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'Rentall of my Lord Semple his whole estait both of stok and teynd as the lands now presentlie payeis as follows', 1644.
The statement, which may have been drawn up on the succession of Francis, 6th Lord Sempill, to his father Hugh, gives the rentals of the Barony of Glassford in Lanarkshire and lands in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, with the names of the tenants.
On folio 8 verso is an authority given by the Earl of Winton and other friends of the house to William ?Houie to uplift the rents, 7 March, 1645.
Scottish historical account, 17th century.
Account of events in Scotland from 1589 to 1641, by an unidentified 17th-century author. Probably part of a larger history; a label on the spine designates this volume as "Vol. IX", and there is no introduction or title page of any kind. The author was probably based in Edinburgh and describes particularly the religious developments of 1637-1641 in a lively, sympathetic manner.
The Chronicle of Fortingall, a 16th-century manuscript written in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
'The gentle shepherd’ (circa 1810), by Allan Ramsay; with annotations of Thomas Campbell.
Three volumes of poems of Alexander Ross, Schoolmaster at Lochlee in Angus, and author of ‘Helinore: the Fortunate Shepherdess’ (Aberdeen, 1768).
The poems are mainly of a religious nature and written in English, with the exception of ‘The Fortunate Shepherd or the Orphan’, which is in Scots.
"Tibbie Flint's history", sketches in letter and anecdote form, written by Elizabeth Bell of Coldstream (1787-1876) in the character of Tibbie Flint.
Transcript, early 19th-century, of 'The Passioun of Crist' by Walter Kennedy, from British Library Arundel MS 285, folios 6-46.
The transcript has been corrected in another contemporary hand.