Documents.
Found in 242 Collections and/or Records:
Small collections of correspondence, with some papers, chiefly of J B S Haldane.
Small collections of letters and papers of the nineteenth century, with a few of the eighteenth century.
Small miscellaneous collection of letters and papers (some printed) including letters to and concerning Major-General Sir Neil Campbell and his nephew and biographer Archibald N C Maclachlan.
Many of the items appear to have been previously pasted into an album, or albums.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
‘The Churches estate in a natione’, including a history of the Papcy.
Transcript, before 1700, of ‘True relatione of the proceidings of those matters which concernes the Kirk of Scotland fra the first of August 1637’ by John Leslie, Earl of Rothes.
The manuscript was written in a good hand before 1700.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.6.40.
Transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
With an original letter from the Society for the Reformation of Manners, London, to the similarly named society in Edinburgh, 1708. The writers include the chief leaders of the movements in question.
Transcript of ‘The booke of the universall Kirk of Scotland’.
The transcription is of the copy in Glasgow Library.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.1.14.
Transcripts, 17th century, of accounts of the Scottish Exchequer, 1561, and of acts and other related documents, 1362-1638.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732.
Trattati del matrimonii col principe d’inghilterra: a contemporary copy of documents and letters relating to the projected marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales, afterwards King Charles I, to (1) Anne, the Spanish Infanta, and (2) Henrietta Maria of France.
‘True presentacon of forepast Parliament to the views of the Present timis and Posteritie’ by the learned antiquary and Judge John Dodderidge.
‘True relatione of the proceidings of those matters which concernes the Kirk of Scotland fra the first of August 1637’ by John Leslie, Earl of Rothes.
This manuscript is probably the original or the earliest extant copy of the work.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the references: Jac.v.7.23 and ‘A’.
‘True relatione of the proceidings of those matters which concernes the Kirk of Scotland fra the first of August 1637’ by John Leslie, Earl of Rothes; with two related papers by Sir George McKenzie, first Earl of Cromarty.
The volume, written under the direction of James Erskine, Lord Justice Clerk, contains the follows:
(i) ‘True relation of the proceedings which concern the Kirk from 1 August 1637’ by the Earl of Rothes, copied from a copy of the original (page 1);
(ii) 'A vindication of our reformation from the charge of tumult & rebellion' (page 349);
(iii) A notice, 1708, regarding the preservation of the volumes of the Records of the General Assemble (page 382).