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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.

'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.

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.

Papers concerning the Mackenzies, MacRaes and Mathesons of Lochalsh and Kintail, Wester Ross, collected by Captain Alexander and Betsy Matheson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9548
Scope and Contents

Concerning genealogy, history and traditions of the families.

Dates: circa 1860-1909.

Papers of the Sutherland Estates.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents

This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.

Dates: 15th century-1814.

Photostats of pedigrees and genealogical tables of the O’Brien family, compiled by the Honourable Donough O'Brien.

 File
Identifier: MS.2977
Scope and Contents

Pedigree, 1937, showing the male and female descendants of Dermod and Donough, sons of Murrough O'Brien, the Tanist; 'Genealogical table of the descendants of Milesius . . . in which is shown the pedigree of the O'Brien family ... to 1938', 1938; 'The genealogical table of the O'Brien family', 1938, showing the descent of the 16th Baron Inchiquin from Noah.

Dates: 1937-1938.

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.