Miscellany XVII

The seventeenth volume in the Scottish History Society''s Miscellany series, showcasing editions of unpublished short texts.Volume XVII of the Scottish History Society''s Miscellany includes editions of nine unpublished short texts dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. These include a rich range of legal, economic, and intellectual documents ranging from an "Essay on Resistance to Magistrates" (c.1637-38), to a poem on the appointment of a judge at Melrose in 1682, to new material on the (in)famous physician and philosopher Archibald Pitcairne. This volume continues the Society''s programme of making previously unpublished and unedited primary sources for Scotland''s history available in scholarly and accessible forms.
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