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Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.13

Scope and Contents

The contents of the volume are as follows:

(i) Extracts, 1797, in the hand of the chief clerk, Robert Lemon, from the `Rotuli Scotiae` kept in the Tower of London (cf. folio 282). The extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. The manuscripts were published, in two volumes, in 1814 and 1819. (Folio 1.)

(ii) Copies by Hutton of charters of Newbattle Abbey (folio 32). The source is unidentified: they are in a different order from those of the cartulary (Adv.MS.34.4.13) and of R A Hay`s transcript (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i), folio15). Alterations, chiefly of spelling, are written in pencil by Hutton on some of the leaves. Followed by a list in pencil of principals of religious houses (folio 87). For Hutton`s copy of Hay`s transcript see 20.3.3.

(iii) Copies by Hutton of charters relating to Balmerino Abbey (folio 102) from an unidentified source, in a different order from that of the cartulary (Adv.MS.34.5.3), and from the transcript of it by Walter Macfarlane (Adv.MS.35.3.13, folio 67). Preceded by a list of the charters transcribed, with page-references to Macfarlane`s transcript (folio 101). For Hutton`s transcript of the cartulary see Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Immediately following (folio 116 verso) is a copy by Hutton of charters relating to Melrose Abbey from an unidentified source, in a different order from the cartulary (Adv.MS.34.4.11) and from Macfarlane`s transcript (Adv.MS.35.3.13, folio 1). Followed by a list of principals of religious houses (folio 138) and a list of the charters copied, with page-references to Macfarlane`s transcript (folio 139).

(iv) Copies by Hutton of foundation and other charters of religious houses (folio 153). The first two are from copies in Sir Lewis Stewart`s collection (Adv.MS.34.3.11, pages 155-157), the rest are from unidentified sources apart from a few at the end, which are from the cartulary of Balmerino Abbey (folio 187). Followed by a list in pencil of principals of religious houses (folio 189).

(v) A miscellaneous collection 1789-1790, 1800, mostly in Hutton`s hand (folio 204 verso), of notes, copies and letters, transcripts of charters with sketches of the seals, and copies and extracts of various sources, including several (folios 206-214 verso) from James Anderson`s ‘Diplomata Scotiae’. Tipped in after this are a letter, 1797, from Hutton to Lemon (folio 282) and notes of manuscripts in the Tower of London and other repositories (folio 285). The following, most of which are binder`s leaves, are blank: folios i-v, 39-51, 89-100, 141-151, 191-203, 284, 287, 290, 292-300, vi-xxiii.

Section (v) was compiled in and about 1789-1790, and (ii)-(iv) probably about the same time, or a little later.

Dates

  • Creation: ?1789-?1797.

Extent

0.00 Linear metres (xxiii + 301 folios. Folio.)

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

The volume was probably bought by the Advocates’ Library in 1829 at the same time as Adv.MSS.29.4.2(i)-(xiii).

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Related Materials

For other notebooks, and drawings, by Hutton, see Adv.MSS.30.3.1-30.3.28;

for his correspondence see Adv.MS.29.4.2(i)-(xiii);

for copies of cartularies and related charters, and other sources, see Adv.MSS.9A.1.1-9A.1.20, 19.1.22, 20.3.1-20.3.9, 20.5.6-20.5.7, 22.2.1-22.2.4 and 33.4.7.

Adv.MS.34.4.13: Chartulary of Newbattle Abbey.

Adv.MS.34.1.10: Transcripts by Richard Augustine Hay, of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.

Adv.MS.34.5.3: Chartulary of Balmerino Abbey.

Adv.MS.34.4.11: Chartulary of Melrose Abbey.

Adv.MS.35.3.13: Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane.

Adv.MS.34.3.11: `Miscellany collections out of the Registers of the justiciary parliament andc Containing historical and genealogical Collections`

Bibliography

Anderson, James. ‘Diplomata Scotiae’.
Title
National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author
National Library of Scotland
Date
08 05 2015
Description rules
Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

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