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[4] leaves (blank, title, contents, dedication), 162, 178 ff., [21] leaves (Table of Principall Maters), blank, [7] leaves (Table of All the Kinges of Scotland), [1] leaf (Table of the moveable feastes), [18] leaves (In The Parliament Hald in at Edinburgh...1594); 66, [8] pp. (The Acts Made in the First Parliament of...[King] Charles, circa mid 1600's - chip to title removing date), [2] blank leaves, 119 leaves (The Laws and Acts of the First Parliament, of...Charles the Second...1661, 31 leaves (Laws and Acts part in the second session of the first Parliament, of...Charles the Second...1662, 50 leaves (Laws and Acts part in the third session of the first Parliament...1663, 7 pp. (Act Rescinding two Acts, part in the last session of Parliament...1663. Folding genealogical chart precedes the "Table of All the Kinges of Scotland", engraved portrait of King Charles II at start of first part of first Parliament (1661), many decorative headpieces, tailpieces, initials, printer's ornaments, etc. Erratically folioed throughout with several misnumbered leaves, while some others are paged. (Folio) 10x7, old half calf & boards, gilt-lettered leather spine label, raised bands. First Edition thus; early portions of the text were printed first in 1566.

Important compilation of the laws of Scotland. Notable for the appearance in print (for the second time only) of laws enacted regarding golf: In the reign of King James the Second, Fourteenth Parliament, VI of March, 1457, "Item...It is Decreeted & ordained...that the Fute-ball and Golfe be utterly cryed downe, and not to be used." Further acts banning the sport were drawn in 1471 under King James the Third and in 1491 under King James the Fourth.The 1566 first printing of "The Actis and Contitutions of the Realm of Scotland" is accounted the first appearance in print of the word "Golf." Johnston p. 719; STC English 21892, 21896, 21898, 21900.