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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3637 Collections and/or Records:

Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.

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Identifier: MS.2207
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1647-1781, consisting chiefly of letters and orders addressed to William Farquharson of Inverey by Middleton and others, in connection with the Royalist campaign in Scotland, 1647-1656. 'Archaeologia Scotia', volume v, appendix, page 57. (Folio 1.)(ii) Orders of General Monck relating to Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy and the McNabs, 1654-1655, with modern transcripts, and a chaplain's commission given to...
Dates: 1647-1862, undated.

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.16
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1793-1809.

Small miscellany, perhaps a fragment of a larger collection, of historical, legal and other papers (including several fragments) on various subjects.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.20a
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Early 18th century, and before.

Small notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which John Riddell was engaged., 1809-1844

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.4.1-26.7.37
Scope and Contents The extracts are taken mainly from the public records of Scotland (Registers of the Great Seal and the Privy Seal, and the Acts of the Lords of Council and of Parliament), from Justiciary and Commissary Court Records, and from Burgh Records of various towns, with some from charter chests and other records in private hands, and range from the 14th to the 18th century. The contents, which in some notebooks are very miscellaneous, have not been indexed. Most of the notebooks are...
Dates: 1809-1844

Small number of letters (mainly copies) and some legal papers concerning claims to certain privileges of the Earls of Angus by Archibald J E Douglas, Baron Douglas of Douglas (created 1790), as representative of the family, against the claims of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton., 1820-1821, 1824, and undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1820-1821, 1824, and undated.

Small quantity of letters and papers consisting mainly of extracts from public documents, relating to members of the family of Steuart of Allanton., 1817-1818, and undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1817-1818, and undated.

‘Some place names of Ben Damph Forest’: copy of a list of 225 names by Captain King Noel of Ben Damph., [Before 1928.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.385
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [Before 1928.]

Song settings of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.22089
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Original settings of poems with pianoforte accompaniment (folio 1);

(ii) Arrangements of traditional Scottish and other airs and of poems of Burns, chiefly for solo voice and piano (folio 32);

(iii) Words and unaccompanied melodies of various Scottish airs (folio 89);

(iv) Copies of two tunes from early sources written in the same hand as that of, and on sheets probably taken from, MS.22093 (folio 96).

Dates: Mid 20th century.

'Songs of the Gael', being copies of Irish songs and airs.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21836-21838
Scope and Contents Copies of Irish songs and airs made, 1922-1926, from an unidentified earlier collection (or collections: cf MSS.21836, folio ii, 21837, folio i).The volumes are different from the work by Lachlan Macbean published under the same title at Stirling in 1921.The copies appear to have been made by Annie M Higgins, possibly for Alexander B Ritchie, a leading medical practitioner in Manchester.The copies are in simple treble notation, not accompanied by words,...
Dates: ?19th century-1924.

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.

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Identifier: MS.990
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: [?1768.]

Standing order for the British and Hanoverian troops in Germany, September to October 1743.

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Identifier: Acc.9628
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1743-1744.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 2: letters and papers,1603-1608 (chiefly 1607-1608), on various topics., 1603-1608.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (ii)
Scope and Contents The volume is entitled ‘Staite bussines for the yeirs 1607 and 1608. Reg. Ja: 6’,and is marked ‘A.2.39’ and ‘Denmilne 19’The contents are as follows.(i) Holograph letter of Sir Thomas Hamilton to James VI on the subject of the ‘goldin’ charter granted by James II to the Bishop of St. Andrews; of grants of ‘secundas decimas’, of the victuals and provision of the King’s house, and the tenth penny of the royal casualties in certain shires said to have been made in former...
Dates: 1603-1608.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 3: letters and papers on various topics., 1609-1622, undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (iii)
Scope and Contents The volume is entitled ‘Staite bussines for the yeirs 1609, 1610 & 1611. Reg. Ja. 6’, and is marked ‘Denmilne 18’ and ‘A.2. 40’.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of the Privy Council of Scotland (in a full meeting) to James VI after the holding by the King’s directions of ‘a convention of the Estates for the advancement of the trew ancient apostolick faith presenttie professit in this Kingdom and for suppressing the adversaris thaisof’ ‘which convention wes...
Dates: 1609-1622, undated.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 4: letters and papers, ?1610-1618 (chiefly 1612-1613), undated., ?1610-1618, undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [iv]
Scope and Contents The volume is entitled ‘Staite bussines for the yeires 1612 & 1613’, and is marked ‘A.2.41’.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Sir Thomas Hamilton to John Murray of Dundrennan, one of the Grooms of the King’s Bedchamber, concerning a dispute between Murray and John Maxwell. Dated Edinburgh, 11 March 1612. Printed in ‘Melros papers’ (Abbotsford Club, 1837), volume i, page 87.(ii) Letter of Sir Thomas Hamilton to James VI on various matters: the...
Dates: ?1610-1618, undated.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 5: letters and papers, 1610-1622 (chiefly 1614), undated., 1610-1622, undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [v]
Scope and Contents The volume is entitled ‘Staite business for the yeire 1614. Reg. Ja. 6’, and is marked ‘Denmilne 10’ and ‘A.2.42’.There are a number of Privy Council memoranda and letters to John Murray, later Earl of Annandale. Subjects include events in the Isles, the rebellion in Orkney and piracy.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy of a decreet, [7 May] 1614, by James VI in a submission between ‘William Creichtoun of Ryhill cousin German and condoubtit heir male and...
Dates: 1610-1622, undated.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 6: letters and papers, ?1608-1621 (chiefly 1615), undated., ?1608-1621, undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [vi]
Scope and Contents The volume is entitled ‘Staite bussines for the yeir 1615. Reg. Ja. 6’, and is marked ‘A.2.43’ and ’40 Denmilme’.Many of the letters are to John Murray. Subjects include foreign trade, the Isles, and Ireland.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Sir Rory McLeod of Harris to James VI, on the subject of the former’s claims to Sleat, North Uist and other lands disputed between him and Donald Gorme of Sleat. The signature is in the Gaelic character. Dated...
Dates: ?1608-1621, undated.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 8: letters and papers, 1599-1622 (chiefly 1617-1618), undated., 1599-1622, undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [viii]
Scope and Contents The volume is entitled ‘Staite Bussines for ye yeires 1617 and 1618. Reg. Jacobo 6’, and is marked ‘A.2.45’ and ’Denmilne 47’.The letters are chiefly addressed to James VI. Included is material on the royal visit to Scotland.The contents are as follows.(i) Memoranda of Privy Council of Scotland proceedings concerning Lord Sanquhar and William Crichton, the Laird of Smeaton Hepburn’s appointment to be Sherriff of Haddington, and various preparations for...
Dates: 1599-1622, undated.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 13: papers., ?1639-1641, undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [xiii]
Scope and Contents

Documents concerning political events, especially the Scots army at Newcastle and affairs in the English Parliament. Some printed ballads and letters to Sir James Balfour are included.

Dates: ?1639-1641, undated.