The Hamilton Manuscripts

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Excerpt from The Hamilton Manuscripts: Containing Some Account of the Settlement of the Territories of the Upper Clandeboye, Great Ardes, and Dufferin, in the County of Down "The following MSS. are without name or date, but contain internal evidence of having been written by a member of the Hamilton Family, about the latter end of the 17th century, and certainly prior to the year 1703, in which the death of one of the family occurred, who is mentioned in them as being alive at the time they were written. They were, therefore, composed almost contemporaneously with the celebrated Montgomery MSS. (written between the years 1698 and 1704), and with which the narrative contained in them is intimately connected. The originals are in the possession of the family of the late well-known Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., of Killyleagh Castle, County of Down, who entrusted them to their present Editor, in the year 1834, for publication at some future time, with a request that he would illustrate them with any observations he might consider necessary. The mass of valuable facts and documents which the Editor has since collected for this purpose, and which, in the few leisure intervals of a busy professional life, he has been able to connect with the MS., in the form of Notes, will best prove the manner in which he has fulfilled the trust. We have great satisfaction in being made the medium of first communicating these curious papers to the public in the pages of our Journal." - Ed. Ulst. Journ. of Archæology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.