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Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5725
Scope and Contents The notebook contains: copies of James Steuart’s appointment to the office of Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, 1737 (folio 1); list of perquisites of the office (folio 3); order for drawing up inventories (folio 4 verso); copy of inventories, 1685, 1714, of the furniture in different departments of Holyroodhouse, such as the Wardrobe, Council Chamber, Exchequer, Session House, etc., (folio 8); and a history of the office, including copies of documents relating to it (folio 28 verso). Most of...
Dates: 1685-1769.

Papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of Morayshire, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire, collected by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.

Dates: 16th century-early 19th century.

Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates: Late 17th century-?1829.

`Proofs of the Subjection of Scotland to the Crowne of England`: a list of events down to 1422.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.18
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is probably an early 16th-century copy of an older English document.

Dates: Early 16th century.

Register of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.17
Scope and Contents

‘A noble and memorable register of all estates of nobilite created or restored sithence the conquest, etc., and of such nobles as were when the land was conquered by the Normanes’ with pedigrees and heraldic blazons. It endeth about the fortieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth’.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.17).

Dates: ?17th century.

Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.13
Scope and Contents The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library. Only those documents not known from other sources are indexed in detail. The contents are as follows:(i) `Registra Coenobiorum de Melrose et Balmerino Impensis Walteri McFarlan de eodem Transcripta Anno MDCCXLII`, copied from Adv.MSS.34.4.11, late 13th century (folio 1), and 34.5.3, 14th century (folio 67), with extracts from Richard Augustine Hay on Melrose, 1700-1707, or after (folio 54; from...
Dates: Late 13th century-1707, or after.

“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.

Topographical and other works.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates: Circa 1692-1709, and undated.

Volume containing an account of Leven`s Regiment (which later became the 25th Foot) from 1688, when it was raised by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, to 1826.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.21
Scope and Contents The volume would appear to have been the first of two, for the leaves are watermarked 1860 and folio 175 is inscribed in pencil `See Book No II`. The work is anonymous: it appears to have been made the basis of the text of ‘Records of the King`s Own Borderers’ by R T Higgins, but neither the text nor the many pencil additions and alterations appear to be in his hand. The account begins at folio 13, being preceded by a summary account to 1793 (folio 1) and `A List of His Majesty`s...
Dates: 1860, or after-1908.

Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9
Scope and Contents

Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.

Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.

Dates: 14th century.

Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents

The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).

Dates: 1700-1707, or after.

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