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Download or read book Report on the Laing Manuscripts Vol 1 written by Historical Manuscripts Commission and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Laing Manuscripts, Vol. 1: Preserved in the University of Edinburgh, Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty How Dr. Laing came to amass such a collection is an interesting story in itself. He not only constantly attended sales of manuscript books and documents and purchased freely, but, being on very friendly terms with a waste-paper merchant in Edinburgh, Mr. Gilbert Adcock, whose premises were in South St. Andrew Street, he often visited these when intimation was made to him of a consignment of waste-paper in which it was expected that there might be material interesting to him. Of such opportunities he gladly availed himself, and donning garments suitable to the work, he set himself to a joyous rummage among the stuff which had come to the warehouse as the sweepings of some lawyer's office, and his discriminating eye soon separated the wheat from the chaff. That many original documents fraught with valuable information were there, consigned by their custodians to perdition, is a fact beyond dispute, and but for Dr. Laing's industry and enthusiastic zeal for the preservation of such memorials of the past it is not likely that the greater part of what is here reported on would have now existed. The mere fact of Dr. Laing's having been thus the rescuer of so many valuable documents from destruction is of itself an alarming indication of what not only has been, but it is to be feared is yet going on with regard to the same kind of documents. Now, as then, the title deeds of properties tend to accumulate and are entrusted by their owners to the care of the family lawyer. Through the course of many years and sometimes centuries these collections grow in the offices of the agents, and by and bye, owing sometimes to the changes which take place in the personnel of the legal firms, and sometimes to the altered circumstances of the families to which the deeds belonged, the ownership of the documents becomes a matter of uncertainty. The properties with which the deeds are concerned are disponed to people who frequently have no connexion with and no historical interest in the old possessors, and who, requiring legally only a prescriptive title, do not wish to have the old charters and other writs connected with the property. In such a case the agents with whom these writs have been deposited find in course of time that such boxes of title deeds have become practically so much lumber on their hands for which they have neither use nor accommodation, and of which they naturally wish to disencumber their chambers. The way of doing so which seems to have obtained in Dr. Laing's time was to send them to the mill for destruction and perhaps re-formation into useful writing material. Thus practically tons of old muniments have been disposed of. That so much valuable information about old times and people and places has been irrecoverably lost, is a lamentable circumstance. 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.
Download or read book Report on the Laing Manuscripts Vol 1 written by Historical Manuscripts Commission and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Laing Manuscripts, Vol. 1: Preserved in the University of Edinburgh, Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty The Laing Manuscripts here dealt with are part of a collection formed by the late David Laing, LL.D., who for many years was Keeper of the Library of the Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh, and was one of the most distinguished and assiduous antiquaries of his day. He was the second son of William Laing, a bookseller in Edinburgh, and was born on 20 April, 1793. At first he followed his father's calling and often went abroad in search of rare and curious books, for the discovery of which he developed great skill. He associated himself with the publishing societies known as the Abbotsford, Bannatyne and Spalding Clubs, and also with the Wodrow Society, all of which were instituted for the publication of manuscripts or the resuscitation of old texts, and his own contributions to these and other publi cations were numerous and for very many years he acted as Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He became librarian to the Society of Writers to the Signet in 1837, and held that position until his death in 1878. During his whole life he was an indefatigable collector of' manuscripts, the bulk of which he bequeathed to the University Library of Edinburgh. When these manuscripts came to be sorted out, for they were in a state of great confusion, they were found to consist of manuscript books and printed books with manuscript additions, dealing with all varieties of subjects, ahd also of an immense mass of documents, parchment charters, paper deeds and correspondence. A kind of general arrangement of the whole was made by the late Rev. J ohn Anderson, afterwards Curator of the Historical Department in the General Register House, Edinburgh. He separated the parchment charters from the others and made abstracts of each, which were published in a large volume entitled The Laing Charters. Oi the other books and documents, he made a brief catalogue containing a list of the manuscript books to the number of 780 and another list of the historical documents, letters and miscellaneous papers, in two divisions, the first extending to 350 numbers and the second to 654, but in the second division most of the numbers relate to bundles of deeds and not merely to separate documents. In the present report the writer was limited by his instructions to treat only of the historical documents 1n these collections, and therefore it Will be under stood that this is not an exhaustive calendar of the whole of their contents, although it is believed it will give a fair idea of the nature of the collection. 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.
