A RARE BOUND LEGAL MANUSCRIPT, CIRCA 1563, containing a reference to golf, written by Henry Sinclair, who was admitted Notary Public on 22 February 1566 and appointed writer to the privy seal, re-bound, vellum, quarto 243 leaves

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A RARE BOUND LEGAL MANUSCRIPT, CIRCA 1563, containing a reference to golf, written by Henry Sinclair, who was admitted Notary Public on 22 February 1566 and appointed writer to the privy seal, re-bound, vellum, quarto 243 leaves

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This manuscript, written in Old Scots, contains a copy of the Black Acts which forbid the playing of golf. The pursuit of the game, because of its popularity, was considered a danger to the more useful exercise of archery.
These acts or statues were passed in the years 1457 and 1471.