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Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1552-1615.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.4
Scope and Contents

Also included is a copy of a memoir of Henri IV by Pierre Jeannin, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1), a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material, and a table of contents (folio 264).

Dates: 1552-1615.

Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1606-1613.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.9
Scope and Contents

Also included are a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material.

There is a table of contents (folio 1).

Dates: 1606-1613.

Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.19
Scope and Contents The manuscript is apparently in the hand of John Elphinston: see Adv.MS.32.3.9, folio 78 verso. Several items in Adv.MS.32.3.9 are also in this hand.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Autobiography of John Livingstone, minister of Ancrum. It has been published from the version in Wod.Qu.XVIII in ‘Select Biographies’, i, pages 129-197. This manuscript has a few variants from the published version. (Folio 1.)(ii) `An Account of what past when...
Dates: 2nd half of 17th century-early 18th century.

Copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.4
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Letters, 1675-1677, of the preacher John Welwood. They are mostly addressed to Elizabeth Collace and her sister Katharine Ross, but there are also a few to the covenanter Richard Cameron. The letters, which are not in strict chronological order, are chiefly religious in nature, but there are occasional mentions of the persecutions in Fife, the Merse and Teviotdale. (Folio 1.)(ii) Memoirs of Katharine Ross. The...
Dates: 1675-early 18th century.

Copies, in chronological order, of the opinions given by John Inglis (later Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session), some conjointly with other advocates.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.4.13-81.4.18
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The volumes are numbered V to X; it seems likely that the missing I to IV covered all of Inglis’s earlier career as an advocate, from 1835. The series ends with his elevation to the bench as Lord Justice Clerk in July 1858.

Dates: 1846-1858.

Copies, late 17th or early 18th century, of official papers, 1550-1632, concerning Scottish fisheries.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.16
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The papers mostly concern the dispute with the United Provinces over the rights of the Dutch to fish in Scottish waters, 1618-1619, and the proposed joint English and Scottish association for the fisheries, 1630-1632. There are a few unrelated items, mostly concerning the coinage.

The signature `John Dalrymple` appears on folio 46.

Dates: 1550-1632.

Copies, late 18th-century, of poems, 1769-1774, and undated, of Henry Erskine, with a few corrections by the author.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.21
Scope and Contents

There is a list of contents on folio 1.

Dates: 1769-1774.

Copies of correspondence and papers concerning a dispute between Colonel (later Major-General) Charles Ross and Lieutenant-General Robert Boyd.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.1
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Both officers belonged to the 39th Foot which was then stationed in Gibraltar. The papers, which are not in chronological order, include letters to and from George Elliot, the Governor, extracts from regimental orders, and Ross`s own comments on the affair.

Dates: 1778-1780.

Copies of correspondence of the French jurist, Athanase J L Jourdan (1791-1826), apparently intended for publication.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.20
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Biographical notice of Jourdan by Leopold Warnkoenig. Jourdan`s date of birth is wrongly given as 1769. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence with Warnkoenig, 1821-1826. (Folio 20.)(iii) Letters to David Irving, 1822-1826. (Folio 158.)(iv) Correspondence with K J A Mittermaier and others, 1825-1826. (Folio 179).The letters concern the history and study of Roman law, with particular stress on a return to the...
Dates: 1821-1826.

Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.19
Scope and Contents Copy of a memorial to the Treasury, 1799, by Robert Anstruther, Inspector of Military Roads, asking that the majority of the roads constructed in the Highlands continue to be maintained at public expense (folio 1), and two copies (folios 5, 8) of a letter, 1796, of Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Henry Rudyerd to the Secretary of the British Society for extending of the Fisheries and improving the Seacoasts of the Kingdom, reporting on the road recently constructed from Contin to...
Dates: 1796, 1799.

Copies of letters and instructions of Thomas, Baron Wharton, deputy warden of the marches.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.8
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Most of the material concerns the order of the watches in the three marches, giving the areas covered and, in some cases, the names of those concerned.

The volume may have been intended for John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland; his arms are painted on page 2, and the bear and ragged staff of Warwick drawn on page 3. There are large decorated initials in pen and ink on pages 3, 7, 13, 37, 121 and 153, some of which bear the letters IN, TP, CC or TW.

Dates: 1552-1553.

