desire, undertook to supply fresh notes and introduction, has 

 had the good fortune to make some documentary discoveries 

 in connection with it, which will add greatly to its interest 

 and value. This volume is already in type, and will be issued 

 as a gift from Mr. Scott to the members for the year 1902-3. 



There have been five deaths in all during the year and 

 three resignations, and when the vacancies have been filled up 

 there will remain fifty- nine candidates for admission. The 

 number of public libraries on our list is now seventy-seven. 



A part of the issue of the present year, the Cliartulary of 

 Lindores, edited by Bishop Dowden, a work of which the 

 Society may well be proud, is already in your hands. 



Another volume belonging to this year's issue is a second 

 volume of Miscellanies. This volume, of about five hundred 

 pages, is in type, and will be shortly ready. In addition to the 

 pieces already mentioned in previous reports, the Miscellany 

 will contain some documents contributed by Dr. C. H. Firth, 

 viz. : Two narratives of Hamilton's expedition into England in 

 1748 — the Relation of Mr. Thomas Reade and the Relation 

 of Sir Philip Musgrave. A metrical Narrative of a Tour from 

 Edinburgh to Glasgow in October 1641 by P. J. This 

 P. J. has not been identified, but he was apparently one of 

 the friends or attendants of Lord Willoughby. The historic 

 value of the poem is but slight, though it contains some 

 details of interest in the description of Linlithgow Palace, 

 but, as Dr. Firth observes, it forms a supplement of the 

 Descriptions of Scotland by English travellers, collected and 

 republished by Professor Hume Brown. Dr. James Colville 

 contributes some quaint and instructive letters by Cockburn 

 of Ormiston to his gardener, 1727-43. The Reverend Robert 

 Paul edits ' Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, 

 Physician to Peter the Great, 1720.' Mr. R. S. Rait publishes 

 from a manuscript in possession of one of our members, Mr. 

 W. Moir Bryce, a muster roll of the French garrison occupy- 

 ing Dunbar in the days of Mary of Lorraine (1553), and Mr. 



