Ayrshire as a factor in Scottish development. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1890-91. sq. 8°. v. 3, p. 146-149, 163166, 179-181; v. 4, p. 5-7, 31-33, 47-49.) CPA

Ayrshire and Galloway, formerly Ayrshire and Wigtonshire Archæological Association. Archæological and historical collections relating to Ayrshire and Galloway. v. 1-10. Edinburgh: the society, 1878-99. 4°. † CA

Chalmers, George. Ayr-shire. (In his: Caledonia. London, 1824. 4°. v. 3, p. 445-566.) + CP

Paterson, James. History of the counties of Ayr and Wigton. Edinburgh: J. Stillie, 1863-66. 3 v. in 5. fac., pl. 12°.

v. 1. Kyle; 2. Carrick; 3. Cuninghame. townshire not dealt with.

CR Wig

Robertson, George. Topographical description of Ayrshire; more particularly of Cunninghame: together with a genealogical account of the principal families in that bailiwick. Irvine: Cunningham Press, 1820. xii, 13-442 p., 1 map. fo. †† CR

Statistics of the elections for the county of Ayr, beginning with the first election after the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832. Ayr Ayr Observer Office (1860?). 7 p. 8°. CR p. box 2

BADENOCH, INVERNESS-SHIRE

Macbain, Alexander. Badenoch: its history, clans and place names. 1 map. (Gaelic Society of Inverness. Transactions. Inverness, 1891. 8°. v. 16, p. 148197.) NDO

Macpherson, Alexander. Sketches of the old ministers of Badenoch. (Gaelic Society of Inverness. Transactions. Inverness, 1889-90. v. 14, p. 193-216; v. 15, p. 216-238.) NDO

8°.

BALFRON, STIRLINGSHIRE

Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick, and its inhabitants from early times. An account of the parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow: J. Maclehose & Sons. 1896. xxvi p., 1 1., 410 p., 1 1., 2 fac., 1 map, 9 pl., 1 port. 4°.

One of 440 copies printed.

BALLANTRAE, AYRSHIRE

CR

Mercer, Edmund. At Ballantrae. 3 illus. (Manchester quarterly. Manchester, 1896. 8°. v. 15, p. 237-247.) *DA

BALMAGHIE, KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE

Reid, Henry Martin Beckwith. The Kirk above Dee Water. By Rev H. M. B. Reid; with introduction by S. R. Crockett. Castle-Douglas: Adam Rae, 1895. xiv p., 1 1., (1)18-128 p., 2 pl., 4 port. 12°. CR

BALMERINO ABBEY, FIFESHIRE

Balmerino Abbey. The chartularies of Balmerino and Lindores; now first printed from the original mss. in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. [Edited by W. B. D. D. Turnbull., Edinburgh: Abbotsford Club, 1841. 2 p.1., 2, xii p., 1 1., iii, 3, 3-87 p., 1 1., 2, xi, 55 p., 4 pl., 1 plan. sq. 4°. (Abbotsford Club.) + CP

86-88, 101-104, 114-118, 154-157, 186-188; v. 11, p. 22-23, 41-43, 55-57, 71-73, 101-103; series 2, v. 1, p. 5-6, 21-22, 37-39, 53-54, 74-75, 85-87, 107-109, 149-151; series 2, v. 2, p. 122-125, 152-156, 180-182; series 2, v. 3, p. 6-8; series 2, v. 4, p. 165-166, 184-186; series 2, v. 5, p. 22-24, 138-140, 152-155, 186187; series 2, v. 6, p. 26-28.) CPA

Additions to A. W. Robertson's Hand list of bibliography of the shires of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine, 1894.

Watt, William. A history of Aberdeen and Banff. Edinburgh: Wm. Blackwood & Sons, 1900. xvi, 438 p., 3 maps. 8°. (County histories of Scotland.) CR

Wilson, W. B. Robertson. The place of Banffshire in Scottish life and thought. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1892. sq. 8°. V. v. 6, p. 7-9, 21-24.)

CPA

BANFFSHIRE

See also

PLACE NAMES AND GEOGRAPHY

Collections for a history of the shires of Aberdeen and Banff. [Edited by Joseph Robertson.j Aberdeen: printed for the Spalding Club [by W. Bennett, 1843. xii, 658 p., I 1., 1 map. 4°.

