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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.

 Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents

The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.

Dates: 1754-1759.