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12 volumes relating to the peerage of Great Britain collected by James Maidment.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12424
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.
Dates:
18th century to 19 century.
‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two sections, folios 1-9 ('1467 MS'), written in and about that date (folio 7 recto) by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail (folios 3 recto, 5 recto, 7 recto, 8 recto), who was presumably a MacMhuirich; and folios 10-25 (Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’), written circa 1425 by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín (date and hand established by Tomás Ó Concheanainn, “The scribe of John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’”, pages 99-101.The manuscript begins with Cormac’s Instructions...
Dates:
[Circa 1425, circa 1467.]
`A Description of the Islands belonging to the Crowne of Scotland taken from severall manuscripts, and the relations of thos that lived in them or frequented them`, written probably circa 1700.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.20
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with a brief general account of Scottish islands followed by detailed descriptions of the Western isles.
The fullest descriptions are of Mull, Iona, Harris and Lewis, Islay, Skye, Uist and in particular, St. Kilda (folios 21 verso, 26 verso, 27 verso).
Towards the end of the volume are transcripts of ‘Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles’ (folio 34 verso) and `Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum (folio 35).
Dates:
Circa 1700.
A family history of Esther B Chalmers, "Out of the Green Box".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7109
Dates:
1964-1965.
"A Short History of the Noble and Ancient Family of Marischal", being an anonymous account of the Keith family.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9646
Dates:
1746.
Account of the genealogy of the clan Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.13
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Andrew B W MacEwen, "Notes on Rob Roy and the Family of Glengyle".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7049
Dates:
1977.
Andrew Ross`s annotated interleaved copy of his, "The Lyons of Cossins and Wester Ogil, Cadets of Glamis" (Edinburgh, 1901).
Item
Identifier: Acc.7526A
Dates:
1901.
"Ane Accot of the Branchess of the Royall Olusterous and Noble Families of Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7401
Dates:
late 17th century.
Annotated copy of Douglas`s "Baronage of Scotland", possibly belonging to Alexander Sinclair.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12744
Dates:
1798.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Arms of the English and Scottish nobility. A collection of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.10
Scope and Contents
The collection includes the creations of 1605, but not those of 1618.
The section on English heraldry (folio 1) contains the arms of the various rulers and their nobles from William I to James I. The Scottish section (folio 104) contains the arms of the queens of Scotland from St Margaret to Anne of Denmark, followed by those of the nobility.
Dates:
Circa 1612.
Author’s annotated copies of ‘The Grants of Corrimony’ (Berwick, 1895), and ‘The county families of the Zetland Islands’ (Berwick, 1893) by Sir Francis J Grant.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10971-10972
Dates:
1893, 1895, 1906-1950.
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).
Item
Identifier: MS.8909
Scope and Contents
The author, a younger brother of Admiral Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet, of Springwood Park, saw service in the British army before going to Holland in 1747. His autobiography, written in 1805, is mainly concerned with military, family, and social life in Holland.The present text is a copy (perhaps a translation) made after 1864, with copies of additional material, including: a small water-colour portrait of Robert Douglas (folio i); extract of a letter, 1772, concerning his...
Dates:
1805.
Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9458
Scope and Contents
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Dates:
circa 1859-1907.
Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.2.1-37.2.11
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Biographical and genealogical notes, mostly extracts or cuttings from books and newspapers, compiled by William B D D Turnbull.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.18
Scope and Contents
Almost all of the notes are undated, but the press-cuttings are dated 1855.
Dates:
Circa 1855
Book of recipes, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland.
Item
Identifier: MS.3031
Scope and Contents
The book of recipes is continued by Anna, Lady Elcho’s daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland (see her note on folio ii verso), Jean, Viscountess Maitland (see her references to the Countess of Lauderdale as her mother-in-law, folios 73 verso, 77), and others. See the notes and pedigree inserted by William McMath, 1879, who states that the volume came from Dunbar Castle (folios i verso, xii-xiii). The dates 1701 and 1735 occur at folios 70, 75 verso.The recipes are all medical,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, undated.
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.2.4
Scope and Contents
There are some notes and additions.
Dates:
17th century.
'Brief genealogical account of the family of MacLean from its settling in the Island of Mull and the parts adjacent to the year 1807.'
File
Identifier: MS.3018
Dates:
[1807, or after.]
‘Briefe account of the familie of Hamilton till ano: 1649’ by Dr James Baillie of Carnbrae.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.16
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains Sir Richard Maitland’s ‘History of the House of Seton’ with the continuation by Alexander Viscount Kingston, 1687.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.1).
Dates:
17th century.
Carbon typescript of an unpublished family history by Nancy Brysson Morrison, titled `The Family Album`, about her mother`s family, the Bryssons.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13248
Dates:
1955.
Charters and other formal documents of the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11339
Dates:
early 16th century to mid 19th century.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...
Dates:
15th century.