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Typescripts of "Not the Staff Bulletin", an unofficial NLS periodical.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11658
Scope and Contents

Includes original drafts and notes from Issue ten onwards, and "Dr Jekyll`s" presentation copy.

Dates: circa 1980-1990.

Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents

The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.

Dates: 4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.

Volume containing notes and speeches on some questions debated in the Theological and Belles Lettres Society, in the hand of William Lothian, Minister of Canongate Church, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.8
Scope and Contents

At the end of the volume are additional notes on the `Value and Proportion of Ancient and Modern Coins` and `Signification and Use of some Words` extracted from Johnson`s English Dictionary.

A scrap of paper (pages 201-202) containing draft notes of the debate on polygamy (pages 102-106) which was found loosely enclosed between pages 106 and 107 has been tipped in after page 200.

Dates: 1761-1764.

Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.2
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Part of a speech to the English Parliament on the financial affairs of James I, probably by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, ?1610 (folio 1).(ii) Copy, dated 1613, of Salisbury`s speech to Parliament, 15 February 1610. For summaries, see ‘A Life of Robert Cecil’, pages 297-299, and ‘Parliamentary Debates in 1610’, pages 1-9 (folio 4).(iii) Notes on rumoured preparations by Catholic forces, by Mr Foster,...
Dates: Late 16th century-17th century.

Walter Blaikie collection: letters containing Jacobite discourse.

 File
Identifier: MS.3128
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. 'Free and Impartial Reflexions of a Member of the House of Commons of England on occasion of the Speech of King George to the two Houses of the same Parliament on the 28th of October, 1745, containing a justification of the rights of the Royal House of Stuards to the Crown of Great Brittain, against the pretensions of the House of Brunswick Hannover. In a series of Letters. Letter I. At Edinburgh, 1745' (folio 1), dated London, 3 November 1745 (folio...
Dates: 1745-1746.

Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

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Identifier: MS.3859
Scope and Contents

Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).

There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.

Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

'ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ [BASILIKON DORON], ò Instruciones, compuestos por ... Jaymes ... Rey de Ingalaterra ... Traduzidado de Ingles en Romance vulgar, y dirigido a la misma Magestad por su ... vassallo Juan Pemberton, gentilhombre, natural de la insigne Ciudad de Londres.'

 Item
Identifier: MS.3855
Scope and Contents

According to a note inside the end cover, the translator may have been a citizen and grocer who was a brother of Sir James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London, 1611.

Dates: Early 17th century.

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Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 2
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Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Adam, Robin J, Professor of Medieval History, University of St Andrews, fl 1960-1998 1
Anderson, William James, Senior Curate, St Mary's, Chelsea, 1894-1972 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1
Baker, Jane, scriptwriter, fl 1968-1970 1
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Borrow, George Henry (writer and traveller) (1803-1881) 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Byres, James, of Tonley, antiquary and architect, 1734-1817 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Cokayne, George Edward, formerly Adams, genealogist, 1825-1911 1
Craig, Bill, writer, 1930-2002 1
Cranna, John, Scottish Unionist Association, fl 1937-1953 1
Dallmeyer, Andrew (playwright, theatre director and actor) 1
Dalrymple, James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619-1695 1
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 1
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1894–1972 1
Elphinstone, family, of Lopness 1
Erskine, Thomas Alexander, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer, 1732-1781 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Fawcett, Benjamin, engraver and colour printer, 1808-1893 1
Fleming, Lindsay, author of "Life of James Dennistoun", fl 1951-1954 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Fraser, Alexander Campbell (philosopher) 1
Gibson, Sir Alexander Drummond, Knight, conductor, 1926-1995 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 1
Hall, Sir James, 4th Baronet, geologist and chemist, 1761-1832 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Harvie, Christopher Thomas, Professor of British and Irish Studies, University of Tübingen, b 1944 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820: former owner 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
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Irving, Alexander, army officer in the Swedish service, d 1659 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Johnson, David Charles, musician, 1942-2009 1
Johnstone, Doug, author, b 1970 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Lindsay, William Fullarton, of Spynie, formerly Fullarton, d 1813 1
Livingstone, James, son of Angus Cook, Vice-Chairman of the Independent Labour Party, Scotland, fl 1985-1988 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 1
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967 1
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 1
McGregor, Sheila, author of "The Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle knitting", fl 1973-2003 1
McLean, Antonia Maxwell, wife of Ruari, typographer and author, née Carlisle, 1919-1995 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 1
Miller, William, Principal of Madras Christian College, 1838-1923 1
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Milligan, John, BBC Scotland, fl 1969-1999 1
Mirror, Edinburgh, newspaper 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Morrison, Ewan, author, b 1968. 1
Muir, Charles Augustus Carlow, author and journalist, 1892-1989 1
Muir, Sir Thomas, Knight, mathematician and educationist, 1844-1934 1
Murray, John George Stewart-, 7th Duke of Atholl, 1840-1917 1
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Murray, Malcolm, writer on Alexander Irving, army officer in the Swedish service, fl 1976-1986 1
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Neill and Co Ltd, Edinburgh, printers 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Paul, Sir James Balfour, Knight, historian, 1846-1931 1
Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton, journalist, naval intelligence officer and genealogist, 1883-1969 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Powell, Reginald (physicist) 1
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, Knight Colonial Governor, 1781-1826 1
Reith, George Murray, Minister of St Cuthbert’s United Free Church, Edinburgh, 1863-1948 1
Richards, Frank Roydon, Rector of Glasgow Academy, 1899-1978 1
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 1
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 1
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008 1
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Royle, Trevor Bridge (broadcaster and author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) (b 1945) 1
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