Excerpt from The Cochrane Correspondence: Regarding the Affairs of Glasgow, 1745-6 IN the many memoirs of the rebellion OF 1745 which at various times have issued from the press, no details have been preserved of the proceedings of the Magistrates and inhabitants of Glasgow, during that stirring period. To illustrate these is the object of the present collec tion, which has been compiled chie y from the papers of andrew cochrane, esquire, then Lord Provost of that city, by the liberal permission of his grand-nephew, James Murdoch, Esq. 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."