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16th-century manuscript containing a register of charters and leases of St Andrews Priory, Pittenweem Priory and the archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1553-1574.
16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
Copies of rentals of Roxburghshire, some imperfect.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
Copy of the rental of Kintyre for the year 1678, attested by Archibald Campbell, Notary Public, at Inveraray, 10 March 1719.
Correspondence and papers of James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), the artist and antiquary; including some earlier material concerning the Skene family.
Correspondence and papers of the Campbell family of Inverneill.
The archive of the Campbell family of Inverneill formerly kept in Canna House, Isle of Canna. It comprises correspondence and papers mainly of the 18th century, including he the business correspondence of various family members in military or government positions. There is also a component of estate papers concerning estates around Kintyre.
Early 16th-century manuscript of the accounts of the Bishopric of Dunkeld, covering the years 1506-1517.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Letters and papers of the family of Stewart of Newton, afterwards Stewart of Lochrig.
The letters and papers deal chiefly with family matters; some describe the doings of officers of the 7th Dragoons and 56th Foot.
Manuscript containing a 15th-century list of benefactors, prayers, obituaries, and rental of the Hospital of St Anthony, Leith; with a 16th-century extract from a rental of Newhaven.
Microfilm of books of Assumption.
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).
Microfilm of manuscript produced between 1460 and 1550, the Rental of Paisley Abbey.
Microfilm of rentals of the Sutherland estates.
The contents are as follows:
Rental, 1825-1829 (Dep.313/2159);
Rental, 1830-1833 (Dep.313/2160).