Books
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Extracts from printed sources and a transcript, made by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire, bound with two printed items., 1639-1640, 1825-1840.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.24
Scope and Contents
The extracts concern John Corbet, minister of Bonhill (folio 3), and the transcript is of David Laing`s copy, which had been discovered shortly before and was the only one known to Dennistoun, of Sir William Moore`s pseudonymously published ‘A counter-buff to Lysimachus Nicanor’, by Philopatris ([Edinburgh], 1640) (folio 11). Bound in between folios 8 and 9 are printed copies of Corbet`s ‘The ungirding of the Scottish Armour’ (Dublin, 1639) and his ‘The epistle congratulatorie of Lysimachus...
Dates:
1639-1640, 1825-1840.
`Memorial Relative to the Succession to the Ancient Earls of Levenax`., ?1773.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15462
Scope and Contents
This item is printed.
Dates:
?1773.
`Memorial Relative to the Succession to the Ancient Earls of Levenax`., ?1773.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15463
Scope and Contents
This copy is lacking the genealogical table.
Dates:
?1773.
`Memorial Relative to the Succession to the Ancient Earls of Levenax`, ?1773, with note, 21 August 1773, by Alexander Lockhart, Lord Covington and Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield., ?1773.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15461
Scope and Contents
This item is printed.
Dates:
?1773.
Papers compiled and collected by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1825-?1842.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.24
Scope and Contents
The material was compiled over a number of years, probably between about 1825 and 1840, and consists of accounts of parishes and families, notes and extracts from printed sources and collections of formal documents, and some original documents and printed items. The complete title of the work was apparently intended to be `Dumbartonshire Illustrated with regard chiefly to its Territorial History and Family Antiquities`, but the work appears never to have been finished (for example, there are...
Dates:
1825-?1842.