It has been impossible to get for the volume a title which would give an exact idea of its object, and the ground gone over. It is more than a series of dry statistical accounts, though each parish has been made a separate study. Special attention has been given to the Ecclesiastical Antiquities : I have ransacked the Registers of the Abbeys and Priories especially of Cupar, Arbroath, Dunkeld, St. Andrews, and Lindores and have examined for myself the original, contracted, Latin charters, to ensure accuracy.