The following Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew were compiled about the beginning of last century, and are now first printed, from two separate manuscripts. The first is contained in Sir James Balfour's Collections concerning the several Shires of Scotland, into which it appears to have been transcribed by Sir Robert Sibbald ; and who having presented the volume to the historian of the Sufferings of the Scottish Church, it now forms part (M. 6. 15.) of the Wodrow Collections in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. The Description of Renfrewshire (which appears never to have been fully completed by the author) is also transcribed into the same volume, but a more perfect copy having been politely communicated to the Club by Sir William Hamilton, Baronet, it was adopted in preference to Sibbald's transcript. This manuscript, which came into the possession of Sir William Hamilton at the sale of the Library of the late Dr Boog, one of the Ministers of Paisley, has been ascertained to be in the author's handwriting, and has recently been presented to his descendant and representative, the Lord Belhaven and Stenton.