LORD ROSEBERY ON SCOTTISH HISTORY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13811, 26 January 1907, Page 3

LORD ROSEBERY ON SCOTTISH HISTORY.

Lord Rosebery, speaking at the annual meeting of the Scottish History Society recently, urged on the society tho value of publishing further records'of the Jacobites in the eighteenth century, for whom every Scotsman had an underlying sympathy and interest. He also thought that they oughtio try to elicit somo further documents with regard to tho history of the Highlands during that obsouro tim'o up to I he rebellion of 1745, when they had clans jiving almost like the tribes wo find in Africa, conducting their affaire almost without reference to a, central Government, having their own potty, warfares, their pitched battles, their districts, bounded not by parchment so much as by immemorial traditions and the jealousy of the tribes which inhabited them. Ho could not help thinking that in tho muniment rooms of the great Highland lords and lairds there must be documents—living documents, human documents, rude though, they be—that bear on the history of those times, and that these magnates would not be unwilling to entrust, them to their cave. He especially appealed to the Duke- of Sutherland and Lord Breadalbane to help them in this direction. He thought the society and the Historical Manuscripts Commission, of wliich he is a member, might work on parallel lines. The commission should welcome the cooperation of a< society more leisurely and lass ambitious than their own. Another euggeetion thrown out t>y Lord Rosebery was that the society should endeavour to iget published the records of the convivial clubs' which flourished in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and which were typical of the society of the day.

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