Special Topics. Constitutional History: Cosmo Innes, Scotch Legal Antiquities (1872) and Scotland in the Middle Ages (1860), R. S. Rait, Parliaments of Scotland (1924) James MacKinnon, Constitu tional History of Scotland (5924). The best history of the Mediaeval Church is A. McEwan, History of the Church in Scotland (1912) ; for the organization of the Mediaeval Church see Bishop Dowden Mediae val Church in Scotland (igio). For later church history, John Cun ningham, Church History of Scotland (2nd ed. 1882), has still no rival. Social history: Cosmo Innes, Sketches of Early Scotch History and Social Progress 0860 ; John Mackintosh, History of Civilization in Scotland (1877-88); Hume Brown, Scotland in the Time of Queen Mary (1904) ; Henry Grey Graham, Social Life in the 18th Century (1899), and the topic is well illustrated in Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland (1858-61). See also W. M. Mackenzie, The Castle in Scotland (1927). For the Highlands, Dr. Gregory's History of the Highlands (188i) is excellent, but it ceases at 1603.
Biographies. Only a few of the more important biographies can be mentioned—Sir Herbert Maxwell, Robert Bruce (1897) ; Hume Brown, George Buchanan (1890) and John Knox (1895) ; Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots (1897) ; Thomas McCrie, John Knox 0810 and Andrew Melville (1819) ; C. S. Terry, Claverhouse (1905) ; W. C.
MacKenzie, Lauderdale (1923) ; Andrew Lang, Sir George MacKenzie (1909) and Prince Charles Edward (1900).
State Papers and Society Publications. The most important additions to current knowledge are being made through the documents in course of publication in a large variety of series by H.M. Stationery Office (including Registers of the Privy Council, the Great Seal and the Privy Seal, the Exchequer Rolls and the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer) and through the publications of the learned societies, such as the Scottish History Society and the Scottish Text Society, which are continuing the work accomplished a century ago by the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbotsford and other clubs. A large number of important articles will be found in the Scottish Historical Review (1904-28). Some of the earlier series of State papers require to be checked by the original mss. (R. S. R.)