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Copy by Sir James Balfour of the diary of Robert Birrell, burgess of Edinburgh.
Apart from a few entries at the beginning, recording major events since 1370, it covers the period between 1566 and 1603, breaking off in July of that year. All the entries concern public events.
Copy, dated 1800, of ‘The Historie and Life of King James the Sext’, attributed to John Colville.
An inscription by Malcolm Laing appears on folio 181, dated 15 July, 1800.
Copy, dated June 16 1727 (page 178), of the autobiography of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, which was written (in the third person) apparently in 1714 (page 171).
The text ends at page 171: the following pages contain passages intended for previous insertion.
Copy, early 18th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions betwixt Scotland and England’, an apparently unpublished work, written circa 1670.
The affairs which are discussed include James VI’s succession to the English throne, the proposals for a more entire union of Scotland and England made early in James`s reign and the proposals for a legislative union made in 1669-1670 by Charles II.
Copy, eighteenth century, of ‘Arcanum hermeticae philosophiae opus’.
‘Arcanum hermeticae philosophiae opus in quo occulta Naturae et Artis circa Lapidis philosophorum materiam et operandi modum canonicé et ordinatè fiunt manifesta. muarto editio emendata et aucta 1647’.
Copy, eighteenth century, of 'The secret commonwealth' by Robert Kirk.
This copy of ‘The secret Commonwealth’ was at one time part of a larger volume (as was shown by remains of the binding).
Copy, in a 17th-century hand, of several prose tracts of the poet William Drummond of Hawthornden, written at the time of the Civil War.
Copy in a contemporary hand, apparently that of one of his secretaries, of `A Discourse, conteyninge A perfect Accompt given to the moste vertuous and excellent Princesse Marie Queene of Scotts and her Nobility, by John Leslie B. of Rosse, Ambassador for her highnes toward the Queene of England Of his whole charge and proceedings duringe the time of his Ambassadge from his entres in England in September 1568 to the xvj[??] day of March 1571’.
Copy, in an early 18th-century hand, of `The secret and true history of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the Restauration (sic; in fact, to the year 1678) by Mr [James] Kirkton. Anno 1690` (folio 1).
Copy in an unidentified formal hand, apparently datable to the 2nd quarter of the 18th century, of `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty Exposed in the Family of Gordon without interruption to this present year 1691 With A Relation of the Siege of the Castle of Edinburghe in the year 1689’ [apparently corrected from 1699].
Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.
There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.
Copy, late 15th or early 16th century, of material, early 14th century-1364, concerning the Parlement de Paris.
Copy, late 17th century, of `A Discourse concerning the three Unions of Scotland and England`, written circa 1670 and apparently unpublished.
Copy, late 17th century, of a treatise on sea laws by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, circa 1590, entitled `Tractatus Legum et Consuetudinum Navalium quae apud omnes fere Gentes in usu habentur; Omnia Nautica et quaecumque ex causis marinis in judicium veniunt succincte definiens in certos Titulos ... methodice distinctos. Authore Alexandro Regio`.
The last Titulus (`De Piratis`) is in Scots, as is the appendix on `The forme and Maner of holding of Courts of Admiralitie and processe led befoir Them` which follows.
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).
Copy, late 17th century, of part I of Samuel Colvil`s ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ (London, 1681).
There were several editions of the poem, of which the preface to the first was signed S.C. In this manuscript, a later hand has added the full name to the initials. The manuscript shows a number of variations from the printed text, including some omissions and additions.
Copy, late 17th or early 18th century, of the memoirs of James Fraser of Brea, minister of Culross.
This copy begins with the author`s preface, omitting the letter of dedication to Thomas Ross, and breaks off at the end of chapter 8. It contains a small amount of biographical material which does not appear in the published version.
The name William Lindsay, Letham, Dunnichen, appears on folio 1.