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Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently collected by James Anderson.
Copies and photographic and other reproductions of early maps in British and foreign collections.
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
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 by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne of papers concerning the proposed marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Infanta Maria of Spain.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of royal letters and other documents in the Denmilne Papers.
A list giving the references of the original manuscripts has been inserted.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of some of his own letters and two addressed to him.
The letters are not in chronological sequence. Most of them express his friendship for his correspondent, but in one he comments on the reception of the new Service Book at St Giles in 1637 (folio 9 verso), and in another to Lord Elcho he advises on reading matter (folio 12 verso).
Copies, chiefly from printed books, of documents concerning Edinburgh.
Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.
The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.
Copies, circa 1680, of (i) ‘Description of the Western Isles of Scotland’ by Sir Donald Monro, `High Dean of the Isles`, originally written in 1549 (page 1); (ii) `The Description of the Iles of Scotland` by an unknown author written probably around 1577-1582 (page 22).
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1552-1615.
Also included is a copy of a memoir of Henri IV by Pierre Jeannin, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1), a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material, and a table of contents (folio 264).
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1606-1613.
Also included are a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material.
There is a table of contents (folio 1).
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
Copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.
Copies, early eighteenth century, of notarial instruments upon a process before the Bishops of Durham and Aberdeen, Pope’s delegates, concerning the Priory of Coldinghame, between the Priors of Durham and Coldinghame and Patrick and John Home.
Copies, in an eighteenth-century hand, of Jacobite tracts, in a book containing Thomas Ruddiman's bookplate and a list of contents in his autograph.
Copies, in chronological order, of the opinions given by John Inglis (later Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session), some conjointly with other advocates.
The volumes are numbered V to X; it seems likely that the missing I to IV covered all of Inglis’s earlier career as an advocate, from 1835. The series ends with his elevation to the bench as Lord Justice Clerk in July 1858.
Copies, in two different hands of the 17th century, of the statutes of the Royal College of Physicians of London. The statutes of 1647 (folio 1) are followed (folio 39) by an earlier set of statutes (not those of 1355) which have been emended to conform to those of 1647.
The title and the initials P D occur on folio i.
Copies, late 16th century, of papers, 1584-1587, concerning the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots and her English supporters.
Copies, late 17th century and 18th century, of Sir Robert Spottiswoode, Lord Newabbey, ‘Practicks’.
Copies, late 17th century, of letters, 1637-1638, of Robert Baillie, principal of Glasgow University, and of papers, 1638, concerning the Glasgow Assembly.
Copies, late 17th or early 18th century, of official papers, 1550-1632, concerning Scottish fisheries.
The papers mostly concern the dispute with the United Provinces over the rights of the Dutch to fish in Scottish waters, 1618-1619, and the proposed joint English and Scottish association for the fisheries, 1630-1632. There are a few unrelated items, mostly concerning the coinage.
The signature `John Dalrymple` appears on folio 46.
Copies, late 18th-century, of poems, 1769-1774, and undated, of Henry Erskine, with a few corrections by the author.
There is a list of contents on folio 1.