Volume 2 of "The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland" is contained in Volume 3 of "The Historians of Scotland" at

http://ia700305.us.archive.org/14/items/historiansofscot03edin/historiansofscot03edin.pdf

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Volume 3 of "The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland" is contained in Volume 9 of "The Historians of Scotland" at

http://ia600508.us.archive.org/34/items/orygynalecronyk03andr/orygynalecronyk03andr.pdf

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Volume 5 of "The Historians of Scotland" contains the "Lives of S Ninian and S Kentigern, Compiled in the Twelfth Century". Edited from the Best MSS. by Alexander Penrose Forbes, D.C.L., Bishop of Brechin. Printed in Edinburgh in 1874. It can be found at

http://ia700307.us.archive.org/35/items/historiansofscot05edin/historiansofscot05edin.pdf

The following are two extracts from the Preface -

"There is a propriety in the simultaneous publication of the Lives of S. Ninian and S. Kentigem, for not only was the scene of their apostolic labours the same, but the authors to whom we are indebted for their mention were so nearly contemporaneous, that the three narratives form a trilogy complete in itself. Indeed, between the works of S. Ailred and Joceline there is a remarkable similarity of manner and of sentiment. The tone of thought which runs through these books is the same, and the most prejudiced critic must allow that they display an interesting picture of a very remarkable epoch in the history of Scotland, when both the civil constitution was undergoing a remarkable development, and the ecclesiastical
polity exhibiting great vitality".

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"Again, in the Lives there is the same reference to previous Celtic documents, and it cannot be denied that, while their chief importance consists in the faithful record which they exhibit of the tone of thought of the twelfth century, there is also much ancient history preserved in them—preserved perhaps not in a very critical way, but still such as we could ill afford to lose. Of the obscure history of the kingdom of Cambria or Strathclyde they supply the most copious notices".

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Volume 7 of "The Historians of Scotland" contains "Liber Pluscardensis", printed in Edinburgh by William Paterson in 1877. Edited by Felix J. H. Skene. It is to be found at

http://ia600306.us.archive.org/31/items/historiansofscot07ediniala/historiansofscot07ediniala.pdf

The Preface begins with -

"THIS Chronicle has never hitherto been published as a whole. It is founded mainly on Bower's Scotichronicon ; yet, as it is in some passages a narrative at first-hand by the chronicler as aft eye-witness of the events he describes, and is moreover quoted as an authority by subsequent historians, it no doubt deserves a place among the original works upon which we mainly rely for the facts of Scottish history".

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The text that I'm working through currently - have been at this one for some considerable time, as I'll explain - is in a copy of a book which has been digitised by Google. It is at

http://books.google.com/books/reader?id=XVkJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PP1

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The reason for me spending so much time on it is that it is one which I cannot download to my computer using the programme I use to download some of the texts from the Internet, so I'm transcribing its contents by hand into notebooks so that I may read them more easily later. The book is called

"CHRONICLES OF THE PICTS,

CHRONICLES OF THE SCOTS,

AND OTHER EARLY MEMORIALS OF SCOTTISH HISTORY.

EDITED BY WILLIAM F. SKENE, LL.D."

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It was published by the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Lord Clerk-Register of Scotland. H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1867. It is in two parts, as it were, the first in English, being a Preface which contains the background to the 1867 publication, followed by the editor's observation on each of the items contained in the second part (these are in Latin, Irish Gaelic, old Scots, Welsh, and old French - some of which have English translations appended).

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