Allan Ramsay
                                            
                            By William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
                            
                                20 Jun, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Since this Volume was in type, I have received some additional information which I feel constrained to lay before my readers.
With reference to the Easy Club, I have been favoured, through the courtesy of the Rev. Dr. A. B. Grosart, with a sight o
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                                                Since this Volume was in type, I have received some additional information which I feel constrained to lay before my readers.
With reference to the Easy Club, I have been favoured, through the courtesy of the Rev. Dr. A. B. Grosart, with a sight of the complete Minutes of the Club. From them I observe that Ramsay was one of the earliest members admitted, and that his song 'Were I but a Prince or King' was formally presented to the Club after his admission not before, though its rough draft must have been shown to the members prior to that event. Less