| Description Of Item | The volume starts with a list titled 'Register of remarkable things' which records Hume's birth, marriages, death of his father and birth of his sons. He then writes a preface explaining why he is writing his diary. At the rear of the volume, possibly in a different hand, is a list of significant trials from 15th November 1708 to 15th September 1709. A number of pages have been cut out of the volume. |