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`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
`Collection of Papers Experiments And Observations Relating to Husbandry, Grass, And other Branches Of Country Affairs,’ by William Baird of Auchmeddan.
The collection was compiled over the years 1736 to 1756, and was written in the latter year (pages iii, 234). It is made up of extracts from books, copies of letters, and notes of the experiences of the writer.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon.
Copy of notes on persons in Glasgow written by John Buchanan, Doctor of Law, on a copy of the 'Reprint of Jones's Directory . . .for the year 1789'.
The copy, which was made in 1884, is followed by excerpts from the 'Glasgow Herald' regarding local persons and buildings.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
Genealogical notes of Sidney Cramer.
Includes copies and extracts from birth, marriage and death certificates, with notes and temple ordinance data.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Miscellaneous documents of Sir James Balfour.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Notes and descriptions of the important features and places in the various counties and other administrative and jurisdictional areas of Scotland, compiled by Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
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).
Topographical and other works.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.