Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Selections From the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the Administration of the Laws in the County, and Manners and Condition of the Inhabitants, in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
From the absence of sufficient accommodation, however, or through want of due appreciation of their value, these older Records, as well as the Records of the Sheriff Courts since accumulated, have, in many Counties, been improperly and carelessly buried in holes and corners, from which their resurrection for preservation and publication, so far as historically important, has become a matter of public interest well worthy the attention of the Government.
So lately as 1873, the Judicial Records of the County of Renfrew were found to be in great part huddled together in a confused heap on the clamp stone ?oor of the Record Room at Paisley, where, without arrangement or inventories.
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