PREFATORY NOTICE. xxi
Lord Holland, in his Prefatory Address to the Reader, pre-
fixed to Foxs History of King James H.* states, that
" Among Mr Fox's Papers were found a List of ' the works Avhicli
were placed in the Scotch College at Paris soon after the death of
James (he Second, and were there at the time of the French Revolu-
tion.' It is as follows :
Four volumes folio, f Memoirs in James the Second's own handwriting, beginning from
six volumes quarto. \ the time that he was fourteen years of age.
T (Hn n 1 t ( Containing Letters from Charles the Second's Ministers to James
* ' -^ the Second ("tllpn Dnkp n£ VnpW^ wlipn hp o/nc nf "Rriiccolo f\nA
( in Scotland
, ' ' < the Second (then Duke of York) when he was at Brussels and
■ olumes. ^ jij Scotland, MS.
Two thin quarto ( Containing Letters from Charles the Second to his brother, James
volumes. \ Duke of York, MS."
The following remarkable paper was communicated to the
Editor by his friend James jNIaidnient, Esquire, Adv'ocate, and as
it seems to be so singularly curious, and so very minute in some
of its details, the Editor cannot refrain from inserting it at lenofth
in this place.
Letter yro/« a Scots Gentleman to a Friend in Edinburgh, giving
an account of the MSS. which were then in the Scots College
at Paris; dated Paris, September 23, 1716, N. S.
" I WAS yeflerday for four or five hours clofed in the Scots College in
this place, togithcr with a very learned antiquary and keeper of the Re-
cords and Library. Underflanding that I was remitted to ray fludy of
the law, he produced all their old writts on the table ; and firtl, we read
ane old chartour granted by Robert II., which is without doubt a clear
folution of the debate concerning his marriage. The writt contains a
donation of feverall lands near to Hamilton, in favours of a Chappele
founded in memory of his beloved fpoufo, Elizabethe More, ' dum in hu-
manis ageret ;' and, indeed, the whole ilile of the chartour runs with the
* Fox's Hist, of King James II. Lend. 1808, p. xxv.