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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Petition, resolution and other papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/18
Dates:
1827-1829.
Single items and small collections, chiefly of the 16th and 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: MS.9931
Scope and Contents
The contents include:
A letter, 1562, of William Maitland of Lethington to the Earl of Leicester, expressing his wish for continued friendship between Elizabeth and Mary (folio 1);
A letter, 1581, of the Jesuit, William Crichton, describing his efforts to have James VI brought up as a Catholic (folio 6);
A letter, 1621, of Michael Drayton to William Drummond of Hawthornden, published in ‘The library’, 5th series, volume xxi (1966), pages 328-330 (folio 21);
Short Latin poems by Andrew...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1562-1820.