Ane Breve Cronicle of the Earlis of Ross (1850)

Ane Breve Cronicle of the Earlis of Ross. Including notices of the Abbots of Fearn, and of the family of Ross of Balnagown.
Book edited by W. R Baillie Edinburgh, Scotland : T. Constable, 1850

Language	English
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WorldCat	1039478538
Related documents	• Ane Brieve Cronicle of the Earlis of Ross (manuscript) • Source:Scottish document Tain, 2090.001 • Deuchar MS • Source:TGAS (Cronicle of the Earlis)

Discussion

From the 'Introduction':

The Manuscript which is printed in the following pages, was found at Balnagown Castle, while arranging a large mass of old family papers. It was in very bad condition, the half of one of the leaves being entirely wanting. It is written in a hand of the early part of the seventeenth century ; and internal evidence proves it to have been written previously to the year 1615.

After some inquiries, I was favoured by George Ross, Esq., of Pitcalnie, the heir-male of the earlier family of Ross of Balnagown, with the use of a manuscript of a much more recent date, probably about 1730, which was evidently, to a certain extent, a copy of the older one ; and which contained, in a form nearly entire, not only those parts in which it was defective, but also some further particulars in reference to the Abbots of Fearn.

When I was on the eve of putting the whole to press, I was so fortunate as, by mere accident, to stumble upon a MS. which had belonged to the late Mr. A. Deuchar, containing a recent transcript of the "Cronicle" which was happily complete in those passages where the others were effaced. I have thus been enabled to supply a complete copy of what has every appearance of being a chronicle of considerable antiquity ; and I have had the instructions of Sir Charles W. A. Ross, now of Balnagown, to print it for private circulation among the friends of the family.

The original manuscript that was discovered at Balnagown Castle is currently held by the Tain & District Museum.

Book chapters

• Cronicle of the Earlis of Ross (Cronicle)
• Cronicle of the Earlis of Ross (Lairdes)

Documents

• Scottish document Tain, 2090.001

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• Baillie, W. R, ed. (1850). Ane Breve Cronicle of the Earlis of Ross. Including notices of the Abbots of Fearn, and of the family of Ross of Balnagown. Edinburgh, Scotland: T. Constable. OCLC 1039478538. OL 25119441M.