Table of Contents

Two surveys of vernacular buildings and tree usage in the lordship of Strathavon, Banffshire, 1585x1612 - Alasdair Ross
Henry Forrester, The paithe way to salvatione, 1615 - John McCallum
Diary of the Convention of Estates, 1630 -
Sir David Home, Lord Crossrig, 'A Narrative of the Rise,Progress and Success of the Societies of Edinburgh for Reformation of Manners', 1701 - Nathan Gray
The Most Memorable Passages of the Life and Times of Mr J. B. written by Himself, 1706 - Jeffrey Stephen
John Erskine's Letterbook, 1742-45 - Jonathan Yeager

About the Author

Alasdair Ross graduated from the University of Aberdeen with an MA in History and Celtic in 1999 and a PhD in 2003.He is currently a lecturer in history at the University of Stirling. He was co-editor of The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland, c.1200-1500 (2003) and is Editor of the magazine History Scotland. John McCallum was born in Glasgow in 1917, and was brought up there and in Oban. He left school aged 14 to work as a Boy Messenger in the Post Office. Aged 18, he transferred to its Engineering Department as a trainee and spent two years on external telephone work, later being transferred to indoor work on switchboards. He joined the Supplementary Reserves in the Royal Signal Corps in 1935, where his step-brother Jimmy O'Neill was already enlisted.The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen (George Robertson) was elected to the House of Commons in 1978. He was appointed Defence Secretary in 1997 and was Secretary General of NATO from 1999 to 2003. Alasdair Ross graduated from the University of Aberdeen with an MA in History and Celtic in 1999 and a PhD in 2003.He is currently a lecturer in history at the University of Stirling. He was co-editor of The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland, c.1200-1500 (2003) and is Editor of the magazine History Scotland. John McCallum was born in Glasgow in 1917, and was brought up there and in Oban. He left school aged 14 to work as a Boy Messenger in the Post Office. Aged 18, he transferred to its Engineering Department as a trainee and spent two years on external telephone work, later being transferred to indoor work on switchboards. He joined the Supplementary Reserves in the Royal Signal Corps in 1935, where his step-brother Jimmy O'Neill was already enlisted.The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen (George Robertson) was elected to the House of Commons in 1978. He was appointed Defence Secretary in 1997 and was Secretary General of NATO from 1999 to 2003.

Reviews

Miscellanies published by the Scottish History Society are delightful collections that are fun to read, bringing together as they do critical editions of important and previously unpublished manuscripts relevant to Scottish history.
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