Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memorials of Angus and the Mearns: Being an Account, Historical, Antiquarian, and Traditionary, of the Castles and Towns Visited by Edward I., And the Barons, Clergy, and Others, Who Swore Fealty to England in 1291-6
The volume was at first intended merely to embrace compa ratively short accounts of persons and places, and a history of the period of the Interregnum; but, on second thoughts, the Author, considering that so much had already been written regarding the Wars of the Independence, behaved that the work would be of much more value and interest were it exclusively devoted to a collection of particulars regarding personal and territorial his tory, rather than that any part of it should be a repetition of facts which could neither be improved upon, not added to with safety. This change of plan, it need scarcely be said, incurred a vast amount of labour and research beyond what was at first contemplated - so much ao, that with other unavoidable causes of delay, it has not only been the means of retarding the publi cation of the volume, but has nearly doubled its size.
To shew how far these remarks are applicable, it need only]: stated, that instead of a few pages being allotted to the history each of the towns and castles, as was at first proposed, this p tion of the work alone extends to about 230 pages, embraf an account of all that is most interesting, trust worthy, and regarding each place (in most cases to the exclusion of generally known), extending from the most remote dowr latest times.
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