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Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i)-(ix) Accounts compiled by Sir John Skene.(i) ‘Ane tabill and repertour of the Cheker Rollis [...] collectit and put in ordour conforme to the number and ordour of Kingis [...] be Mr Jhone Skene [...] 1595.’
(ii) ‘Ane particular and perfyte rentall ... collectit be Maister Johne Skene Clerk of the Register. 1595.’
(iii) ‘The rentall buik of the propertis.’
(iv) ‘Computa et libri thesaurariorum.’
(v) ‘Libri responsionum.’
(vi) ‘Libri...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.16
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: a.1.22.Some of the items in this manuscript may have been copied from Adv.MS.34.2.17: Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rent.The contents are as follows:
1. Rentals of benefices, 1561;
2. Kings Rents & Casualties, 1628;
3. The contributions to the Lords of Session;
4. Compt of taxation of £100,000, 1593;
5. The rent paid to the king out of the...
Dates:
16th century-1628.
Copies of rentals of Roxburghshire, some imperfect.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.7
Dates:
17th century.
Copy of the rental of Kintyre for the year 1678, attested by Archibald Campbell, Notary Public, at Inveraray, 10 March 1719.
Item
Identifier: MS.3367
Dates:
1678.
Correspondence and papers of James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), the artist and antiquary; including some earlier material concerning the Skene family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20465-20476
Dates:
16th century-20th century, undated.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10342-10370
Dates:
1752-1885, undated.
Letters and papers of the family of Stewart of Newton, afterwards Stewart of Lochrig.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1792-1793
Scope and Contents
The letters and papers deal chiefly with family matters; some describe the doings of officers of the 7th Dragoons and 56th Foot.
Dates:
1705-1835, undated.
Microfilm of books of Assumption.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.482
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Book of Assumption of Beneficies (Adv.MS.31.3.12);
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife, 16th century-early 17th century (Adv.MS.31.3.13);
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals, 16th century-1628, of Church and Crown lands in Scotland (Adv.MS.31.3.16).
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Microfilm of manuscript produced between 1460 and 1550, the Rental of Paisley Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.353
Dates:
1460-1550.
Microfilm of rentals of the Sutherland estates.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1127
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Rental, 1825-1829 (Dep.313/2159);
Rental, 1830-1833 (Dep.313/2160).
Dates:
1825-1833.
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates:
1750-1802.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.10335
Dates:
1651-1907, undated.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
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Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
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Identifier: MS.545
Scope and Contents
Included are:(i) Commission by the Marquess of Montrose to Sir James Lamont, 14th of that Ilk, to raise the fencible men in the Sheriffdom of Argyll (contemporary copy), 1645 (folio 1);(ii) ‘Articles of Capitulatione aggreed upon betuixt James Campbell of Ardkinlas ... and Sir James Lamount of Inuerin, Knight, ... annent the surrender and overgiving of his garison at Toward. At Auchevullin, the 3 of Junii, 1646’ (contemporary copy); the document is printed from...
Dates:
1645-1734.
Rental book of the burgh of Lanark for the year 1770 of rents to be collected by William Tod, surgeon in Lanark.
Item
Identifier: MS.14849
Dates:
1770.
Rental of the baronies of Longniddry, Seton and Winton.
Item
Identifier: MS.10974
Scope and Contents
The baronies formed part of the estates of the Earls of Winton forfeited after the 1715 rebellion, and were bought by the York Buildings Company in 1719. They were later leased to George Buchan of Kelloe - see ‘The York Buildings Company’, pages 47-48 - who probably compiled this volume.
Dates:
1747-1750.
Rental of the estate of Whytbank, Selkirkshire, for 1748.
Item
Identifier: MS.9365
Scope and Contents
The rental is in the hand of Alexander Pringle, the owner of the estate (cf. MS.9239).
Dates:
1748.
Rentals concerning property in the region of Melrose, Roxburghshire.
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Identifier: MS.8488
Scope and Contents
The rentals concern property in:
(i) Longnewton, 1696-1713 (folio 1);
(ii) Ancrum, 1712-1715 (folio 158);
(iii) Dryburgh Abbey, 1696, 1699 (folio 9, inverted).
(iv) Longnewton, 1675, 1695; abbreviated for comparing the two years (folio 1, inverted).
Dates:
1675, 1696-1715.
‘True Rentall of each heritors estate in the shire of Fyffe as the samen was taken up be the commissioners of valuation.’
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.15
Dates:
1695.