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Balcarres Papers.
Chartulary of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Soutra, written in 1399 by William de Cranstoun, notary public.
The charters, which are not in chronological order, cover the period 1162-circa 1330. They are followed by a copy of Cranstoun`s notarial instrument concerning the making of the chartulary (folio 25) and copies of two charters of 1426 and 1440 in different hands (folio 26 verso).
Some of the initials have simple penwork decoration by the scribe, whose notarial sign is also given (folio 25 verso).
‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton’, the title in the hand of Sir James Balfour prefaced to the collection from original charters, public records & chartularies made by Sir Thomas Hamilton, Clerk of Register and First Lord of Haddington.
There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.
Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
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.
Copies, 1725-1726, of Great Seal charters of the 14th and early 15th centuries, made by John Corss, Keeper of the Records.
Each volume has an elaborate title-page and an index of personal names.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Correspondence and papers concerning various peerages on which James Maidment conducted genealogical research.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
‘Diplomatum collectio’: copies of Scottish charters, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane.
Although lettered as volumes i and ii of the same collection, they are different in layout and character, and are written by different hands. Only those charters the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Manuscript, 18th century, containing lists of peers and barons taken from the Rolls of Parliament and lists and copies of charters taken from the records of the Great Seal (both sources being then unpublished).
Material concerning the Constables of Scotland.
(i) `De Constabulariis fet officio Constabularij Angliae`, 1628. A collection of material compiled by Sir James Balfour on the duties and powers of the Constables, including copies of charters and other documents, mostly from the Cotton Manuscripts. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Copy of royal commission to report on the office of High Constable of Scotland, 1627. (Folio 41.)
Maxwell of Monreith papers, comprising family and estate correspondence, financial papers, and bound estate papers; with early charters of Maxwells and of Blair of Adamton. Includes general and literary correspondence, and some literary manuscripts, of Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Miscellaneous documents of Sir James Balfour.
Miscellany (perhaps a part of a larger collection of papers), 1714, 1728, 1736, and undated, mostly relating to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and his ‘Diplomata Scotiæ’.
The largest groups consist of lists of abbreviations used in mediaeval documents (folios 64, 71-111) and copies of various forms of letters (folios 65-69); most of the remaining papers consist of notes on various subjects and transcripts of unrelated documents. An engraved facsimile, 1771, of a charter of William the Lion has been added to the papers (folio 9).