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Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A copy, in a hand of the late 17th century, of the `Memoirs` of Walter Pringle (folio 1). These were first published in 1723 from a copy of the original manuscript by James Pringle of Greenknowe, 1684. The relationship of the present manuscript to that copy is unknown.(ii) A detached leaf, headed Section XIX and paginated 81-82, concerning the history of Clan Chattan (folio 35). Written in a small late 17th-century...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
Store book of Colonel [John] Adlecron's Regiment, 39th Foot, kept by Stephen Julian and Edward Forde, successive quartermasters, when the regiment was based in the Carnatic at Fort St David and Fort St George.
File
Identifier: MS.6291
Scope and Contents
Copies of other documents of a military nature have been added. The volume has been damaged and several pages are missing, particularly at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) Quarterly records of stores issued for the use of the regiment, September 1754, to March 1759 (folio 1);(ii) Copy of 'Instructions for the Commanding Officer of Train of Artillery attending His Majesty's Forces ordered to the East Indies', dated 21 February 1754 (folio 30...
Dates:
1744-1778.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.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.