Excerpt from The Isle of Bute in the Olden Time: With Illustrations Maps, and Plans Bute has already been fortunate in having local historians who have made good use of the scanty materials available for the more modern epochs of history. Their labours will be more fitly acknow ledged. And a bibliography of their works given, in the second volume. Recent research, however, has Opened up richer treasure-houses to the chronicler, and invested the decaying memorials of eld with a new romantic interest. Merit I venture to claim for this new work in respect of the exquisite architectural illustrations of St Blaan's Church prepared by Mr William Galloway, architect, who has laid me under deepest obligation by permitting reduced copies to be taken of his draw ings of that interesting edifice, and of the similarly fine work of Mr james Walker, architect, Paisley. 1 have to thank the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for the use of several engravings of objects found in Bute. The minor illustrations have been prepared from drawings by my own pen. 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.