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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.
File
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.
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.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
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`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Copies of correspondence and papers concerning a dispute between Colonel (later Major-General) Charles Ross and Lieutenant-General Robert Boyd.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.1
Scope and Contents
Both officers belonged to the 39th Foot which was then stationed in Gibraltar. The papers, which are not in chronological order, include letters to and from George Elliot, the Governor, extracts from regimental orders, and Ross`s own comments on the affair.
Dates:
1778-1780.
Order for the Massacre of Glencoe: letter of Major Robert Duncanson to Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, ordering him to fall on the Macdonalds of Glencoe and destroy them.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.24
Dates:
1692.
Small collections and single letters.
File
Identifier: MS.3813
Scope and Contents
The contents include:letters signed by the Earl of Arran as Regent in favour of John Mure of Rowallan, 1551;orders to the authorities of Ayrshire to keep order, with special reference to the rescue of the Covenanter David Houston, 1688;a statement regarding the conduct of the Earl Marischal on the death of Queen Anne at Sheriffmuir, 1768;letters of Sir James Hall, chiefly to Dr Alexander Marcet, 1804-1813;papers relating to Gretna...
Dates:
1551-1923.