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Three documents, some in verse, concerning the families of Learmonth of Dairsie and Balcomie, Fife.
File
Identifier: Acc.10940
Dates:
circa 1620-1651.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.2
Scope and Contents
(i) `A short account of the noble and ancient Family of Dunbar. Writen, A[?] 1744.` The writer deals with the origin of the family, the family of Dunbar and March descended from the Earls of Northumberland, the families of Dundas and Home, the Dunbars of Cumnock and Mochrum, the Dunbars Earls of Moray, the Dunbars of Westfield and their branches, and the armorial bearings of the Dunbars, and adds genealogical trees of the family of Dunbar and March, of the Earls of Home and Marchmont, and of...
Dates:
1554, 1744.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.24
Scope and Contents
The following dates of writing are given: 15 September 1712 (folio 2), 10 April 1713 (folio 76), 13 November 1712 (folio 80).The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year of God, 1691. With a copious relation of the siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in the year 1689. By W.S. An. 1691.` The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen...
Dates:
1338, circa 1670-1732.