CP Cramond, William. Extracts from old Banffshire papers. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1901. sq. 8°. series 2, v. 2, p. 42-44, 58-60, 74-75, 90-92.) CPA

Hossack, Garden M. Inventories of northern records. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1898. sq. 8°. p. 138-139.)

V.

11, CPA

Jervise, Andrew. Epitaphs & inscriptions from burial grounds & old buildings in the north east of Scotland, with historical, biographical, genealogical, and antiquarian notes, also an appendix of illustrative papers. With a memoir of the author. [Edited by James Anderson.j Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1875-79. 2 v. 1 pl., 1 port., illus. sq. 8°. ARF

v. 1 is no. 92 of 250 copies printed. v. 2 is no. 11 of 400 copies printed.

Johnstone, James Fowler Kellas. Local bibliography. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1895-1905. sq. 8°. v. 8, p. 113117, 133-137, 152-156, 169-171, 185-188; v. 9, p. 5-7, 20-24, 38-41, 53-56, 73-75, 89-91, 99102, 120-123, 133-136, 152-156, 166-170, 184186; v. 10, p. 12-13, 26-27, 39-41, 56-57, 71-74,

BASS ROCK, HADDINGTONSHIRE

Bass Rock, The. (Penny magazine. London, 1833. 4°. v. 2, p. 265-266.) * DA

Bass Rock, The: its civil and ecclesiastical history by the Rev. Thomas M'Crie. Geology by Hugh Miller. Martyrology by the Rev. James Anderson. Zoology and botany by Prof. John, Fleming and Prof. John Hutton, Balfour. Edinburgh: J. Greig & Son [1848. viii p., 1 1., 139 p., 1 I., 436 p., 7 pl., 1 table. 8°. Stuart 7543

For a critical notice of this work see the New Monthly magazine and humorist, v. 83, p. 13*-20, London, 1848.

Reid, John J. Early notices of the Bass Rock and its owners. 1 pl. illus. (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Proceedings. v. 20, p. 54-71.) Edinburgh, 1886. sq. 8°.)

CPA

Siege, The, of the Bass. (In: Memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee... London, 1714. 12°. p. 42-48.) *C p.v. 510

UNIVERSITY

BEAULY PRIORY, INVERNESS-SHIRE Barron, James. Beauly Priory. (Inverness Scientific Society. Transactions. In-` verness [18981. 8°. v. 4, p. 130-137.) * EC Monasteries in the north, with special reference to Beauly Priory. (Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club. Transactions. Inverness [1898]. 8°. v. 4, p. 130-137.)

* EC Chisholm-Batten, Edmund. Historical notices and charters of the priory of Beauly. (Royal Historical Society. Transactions. London, 1876. 8°. v. 4, p. 1-74.)

СА

"The muniments of the family of Home of Wedderburn relate to lands in almost every part of Berwickshire.”

Paton, Henry, editor. The manuscripts of Robert Mordaunt Hay, Esq., of Duns Castle, Berwickshire. (In: Great Britain.

Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on manuscripts in various collections. Hereford, 1909. 8°. v. 5, p. 1-71.)

The manuscripts comprise: 1. Documents relat ing to the counties of Peebles and Selkirk; the latter consisting of a few charters of the lands of Rodono; and 2. Documents relating to the town and lands of Duns and several other lands in the county of Berwick.

History and Description, continued.

Local History, continued.

Macdonald, James. Birrens and Birrenswark. (Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Transactions. Dumfries, 1896. 8°. 189495, p. 55-67.) *EC

Neilson, George. Brunanburh and Burnswork. 1 pl. illus. (Scottish historical review. Glasgow, 1910. 4°. v. 7, p. 37-55.) CPA See also his note in same volume, p. 435-436.

BLACKFORD, PERTHSHIRE

Accounts of the burning of the villages of Auchterarder, Muthill, Crieff, Blackford, Dalreoch, and Dunning, about the beginning of the year 1716. (Maitland Club. Miscellany. Edinburgh, 1843. 4°. v. 3, p. 441-474.) † CP Reprinted in A. G. Reid's Annals of Auchterarder, p. 126-134, Crieff, 1899.

