Copies. Derivative objects.
Found in 959 Collections and/or Records:
Small miscellany of letters (probably a remnant from a large collection), mostly by John Farquharson, formerly President of the Scots College, Douai, to the Scottish antiquary and historian, George Chalmers.
There are also three copies, all in Farquharson`s hand, of a memorial concerning the college. The items do not appear to have been arranged in any obvious order.
Small miscellany, perhaps a fragment of a larger collection, of historical, legal and other papers (including several fragments) on various subjects.
Most of the papers appear to date from the early 18th century, with some copies of earlier papers. The compiler or owner is unknown, as is the purpose for which they were collected.
'Songs of the Gael', being copies of Irish songs and airs.
Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI, by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Contains three of the printed, interleaved copies which Lord Hailes issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks, with autograph notes by Lord Auchinleck, James Gordon, Advocate, and Hailes himself.
Standing order for the British and Hanoverian troops in Germany, September to October 1743.
With copy of the speech to the King by John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl Stair, made at the Council of War at Worms, 23 August 1744.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 33: copies of lists of the records removed from Scotland on the orders of Edward I and of material in the chapterhouse of Westminster Abbey.
Also included are transcripts of some formal documents, 1189-1299.
‘State papers collected by Walsingham, Burleigh &ce’, copies of English state papers, from the reign of Elizabeth I, concerning relations with France, Spain, the Netherlands and Scotland.
Store book of Colonel [John] Adlecron's Regiment, 39th Foot, kept by Stephen Julian and Edward Forde, successive quartermasters, when the regiment was based in the Carnatic at Fort St David and Fort St George.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.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).
'Tabula super bibliam': an early 15th-century glossed copy of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393.
Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.
`The coppie of the reversioun of the landis of Ettrikhous, Shorthous, and Dalgleis, giuen be Sir Walter Scott of Quhitslaid to Sir Robert Scott of Thirlstane.`
Theological writings and letters of James Tayes, written chiefly at Bo'ness.
Internal evidence suggests that James Tayes, if not actually a Quaker, subscribed to some Quaker doctrines; a summary of this evidence will be found on folio i.
There are copies of correspondence with John Brand, minister of Bo'ness (page 94); and with James Aird, minister of Torryburn (page 160).
Three letters of J K Annand to John Morris.
Concerning the printing by Main of Annand`s "Ballants frae the German" (1986).
Includes copies of four replies of Main and a copy of the booklet.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
Topographical and other works.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
Transcript in a contemporary hand, of the ‘Autobiography’ of Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
Transcripts, late 18th century (the paper of Adv.MS.22.2.5 being watermarked 1798), made for George Chalmers, the antiquary, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’.
The hand appears to be that of George Chalmers’s nephew, James Chalmers.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.