This is the manuscript which George Chalmers submitted for publication in 1817 to Cadell and Davies who, however, rejected it.

The printers discussed are:

Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar (two drafts, folios 7, 21);

Thomas Davidson (folio 29);

John Scot (folio 38);

Robert Lekprevik (folio 52);

Thomas Bassandyne (folio 63);

Alexander Arbuthnot (folio 65);

John Ross (folio 68);

Henry Charteris (folio 70);

Thomas Vautrollier (folio 73);

Robert Smyth (folio 78);

Robert Waldegrave (folio 80);

Robert Charteris (folio 91);

Thomas Finlason (folio 107);

Andro Hart (folio 113);

John Wreittoun (folio 125);

William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (‘may be considered as one of the sleeping printers of Scotland`) (folio 133);

Robert Young (folio 138);

George Anderson (folio 144);

James Bryson (folio 148);

Robert Bryson (folio 152);

Evan Tyler (folio 156);

Duncan Mun (a bookseller who was appointed King`s Printer in 1650, but did not print anything) (folio 180);

James Lindsay (folio 182);

Gideon Lithgow (folio 184);

Christopher Higgins (folio 186);

Andrew Anderson (folio 190);

Society of Stationers (folio 198);

David Lindsay (folio 213);

James Watson (folio 221);

Peter Bruis (folio 226);

John Reid (folio 229);

John Reid junior (folio 248);

Society of Stationers (1688) (folio 254);

George Jeffrey (folio 268);

Andrew Anderson`s heirs (folio 270);

James Watson (folio 328);

Andrew and Mathias Symson (folio 348);

John Moncur (folio 360);

Robert Freebairn (folio 366).