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Assorted letters; with a receipt for Secret Service money signed by King George III, and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston.
‘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.’
Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
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`.
Copies of letters and instructions of Thomas, Baron Wharton, deputy warden of the marches.
Most of the material concerns the order of the watches in the three marches, giving the areas covered and, in some cases, the names of those concerned.
The volume may have been intended for John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland; his arms are painted on page 2, and the bear and ragged staff of Warwick drawn on page 3. There are large decorated initials in pen and ink on pages 3, 7, 13, 37, 121 and 153, some of which bear the letters IN, TP, CC or TW.
Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Examples of lettering and correspondence of the calligrapher Edward Johnstone (1872-1944).
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
‘Letters and instructions of state between England and Scotland’, a volume of copies in a modern hand from original papers in the Cotton Library being chiefly letters of English Ambassadors in Scotland.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.2.
Letters and papers, chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Letters and papers of the family of Campbell of Inverawe.
Letters, recipes, press cuttings and notes sent to Michael Turnbull in response to requests for material for his book on the history of food in Edinburgh.
The book for which this material was collected was later published in 1997 as 'Edinburgh A la Carte'. Establishments featured include the George Hotel, Bruntsfield Hotel, Vintners Room, Leith, Henderson's Restaurant, Golf Tavern, Prestonfield House, Carlton Highland Hotel, the George Hotel, the Caledonian Hotel, Helios Fountain, and the Oyster Bar at the Café Royal.
Microfilm of correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
Microfilm of letters and papers, 1826-1831, undated, of Sir Walter Scott and correspondence, 1831-1846, of his son Walter and Lady Scott, and some other papers.
Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
The contents are as follows:
Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);
Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).
Microfilm of ‘Transactions of Scotts army in Ireland from 1643 to Junii 1648’, a collection in a contemporary hand of copies of letters, instructions and commencing with the treaty ‘concerning the Reducing of the Kingdom of Ireland’ and ending with a minute dated Carrickfergus 27 June 1648.
Microfilm of two books, 1692, 1697, of household recipes of Katherin Smith and correspondence and papers, 1818-1831, undated, of Sir John Sinclair on agriculture.
The correspondence and papers of Sir John Sinclair includes translations and copies of letters on his ‘Code of agriculture’ and letters of him to Sir Patrick Murray Threipland.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.