Produced by Richard Tonsing, Anne Grieve and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) OPPRESSIONS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN THE ISLANDS OF ORKNEY AND ZETLAND: FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. [Illustration] PRINTED AT EDINBURGH: MDCCCLIX. THE MAITLAND CLUB. JULY M.DCCC.LX. THE MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUESS OF BREADALBANE, K.T. =President.= HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ARGYLL. DAVID BALFOUR, ESQ. BERIAH BOTFIELD, ESQ., M.P. HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY, K.G. ANDREW BUCHANAN, ESQ. THOMAS BUCHANAN, ESQ. WALTER BUCHANAN, ESQ., M.P. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, ESQ. 10 HUMPHRY WALTER CAMPBELL, ESQ. JAMES T. GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ. DAVID DREGHORN, ESQ. WILLIAM JAMES DUNCAN, ESQ. THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. WILLIAM EUING, ESQ. ALEXANDER S. FINLAY, ESQ., M.P. THE REVEREND WILLIAM FLEMING, D.D. JOHN GORDON, ESQ. JAMES WYLLIE GUILD, ESQ. 20 HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON. WILLIAM HILL, ESQ. HONOURABLE JAMES IVORY, LORD IVORY. JOHN CLARK KENNEDY, ESQ. GEORGE RITCHIE KINLOCH, ESQ. JOHN GARDINER KINNEAR, ESQ. [_SECRETARY._] THE REVEREND MATTHEW LEISHMAN, D.D. THE REVEREND LAURENCE LOCKHART, D.D. JAMES LUCAS, ESQ. ALEXANDER BENNETT M’GRIGOR, ESQ. 30 JOHN WHITEFOORD MACKENZIE, ESQ. SIR JOHN MAXWELL, BART. JAMES PATRICK MUIRHEAD, ESQ. SIR ANDREW ORR. ALEXANDER OSWALD, ESQ. JOHN MICMICHAN PAGAN, ESQ., M.D. WILLIAM PATRICK, ESQ. THE QUÆSTOR OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ., LL.B. 40 JOSEPH ROBERTSON, ESQ. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, ESQ. ROBERT SAWERS, ESQ. THE REVEREND HEW SCOTT. JAMES Y. SIMPSON, ESQ., M.D. WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ. WILLIAM SMYTHE, ESQ. MOSES STEVEN, ESQ. WILLIAM STIRLING, ESQ., M.P. 50 JOHN STRANG, ESQ., LL.D. ALEXANDER STRATHERN, ESQ. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL SWINTON, ESQ. ADAM URQUHART, ESQ. PRESENTED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MAITLAND AND ABBOTSFORD CLUBS, BY DAVID BALFOUR OF BALFOUR AND TRENABIE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------