Transcriber's Note Italic text is marked by _underscores_, and non-italic text within italic blocks by ~tildes~. Subscript text is indicated by @at signs@. All inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation has been retained as printed. In addition to those listed in the List of Doubtful and Irregular Readings, the following apparent errors have been retained as printed: l. 677 inscription l. 1021 _Doug._ l. 1179 bog l. 1275 a fraid l. 1346 harpe l. 1354 _Iaque_ l. 1634 _An._ l. 1671 _Tay._ l. 1822 swoord No speaker is given for lines 2400-2405 PRINTED FOR THE MALONE SOCIETY BY FREDERICK HALL AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS THE SCOTTISH HISTORY OF JAMES THE FOURTH 1598 THE MALONE SOCIETY REPRINTS 1921 This reprint of _James IV_ has been prepared by A. E. H. Swaen with the assistance of the General Editor. _Nov. 1921._ W. W. Greg. The following entries are found in the Register of the Stationers’ Company for 1594: xiiij^o maij / [Sidenote: Thomas Creede./.] Entred for his copie vnder thand of master Cawood warden / a booke intituled /. The famous victories of henrye the ffyft / conteyninge the honorable battell of Agincourt / vj^d C [Sidenote: Thomas Creede/] Entred vnto him by the like warrant a booke intituled the Scottishe story of Iames the ffourthe slayne at Fflodden intermixed with a plesant Comedie presented by Oboron kinge of ffayres vj^d C / [Arber’s Transcript, II. 648.] No edition, however, is known before 1598, and it would be natural to suspect that the original impression had perished were it not for the fact that 1598 is also the date of the earliest known edition of the _Famous Victories_. In the circumstances we may suppose that publication was for some reason delayed. The impression of 1598 is a quarto printed by Creede in roman type of a size approximating to modern pica (20 ll. = 84 mm.). Of this four copies are known to survive. That in the British Museum wants the leaf A 4, which has been supplied in very inaccurate modern reprint. Fortunately the leaf is present in the Dyce copy at South Kensington, though in this H 1 is defective (a corner being supplied in not quite accurate facsimile) and sheet K is wrongly perfected. Another copy, formerly at Bridgewater House, is now in the possession of Mr. Henry E. Huntington; while a fourth is in a collected volume once in the possession of Charles II, which formed lot 8258 in the Huth Sale (25 June 1920). All four want the first leaf, which was presumably blank, except perhaps for a signature. It has not been possible to use more than the first two copies mentioned in preparing the present reprint.