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Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Poems in Scots of the Reverend James Melville, minister of Kilrenny, mostly on religious themes
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Sonnets and short poems, some relating to Andrew Melville, written in 1610 and 1611 (folio 1). (ii) Copy of Hugh Broughton`s pamphlet `A Petition to the Lords to examine the religion and cariage of R. Ban[croft] Archbishop. Anno.1608` (folio 12).(iii) `A Preservative from Apostasie or the Song of Moses ... translated out of Hebrew and put in metre first shortly neere the text and than more at large...
Dates:
1606-1611.