To the original works are now subjoined copious notatory additions and illustrations ; also two separate Appendices, consisting of original papers and authentic documents relating to the history of these Shires. The subsequent notices regarding Barochan Cross, and other ancient
monuments in the neighbourhood of Paisley, have been contributed by William Motherwell, Esq. a member of the Maitland Club ; and to whom the reader is particularly obliged for the pains he has taken with these romantic tales, though it may still be reasonably enough doubted whether they owe not more to the fertile pen of the writer than to the faithfulness of traditionary record so strenuously urged.
Indices of the whole names of persons and places occurring in the volume, whether in the original, the notes, or the appendices, are also subjoined ; an addition which seems indispensable in a work of this nature.
