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‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.13
Scope and Contents The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.3.1.The contents are as follows: (i) An abridgement of part of the valuation, 1551 (page 5); (ii) The rent paid to the King out of the surplus of the thirds of benefices (page 48); (iii) Various taxt rolls of Benefices and church property - temporality as well as spirituality, chiefly early 17th century (page 51); (iv) List of Religious houses (page 185); (v) Copy of a retour,...
Dates: 16th century-early 17th century.

Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates: 13th century-1689.

Microfilm of books of Assumption.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.482
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Book of Assumption of Beneficies (Adv.MS.31.3.12);

‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife, 16th century-early 17th century (Adv.MS.31.3.13);

Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals, 16th century-1628, of Church and Crown lands in Scotland (Adv.MS.31.3.16).

Dates: 16th century-17th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

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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.