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Excerpt from View of the Merchants House for Glasgow: Containing Historical Notices of Its Origin, Constitution, and Property, and of the Charitable Foundations Which It Administers
Shortly after his installation as Lord Dean of Guild, Mr Archibald Orr Ewing of Ballikinrain brought under the notice of the Directors of the Merchants House of Glasgow the very general wish which prevailed among the Members to obtain copies of the Constitution and Regulations of the House, and that as the Sketch written by the late Mr. James Ewing of Strathleven, and published in 1817, was almost out of print, it was desirable that it should be reprinted, with such additions as would bring down the History to the present time. The Directors, cordially approving of this suggestion, remitted to Messrs. Archibald Orr Ewing, James Lumsden, Alexander Ronaldson, James Alexander Campbell, and Michael Connal, as a Committee, to carry the same into effect.
The Committee finding, through the researches which they instituted, that much interesting matter, not embraced in Mr. James Ewing's Sketch, existed among the Archives of the House, resolved that, instead of a reprint, it was preferable that a larger and more comprehensive Volume should be published; and, accordingly, they have endeavoured, by embodying not only the substance of that Sketch, but also the further materials now rendered available, to give effect to the Lord Dean of Guild's suggestion, in the preparation of the present Work. The publication of this Volume appears the more necessary when regard is had to the extensive changes and Burgh Reforms effected during the reigns of King William IV. and of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, as well as to the great increase in the Population and Trade of Glasgow, and to the important Trusts which are now reposed in a Corporation holding the high position occupied by the Merchants House among the Municipal Institutions of the City.
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