Author: Maryland Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9780265382387

Excerpt from Archives of Maryland: Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1671 1681 While the last volume of the Archives was passing through the press, the Maryland Historical Society was so fortunate as to discover two volumes of original Council Records of which no copies are known to exist, and which are therefore of the highest importance. They had been removed from Annapolis certainly more than thirty years ago, and were discovered almost by accident. Our regular series of Council Records broke off in 1674' (the record for the three or four previous years having been very fragmentary), after which there was a void of eighteen years in the original journals. This void we were partly enabled to fill by the discovery of a Copy of a Council Book for the years 1686 - 1689 preserved In the Public Record Office, London, of which the Society had a transcript made, which has been printed in the Archives. This however still left a gap of twelve years, which we bridged, imperfectly, but as far as was then in our power, by copies of papers belonging to that time, preserved in the English Record Office. The recent discovery, however, enables us almost completely to restore the record of those years. 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.