Excerpt from History of the Regality of Musselburgh: With Numerous Extracts From the Town Records So much is this acknowledged, that detached contributions like the present are encouraged everywhere - in England, per haps, more than in Scotland - and it is generally conceded that history - genuine history - is only to be written when the charter chests of long existing communities, as well as of religious houses, and those ancient families, whose ancestors have been active par ticipators in the great national dramas of the past, have been tho roughly ransacked. Much light has already been thrown upon the last two great eras in this country - the Reformation, including the Cromwellian period, and the Revolution - by the Opening up of previously hidden sources of information. The once popular and still classic History of Scotland, by Robertson, for emple, has been wholly cancelled by the greater researches of Tytler. That the work of excavation, how ever, is not yet by any means complete, we have numerous recent proofs in the sketchy, well written, but inaccurate History of England by Macaulay. The laboured defence of King William, in reference to the massacre of Glencoe, by that ingenious author, for instance, has been wholly upset by the production of one or two documents from the charter chest of Breadalbanel It is thus extremely dangerous for any writer to undertake history without a thorough know ledge Of facts, which his own or the researches of others mav have placed within his reach. 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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