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Francis Steuart prints the Will of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess 

 of Albany, 1789. 



There are passing through the press three other volumes 

 which will be ready for issue in the course of next year, 

 1903-4. Sheriff Scott MoncriefF is making good progress 

 with his edition of Mr. Weston's manuscript, the Proceed- 

 ings of the Justiciary Court, 1661-73, and this will make a 

 volume of over five hundred pages. 



Mr. William Mackay has the greater part of the Fraser 

 book, better known as The Wardlaw Manuscript, in type. 



Early in the year also will appear, under the editorship 

 of Mr. Robert Scott, lecturer on Political Economy in the 

 University of St. Andrews, The Minutes of a Scottish Cloth 

 Manufacturing Company at New Mills, 1681-1690, from the 

 Laing Manuscripts in the Edinburgh University Library. It 

 is a unique document, inasmuch as it is the only example 

 of the proceedings of a manufacturing company of the 

 seventeenth century that is known. Mr. Scott writes that,. 

 ' Owing to the movement for founding manufactures in 

 Scotland just before the Union, the MS. throws much light 

 on the commercial policy of the time by means of grants of 

 certain privileges to trading corporations, and it also shows 

 some of the indirect means by which such concessions were 

 obtained.' 



These publications will be followed by the Ochtertyre House- 

 hold Book, kindly placed at the disposal of the Society by the 

 owner of the manuscript. Sir Patrick Keith Murray. Dr. 

 Colville, who has made it and kindred account-books the subject 

 of special study, will edit it. He remarks that, under the title 

 The House Books of Accompts, beginning Jan. 1, 1737, we 

 have an account day by day of the economy of a baronial 

 house just before the profound changes effected by the '45 

 and the abolition of heritable jurisdiction (1748). The scene 

 is laid partly in Ochtertyre in Strathearn, but mainly in Fowlis- 

 Easter, a few miles to the north-west of Dundee. The 



