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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
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Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of ‘De jure successionis andc regni Angliae Libri duo’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.1
Scope and Contents
This was one of several works written in reply to ‘A Conference abovt the next svccession to the crowne of Ingland’ written in 1594 by `N. Doleman` (a pseudonym for a group of Recusant exiles led by Sir Francis Englefield, but then and long afterwards thought to be of Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus).The dedication of the work, to King James VI of Scotland, is dated 1 January 1603: the peaceful accession of James to the throne of England later that year was probably deemed by...
Dates:
Circa 1603.