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'A collection of the best reciepts in cookery, pastery and confectionary taken from the best authors by Margt Hume Campbell, with a dedication to the Right Honourable Lady Diana Scott’.
The collection was probably intended for Lady Diana, the author's younger sister, on her approaching marriage to Walter Scott of Harden in 1754. There are a few later additions and an index (folio iii) but no section on confectionery. Some of the sources of the recipes are named.
Accounts, day books, and recipe books of Milton printworks near Dumbarton.
Anonymous culinary, household and medical recipe book begin in 1692.
Assorted letters; with a receipt for Secret Service money signed by King George III, and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston.
Book of household and medical recipes marked 'Given to Lady Mary Murray, Sept. 5th 1787', written in several hands, and apparently compiled in the household of her father, the third Duke of Atholl.
The first fifty folios contain kitchen recipes. These are followed (folio 51) by a medical section, which includes some veterinary remedies, and (folio 124 verso) by a few recipes for home-made wines.
Book of household recipes compiled by a Mrs William Spence.
The larger part consists of kitchen recipes, but a few medical remedies are contained in the inverted pages. Many of the informants appear to be Scottish.
Book of recipes, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland.
‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
‘Collection of recipes’, being a book of household recipes.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.
Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.
Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.
Commonplace book of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.
As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).
"Cookery Notes", 1902-1904, of Elsie Henderson, with later annotations, c 1955, and memoirs, undated, of Catherine Elsie Henderson.
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1552-1615.
Also included is a copy of a memoir of Henri IV by Pierre Jeannin, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1), a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material, and a table of contents (folio 264).
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1606-1613.
Also included are a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material.
There is a table of contents (folio 1).
Copies of letters and instructions of Thomas, Baron Wharton, deputy warden of the marches.
Most of the material concerns the order of the watches in the three marches, giving the areas covered and, in some cases, the names of those concerned.
The volume may have been intended for John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland; his arms are painted on page 2, and the bear and ragged staff of Warwick drawn on page 3. There are large decorated initials in pen and ink on pages 3, 7, 13, 37, 121 and 153, some of which bear the letters IN, TP, CC or TW.
Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.
Copy, possibly the holograph, of the report by Thomas Tucker on the customs and excise of Scotland.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Culinary and household recipe book of Anne Susanna Hope, wife of Charles Hope, Commissioner at Chatham.
Included are culinary recipes of Anne Susanna Hope's mother-in-law, Lady Anne Johnston Hope, wife of Admiral Sir William Johnston Hope.