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Excerpt from The History of the Kirk of Scotland: From the Year 1558 to August 1637 Four years after Row' s death, a fair transcript of the revised and enlarged History was made by his second son, John Row, minister of Aberdeen. This ms. Written in 1650, is by far the most accurate copy of the work that is known; and it has been adopted as the basis of the present edition. A copy of it appears to have been made by his brother, William Row, minister of Ceres, as a still later transcript seems to indicate, from its containing a few addi tional passages chiey in the Coronis, which may be attributed to him. In the Maitland Club edition of this work, however, the whole of the Coronis, and all the various passages incorporated into the History itself, are ascribed to William Row, but evidently upon no sufficient authority. The Editor was not aware of the existence of John Row's ms. Of 1650, in which the entire work is distinct ly given in his Father's name, (the few casual interpolations by the younger John Row, while transcribing the ms, not being of such importance as to require special distinction while the Coronis itself bears internal evidence of being an integral part of the original work, and written by the author of the History. 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.