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Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.13
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Extracts, 1797, in the hand of the chief clerk, Robert Lemon, from the `Rotuli Scotiae` kept in the Tower of London (cf. folio 282). The extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. The manuscripts were published, in two volumes, in 1814 and 1819. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies by Hutton of charters of Newbattle Abbey (folio 32). The source is unidentified: they are in a different order from those of the cartulary...
Dates: ?1789-?1797.

Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents

Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.

Dates: 12th century-1661.

Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates: 13th century-1689.

Microfilm of Elizabethan letters and transcripts of the register of Arbroath Abbey.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.175
Scope and Contents

Elizabethan letters (Adv.MS.1.2.2);

Transcripts, 1815, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of the register, 13th century-16th century, of the abbey of Arbroath and of various charters, 1213-1246. (Adv.MS.9A.1.18).

Dates: 13th century-16th century.

Miscellaneous charters.

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Identifier: Ch.A.1-46

Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.

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Identifier: Acc.4290
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family

2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family

3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling

4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.

Dates: 19th century.

'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.25
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Transcript of the 'Chronicon de Melross'; (ii) Relationes Arnaldi Blair; (iii) 'Extracta de MS. D. Gul. Cunninghaim de rebus gestis Gul. Vallæ', 1296; (iv) Dr. Jamieson’s notes upon the ‘Chronicon de Melross’; (v) Three letters of Queen Mary extracted from a Roman Manuscript; (vi) Dr Jamieson’s observations on Melville’s Memoirs and on Bede; (vii) Off the revenue or patrimony of the Crown; (viii) Bull of Pope Urban Vth Contra Magnqs Societates; (ix) A Charter...
Dates: Late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.6
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Transcript of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’: a copy of Adv.MS.33.3.25 (page 1);‘Addenda ex exemplari Anglico impresso’ (page 41);The ‘Relationes Arnaldi Blair’ copied from Adv.MS.35.6.10 (page 44);‘Addenda alia e chronico Melrosensi impresso’ (page 51);Copies of letters, 1563, of Queen Mary to the Council of Trent in Latin, and to the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Pope in Italian (page 65);...
Dates: 12th century-1683.

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