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Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
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 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.
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Manuscript containing a collection of Ossianic poems by the Reverend Alexander Pope (circa 1706-1782) of Reay.
Microfilm of preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Microfilm of preaching book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
Papers of Dr Kenneth Macleod.
Includes songs, poems, sermons and correspondence.
Papers of the Burns Begg family, being the family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns.
Papers of the Reverend Thomas Veitch.
Includes typescripts of sermons, talks, essays, plays and poems.
Poems and a mock sermon (on marriage) in the hand of Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer.
Various dates between 1743 and 1757 occur.
Preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.