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Volume entitled (folio 2) `Memoirs of the Family of Rose of Kilravok`, being the epitome by Lachlan Shaw, minister of Elgin, of `A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock`, by Hugh Rose, minister of Nairn.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.7
Scope and Contents
Rose`s work was first written in 1683-1684: Shaw`s epitome records also later members of the family until about 1756 (folio 69 verso), with a supplement until about 1772 (folio 83 verso). This copy appears to have been written for the antiquary William Rose in Montcoffer in the same hand as Adv.MS.32.6.8, and has a note inside the front cover, a contents list at folio 1 and a few textual additions in his hand.
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents
Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.
Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.2
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Part of a speech to the English Parliament on the financial affairs of James I, probably by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, ?1610 (folio 1).(ii) Copy, dated 1613, of Salisbury`s speech to Parliament, 15 February 1610. For summaries, see ‘A Life of Robert Cecil’, pages 297-299, and ‘Parliamentary Debates in 1610’, pages 1-9 (folio 4).(iii) Notes on rumoured preparations by Catholic forces, by Mr Foster,...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
1552-19th century