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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
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 correspondence of the Highland Society of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.12
Dates:
1827-1833, undated.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.291
Dates:
1554-19th 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“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.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.