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Collection of papers relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents.
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.
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`.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Contemporary copies and translations of letters, mainly from Italy, reporting on European and Turkish affairs.
Most of the documents are dated 1596. The subjects include Spanish policy in June and July of that year, leading up to the capture of Cadiz by the English (cf. ‘Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series ... 1595-1597’); a rising of janissaries in Constantinople; and events in Italy and eastern Europe. These are followed (folio 33) by miscellaneous papers, mostly concerning the siege of Montauban in 1621.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
Copies, 17th century, of letters, 1636-1640, of Samuel Rutherfurd chiefly written during the period of his banishment to Aberdeen in 1637.
The letters are followed (folio 56) by copies of sermons and similar material of Hugh Mackail, David Dickson and others.
The inverted folios contain political and other poems, including 'The black bastel' by James Melvill.
Copies, 17th century, of Ramón Lull, ‘Ars juris’ and ‘De inventione mediorum juris civilis’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.5.7).
Copies, 17th century, of treaties and other documents, 13th-16th century, concerning France and Scotland.
Copies, 18th century, of records of Parliament and of the Privy Council.
Copies, 18th century, of various legal papers, 16th and 17th century.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Copies, 1593 to 18th century, of Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, ‘Practicks’.
Copies, 1636-1637, of documents and notes of Sir James Balfour on ecclesiastical history.
Copies, 1688, by J M (possibly James Man) of documents, 1398-1677, concerning Aberdeen.
Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently collected by James Anderson.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
Copies, chiefly from printed books, of documents concerning Edinburgh.
Copies, in an eighteenth-century hand, of Jacobite tracts, in a book containing Thomas Ruddiman's bookplate and a list of contents in his autograph.
Copies, in chronological order, of the opinions given by John Inglis (later Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session), some conjointly with other advocates.
The volumes are numbered V to X; it seems likely that the missing I to IV covered all of Inglis’s earlier career as an advocate, from 1835. The series ends with his elevation to the bench as Lord Justice Clerk in July 1858.
Copies, late 16th century, of papers, 1584-1587, concerning the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots and her English supporters.
Copies, late 17th century and 18th century, of Sir Robert Spottiswoode, Lord Newabbey, ‘Practicks’.
Copies, late 17th century, of letters, 1637-1638, of Robert Baillie, principal of Glasgow University, and of papers, 1638, concerning the Glasgow Assembly.
Copies, late seventeenth century, of anti-religious tracts, ‘Cymbalum mundi ceu symbolum sapientiae’ and 'De tribus impostoribus’.
1. ‘Symbolum sapientiæ, hoc est doctrina solida de Religione et vulgo sic dicta S. scriptura, superstioni Paganæ, Iudaicæ, Christianæ et Muhammedanæ opposita ex M.S. autoris Itali ... Eleutheropolis Anno 1678';
2. ‘De tribus impostoribus’, juxta exemplar impressum 1598.