Records of the Sheriff Court of Aberdeenshire, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Records of the Sheriff Court of Aberdeenshire, Vol. 2: Records, 1598-1649The present volume will be seen to differ from its predecessor in more than one respect. Although the method adopted there of using separate columns had much in its favour, and was com~ mended in many quarters, it was, in the matter of Space, obviously wasteful. After much consideration, and with reluctance, it was abandoned in favour of a mode of dealing with the material, which enabled the writer to cover more ground. It will also be observed that the proportion between the Tables of Contents and the Illustrative material has been greatly altered, the reason for curtailing the latter being that examples of Sheriff Court work in the 16th century, are much more rare than those in the 17th. This volume has thus even more of the character of a Dictionary or Digest for reference, than the former had.At an early stage the problem had to be faced of whether anything in the way of selection was to be attempted. Or whether the work should really take the shape of a complete and exhaustive Table of Contents. It was quite certain that to adopt the latter plan, was to run the risk of printing a good deal which might not prove specially useful to any one. On the other hand, were the plan of selection to be followed, it was clear that the originals would still be, as regarded the omitted material, sealed books, leaving it open to searchers to say that what they particularly desired to have, might have been left out. The arguments in favour of a full Table of Contents prevailed, and, although the knowledge that much of what was being produced might turn out to be comparatively valueless, made the Editor's labour all the more burdensome, he was sustained by the hopeand value to them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.