Scope and Contents (i) Papers concerning the presentation of a Jacobite Medal to the Faculty of Advocates by the Duchess of Gordon in 1711, namely:`The Faculty of Advocats Loyalty in a letter to the Queen`s Most Excellent Majesty. By one of the Dean of Faculty`s Council. Printed in the Year MDCCXI. ` No such printed work seems to be recorded. (Folio 2.)`The Double of Criminal Letters against Mr. James Dundas, Advocat, 1711.` (Folio 12.)(ii) `A Letter from Jack Straw in the...

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Additional papers include:

printed proposals for the work

printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text

papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.

Scope and Contents (i) The negotiations between the non-juring Bishops and the Orthodox Church were initiated during the stay in London of Archbishop Arsenius of Thebais, and conducted largely through the Russian Court; they end on the death of Peter the Great. See ‘A History of the Non-Jurors’, pages 309-361, and ‘The Orthodox Church of the East in the Eighteenth Century’.The original letters and papers from the Orthodox side in these negotiations (with English or Latin translations when these are...

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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).

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The author is unknown, and the work appears to be unpublished. The latest date mentioned in the text seems to be 1774, and the work was presumably written in the early years of the reign of Louis XVI, connected with the financial reforms of Turgot.

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Concerning applications for licences to perform at Perth.

With two associated manuscript petitions, a printed proposal, and two playbills.