[1] In 1706 Crawford published his Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland, containing a full and impartial account of the Revolution in that Kingdom begun in 1567.
"[2] For more than a century, Crawford's work was taken as a genuine unedited transcript of the manuscript, and relied on by David Hume, William Robertson and other historians.
[1] In 1804, Malcolm Laing published The Historie and Life of King James the Sext as contained in the Belhaven manuscript, a prototype of Crawford's Memoirs.
Passages unfavourable to Mary, Queen of Scots, had been omitted, and statements taken from the published works of William Camden, John Spottiswood, James Melville of Halhill and others added.
[3] Another version of the original text, the Newbattle manuscript of the Historie of James the Sext, in the possession of the Marquis of Lothian, was published by the Bannatyne Club in 1825.