Topographical extracts by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton from ‘A topographical dictionary of Scotland’ by Nicholas Carlisle, and from other works.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.6

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The extracts from Carlisle, which are in alphabetical order, are at folios 1-24 verso, 95-109. At 25-94 verso are extracts concerning places (and a few concerning individuals) from a variety of published sources including especially ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum in Archivis Publicis asservatum, MCCCVI-MCCCCXXIV’, and ‘Peerage of Scotland’. These are written not in alphabetical or topographical order but apparently as they were discovered by Hutton in the course of reading or consultation. The paper on which all the extracts are written is watermarked 1794.

Dates

Creation: Circa 1813.

Extent

0.00 Linear metres (109 folios. Quarto.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

The manuscript was probably bought by the Advocates’ Library in 1829 at the same time as Adv.MSS.29.4.2(i)-(xiii).

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Related Materials

For Hutton`s correspondence see Adv.MS.29.4.2(i)-(xiii); for other transcripts and extracts made by and for him see Adv.MSS.9A.1.1-9A.1.20, 19.1.22, 20.3.1-20.3.9, 20.5.7, 22.1.13, 22.2.1-22.2.4 and 33.4.17.

Bibliography

Carlisle, Nicholas. ‘Topographical dictionary of Scotland’ (London, 1813).
‘Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum in Archivis Publicis asservatum, MCCCVI-MCCCCXXIV’, edited by Thomas Thomson (Edinburgh, 1814)
Douglas, Robert. ‘Peerage of Scotland’, edited by John Philip Wood, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1813).