SIR JAMES RAMSAY has laid historical students under another and an unexpected obligation by publishing to the world the large series of deeds and other documents connected with his own estates in Forfarshire and Perthshire, from the early part of the thirteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Apart from their value to the family in possession, the contents of a charter-chest have always more or less of general interest. They often throw curious light on the domestic life of bygone generations, and thus supply fresh data to the historian.

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