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Microfilm of miscellaneous papers, 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century, concerning genealogy and religion; and, copy of part of the acts and proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, 1638.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.430
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Miscellaneous papers, 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century, concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary (Adv.MS.16.1.1);Copy of part of the acts and proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, 1638, including a summary of the proceedings up to the 7th of December, the acts deposing the bishops, and an index of the Assembly’s acts, apparently extracted by Archibald Johnston, clerk to the Assembly...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.
Microfilm of official correspondence sent by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell, of Inverneil, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, volume 1; and, "Appendix to Lord Cornwallis's letters to Mr. Dundas", containing the documents sent by Cornwallis attached to letters in MS.3385.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.986-987
Dates:
1785-1793.
Microfilm of ‘Reports of ministers’, contemporary copies of answers of ministers to queries of a committee of the General Assembly concerning the augmentation of ministers’ stipends.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.428-429
Dates:
1749-1750.
Microfilm of ‘Treaties at Newcastle and London 1640-1641’; and, church papers chiefly concerning the Glasgow Assembly.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.805
Dates:
1640-1641.
Microfilms of papers from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service in the East India Station.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1036-1038
Dates:
1842-1847.
Narrative of a Swedish Officer serving as a volunteer in the Seven Years' War, in the army of Frederick the Great and attached to Marshal Keith.
Item
Identifier: MS.3809
Scope and Contents
The narrative, which is in English and may be a copy of a journal written during the campaign, describes in some detail the march from Dresden to Prague, the battle and siege of Prague, and the retreat to Saxony after Kolin. On 3 August the writer left the service in consequence of Sweden declaring war on Prussia, but he continues to give reports of operations received in Dresden.The book ends with accounts of Frederick's opinions of other leaders, of his reasons for attacking at...
Dates:
1757.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.301
Dates:
1726-1888.
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 of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case of Messrs Tait against James A Maconochie.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/19
Dates:
1823, undated.
Records, 1877-1954, of the Association of Sheriff and Commissary Clerks of Scotland; with earlier papers, 1808-1879, relating to sheriff clerks, deputes and procurators.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.371
Dates:
1808-1954.
Records of the Lanarkshire Miners` County Union, the Lanarkshire Mineworkers` Union and the National Union of Mineworkers, Lanarkshire Area.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.227
Dates:
1887-1962.
‘Reports of ministers’, contemporary copies of answers of ministers to queries of a committee of the General Assembly concerning the augmentation of ministers’ stipends.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.7
Dates:
1749-1750.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.
File
Identifier: MS.68
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notarial copy of the proceedings in the case of the magistrates of Elgin v the Procurator of the Church of Scotland, 1713. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Memorial concerning the opposition offered by the Bank of England to the draught of a warrant for a charter to incorporate the proprietors of the Scots Equivalent Debentures', 1719. (Folio 12.)(iii) Correspondence, 1719, of the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, on the prosecution of the...
Dates:
1713-1790.
‘Treaties at Newcastle and London 1640-1641’, being a collection of copies of the letters & proceedings connected with the military and other operations of the Scotch in England from August 1640 to March 1641 including the whole minutes of conferences and proceedings of the English & Scotch Committees.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.6
Dates:
1640-1641.
Typescript copy of report, 1920, of expedition of Alexander M Kellas to ascend Kamet in the Himalayas.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9603
Scope and Contents
With presentation note and letter, 1921, to Dr Ernest L Kennaway.
Dates:
1920-1921
Volume of topographical surveys.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume (somewhat out of order) are as follows:(i) a report of a survey of Loch Broom made in July 1793 (folio 1);(ii) a report, addressed to John Rennie, of the survey of Loch Bay made in May 1793 by John Baine (folio 23) which was given in to the Highland Society; (iii) John Mackenzie`s letter, 1798, forwarding the reports (folio 53);(iv) a copy of a report by Thomas Telford to Nicholas Vansittart, then secretary of the...
Dates:
1793-1801.