PERTH: ITS ANNALS AND ITS ARCHIVES. BY DAVID PEACOCK, MASTER OF KING JAMES THE SIXTH'S HOSPITAL, PERTH. PERTH: THOMAS RICHARDSON, 1, GEORGE STREET. MDCCCXLIX. GL REPL In compliance with current copyright law, LBS Archival Products produced this replacement volume on paper that meets the ANSI Standard Z39.48-1984 to replace the irreparably deteriorated original. 1993 TM 67BR 11-15 8 PREFA CЕ. IN presenting this volume to the notice of a discriminating public, the compiler trusts it will be remembered that his preliminary announcement of the work held out no pretensions to original authorship; his sole object and aim being to supply a compilation which had become a desideratum;—and what he promised was to be in some measure merely a "reprint," and a selection of documentary matter from archives which to him were peculiarly accessible. Now that he has finished his self-imposed task, he claims no farther merit in the production. He anticipated, and carried on his work with his eyes open to, the probability of one objection: It is no mistake, however, for it was intentional; he may have erred in judgment, but, like Goldsmith's pedagogue, he is "of the same opinion still," and regrets it not. The point is this: In the outset of his labours, the fact was distinctly noticed, that the annals of Perth are very closely identified with the annals of our nation: Now, what would be the substantial use of chronicling incidents peculiar to Perth without shewing them in connection with the great leading events of Scottish history? The comparative want of this he ventured to consider a defect in the otherwise valuable labours of those who had gone over the same ground before him; and took the advantage of this to profit thereby, as he hopes, for the benefit of his readers. |