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'A few manuscript sermons of the Revd. David Lumgair, Newton St. Boswells (written between the years 1845-1859)'.
Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.
The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).
Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.
Autograph sermons, apparently unpublished, of Hugh Anderson of Udol, Presbyterian minister of Cromarty.
Most of the sermons are undated, but one is written on the back of a letter of 1702, another is of 1662, and two others of 1666. These last refer to the plague in England, while another was used as a 'presbyterial exercise'.
The papers also includes a summons, ?1662, ordering Hugh Anderson to answer charges before the Bishop of Ross.
Collection of sixty-nine sermons by seventeen Presbyterian preachers.
Contemporary copy of the 'Pockmantie sermon', 'a Sermon preached att St Giles the great Church in Edenburgh uppon a fast day, the last Sunday in July [1638] by Mr James Rowe', on 'Jeremiah', xxx. 17.
Another version of the 'Red-shankes Sermon' (preached in April) and the 'Cupp of Bon-Accord', printed in 'Memorials of the Family of Row'.
Copies, 17th century, of letters, 1636-1640, of Samuel Rutherfurd chiefly written during the period of his banishment to Aberdeen in 1637.
The letters are followed (folio 56) by copies of sermons and similar material of Hugh Mackail, David Dickson and others.
The inverted folios contain political and other poems, including 'The black bastel' by James Melvill.
Copy of sermons and religious verse written by James Cuninghame of Barns, a Quietist preacher and Jacobite.
The poems and sermons have for headings the date and place of composition; among the places mentioned are Edinburgh, Stirling, Kilsyth, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
The manuscript is written in a fair hand, and some gaps have been left where the copyist could not read the original.
The original pagination, lacking pages 100-179, is faulty.
Correspondence and documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith, Professor of Evangelistic Theology at New College, Edinburgh, and John Smith, tenant in Libberton, Lanarkshire.
The families of Thomas and John Smith were related by marriage and an outline genealogy is provided (MS.7185, folio i.).
Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations.
Alexander Carlyle's papers consist chiefly of journals, sermons, lectures, autobiographical writings, writings on various topics, poetry and papers on church and other affairs. The later papers (MSS.23927-23930) consist of a list of his books, excerpts from his writings and excerpts of proceedings in the action against him by the Presbytery of Dalkeith.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
"Heads and Notes of Certain Sermons and Discourses from Diverse Texts of Scripture; by Mr. Thomas Hog, Minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ at Killtearn in the Shire of Ross. Transcribed from the Original Coppy of the Author, which was lent me for that purpose by Mrs. Maire Relict of the deceas'd Mr. George Maire Minister of Cullross" (died 1716).
Lectures and sermons by ministers of the Church of Scotland; with a list of contents and a transcript of one of the sermons, in a modern hand.
Letters and papers formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Manuscript book, containing psalm-tunes, philosophical notes, notes of sermons, etc.
The manuscript book is inscribed on the fly-leaf 'Rogerus Kirkpatrick...1697, 1698', and contains some entries of later date.