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Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library, including inventories, petitions and accounts.
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Papers concerning the lands of Kermuck and Ellon, and the family of Gordon of Ellon.
Papers of and concerning John Mackinnon.
Seven documents:
will, 1807, of Roderick Mackinnon
two letters, 1838, of Major Macdonald, 93rd Highlanders, in Halifax, Nova Scotia
furlough, 1835, containing physical description of John Mackinnon
pay list, 1839, of a recruiting party at Stornoway
discharge certificate, 1842, of John Mackinnon
certificate of pledge, 1849, of the Marine Temperance Society of New York.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning exemptions from Jury Service.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
Papers of the Incorporation of Mary`s Chapel, Edinburgh.
Papers of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.
Comprising:
1. two minute books, 1923-1949
2. sederunt book, 1932-1949
3. lists, 1924-1949, of officer bearers.
Papers of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC).
Papers relating to sedition, formerly part of the papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Papers relating to the death from disease of Staff Surgeon David Anderson, at Scutari, during the Crimean War.
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.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.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).