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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.
Contemporary copies of state papers, concerning the negotiations between Charles I and the Covenanters, which led up to the Pacification of Berwick and the Covenanters` protestation of 1 July.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.17
Scope and Contents
Also included are the petition of the Scots living in Ireland to the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland, 1639 (folio 9), and an incomplete treatise `A distinction betweene the Ecclesiasticall Lawe and the Common Lawe`, undated (folio 18).
Dates:
May-June 1639.
Historical papers formerly belonging to the antiquary Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.1
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern events in Scotland from 1637 to 1652, and include copies of acts, proclamations, petitions, etc. The subjects include the service book, the National Covenant, teinds, and the College of Justice. There is also a copy of ‘Irene’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden (folio 213). A list has been inserted of those items which have been published.There are a few notes by Mylne, identifying some of the papers. His instructions for binding the collection and his...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Miscellaneous documents and letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.35
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers connected with the reduction of the process of forfeiture of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, William Douglas, Earl of Angus, and Francis Hay, Earl of Errol, 1597. See also Ch.B.40, and ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, volume iv, pages 124-130. (Folio 1.)(ii) Mock petition to the Lords of Session, in verse, beginning:`The Humble Petition of Mr Robert Cook,Having lost all His Means in following his...
Dates:
1597-1752.
Orkney genealogies and anecdotes `collected by Robert Nicolson who served as Sheriff Substitute of Orkney from 1793 to 1814 inclusive`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.18
Scope and Contents
Nicolson precedes the genealogical accounts of various Orkney families with a brief topographical description of the islands. He also includes copies of letters taken from Sir John Sinclair`s ‘Statistical Accounts’ of the Parish of Yell in Shetland, of Sir Hugh Dalrymple to Sir Laurence Dundas, 1775, and Reverend Andrew Dishington to Sir John Sinclair, 1791 (page 111). He concludes the collection with copies of a petition and letter to Lord Melbourne concerning a possible superannuation...
Dates:
1839.
Papers concerning the Society of Writers to His Majesty`s Signet.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.6
Scope and Contents
The papers include copies of acts and proposals to prevent abuses within the Society, 1666-1699 (folio 3); a declaration of loyalty to William III, 1701 (folio 19); and petitions to the Society, 1699-1733 (folio 21).
Dates:
1632-1733.
Papers mostly concerning the prosecution and imprisonment of John Cameron of Fassifern.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12341
Dates:
1753-1759, 1809 and undated.
Six letters of Robert Hamilton and three of Richard Wilson, managers of theatrical companies.
File
Identifier: Acc.7510
Scope and Contents
Concerning applications for licences to perform at Perth.
With two associated manuscript petitions, a printed proposal, and two playbills.
Dates:
1793-1794.