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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23332, 26 October 1937, Page 13

All that has survived of the Scottish national records, removed to England almost six and a-half centuries ago, has recently been restored to Scotland. Nine in number, the documents which have been restored were brought to Edinburgh in a brown paper parcel and handed over to the Keeper of the Records of Scotland in the entrance hall at the General Register House. The return of the documents has been secured by the Public Records Act (Scotland), a recent enactment passed only last session. The Treaty of Northampton, dated May 4, 1328, stipulated that “ all writings, obligations, instruments and other muniments touching the subjection of the people or of the land of Scotland to the King of England ... be given up and restored to the foresaid King of Scotland at the earliest that they can goodly.” In 1660 an attempt was made to return the Scottish records, but they -\vere sent by sea and were lost in a storm.