Excerpt from De Unione Regnorum Britanni Tractatus While I can but. Be gratified that a work originally entrusted to the riper learning of the late Historiographer Royal should have been committed to me after his lamented death, I regret that the volume is inevitably robbed of much of its interest and value. Professor Masson was unable even to make a beginning on the treatise.
I cannot adequately express my obligation to Dr. Maitland Thomson. He has minutely collated the Latin text with the manuscript in the Advocates Library, and has indicated by a [sic] inaccuracies in the original. To him the minute accuracy of the Latin text is entirely due, and I have to thank him further for his ready assent to my request that he would contribute a note on the manuscript. I also gratefully express my acknowledgments to Mr. J. T. Clark for much labour expended in revising the transcript of the Tractatus, originally made for Professor Masson; to my colleague, Professor Mercer Irvine, k.c., for reading the proof-sheets of Chapter VI to Mr. John Fraser, of this University, who has read the proof-sheets of my translation and to Miss Eleanor Arnott, who has prepared the Index.
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I cannot adequately express my obligation to Dr. Maitland Thomson. He has minutely collated the Latin text with the manuscript in the Advocates Library, and has indicated by a [sic] inaccuracies in the original. To him the minute accuracy of the Latin text is entirely due, and I have to thank him further for his ready assent to my request that he would contribute a note on the manuscript. I also gratefully express my acknowledgments to Mr. J. T. Clark for much labour expended in revising the transcript of the Tractatus, originally made for Professor Masson; to my colleague, Professor Mercer Irvine, k.c., for reading the proof-sheets of Chapter VI to Mr. John Fraser, of this University, who has read the proof-sheets of my translation and to Miss Eleanor Arnott, who has prepared the Index.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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