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Album of Thomas Constable, publisher, containing the names of subscribers to ‘Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland’ by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, among which are signatures, 1842, of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
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Identifier: MS.3052
Dates:
1842-1843.
Microfilm of Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.456
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).
Dates:
1554-1707.
Proposals for raising a subscription among Judges and Members of the Faculty of Advocates, former pupils of David Hume as Professor of Scots Law, with a view to procuring a memorial to him on his retirement from that office.
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Identifier: MS.2976
Scope and Contents
The proposal is signed by fifty-two subscribers, including Sir Walter Scott. Chantrey was asked to execute a bust of Hume, but was unable to undertake the commission (see Scott's letter to Chantrey of 7 September 1822, and note, in the Centenary Edition of his letters).
Dates:
?1822.
Signatures, undated, of Sir Alexander Carnegy of Balnamoon, Mr George Haliburton, Minister of Menmuir (afterwards Bishop of Dunkeld), and other subscribers in the parish of Menmuir, appended to ‘A solemne league and covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1643).
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Identifier: MS.3279
Dates:
[1643, or after.]