[18] “In an old folio MS. I find 2 leaves here blank.” Note on copy, in an old handwriting.
[19] “In the old folio MSS. there is here a leafe blank.” Note on copy.
[20] “Here in the foresaid MSS. there is a leafe blank. Calderwood remarks here as followis, p. 92:—‘There wanteth here in this Register, if my copy be conform, a part of the third Session—the whole 4, 5, 6, and part of the 7, riven out as the rest of the minuts by the sacrilegiouse hand in the year 1584, qr the submissions of the Bischops of Glasgow, St Andrews, and the Isles, were set down; yet I find in Mr James Carmichael his Observations, who was present as Commissioner to this Assembly, that they agried,’ &c. Vide Print.”—Note on copy of Book transcribed.
[21] “Here Cromarty’s Copy, and the originall, wants three or four leaves.” Note on MS. copy.
[22] “Here in the MSS. there is a blank of a leafe, and on the margine this—‘Condemnation of Bishops reiterat.’” Note on copy.
[23] Notes on Copy transcribed.—“Calderwood here inserts—Matters to be treated in Provinciall Assembles, p. 208, and afterwards to be tryed in the Presbytry, p. 209.” “Cromarty’s copy here hath—Matters to be handled in ye Provincialls.”
[24] Sic in MSS.
[25] Notes on copy transcribed:—
“In the MS. Minutes forcited, there are Minutes of two Assemblies, June 17, 1589, and March 3, 1589.
“In the foresaid MSS. Fol. after this there followes thus in titulo:—17 Junii 1589, and 3 March 1590, and then a blank of four leaves.—N.B. That Calderwood passes the Assembly, June 17, 1589, altogether, and gives the Minutes of the Assembly, March 1590, p. 254.—Vide print. Mr Crawford has some accompt of the Assembly, June 17, 1589, distinct from the MS. Minutes, and passes Calderwood, Assembly, March 1590.”