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Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents
The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates:
1778-1791.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
File
Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents
The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates:
[1562]-1563, [1568].
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e(ii)
Dates:
1863-1925.
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.7194
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) A list, circa 1642, of the cannon belonging to the Marquess of Argyll (folio 2);(ii) Business correspondence and papers, circa 1653-1669, of Sir James Lamont and Archibald Lamont of Stilaig, his brother, including some draft petitions of Sir James to the English commissioners in Scotland, claiming restitution for injuries inflicted on himself and his family by the Marquess of Argyll (folio 4);(iii) Business correspondence...
Dates:
1640-1893.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20001-20003
Dates:
?1195-1844, undated.
Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.
File
Identifier: MS.9248
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Abridgement of ‘Jus Feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton. The text is in a considerably shorter form than the usual epitomes (for which see MS.1950 and Adv.MSS.25.6.1-2, 28.3.14), and omits book i, 11 and 13, book ii, 5 and 15, and book iii, 4 and 7. (Folio 1.)(ii) "Inventory of ane Burges's airship moveables". (Folio 88.) (iii) Latin mottoes. (Folio 90.)(iv) Notes on land measures in Scotland and weights...
Dates:
[1704, or before.]
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Item
Identifier: MS.5725
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains: copies of James Steuart’s appointment to the office of Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, 1737 (folio 1); list of perquisites of the office (folio 3); order for drawing up inventories (folio 4 verso); copy of inventories, 1685, 1714, of the furniture in different departments of Holyroodhouse, such as the Wardrobe, Council Chamber, Exchequer, Session House, etc., (folio 8); and a history of the office, including copies of documents relating to it (folio 28 verso). Most of...
Dates:
1685-1769.
Notes, transcripts and extracts compiled by and for Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton relating to Aberdeen and its ecclesiastical antiquities.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows: (i) Extracts in Hutton`s hand from the index to the Records of the City of Aberdeen by William Kennedy, advocate,Aberdeen, 1814. The entries, which are alphabetically arranged by subject, range in date between 1401 and 1799. (Folio 1.)(ii) Translations in another, unidentified hand of formal documents relating to the Dominicans of Aberdeen ranging in date between 1392 and 1585. According to a note in Hutton`s...
Dates:
Late 12th century-1799.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary, comprising drafts and notes for `The History of the Life and Reign of James the Third, the King of Scots, 1460-1488`; and, ‘An Historical Account of Printing in Scotland from 1507 to 1707.`
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.16.2.20-16.2.22
Dates:
?1st quarter of 19th century.