Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Mid-Calder: With Some Account of the Religious House of Torpichen It was some such reflections as these which gave birth to a desire on my part to know something of the past life of the parish of mid-calder. And in offering the results of my studies to my fellow-parishioners, I would like, in the first place, to say something regarding the sources whence the information is derived. It may be well to do this in some detail, both as indicating the materials which exist for the elucida tion of authentic local history, and also to record for the information of future investigators the precise ground which has been already traversed. 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.