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`Collection of Papers Experiments And Observations Relating to Husbandry, Grass, And other Branches Of Country Affairs,’ by William Baird of Auchmeddan.
The collection was compiled over the years 1736 to 1756, and was written in the latter year (pages iii, 234). It is made up of extracts from books, copies of letters, and notes of the experiences of the writer.
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`.
Composite volume consisting of two unrelated and formerly separate collections of transcripts made probably at the same time as each other by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
Copies of correspondence and papers concerning a dispute between Colonel (later Major-General) Charles Ross and Lieutenant-General Robert Boyd.
Both officers belonged to the 39th Foot which was then stationed in Gibraltar. The papers, which are not in chronological order, include letters to and from George Elliot, the Governor, extracts from regimental orders, and Ross`s own comments on the affair.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
Copy, 18th century, written on paper watermarked 1742 or 1749, of an extract from `An Abridgment of the Scotishe historie`, written by John Maxwell, 4th Lord Herries of Terregles and dated 1656.
Copy, made apparently in 1729, of ‘the most material passages’ of ‘Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum’ by Thomas Dempster (Bononiae, 1627).
Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon.
Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
Corrected typescript of Francis Bull`s introduction to "Scandinavia", a catalogue of an exhibition held at NLS.
With letter of Francis Bull.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘Annals of Scotland’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1776, 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.
Editorial papers of Professor Ian A Gordon for an unpublished edition of John Galt`s "The Ayrshire Legatees" based on the 1823 edition.
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland.
Genealogical notes of Sidney Cramer.
Includes copies and extracts from birth, marriage and death certificates, with notes and temple ordinance data.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
Historical and genealogical notebook.
Includes extracts from works of George Crawford, Sir James Dalrymple and Sir J Scott of Scotstorvet.