Victoria, Hong Kong, Dec. 27, 1851.
_The "Black Book of Paisley."_--I should be glad if any of your
correspondents could favour me with any information relative to the
"Black Book of Paisley," so often quoted by Scottish historical writers
as the Chronicon Clugniense, being a chronicle of the public affairs and
remarkable events kept by the monks of that monastery, and if the same
or any part thereof has been reprinted by any of our societies or clubs.
It was said to have been recovered at Rome by Sir Robert Spottiswoode,
along with other records and MSS. of the Roman Catholic Church, which
had been carried abroad from the Scottish monasteries at the
Reformation.