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Copies of sixteen letters concerning public affairs in Scotland.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.2.27.
Copies of state papers.
The papers include material on the charges against the Earl of Bristol in 1626, the Scottish objections to kneeling at communion, speeches in Parliament and other topics.
Copies of three letters concerning the Scottish Cooperative Employees Association.
Copies of three letters of Anne of Denmark to Colin Campbell, Laird of Glenorchy.
Copies of two photographs of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Copies of valuations for the shire of Aberdeen.
Copies of warrants and orders by the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.
The documents are from 1665, when Henry Lord Carbury was Lord Chamberlain, to 1683, when the post was held by Louis, Earl of Feversham.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Copy, 17th century, of a journal kept by a member of Sir Robert Cecil`s suite during the period of his embassy to France, February-April 1598, before the signing of the Treaty of Vervins.
The entries for each day are brief, and much of the manuscript consists of copies of official correspondence sent and received by Cecil, some of which was published in ‘An Historical View of the Negotiations between the courts of England, France and Brussels’, pages 100-157.
Copy, 17th century, of David Hume’s ‘Vindiciæ Buchanani contra Camdenum’ in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.5.5.
Copy, 17th century, of five prose tracts of William Drummond, of Hawthornden, the poet, written between 1638 and 1642 about the time of Rebellion and Civil War in the reign of Charles I.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘Humii vindiciæ Buchanani contra Camdenum’ or ‘Camdenea; id est examen nonnullorum a G. Camdeno in Britannia sua positorum, præcipuē quæ ad irrisionem Scoticæ Gentis et eorum et Pictorum falsam originem’.
At the end is a copy of a Latin letter, 7 Cal. May 1604, of Andrew Melville to David Hume.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.5.16.
Copy, 17th century, of “Lord Chancellor’s Practicks” (possibly by Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline.
A volume with ‘General Index’ on the fly leaf, then:
(i) Lord Chancellor’s Practiques (pages 1-72);
(ii) Sinclair’s Practiques (pages 72-235);
(iii) Maitland’s Practiques (page 237).
(iv) Colvill's Practiques (page 635);
(v) Haddington's Practiques.
A descriptive note of the contents of the book, written in a later hand, is fixed on the first fly leaf.
Copy, 17th century, of `Prince Henry his Life, Death and Funeralles`, the life of the Prince of Wales, which was published in 1641 attributed to Sir Charles Cornwallis.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘The History and Life of James the Sixt’, attributed to John Colville, Scottish divine and politician, written in the late 16th century and covering the period from 1566 to 1582.
Copy, 17th century, of `The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision`.
Copy, 17th century, of the statutes of Christ`s College, Cambridge, 1506.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘The Theatre of the Scotish Kings’ by Alexander Garden, written circa 1625.
Copy, 17th century, or Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, ‘Practicks’.
Copy, 18th century, of an account, descriptive and historical, of the Chanonry of Old Aberdeen and connected institutions, by Thomas (rectius William) Drem, Bailie of Aberdeen, written 1725.
Originally part (Inv. XII) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20; William Rose has added some marginal notes.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Essay upon Tiends`, an anonymous essay in six chapters.
Internal evidence suggests that the original essay was written circa 1732. It begins on folio 1, and is followed by a discussion on `patronage` (folio 28 verso), apparently a memorial by C Talbot for an unnamed litigant; and a copy ‘Memorial for Mr Thomas Linning, Min[?]. at Walstoun` (folio 30). The original of this memorial must have been written before Linning`s death in 1731.
Copy, 18th century, of “Chroniques au foumaire recit de ce qui se trouve de plus remarquable dans l’etat de la Republique de Geneve et de l’eglise qui y est recueillie depuis qu’elle est connue jusques à l’année 1562 par Michel Rozet.”
Six volumes bound in four.