Printed 'NARRATIVE', printed 'MEMORIAL', and manuscript 'Protest' by the Society's members, all regarding the Educational Endowments Scotland Bill.

All three items are grubby but in good condition. The manuscript (a copy for Murray Beith <?>, W.S.) consists of 6 4to pages on two loose bifoliates, and is dated 3 March 1880. The gist of the complaint is 'that the present diverting of the Revenues from Educational purposes is not in accordance with but in violation of the great ends for which the Society was incorporated as these are set forth in its Letters Patent'. The Narrative covers three pages of a 4to bifoliate and is signed in type 'J. CALDER MACPHAIL'. It states that one of the results of a decision in the Court of Session in 1846 is that 'The children were withdrawn from its Schools to such an extent as greatly to destroy the general usefulness of the Society, especially in the Hebrides, where it virtually became extinct.' The Memorial is a 4to leaf inside a 4to bifoliate, and consists of a copy of a 'MEMORIAL to the Lords of Her Majesty''s Treasury, of the 29th day of May 1880, from a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Edinburgh'. It is signed in type by 'Robert Rainy, D.D., Convener of Committee' and 'J. Calder Macphail, Secretary of Committee'. Three items,