The Camden Society for the year 1845. [No.XXXIII] . Square 8vo. 23.5 x 18cm. Publishers original dark green embossed cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Pp. xvi. 112. Some foxing otherwise very good.

.James Drummond fourth Earl of Perth, appointed Chancellor of Scotland in 1684, became a convert to the church of Rome, and a faithful adherent to the Exiled James II., who whilst at St. Germain’s advanced him to the title of Duke of Perth, nominated him a Knight of the Garter, and appointed him First Lord of his Bedchamber, Chamberlain to the Queen, and Governor to the Prince of Wales. The first three letters in this volume were written whilst he was a prisoner in Stirling Castle in 1688: the remainder at various places in the Netherlands and Italy from 1693 to 1696. The contain many interesting notices of the exiled Stuarts and their followers.