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 xvi PREFACE. and he has not thought it necessary to include documents containing a record of events subsequent to that date. As a general rule, he has confined this collection to pieces which appear to have been compiled prior to the fifteenth century. The work will thus present, it is hoped, an accu- rate text of these ancient fragments of the early annals of Scotland. It will include every thing which the Editor could find in the MS. collections in the British Museum, in the Bodleian, in Cambridge, in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, in the Impe- rial Library at Paris, and in the private collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle Hill, bearing upon the early history of Scotland within these limits ; and in addition to this, the Welsh mss. in the British Museum, in Jesus College, Oxford, and in the Heng-wrt collection now the property of Mr. Wynne of Peniarth, and the Irish mss. in Trinity College, Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy, the Bri- tish Museum, the Bodleian, and the Advocates' Library, have been carefully examined, and every thing tending to illustrate the early history of Scot- land extracted and printed, with a translation. For the ready access which the Editor obtained to these MS, collections, he has to record his oblisfation to Mr. Coxe of the Bodleian ; the Principal and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford ; the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ; the Reverend Doctor Todd of Trinity College, Dublin ; Mr. Clib- boni of the Royal Irish Academy ; Monsieur Claude