Excerpt from A History of the Town and Palace of Linlithgow: With Notices, Historical and Antiquarian of Places of Interest in the Neighbourhood

Town-clerk; my thanks are also due for the ready access afforded to the records in their keeping. I have also to thank Mr george hardie, Ses sion-clerk, for the access afforded to the older minutes of kirk-session. To many other friends I am indebted for the use of books, inspection of private papers, and other assistance; to the county library for a perusal of some of the old Acts, and other printed public records, of which it con sists; and to the advocates' library for a sight of some of the valuable historical club publications. To Mr george brockley I have been in debted for much of what has been preserved traditionally, and for many valuable hints; and to Mr peter dow for the excellent Photographs from which the Engravings have been taken, as well as for others of some por tions of the old records which defied me to read properly. To Mr smith, the present ranger of the Palace grounds, I am also indebted for pointing out some matters connected with the Palace which came under his observation during the recent workings. I have likewise to thank the gentleman who kindly furnished me with the very complete account of the burning of the Covenants. To archibald geikie, Esq., of the Government Geological Survey, I am indebted for the very lucid and interesting sketch, which appears in the Appendix, of the Geology of the district: and which, it is to be hoped, is only the prelude to a more extended work.

I had not proceeded very far when I found that the subject had never been subjected to any thorough investigation, and that there was much of error to be cleared away, and much in connection with it that had not, in previous accounts, received due prominence. I do not profess, however, to have exhausted the subject, nor can I hope that more careful examination may not prove me to be in some instances in the wrong.

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