In compiling this volume, the Author may state that the chief objects he had in view were—first, to give an account, historical and traditional, of the different Towns and Castles in Angus and the Mearns at which King Edward l. resided when on his subjugating tour through Scotland in 1296 ; and, secondly, notices of the families and possessions of such of the Barons, Churchmen, and others, as recognised the supremacy of England as well during that year, as in 1291, and afterwards in 1303.
