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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Copy, late 17th century-mid 18th century, of Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’.
Copy of a transcript of a BBC radio programme marking the centenary of the birth of John Buchan.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Correspondence and other papers of John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
‘Historie of the estate of the Kirk of Scotland’ by John Row, Minister of Carnock; and papers on ecclesiastical affairs.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to George Canning, on placing Scott’s nephew in India, with copy reply, and typescript transcripts of the letters.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Microfilm of genealogical material.
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
‘Reports of ministers’, contemporary copies of answers of ministers to queries of a committee of the General Assembly concerning the augmentation of ministers’ stipends.
Scribal copy of letter, 1643, of Oliver Cromwell to Lawrence Crawford
With annotated transcript and notes, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
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.
“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).
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
Transcripts, late 18th century (the paper of Adv.MS.22.2.5 being watermarked 1798), made for George Chalmers, the antiquary, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’.
The hand appears to be that of George Chalmers’s nephew, James Chalmers.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.