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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6660-7000
Scope and Contents
This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.
Dates:
1778-1841.
Carmichael and Gordon papers.
File
Identifier: MS.109
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'The nativite of bairnis' of William, 7th Lord Forbes, and his wife Elizabeth Keith, being the names and dates of birth of their sixteen children (folio 1);(ii) Orders issued by Colonel Robert Montgomerie protecting Robert Gordon of Straloch and exempting him from any 'monthly maintenance' in accordance with the decision of the Estates of Parliament, 1649 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of Robert Gordon of Straloch to the Marquess of...
Dates:
1649-1779, undated.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Microfilm of correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1076-1077
Dates:
1808-1813.
Order for the Massacre of Glencoe: letter of Major Robert Duncanson to Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, ordering him to fall on the Macdonalds of Glencoe and destroy them.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.24
Dates:
1692.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.3.26-23.3.30
Scope and Contents
The Eaglescarnie estate was held by a younger branch of the Haliburtons until the middle of the 18th century, when it was acquired by Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War, by his marriage with Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Haliburton. There are some 17th-century papers of the Haliburtons, but the majority relate to Patrick Lindsay and to his father, Patrick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament for the City (see ‘The Scots Peerage’, pages 409-410). Several of the papers...
Dates:
1639-1789.
Small collections and single letters.
File
Identifier: MS.3813
Scope and Contents
The contents include:letters signed by the Earl of Arran as Regent in favour of John Mure of Rowallan, 1551;orders to the authorities of Ayrshire to keep order, with special reference to the rescue of the Covenanter David Houston, 1688;a statement regarding the conduct of the Earl Marischal on the death of Queen Anne at Sheriffmuir, 1768;letters of Sir James Hall, chiefly to Dr Alexander Marcet, 1804-1813;papers relating to Gretna...
Dates:
1551-1923.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.