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"A Proposal for Lothian Estates, Monteviot" by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Nicolas Sloan.
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.
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`.
Copies of miscellaneous documents.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.
Additional papers include:
printed proposals for the work
printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text
papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Document concerning a proposed Guild of Co-operative Pioneers, Glasgow.
Letters chiefly of Scottish interest.
Manuscript containing: (i) copies of correspondence, with related papers, between the `Catholic Remainder of the British Church` (the non-juring Bishops) and the Orthodox Church, concerning a scheme for union between these bodies, 1716-1725; (ii) copies of letters of Thomas Brett to Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Aberdeen, 1722-1725.
Microfilm of plan de finance: a detailed scheme in two volumes for the reform of ‘les impôts ... sur les divers objets de consommation’ in France, based on ‘la science financière’.
Paper of Charles Kerr on "Corona Tennis", an alternative form of tennis.
Papers concerning the Society of Writers to His Majesty`s Signet.
The papers include copies of acts and proposals to prevent abuses within the Society, 1666-1699 (folio 3); a declaration of loyalty to William III, 1701 (folio 19); and petitions to the Society, 1699-1733 (folio 21).
Papers relating chiefly to the election of Scottish Representative Peers.
Some letters to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville), 1783-1807, unconnected with election, possibly indicate that these are part of the Melville papers. The papers consist of minutes of elections, lists of peers and their votes, protests, excerpts from ancient records, proposals as to methods of electing, and other papers.
Plan de finance: a detailed scheme in two volumes for the reform of `les impôts ... sur les divers objets de consommation` in France, based on `la science financière`.
The author is unknown, and the work appears to be unpublished. The latest date mentioned in the text seems to be 1774, and the work was presumably written in the early years of the reign of Louis XVI, connected with the financial reforms of Turgot.
Printed pamphlet by Sir Gilbert Elliot 2nd Baronet, Lord Minto, entitled ‘Proposals for carrying on certain Public Works in the City of Edinburgh’, [1752], with manuscript alterations and additions possibly in the hand of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.
The proposals concern the need for certain public buildings, including those which eventually became Register House, the Signet Library, the Court of Session, and the North Bridge.
Proposals for raising a subscription among Judges and Members of the Faculty of Advocates, former pupils of David Hume as Professor of Scots Law, with a view to procuring a memorial to him on his retirement from that office.
The proposal is signed by fifty-two subscribers, including Sir Walter Scott. Chantrey was asked to execute a bust of Hume, but was unable to undertake the commission (see Scott's letter to Chantrey of 7 September 1822, and note, in the Centenary Edition of his letters).
Six letters of Robert Hamilton and three of Richard Wilson, managers of theatrical companies.
Concerning applications for licences to perform at Perth.
With two associated manuscript petitions, a printed proposal, and two playbills.