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Excerpt from Old Ross-Shire and Scotland as Seen in the Tain and Balnagown Documents
They were filled with l6th, 17th, and 18th century documents, but disturbed and in confusion. Grateful acknowledgment 18 due to Sir Charles for at once granting full facility of examination. They prove quite equal in interest to the Tain documents, and the two collections are largely supplementary and helpful to each other. Throughout this work documents found at Balnagown are distinguished by B before the number. The whole proved to be of such variety and range of subjects illustrated as to suggest the arranging of them under the heads of subjects illustrated. It is hoped this may make the work more interesting to the majority of readers. Latin texts, Lists, Rolls, etc., are placed in an Appendix. For the sake of condensation, all legal verbiage, repetitions, and well known formulae are omitted, and everything else of no apparent importance. Omission of a few words is indi cated by of a line or two by and of more by For further condensation, figures are sometimes used instead of the lengthy spelt-out numbers, and initials for names when repeated in the same paper. Also in charters, N. S. E., and W. For the directions.
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