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‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.3.1.The contents are as follows:
(i) An abridgement of part of the valuation, 1551 (page 5);
(ii) The rent paid to the King out of the surplus of the thirds of benefices (page 48);
(iii) Various taxt rolls of Benefices and church property - temporality as well as spirituality, chiefly early 17th century (page 51);
(iv) List of Religious houses (page 185);
(v) Copy of a retour,...
Dates:
16th century-early 17th century.
‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents
The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates:
1661-1681.
Copy, 18th century, written on paper watermarked 1742 or 1749, of an extract from `An Abridgment of the Scotishe historie`, written by John Maxwell, 4th Lord Herries of Terregles and dated 1656.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.7
Scope and Contents
The extract covers the period 1541-1571. There is a brief description of the original manuscript on the flyleaf of the present volume. According to Robert Pitcairn in his preface to the published work, the original manuscript was probably destroyed sometime during the French Revolution, having been housed in the Scots College at Douai. The copyist, whose initials appear to be J P (folio 1), may have been Friar John Pepper, Society of Jesus, who was a student at the Scots College, Douai from...
Dates:
1656.
Copy of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 'Major Practicks', Sir Thomas Nicolson’s abridgement of Sir Peter Wedderburn's 'Practiques', and a copy of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, Lord Justice Clerk, ‘Collections’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.1.3(a)-(b)
Dates:
17th century.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
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.
Notebook of Sir Robert Sibbald containing geological and topographical material.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.8
Scope and Contents
(i) `A Catalogue of Mineralls and figur`d stones found in Scotland in M.R.W. cabinet` (page 4). An abridged copy by Robert Sibbald of the catalogue of material owned by Robert Wodrow in 1703.
(ii) Copies, not in Sibbald`s hand, of descriptions of Shetland and the Hebrides written in the second half of the 17th century (inverted page 1).
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
17th century.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.24
Scope and Contents
The following dates of writing are given: 15 September 1712 (folio 2), 10 April 1713 (folio 76), 13 November 1712 (folio 80).The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year of God, 1691. With a copious relation of the siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in the year 1689. By W.S. An. 1691.` The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen...
Dates:
1338, circa 1670-1732.