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12 Charters, 1648-1847, of Stonecroft, Queensferry.
With photocopies of letters, accounts and papers, 1666-1768, of John Weir, Auchengillan.
Balcarres Papers.
Charters concerning the lands of Fawside near Tranent.
Includes papers concerning the family of Grant of Monymusk and Grant-Suthie of Balgonie.
With a letter, 1750, of Thomas Reid.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Correspondence and financial and administrative papers of the Sligo and Smith-Sligo family of Inzievar.
Correspondence and papers concerning figures of Scottish historical interest.
Includes:
charter, 1316, of Robert the Bruce
royal letters, 1537-1645
contemporary description, 1587, of the death of Mary, Queen of Scots
letters, 1716-1821 and undated, of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his family
letters, 1764 and 1793, of James Boswell
letters, 1810 and 1828, of Sir Walter Scott
letter, 1843, of Thomas Carlyle
Correspondence and papers concerning various peerages on which James Maidment conducted genealogical research.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Maxwell of Monreith papers, comprising family and estate correspondence, financial papers, and bound estate papers; with early charters of Maxwells and of Blair of Adamton. Includes general and literary correspondence, and some literary manuscripts, of Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Microfilm of correspondence, papers, charters and other formal documents of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and of his son Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, American and West Indian Merchant in London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Microfilm of Elizabethan letters and transcripts of the register of Arbroath Abbey.
Elizabethan letters (Adv.MS.1.2.2);
Transcripts, 1815, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of the register, 13th century-16th century, of the abbey of Arbroath and of various charters, 1213-1246. (Adv.MS.9A.1.18).
Miscellaneous charters relating to the Chalmers of Auldbar.
As well as charters relating to the Chalmers family itself, there are other items which are apparently unrelated but which came with the bulk of the papers. Only one document (Ch.12806) is of 15th century date, and only one (Ch.12776) is of the 16th century. The rest of the collection dates largely from the 17th and 18th centuries. A detailed list is available.
Miscellany (perhaps a part of a larger collection of papers), 1714, 1728, 1736, and undated, mostly relating to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and his ‘Diplomata Scotiæ’.
The largest groups consist of lists of abbreviations used in mediaeval documents (folios 64, 71-111) and copies of various forms of letters (folios 65-69); most of the remaining papers consist of notes on various subjects and transcripts of unrelated documents. An engraved facsimile, 1771, of a charter of William the Lion has been added to the papers (folio 9).
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.
Comprising:
1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family
2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family
3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling
4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Papers of the Christies of Stenton.
Includes charters, correspondence, legal papers and accounts.