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Excerpt from Calendar of the Laing Charters, A. D. 854-1837, Belonging to the University of Edinburgh The contents of this volume represent a part of the large collection of manuscripts bequeathed to the University of Edinburgh by the late David Laing, LL.D., who died in October 1878. As is well known, he also left a marvellous collection of rare books. These were sold at Sotheby's sale rooms in 1879, and realised a large sum. But his mss., including the charters noted in this work, were presented by him to the University of Edinburgh, with this condition as regards the charters, that they should be catalogued so as to be accessible to any who wished to consult them. This work was intrusted to the present Editor but, under examination, the interest of the subject increased so greatly that from a simple catalogue the present comparatively full calendar has emerged. When in 1896 the University authorities resolved to print and publish the Calendar, the whole was again revised and largely added to, and it is hoped that it will now form a useful help to the further elucidation of Scottish history and genealogy, as it has already proved of much assistance to inquirers into those subjects. 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.