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Microfilm of ‘A Perfect Inventor of all the Pious Donations Given to the Kirks and Hospitals in Scotland since the days of K. Iames 1 To the Regne of King Iames the vi. With Additions. Edenburgh Writen 12 novr i702 by R:M:’ (i.e. Robert Mylne).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.198
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1703.
Microfilm of “Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee Indians, who died in 1775.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1191
Dates:
[Circa 1760.]
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.32
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical and legal papers, 1794-1866 (Adv.MS.2.1.13);Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1659-1831 (Adv.MS.2.1.14);Miscellaneous manuscript, 1629-1921 (Adv.MS.2.1.15);Stewart genealogies, papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers, 17th century-18th century (Adv.MS.6.1.12);Materials, 1811, or after, for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton...
Dates:
17th century-1921.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Microfilm of collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.146-159
Dates:
1164-1639.
Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.763
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);
Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);
Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).
Dates:
1726-1800.
Microfilm of correspondence of, and manuscripts of or concerning, Thomas De Quincey.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1565-1569
Dates:
19th century.
Microfilm of correspondence, papers, charters and other formal documents of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and of his son Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, American and West Indian Merchant in London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.35-53
Dates:
1768-1934.
Microfilm of documents concerning the Highlands of Scotland, including a history of the Macdonalds.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.861
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’, early 18th century (Adv.MS.16.1.14);‘State of Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, its extent, causes, and proposed remedy.’ An apparently unpublished treatise, dated ‘London March 21st 1803’ (Adv.MS.35.6.18);Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald, [1829, or after] (Adv.MS.73.1.12);...
Dates:
Early 18th century-[1827, or after].
Microfilm of documents relating to Lanarkshire, chiefly concerning the parish of Carluke.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1559
Dates:
1668-1857.
Microfilm of drafts of works of George Chalmers; and, papers of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.137
Dates:
[1811, or after]-1826.
Microfilm of family papers of the Grahams of Airth, notably of and concerning Charles Stirling, the estate of Ardoch Penn and Jamaica.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2079-2081
Dates:
1775-1835.
Microfilm of manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1092
Dates:
3rd quarter of 15th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1109
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.556-558
Dates:
[?1765]-1918.
Microfilm of papers of Henry Cockburn Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, concerning the cases of Alexander Cahill, and of Walter Ker of Littledean against James, Duke of Roxburghe.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.139
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1810-1811, concerning the case of Alexander Cahill, surgeon of the second battalion, 25th Regiment of Foot, indicted for murder after killing Captain Hugh Blair Rutherford, of the same regiment, in a duel (Adv.MS.9.1.5);Papers, 1820-1822, of Henry Cockburn concerning the action of oppression and damages of Lieutenent-General Walter Ker of Littledean against James, Duke of Roxburghe in the First Division of the Court of Session and Jury Court...
Dates:
1810-1822.
Microfilm of papers of Henry Cockburn Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, concerning the cases of John Kingan and Robert Watson, and William Henry Bothwick.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.138
Scope and Contents
The content are as follows:
Papers, 1826, 1828, concerning the actions and counter-actions for damages raised by John Kingan, a merchant in Glasgow, and Robert Watson of Linthouse, a Glasgow banker, against each other, initially in the Second Division and later in the Jury Court (Adv.MS.9.1.3);
Papers, 1822-1823, concerning the case of William Henry Borthwick, printer and editor of the ‘Glasgow Sentinel’, indicted for theft (Adv.MS.9.1.4).
Dates:
1822-1828.
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.928
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Legal, financial and other papers, [?1827-?1913], concerning James Augustus Grant (MS.17933);'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant, [1880, or after] (MS.17940);Pedigrees of James Augustus Grant's family and others (Chisholm, Cuthbert, Fraser, Mackintosh, etc.) connected to it by marriage, written in an unidentified hand, with notes by Grant himself, ?19th century (MS.17941);...
Dates:
19th century-[?1913].
Microfilm of papers of the Barony Court of Faskally concerning the Robertsons of Faskally, clients of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1089
Dates:
[1662-1743.]
Microfilm of papers of William and James Chisholme concerning the Trout Hall and other sugar plantations in Jamaica, consisting chiefly of accounts for provisions sent to Jamaica and for sugar from the plantation sold in England.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.907
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1747-1798 (MS.5464);
Papers, 1799-1804 (MS.5465);
Papers, [?1747-?1812] (MS.5466).
Dates:
[?1747-?1812].
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1743-1760
Dates:
1694-1709.
Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.512
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie (MS.16497);
Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Microfilm of ‘Transactions of Scotts army in Ireland from 1643 to Junii 1648’, a collection in a contemporary hand of copies of letters, instructions and commencing with the treaty ‘concerning the Reducing of the Kingdom of Ireland’ and ending with a minute dated Carrickfergus 27 June 1648.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.325
Dates:
1643-1648.
Microfilm of transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.289
Dates:
1678-1708.
Microfilm of two letter books, 1767-1774, of the agents in Jamaica and Virginia of William Cunningham and Company, merchants in Glasgow, and of a decreet absolvitor, 1778, for the daughters of Alexander Cunningham against William Macredie of Perceton.
Item
Identifier: MS.15524 [Mf.MSS.34]
Dates:
1767-1778.