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Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of Morayshire, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire, collected by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
`Proofs of the Subjection of Scotland to the Crowne of England`: a list of events down to 1422.
The manuscript is probably an early 16th-century copy of an older English document.
Register of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables.
‘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).
Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
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).
Topographical and other works.
Transcripts, 1774-?1788, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1560-1668, made by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth, and a copy in his possession, 1784, of the ‘History of the united Parishes of Monivaird and Strowan’ compiled, circa 1774, by James Porteous of Dalvich, Minister of Monzievaird and Strowan.
This is part ii of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Typescript of unpublished work of Alexander Law, "Schoolbooks and Textbooks in Scotland in the 18th Century: a Handlist with Introduction and Notes".
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.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
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.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
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.
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).