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‘Account of the Ecclesiastical Benefices ... and the number of people in Scotland’, ‘prepared for the information of Government by the late Doctor Alexander Webster’, and dedicated by his son, John Webster, to Pitt.
‘Acta Scotica’, containing styles, chiefly of commissions and safe conducts for Ambassadors, with extracts of some proceedings in Parliament.
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.
Annotated printed reports on the proposed scheme to provide for the widows of members of the Faculty of Advocates.
Annual reports of the curators and abstracts of funds of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
‘Collectanea Juridica’, containing a collection of styles of deeds, writs, and forms of proceeding in various Courts of England.
Conclusion of Sir John Sinclair’s Ossianic correspondence (1821-1830).
Copies, 18th century, of records of Parliament and of the Privy Council.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
Copies of letters and reports from Captain John Barlow and other officers commanding detachments of the Buffs in the Western Isles and the Laggan and Loch Rannoch areas.
Captain Barlow reports on his searches for arms and Catholic priests in the islands, and on shipping in the area. He also comments on the topography and social conditions, and puts forward suggestions for a permanent garrison, the building of schools and customs houses, etc. Reports from the mainland are chiefly concerned with cattle thieving and the power of the chiefs. The inverted folios contain tables of military posts in the Highlands and Scotland generally.
Copies of memorials, 1786-1788, addressed by the Carron Company to Sir Thomas Dundas as arbiter, claiming repayment of water lost to them through the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Copies of reports of the Carron Company's inspectors, 1772, ?1775, and of George Whitworth, for the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, 1785, 1788, are included.
Copy, 18th century, of transactions between the Parliament of Scotland and the commissioners from England.
Copy, in the hand of John Dillon, of the report submitted by Thomas Thomson to the Commissioners of the Public Records of Scotland, on ‘Parliamentary Records of Scotland’ by William Robertson to which it is attached.
William Robertson's work was printed but not published. The report describes it as a literal transcription of the relevant papers in the Register House and points out the defects of this method of scholarship. The work was superseded by the critical edition subsequently compiled by Cosmo Innes and Thomas Thomson himself.
Correspondence and papers chiefly relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus, in which Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar (died 1854) played an important part.
Correspondence and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library buildings.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Stuart, then a member of the Bengal Council, and later a professor of Oriental Languages at the East India College, Haileybury.
The papers consist of private letters from Charles Stuart to Henry Dundas, lst Viscount Melville, and to his friend William Dundas, the latter's nephew, with extensive enclosures, largely minutes and reports by Stuart, and copies of official correspondence and dispatches. The private correspondence contains particular detail on fiscal policies and the internal politics of the Bengal administration.