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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.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

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`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.16
Scope and Contents The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: a.1.22.Some of the items in this manuscript may have been copied from Adv.MS.34.2.17: Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rent.The contents are as follows: 1. Rentals of benefices, 1561; 2. Kings Rents & Casualties, 1628; 3. The contributions to the Lords of Session; 4. Compt of taxation of £100,000, 1593; 5. The rent paid to the king out of the...
Dates: 16th century-1628.

Genealogies and other papers of Sir James Balfour.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.40
Scope and Contents

A volume titled ‘Balfour’s Genealogies’, containing: 1. A copy of ‘Genealogies of the Scottish nobility’ (Adv.MS.33.2.39). 2. Commission for the valuation of teinds, and proceedings of the commissioners, 1627-1643.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (A.4.25).

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Microfilm of books of Assumption.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.482
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Book of Assumption of Beneficies (Adv.MS.31.3.12);

‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife, 16th century-early 17th century (Adv.MS.31.3.13);

Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals, 16th century-1628, of Church and Crown lands in Scotland (Adv.MS.31.3.16).

Dates: 16th century-17th century.

Microfilm of miscellaneous papers, 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century, concerning genealogy and religion; and, copy of part of the acts and proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, 1638.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.430
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Miscellaneous papers, 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century, concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary (Adv.MS.16.1.1);Copy of part of the acts and proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, 1638, 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...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 17th century.

Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.

 File
Identifier: MS.68
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Notarial copy of the proceedings in the case of the magistrates of Elgin v the Procurator of the Church of Scotland, 1713. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Memorial concerning the opposition offered by the Bank of England to the draught of a warrant for a charter to incorporate the proprietors of the Scots Equivalent Debentures', 1719. (Folio 12.)(iii) Correspondence, 1719, of the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, on the prosecution of the...
Dates: 1713-1790.

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