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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
Copies, 1725-1726, of Great Seal charters of the 14th and early 15th centuries, made by John Corss, Keeper of the Records.
Each volume has an elaborate title-page and an index of personal names.
Copies by John Wither, 1623, of English rolls of arms, mostly from `an auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in Cullers`.
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas and other documents, mostly conferring titles.
Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in parish churchyards in Lanarkshire, compiled, with introductions, photographs, lists of contents, and indexes, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).
Copy, 1713-1714, of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France.
Copy of part of the acts and proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, including a summary of the proceedings up to the 7th of December, the acts deposing the bishops, and an index of the Assembly`s acts, apparently extracted by Archibald Johnston, clerk to the Assembly.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ made in 1673 for John Smith of Brousterland, apparently from a text written in or about 1662.
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is rather shorter, many of the decisions quoted are earlier, and the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. It is followed by an index of subjects discussed (page 409), and a contents list of each Title (page 413), both written apparently in different hands, neither being that of the text. The volume lacks apparently one leaf at the end.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in an unidentified hand apparently in or about 1666.
Copy of the appendix to John MacGregor "The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea, and Gennesareth".
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Manuscript, 18th century, containing lists of peers and barons taken from the Rolls of Parliament and lists and copies of charters taken from the records of the Great Seal (both sources being then unpublished).
Manuscript concerning crown patrimony and south-west Scotland, written by two hands, the first, of the first half of the 18th century, being responsible for section (i), the second, circa 1760, for the remainder.
Manuscript containing: (i) copies of correspondence, with related papers, between the `Catholic Remainder of the British Church` (the non-juring Bishops) and the Orthodox Church, concerning a scheme for union between these bodies, 1716-1725; (ii) copies of letters of Thomas Brett to Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Aberdeen, 1722-1725.
Microfilm of copy, 1892, in three volumes, of two manuscript volumes of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria, in 1826-1849; with index.
The contents are as follows:
Copy of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria: [volume I] (MS.1681);
Copy of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria: [volume II]. (MS.1682);
Copy of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria: [volume III]. (MS.1683);
"Index to Angus MacKay's MS" (MS.1684).