Excerpt from An Accurate Alphabetical Index of the Registered Entails in Scotland, From the Passing of an Act of Parliament in the Year 1685, to February 4 1784: Containing the Number of the Entail as It Stands on Record; The Volume; The Folio; Date of the Entail; Date of Registration; Entailers Names and the Leading Lands IT is not his intention, in this prefatory ad drefs, to fay any thing upon'the quefiion con cerning the advantage and difadvantage' of 'entails. Upon that quefiion, very different opinions 'have: been maintained by able writers, -fome extolling them, as the only means Of preferving' ancient fa milies, the pillars of civil fociety, - and Others de crying them, as inconfifient 'witll commercial pro fperity. Perhaps, a middle opinion may be formed. 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.