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Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Retours in Kirkcudbrightshire, extracted from the Chancery records, 1542-1682; in two series (folios 1, 15).(ii) Copy of an extract (certified by Thomas Gibson, Principal Clerk of Session) of the tax-roll of Kirkcudbrightshire in 1613 (folio 44).(iii) Copy, from the Exchequer records, of the rental of the Bishopric of Galloway in 1685 (folio 46).(iv) Copy of the tax-roll of the Lordship of Galloway,...
Dates:
1542-1685, 1741.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20001-20003
Dates:
?1195-1844, undated.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.5.8-11
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Miscellaneous documents of Sir James Balfour.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De Jure praelationis Nobilium Scotiae or Ane Memoriall of ye Evidents patents and rights producit be sundrie Earles and Lords Befor ye Comissioners ... anent ye precedencie and prioritie of dignities ... 1606`. In 1626 Balfour added (folio 16) notes on peers created since 1606. For other copies of this see Adv.MS.33.7.6 and MS.3171. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorialls extracted out of the imprinted Bookes of the Statuts and...
Dates:
Circa 1308-1626.
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay in 1725-1726 and probably over a somewhat longer period, consisting for the most part of transcripts of royal, episcopal, baronial and other charters and other formal documents from the 12th to the 17th centuries, together with some extracts from medieval cartularies, and a few notes on contemporary published works.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.4.16-35.4.17
Scope and Contents
The papers are in some confusion and many others dispersed. Some (Adv.MS.25.9.10) were acquired by the Advocates` Library in 1881 as part of the Riddell Papers; and others (Acc.5022 and Acc.5694) were acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 1970 and 1972.
The purposes for which the papers were originally compiled and the circumstances of their dispersal are alike unknown.
Dates:
12th century-17th century.
Notebook of George Crawfurd containing chiefly excerpts and notes on genealogies, charters of Mortification, and the later Abbots of Holyrood.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.7
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Transcript of the 'Chronicon de Melross';
(ii) Relationes Arnaldi Blair;
(iii) 'Extracta de MS. D. Gul. Cunninghaim de rebus gestis Gul. Vallæ', 1296;
(iv) Dr. Jamieson’s notes upon the ‘Chronicon de Melross’;
(v) Three letters of Queen Mary extracted from a Roman Manuscript;
(vi) Dr Jamieson’s observations on Melville’s Memoirs and on Bede;
(vii) Off the revenue or patrimony of the Crown;
(viii) Bull of Pope Urban Vth Contra Magnqs Societates;
(ix) A Charter...
Dates:
Late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
17th century.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.186-194
Dates:
1241-1732.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
File
Identifier: MS.1018
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1382-1642, undated.
Volume containing notes, copies and extracts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few extracts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.24
Scope and Contents
A large number of the sources used were at the Advocates` Library, and of these many had previously been in the possession of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms (for example, the charters (now in Adv.MSS.15.1.18 and 15.1.19) excerpted at folio 91, and what follows, and folio 263, and what follows, and the cartularies excerpted at folios 1-8, 22-33, 43-49 verso, 230 verso-274 verso), as had the manuscript (now British Library, Harl MS. 4693) once in his possession which is...
Dates:
Circa 1709-circa 1717.