BLACKSHIELS, HADDINGTONSHIRE

Barnett, T. Ratcliffe. Fairshiels; memories of a Lammermoor parish. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1913. 126 p., 1 1., 12 p. 2. ed. 8°. CRB

Fairshiels is the author's fanciful name for Black

p. 9-44 comprise charters and other writs, with miscellaneous papers relating to the Borders, 14081701.

Law, George. The Marches. (Juridical review. Edinburgh, 1899. 8°. v. 11, p. 226-242.) SEA Pearson, Norman. The Scotch borderland. (Gentleman's magazine. London, 1886. 8°. v. 260, p. 191-196.) * DA

Pease, Howard. The lord wardens of the marches of England and Scotland; being a brief history of the marches, the laws of march, and the marchmen, together with some account of the ancient feud between England and Scotland. London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1913. xvi p., 1 1., 255 (1) p., 4 maps, 1 pl. 4°. CBA

One of 500 copies printed.

Rutherfurd, J. Rutherfurd's Border hand-book; being a guide to the...places ...scenery, and antiquities of the Border Kelso: J. Rutherfurd, 1849. vi p., 1 1., Stuart 8715 136 p., 1 map, 10 pl. 12°.

Some memories of a Border manse and a Border district. (Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine. Edinburgh, 1886. 8°. v. 140, p. 642-654.) * DA

Colquhoun, F. Mary. Bothwell Castle. (Scots magazine. Perth, 1900. 8°. new series, v. 25, p. 81-94.) * DE

Duncan, James Dalrymple. Bothwell Castle. (British Archæological Association. Journal. London, 1889. 8°. v. 45, p. 33-41.) CA

Henderson, George, and J. JEFFREY WADDELL. By Bothwell banks. Some chapters on the history, archæology, and literary associations of the Uddingston and Bothwell district. Glasgow: D. Hobbs & Co., 1904. 7 p.1., 260 p., 1 pl. illus. 12°. CR

BOTRIPHNIE, BANFFSHIRE

Gordon, James Frederick Skinner. The book of the chronicles of Keith, Grange,

of Brechin. 1 pl. (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Proceedings. Edinburgh, 1863. sq. 8°. v. 4, p. 188-210.) CPA

Medical Officer of Health

Brechin.

Annual report upon the health & sanitary condition of the town. 1911. Brechin [1912]. 8°. SPC

Police Chambers

Return of crimes and offences reported to the police, with other details and statistics. 1911. Brechin, 1912. fo. †† SLY

Town Council

Abstract of the accounts of the Town Council. 1911/12. [Brechin, 1912. fo. f°. * SYB

Gough, Richard. Observations on the round tower at Brechin, in Scotland. 1 pl. (Society of Antiquaries of London. Archæologia. London, 1773. 4°. v. 2, p. 8385.) CA

Jervise, Andrew. Remarks on the round tower of Brechin. 1 pl. (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Proceedings. Edinburgh, 1862. sq. 8°. v. 3, p. 28-34.) CPA

BRECHIN (DIOCESE), FORFARSHIRE

Brechin, Diocese. Registrum episcopatus Brechinensis; cui accedunt cartæ quamplurimæ originales. Aberdonia: W. Bennett. 1856. 1856. 2 v. port. 4°. (Bannatyne Club.) † CP The preface is by Cosmo Innes. v. 2 is Appendix cartarum.

BUCHAN, ABERDEENSHIRE

Dalgarno, James. A ramble on the east coast of Buchan. (Scottish notes and queries. Aberdeen, 1888-89. sq. 8°. v. 1, p. 25-26, 55-56, 74-75, 121, 177-178, 199; v. 2, p. 27-28.) CPA

BUCHANAN, STIRLINGSHIRE

Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick, and its inhabitants from early times. An account of the parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow: J. Maclehose & Sons, 1896. xxvi p., 1 1., 410 p., 1 1., 2 facs., 1 map, 9 pl., 1 port. 4°. CR

One of 440 copies printed.

BURGHEAD, ELGINSHIRE

Macdonald, James. Burghead as the site of an early Christian church; with notices of the incised bulls and the burning of the clavie. 1 map, 6 pl. (Glasgow