Showing Browse Resources: 26 - 39 of 39
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
Rental book of the burgh of Lanark for the year 1770 of rents to be collected by William Tod, surgeon in Lanark.
Rental of Paisley Abbey, written between 1460 and 1550.
Rental of the baronies of Longniddry, Seton and Winton.
The baronies formed part of the estates of the Earls of Winton forfeited after the 1715 rebellion, and were bought by the York Buildings Company in 1719. They were later leased to George Buchan of Kelloe - see ‘The York Buildings Company’, pages 47-48 - who probably compiled this volume.
Rental of the estate of Whytbank, Selkirkshire, for 1748.
The rental is in the hand of Alexander Pringle, the owner of the estate (cf. MS.9239).
'Rentall of my Lord Semple his whole estait both of stok and teynd as the lands now presentlie payeis as follows', 1644.
The statement, which may have been drawn up on the succession of Francis, 6th Lord Sempill, to his father Hugh, gives the rentals of the Barony of Glassford in Lanarkshire and lands in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, with the names of the tenants.
On folio 8 verso is an authority given by the Earl of Winton and other friends of the house to William ?Houie to uplift the rents, 7 March, 1645.
Rentals concerning property in the region of Melrose, Roxburghshire.
The rentals concern property in:
(i) Longnewton, 1696-1713 (folio 1);
(ii) Ancrum, 1712-1715 (folio 158);
(iii) Dryburgh Abbey, 1696, 1699 (folio 9, inverted).
(iv) Longnewton, 1675, 1695; abbreviated for comparing the two years (folio 1, inverted).
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.
Scottish chartularies transcribed, 1738-1744, for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
The wording and ornament of the title pages suggest a division into three groups:
(i) Adv.MSS.35.2.5, 35.3.6, 35.3.7, 35.39: 1738-1739.
(ii) Adv.MSS.35.3.2, 35.3.4: 1740.
(iii) Adv.MSS.35.3.3, 35.3.5, 35.3.8: 1740-1744.
The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library, with notes taken from Richard Augustine Hay`s works. Only those documents the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.