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Roll of the heritors of the Canongate, Edinburgh, with a record of votes given in the election of a minister.
`Roll of the Magistrats of Edinburgh from Michaelmess 1583 till this present Day` by Sir Thomas Young of Rosebank, 1702, with additions in several hands up to 1804.
The roll gives the names of the Provosts, Baillies, Deans of Guild and Treasurers. It is followed (folio 33) by a list of the Bailies of Leith, 1665-1804, compiled in the early 19th century.
Roll of the South Fencible Regiment, commanded by the Duke of Buccleuch.
Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.
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.
Seaman`s books, 1973-1985, of David Campbleton, Edinburgh.
Includes papers, 1947-1973, of Alex McCorkindale, Dalkeith, relating to his service in the Merchant Navy.
Sederunt book of the tutors and curators of Sir James Wemyss, 3rd Baronet, of Bogie, concerning the estate of the late Sir John Wemyss.
Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory.
Shelf catalogues of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Signatures, undated, of Sir Alexander Carnegy of Balnamoon, Mr George Haliburton, Minister of Menmuir (afterwards Bishop of Dunkeld), and other subscribers in the parish of Menmuir, appended to ‘A solemne league and covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1643).
Signet Library, "Bibliotheca Polonica", List of the Polish books presented in 1821 by Count Adam Zamoyski and others.
Includes copies of minutes and letters, and some borrowing notes.
Single letters and papers.
Soldier`s pay-book of Edward Fraser, Sergeant, 3rd Bengal European Infantry.
With two letters, 1972, concerning the pay-book and a copied extract from a muster roll of 1860.
Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles`s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 33: copies of lists of the records removed from Scotland on the orders of Edward I and of material in the chapterhouse of Westminster Abbey.
Also included are transcripts of some formal documents, 1189-1299.
Subscribers' list for John Mackenzie's 'Eachdraidh a' Phrionnsa' (1844)
A bound volume containing the signatures and addresses of 291 subscribers to Mackenzie's Gaelic history of the Jacobite Rising, 'Eachdraidh a' Phrionnsa', first published in Edinburgh in 1844.
Subscription lists for Samuel Swarbreck's "Sketches in Scotland".
Subscription sheets, correspondence and a programme concerning instrumental music at the Annual Riding of Linlithgow Marches.
Subscription to oaths of allegiance, supremacy and submission to the government of the Church of Scotland by archbishops and bishops.
“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).
'Tabula super bibliam': an early 15th-century glossed copy of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393.
'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.
Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.
There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.
‘The coates armoriall of severall knights and gentlemen as they are matriculat in the New Register of Armes in the Lyon Office` by Robert Mylne. Followed (folio 204) by `The blazons of the Royall Burghs in Scotland`, also taken from the Lyon Register.
A number of the entries include the date (1692 or later) on which they were extracted from the Register, and some have additional information probably supplied by Mylne. There are some notes (folio ii) in 19th-century hands, including a list of officials of the Lyon Court.
`The Consultation Book of James Boswell Esquire of Auchinleck Advocate Who put on the Gown 29 July 1766. Written with his own hand.`
James Boswell’s case-book for the law sessions 1766-1772, listing the cases which he pleaded, together with the names of the agents, judges and opponents, and the fees received. Followed, from folio 12 verso, by lists, 1831-1833, of wines and spirits acquired from various merchants.