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Heraldic and genealogical material in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Kings of Armes and Heraulds in England. 1628` (pages 1,17).(ii) Memorial of Margaret, Countess of Lennox (page 9). (iii) `De gubernatione et reformatione officiariorum armorum’ (page 54).(iv) `Series Regum Scottorum ab anno 1061 ad annum 1624` (page 59). A genealogy of the Scottish kings, based on ‘De origine, moribus et rebus gestis Scotorum’ by John Leslie, bishop of Ross (Rome, 1578), with...
Dates:
2nd quarter of 17th century.
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.30
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy, circa 1702, with additions to 1703, of ‘Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’, probably made in 1672, attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (Adv.MS.13.2.10);Blazons of Scottish arms, 1630-1643, by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne (Adv.MS.15.1.11);Arms of British and foreign noblemen, drawn...
Dates:
13th century-1703.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers, written in many different 18th-century hands, are very mixed and are quite brief. The largest groups are:(i) part (pages 17-32) of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of one of Walter Macfarlane`s assistants, of documents relating to members of the family of Stirling of Keir (folios 23-30); (ii) part of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of another of Macfarlane`s assistants, of royal and other letters to members of the family of Mure of...
Dates:
?17th century-18th century.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Dates:
1754-1759.
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.