_Black Book of Paisley_ (Vol. v., pp. 201.).--In reply to ABERDONIENSIS,
I beg to inform him that the "Maitland Club" (_Glasgow_) circulated as
the contribution of the Earl of Glasgow in the year 1832 a very handsome
volume, entitled _Registrum Monasterii de Passelet_, M.C.LXIII-M.D.XXIX.
to which there was prefixed an highly interesting prefatory notice and
illustrative notes, in which it is there stated--
"That it may be proper to correct a popular mistake regarding
_another_ record connected with the Monastery of Paisley. _The
Black Book of Paisley_, quoted by Buchanan and our earlier
historians, and which (having disappeared) was raised by later
antiquaries into undue importance as a distinct and original
chronicle, was nothing more than a copy of Fordun
(_Scotichronicon_), with Bowers' Continuation. It appears to have
been acquired by Thomas Lord Fairfax, but when Gale and Hearne
wrote, had already been deposited in the Royal Library, where it
is still preserved. (13. E. X.) Hearne particularly notices the
inscription on this volume: 'Iste liber est Sancti Jacobi et
Sancti Mirini de Pasleto.'--_Præfatio ad Fordun_, p. lxvi."