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12 volumes relating to the peerage of Great Britain collected by James Maidment.
Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Andrew B W MacEwen, "Notes on Rob Roy and the Family of Glengyle".
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Arms of the English and Scottish nobility. A collection of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman.
The collection includes the creations of 1605, but not those of 1618.
The section on English heraldry (folio 1) contains the arms of the various rulers and their nobles from William I to James I. The Scottish section (folio 104) contains the arms of the queens of Scotland from St Margaret to Anne of Denmark, followed by those of the nobility.
Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
Biographical and genealogical notes, mostly extracts or cuttings from books and newspapers, compiled by William B D D Turnbull.
Almost all of the notes are undated, but the press-cuttings are dated 1855.
Book of recipes, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland.
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon.
There are some notes and additions.
Collection of English arms in trick, probably compiled as a working notebook by herald painters in London, one of whom appears to have worked with Sir Henry Saint George, Garter King of Arms.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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, dated 1741, by Roderick Chalmers, Ross Herald, of `The descent and pedegree of the most noble and auntient house of the Lords of Sincleer` drawn up by Henry, Lord Sinclair in 1590.
Copy, made in the second half of the sixteenth century, of the Hamilton Armorial.
Copy of John G Burns, "The Burne, Burn, or Burns Family" (1956).
With additional notes, 1980 and 1986.
Correspondence and papers concerning various peerages on which James Maidment conducted genealogical research.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.