Proposals for printing the chronicle of John Fordun, : with the additions and continuation of Walter Bowmaker abbot of Inch-Colm. Containing the memorable things which happened every year, since our first rise, to King James the First's death. Conform to an authentick manuscript, belonging of old to one our our decay'd monasteries. With several notes, for clearing the dark parts of our history. /
Fordun, John of,-1384?.
Bower, Walter,1385-1449.
Hay, Richard,1661-1735 or 1736.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1719?]
Hay's proposed edition was never published. A separate edition of John Fordun's 'Scotichronicon', edited by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), was published in Oxford in 1722.
"As to the subscriptions, they are to be taken by the author, .. By Mr. William Adams printer .. by Mr Ruddiman in the Advocate's Library. Who shall deliver .. the author's obligation, to have the compleat copy remitted to them about the end of the following year 1720, ..".
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Scotland Edinburgh.