“It has been discovered that this Book, extending to three volumes, is extant in the Library of Sion College, London. But after much correspondence, and repeated applications, not only do the Governors of the College refuse to restore the volumes upon any terms, but even to permit a copy of the work to be taken, or allow a collation with the partial _Abbreviates_ of it preserved in Scotland; the College stating, that they would not be justified in so doing, under the Deed of Trust by which the possession of these volumes was acquired by the College. “There is no difficulty in proving that the volumes in question were laid on the table of the General Assembly which met at Glasgow in 1638; and that they were pronounced by that Assembly to be true and authentic Registers of the Kirk of Scotland. The reasons proving their authenticity are inserted in the manuscript journals of that Assembly, and also, in a very satisfactory form, in the printed Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, of that year. The descriptions are so minute as to establish the identity of all the volumes which are still extant. The attestation of the Clerk is superscribed at the beginning, and subjoined to the end of the first volume, in these words:--‘This is the great Volume aprovin be the General Assemblee at Glascow, in November, 1638. A. Jhonston, Cl^s. Eccl.’ The autograph of this Clerk is to be seen on various documents in possession of the General Assembly, and particularly on the copy of the printed Acts of the Assembly of 1638, in the custody of the present Clerk. The other volumes have the well known signature of a Clerk, named ‘Thomas Nicolson.’ “It is understood, that, in 1649, the Books were transferred to the charge of Mr Andrew Ker, Clerk of the Assembly; and that, in 1652, most, if not the whole, of the originals were for some time entrusted to Lord Balcarras. During the troubles of the succeeding period they were concealed in the house of a private individual till the year 1677, when they were put into the hands of Bishop Paterson (of Edinburgh), who retained them till after the Revolution. The account of their discovery and subsequent fate may be seen in Keith’s History of the Church and State of Scotland; but it appears from a paper preserved in the Advocates’ Library in Edinburgh, and published in the Appendix to Dr M‘Crie’s Lives of William Veitch and George Brysson, that Keith’s narrative is not altogether correct in every particular.