A few mistakes having been made by the transcriber of the MS., from unacquaintance with Lord Fountainhall's handwriting, the following corrections are requisite: Most of these, however, are very unimportant.

26, 1. 22, read Isabel Alison, a Perth woman, the other Marion Harvy.
46, 1. 3, insert a comma after Advocat.

73, 1. 10, for marked G. r. marked E.-1. 11, for 2,) r. 266.)

255, l. 1, The following marginal note was accidentally omitted.

As particularlie anent some cruelties done by the Dutch at Amboyna, in March 1623, upon many English, most barbarously torturing them to death, under pretence of their accession to a forged conspiracy of the Japonees, for taking in their fort of Amboina, and for which Oliver caused them pay him a considerable soume. Sie the Dutch treacheries and cruelties in S. G. De.. taon beside me.

255, l. 10, dele heir.—1. 11, insert in blank it had bein.—l. 12, r. [Few] privat.for our King and them, r. our King and the States.

256, l. 14, for seazing, r. seasure.—1. 29, for deputes pretend, r. depute pretends.

258, l. 3, for seamen, r. samen.—1. 6, for one place, r. first place.

259, l. 14, for their's or, r. their's and.-1. 27, for tho no, r. tho 100.

260, 1. 3, for man, r. man can.-1. 14, dele the before sentence.-l. 25, for revelant, r. relevant.-1. 27, insert to before suffer.

261, l. 11, insert and after owners.

SOME HISTORICALL OBSERVES

BREIFLIE MENTIONING

SOME OF THE MEMORABLE OCCURRENTS

HAPPENING ATHER IN CHURCH OR STATE

THROW EUROPE

BUT MORE ESPECIALLY IN SCOTLAND

AND ENGLAND.

BEING A CONTINUATION OF REMARKS OF THIS NATURE

IN ANOTHER 8vo. BOOK.

[M.DC.LXXX.-M.DC.LXXXVI.]

HISTORIA EST LUX VERITATIS, MAGISTRA VITAE, &c.

IN ane thick 8vo. Manufcript, opening by the length, marked with the P. 1. letter F, I have fett doune fome Mifcellanie Hiftoricall Collections of the affairs of the Ile of Brittain, but particularly of Scotland, digefted into Annals, (in imitation of Tacitus,) by order of tyme as they occurred; beginning at 1660, and ending in O&tober 1680; but with many omiffions, it being oft intermitted and neglected by me. Yet the pleasure ther is from fuch obfervations hath fo far prevailed with me, that feeing the forfaid Manufcript is now filled, I have refolved to continue them heer, modo propitium fit numen.

The last observe I made in that other litle Manufcript, at page 222 of it, (which falls to be about the midle of the said book,) is anent the invectives and pafquills flew abroad in England, on the approach of the fitting of the English Parliament on the 21ft of October 1680; and the Popish project of furnishing our King with French gold, he indirectly fuffering Tangier to fall unto the French King's hands. What I fhall begin this book with, is the Duke of Albany and York's voyage for Scotland. Quod felix fauftumque fit.

[POSTSCRIPT.] What materialls I have gathered in this and my other books, are only for memoires, fcedules and heads, from which a more exact Annal or Hiftorie may be compiled, (if God give tyme ;) ther being many errors and mistakes heir infert, on trust and from report, which on review will be purged and cut of; and many things will be added or inlarged from thir abbreviats. This is to prevent my oune lafines, and to mind me this Collection is far from being compleit or perfite; being fet doune onlie for the prima cura, as any thing occurred or came to my notice, without full examination; which I left to the 2d review.