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Aberdeen City Art Gallery and Museums Oral History Audio Collection.
This collection of oral history recordings covers a wide range of topics from around Aberdeen. Major themes include World War Two, fishing, employment, childhood, Torry, and Old Aberdeen.
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`.
Contemporary copy of oath sworn by 14 Covenanters adhering to the Rutherglen Testimony, 1680
Depositions, 1689, by ministers of Logie, Stirlingshire, concerning their persecution by soldiery.
With records, 1715, of formal denials in a bastardy accusation at Burntisland, and other unconnected papers.
Depositions of witnesses concerning the lighting of beacons in Roxburghshire, 1804, by which a false alarm of a French invasion reached Jedburgh.
An article from the ‘Jedburgh Gazette’, 7 July 1906, based on this material, is included (folio i).
Documents of Walter Ferguson, candle-maker, Edinburgh.
Formal documents from the papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice.
Formal documents from the papers of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
Material in the process brought by Matthew Sharp of Hoddam, reviving one started by John Sharp of Hoddam in 1712, with a view to dividing the common lands of Ecclefechan and Hoddam.
Microfilm of Chronicle of England, and theological works.
Oath taken by William Daniel Satchwell, a labourer in Islington, that he purchased six dozen copies of the chap-book, `The Groans of the Gallows, or, a Sketch of the ... life of Wm Calcraft`, from Anne Ryle or Rial, printer, Seven Dials, in the Exchequer of Pleas, between Thomas Duggan, plaintiff, and Anne Ryle, defendant.
One of the copies purchased is attached.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
Private letters, and reports of inquiries and statements of officers vindicating themselves, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station.
The contents are as follows:
Private letters, 1814-1815, to Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane from officers under his command or co-operating with him while he was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station (MS.2327);
Reports of inquiries and statements of officers vindicating themselves, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station, 1814-1815 (MS.2331).
Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.
Sound recordings from the Linda MacKenney Audio Collection, Scottish Theatre Archive, of interviews by MacKenney with people prominent in Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s.
A collection of interviews recorded by Linda MacKenney mostly in Scotland, but also the wider United Kingdom, between 1982 and 1985.
The collection focuses on people connected with Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. It also focuses on the creation and disbandment of important amateur theatre groups in Glasgow around the time of the Second World War, and the political climate of Scotland at that time.
'Summary rehearsall of the principles of W.B., concerning our controversies, by way of testimony, draun up att Groning, Apryl, 1683', with an addition written in August 1683, by William Boyd.
The writer, William Boyd, then at the University of Groningen and a member of the Remnant there, was afterwards Minister of Dalry in Galloway. He states his position with regard to the controversies, chiefly on obedience to the civil Government, described in Michael Shields, ‘Faithful contendings displayed’ (in which he is mentioned on pages 87-88, 91, 99, 131), and refers especially to the secession of James Russell, one of the slayers of Archbishop Sharp.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).