar researches in a more systematic form was suggested; and it is known that the late Marquis of Bute, then president of the Maitland Club, and donor of the book just alluded to, purposed to supplement his gift by presenting selections from the earlier protocol books of the town clerks of Glasgow. Lord Bute, however, did not live to carry out his generous intention, and the scheme for publication of the protocols has, till recently, remained in abeyance. The s'everal contributions made by the Maitland Club to the history of Glasgow have been succeeded in recent years by two volumes of selections from the records of the town council, and by a volume of charters and documents relating to the city, all published by the Scottish Burgh Records Society for its members and the corporation, while a fourth volume, con taining a historical preface by Sir James Marwick, their editor, is expected to follow immediately. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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