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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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ollowing SYSTEM <strong>of</strong> HERALDRY was undertaken by the Author,<br />

about the beginning <strong>of</strong> the last century, under the patronage <strong>of</strong> the Parliament <strong>of</strong><br />

Scotland, and in dependence on a public pecuniary aid <strong>of</strong> L. 200, in granted the<br />

which bore a close<br />

year 1 704, for enabling him to execute an undertaking<br />

alliance to the honour <strong>of</strong> the nation.<br />

The liberality <strong>of</strong> the Parliament having been rendered ineffectual, in conse-<br />

quence <strong>of</strong> prior assignments on the fund out <strong>of</strong> which the grant was payable,<br />

the plan <strong>of</strong> the Author was circumscribed, and the publication <strong>of</strong> the Work<br />

delayed till the year 1722, when the First Volume was printed<br />

at Edin-<br />

burgh, for Mr J. Mackeuen, bookseller, to whom the Author had assigned the<br />

property.<br />

As this Volume was in many respects defective, an Appendix, or Supple-<br />

mentary Volume, was intended by the Author to follow the First Volume; but the<br />

death <strong>of</strong> that learned and industrious heraldic antiquary, at no great distance <strong>of</strong><br />

time, the imperfect state <strong>of</strong> his collections, and the property passing through dif-<br />

ferent hands, delayed the publication <strong>of</strong> the Second Volume till the year 1 742,<br />

when it was printed at Edinburgh by Mr Robert Fleming, who was assisted<br />

in preparing it for publication by Mr Roderick Chalmers and other anti-<br />

quaries.<br />

The great utility <strong>of</strong> this Work, which is universally acknowledged to be <strong>of</strong><br />

the highest value and authority, joined to the consideration <strong>of</strong> its excessive<br />

rarity and enormous price, induced the design <strong>of</strong> reprinting it.<br />

In committing the Work, a second time, to the press, an opportunity has<br />

been found <strong>of</strong> retouching the original plates, correcting many typographical<br />

errors, and a very considerable number <strong>of</strong> mistakes, chiefly in the orthography<br />

<strong>of</strong>persons and places, and adding a few notes, distinguished by<br />

the letter E :<br />

but the Publishers do not wish to be understood as having made any alteration<br />

in the substance, style, or language <strong>of</strong> the Work.<br />

It is in contemplation with the Publishers to print a Supplementary Volume,<br />

containing corrections <strong>of</strong> the preceding volumes, -additional examples <strong>of</strong> Armorial<br />

Bearings in Scotland, and a continuation and enlargement <strong>of</strong> the memo-<br />

rials <strong>of</strong> our most ancient and considerable families to the present time. As it is<br />

evident that the materials for such a volume mtist be derived from sources <strong>of</strong><br />

information inaccessible to the Publishers, they earnestly<br />

solicit the communica-<br />

tion <strong>of</strong> authentic memorials from the Nobility and Gentry <strong>of</strong> Scotland concerning<br />

their respectivefamilies.<br />

EDINBURGH,]<br />

Oct. 24. 1804. I

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