I. LETTERS FROM SIMON LORD LOVAT TO HIS KINSMAN

IN ABERDEENSHIRE. M.DCC.XL-XLV.

II. THE CHRONICLE OF ABERDEEN. M.CCCC.XCI-M.D.XCV.

III. ACT FOR DELYVERIE OF DEAD BODIES TO THE COL-

LEDGE OF ABERDENE. M.DC.XXXVI.

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29

71

IV. DECREET OF SPUILZIE OF THE HOUSE OF PETTY.

M.D.XVII.

75

V. MANDATE FOR THE EXTIRPATION OF THE CLAN

CHATTAN. M.D.XXVIII.

81

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IX. EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OF THE COURT OF RE-

XIII. PAPERS BY FATHER INNES,...

XIV. THE ORDER OF COMBATS FOR LIFE IN SCOTLAND,

XV. MEMOIR OF JOHN SECOND EARL OF PERTH,...

XVI. BULLA URBANI IV. PRIORI ET FRATRIBUS MONASTERII

VALLIS S. ANDREE DE PLUSKARDYN CONCESSA.

351

381

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391

M.CC.LXIII.

INDEX TO THE NAMES OF PERSONS AND PLACES,

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THE EDITOR'S PREFACE.

THE duty, which the Committee of the Council committed to their Secretary, of preparing a second volume of Miscellanies, has been rendered at once easy and agreeable, by the zeal and alacrity with which his enquiries after materials were everywhere responded to. So many documents, indeed, came into his hands through the ready and liberal access which he obtained to the charter chests of ancient and noble families, that the task of selection became, in many instances, one of considerable difficulty. Where his own judgment often hesitated whether to adopt or to reject, he can hardly hope that others will always approve of the choice which he has made; but he would fain trust that he will be found to have proceeded, on the whole, in accordance with the main object of the Club,-the illustration of the history, the literature, and the antiquities of our north-eastern shires. If, in one or two instances, he has been tempted to stray beyond the field more peculiarly marked out for the labours of the Society, he would hope that the interesting or kindred nature of the subjects to which he may thus have wandered, will be accepted as a sufficient apology.

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