Edited and presented to the Bannatyne Club by James Dennistoun.

Published also as no. 3 of the Maitland Club publications.

"The following memoirs ... were published at Edinburgh in 1755 by Walter Ruddiman ... That edition appears to have been printed from a manuscript now in the Library of the Faculty of advocates, (W. 6. 15.) which is evidently in more modern language and handwriting than those of the sixteenth century ... Both in that manuscript, and in Ruddimans's publication, the narrative of the Gowrie conspiracy, attributed to the pen of James the Sixth, has been appended to the Memoirs. Another manuscript has been found in the collection of the Right Honorable Lord Belhaven and Stenton, in a hand apparently of that century, and undoubtedly earlier than that of the manuscript in the Advocates' library ... It has appeared more desirable to follow the earlier and more genuine manuscript in the present reprint."--Notice.

Bannatyne Club publication, no. 39