Copies of miscellaneous documents.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.28
Scope and Contents (i) Papers concerning the presentation of a Jacobite Medal to the Faculty of Advocates by the Duchess of Gordon in 1711, namely:`The Faculty of Advocats Loyalty in a letter to the Queen`s Most Excellent Majesty. By one of the Dean of Faculty`s Council. Printed in the Year MDCCXI. ` No such printed work seems to be recorded. (Folio 2.)`The Double of Criminal Letters against Mr. James Dundas, Advocat, 1711.` (Folio 12.)(ii) `A Letter from Jack Straw in the...
Dates: Early 18th century.

Copies of miscellaneous papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.11
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy, after 1688, of the `Account of the Affairs of Scotland relating to the Revolution in 1688’ by Colin, Earl of Balcarres. The text is similar to that of Ruddiman`s edition of 1754. For other copies of the work, see MSS.1911 and 3738, and Adv.MSS.33.7.12-33.7.13 and 49.7.6. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, late 17th and early 18th century, of two Latin poems by Archibald Pitcairne, with translations: `Elegy on the Viscount of...
Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.

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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.

Copies of royal edicts concerning Iceland, taken from a printed book of royal edicts and mandates.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.3.5-21.3.7
Scope and Contents

Note by F Magnusson: `No. 19, No. 20, No. 21. Collectio variarum Regiarum Constitutionum and Mandatorum de rebus Islandicis præcipue tractantium.`

Dates: 18th century.

Copies of Stair`s "Institutions of the Law of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1681 and 1693).

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Identifier: Acc.11284
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Includes manuscript additions, late 17th century.

Dates: circa 1681-1699.

Copies of state papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.31
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The papers include material on the charges against the Earl of Bristol in 1626, the Scottish objections to kneeling at communion, speeches in Parliament and other topics.

Dates: 1600-1639, and undated.

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Balfour, James, Sir, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird (antiquary) 22
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 16
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 16
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Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 10
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Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 9
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 9
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 8
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 8
Sibbald, Robert, Sir, Knight (physician and Geographer Royal) 8
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 7
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 7
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 6
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 6
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 6
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 5
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 5
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 5
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 5
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 5
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 5
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 5
Augustine of Hippo, Saint 4
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet, known as 'Lord Byron') (1788-1824) 4
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 4
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 4
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 4
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 4
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 4
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 4
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, ca. 1698-ca. 1770 (Gaelic poet) 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 3
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 3
Gratian (Canonist) 3
Hay, Richard Augustine (canon and antiquary) 3
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 3
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 3
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duc de La Vallière 3
Mac Mhurchaidh, Uilleam , ca. 1700-1778 (schoolmaster, poet and scribe) 3
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 3
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 3
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 3
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 3
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 3
Sinclair, Henry (Bishop of Ross) 3
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 3
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 3
Soutar, William (poet) 3
St Clair, William, 14th Baron of Rosslyn (Lord Chief Justice of Scotland) 3
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 3
Thorkelin, Grímur Jónsson (Scholar) 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Boccaccio, Giovanni (Writer and Poet) 2
Boog, Robert (Minister of Paisley Abbey) 2
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 2
Bowring, Sir John, Knight, politician, diplomatist and author, 1792-1872: recipient 2
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 2
Burnett (of Leys) 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Campbell, Archibald, jurist, piper, 1877-1963 2
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 2
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 2
Coles, Cecil Frederick, composer, 1888-1918 2
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 2
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 2
Freebairn, Robert (bookseller and printer) 2
Gardner, Archibald Ward, physician, 1923-1994 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Grant, John, Pipe Major, d 1961 2
Gregory I, Pope 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Harper, Edward, composer, 1941-2009 2
Hay, William (Bishop of Moray) 2
Henderson and Bisset, Edinburgh, bookbinders 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2
Inglis, Esther, calligrapher, married name Kello, ? 1570-1624 2
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Justinian I, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 2
Keating, Geoffrey (Seathrún Céitinn), ca. 1580-ca. 1644 2
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 2
Mac Pháill, Eoghan, Dunstaffnage, fl. 1603-1638 2
MacDonald, Donald, piper and bagpipe maker, ? 1766-1840 2
MacDonald, George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905 2
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 2
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