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Chronicles and historical works, written in England.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.1
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...
Dates: 15th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.

 File
Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents

The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).

Dates: 1559-1618.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Genealogical and legal papers.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.13
Scope and Contents (i) Copy of `Appeal to the House of Lords, George Udny v. John Henry Allat or Udny and William Skinner: Supplemental Joint Appendix [list of interlocutors in the case and genealogical tree of the family of Udny of Udny]’, London, 1866. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) Printed list of witnesses in the trial of Thomas Hardy, indicted for High Treason, 1794. The names of the witnesses are annotated, e.g. `L.C.S.` [London Corresponding Society], `informer`, etc. (Folios 12-15.)(iii)...
Dates: 1794-1866.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Genealogical chart of and list of references to the family of Macfarlane of Gartartan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10336
Dates: 1991.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Jacobite Papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.

Dates: 1645-1891.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Register of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.17
Scope and Contents

‘A noble and memorable register of all estates of nobilite created or restored sithence the conquest, etc., and of such nobles as were when the land was conquered by the Normanes’ with pedigrees and heraldic blazons. It endeth about the fortieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth’.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.17).

Dates: ?17th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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