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'A collection of the best reciepts in cookery, pastery and confectionary taken from the best authors by Margt Hume Campbell, with a dedication to the Right Honourable Lady Diana Scott’.
File
Identifier: MS.15914
Scope and Contents
The collection was probably intended for Lady Diana, the author's younger sister, on her approaching marriage to Walter Scott of Harden in 1754. There are a few later additions and an index (folio iii) but no section on confectionery. Some of the sources of the recipes are named.
Dates:
1753.
Abridged copy, 1673-1731, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.3
Dates:
1633.
Abridgement, 17th century, of the register of Parliament, 1424-1621.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.4
Dates:
1424-1621.
Abridgement, mid 18th century, of great seal charters, 1538-1540, in the hand of Walter Macfarlane.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.7
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.5.29.
Dates:
1538-1540.
'Abridgement of the Scottish History', a list of the succession of the Kings of Scotland from Fergus I to James VI by Sir James Balfour, in his hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.29
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.14.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Abridgements, 17th -18th century, of the Acts of the Convention of Royal Burghs.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.1
Dates:
1552-1669.
Account and letter book of William Angus of North Grange, Lindores, elder of Abdie Church.
Item
Identifier: MS.17949
Scope and Contents
The account and letter book contains tables of agricultural wages 1857-1873, letters concerning local affairs 1846-1867, and letters and statements of Abdie church 1835-1875. At the back there is a record of baptisms of the Angus Family 1789-1840 (folio 17).
Dates:
1835-1875.
Account book of the Trustees of James Dundas of Dundas (died 1780).
Item
Identifier: MS.6523
Scope and Contents
The accounts are between the Trustees and tenants, employees, tradesmen, etc. A loose sheet, containing draft accounts relating to 1794-1796 has been placed at the beginning of the volume (folio i).
Dates:
1776-1806.
Account of charge and discharge between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate.
File
Identifier: MS.988
Scope and Contents
With account of final balance signed in 1780.
Dates:
1769-1777, 1780.
‘Account of the Ecclesiastical Benefices ... and the number of people in Scotland’, ‘prepared for the information of Government by the late Doctor Alexander Webster’, and dedicated by his son, John Webster, to Pitt.
Item
Identifier: MS.89
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins with an account of the manner in which the figures were collected, and contains:(i) ‘An alphabet list of the parishes of the Church of Scotland, shewing the extent of each parish, the number of Papists and Protestants, the name of the patron, and the stipend payable to the Minister,' as at ‘end of the year 1785' (see ‘Explanation of Scheme First’);(ii) ‘A list of the several shires in Scotland, shewing the number of parishes, ministers, Papists,...
Dates:
1755, 1785
Account of the execution of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, [?1747], written by his agent, William Fraser, junior, Writer to the Signet, on the fly-leaves of a printed volume of ‘Heures’ (Paris, 1710).
Item
Identifier: MS.110
Scope and Contents
The book had belonged to Lord Lovat, and was given by him to William Fraser on the 8 April 1747, the day before his execution, which the latter witnessed.
Dates:
[?1747.]
Account of the peasant rising of 1865 in Jamaica, being the final draft of part of an uncompleted work on Governor Eyre, by William Law Mathieson, Doctor of Laws.
Item
Identifier: MS.2616
Dates:
[Circa 1938.]
Accounts and vouchers of the Faculty of Advocates.
Series
Identifier: F.R.339r/22(i)-(F.R.339r/22ii)
Dates:
1695-1865.
Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.
File
Identifier: MS.19986
Scope and Contents
These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.
Dates:
1825-1838.
‘Admiralty collections’, containing copies of ordinances, tables, orders and notes concerning the office and jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty of England.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.6
Dates:
17th century.
Album containing copies of religious tracts, at least one of which is of John Livingstone, Minister of Ancrum, in the same hand as the 'Life' of Livingstone in Adv. MS.34.5.19.
Item
Identifier: MS.3858
Scope and Contents
The date 1673 (folio 53 verso) indicates that the manuscript was written after John Livingstone's death.The contents are as follows.(i) Livingstone's 'Memorable Characteristics' (folio 1); this is not one of the copies used for W K Tweedie's edition in ‘Select Biographies’ (Wodrow Society, 1845), volume i;(ii) 'The notes of some sermons knit together anent personall covenanting &c.' (folio 30);(iii) Questions on the duties of Christians,...
Dates:
1673.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2955-2956
Dates:
1589-1881.
“Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee nation, who died in 1775.
File
Identifier: MS.1677
Dates:
[Circa 1760.]
Amalgamation of Durie’s ‘Decisions’ and Hope’s, Balfour’s, Spottiswoode’s, and Haddington’s ‘Practicks’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.2.3(i)-(iii)
Dates:
17th century.
Annotated printed reports on the proposed scheme to provide for the widows of members of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.395
Dates:
1826-1830.
Anonymous description of a proposed route from Port Patrick, Wigtonshire, to Edinburgh for Sir Edward Baker, formely Littlehales, 1st Baronet of Ashcombe, Surrey, with maps and mileage tables.
Item
Identifier: MS.17958
Scope and Contents
This is a carefully planned tour. The writer states his reasons for the selection of the route and for rejecting the alternatives, and comments on the history and contemporary situations of the major settlements en route.
Dates:
1819.
Apology for his conversion to Roman Catholicism by Alexander Cameron, a younger son of John Cameron of Lochiel, and subsequently a Jesuit missioner in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.20310
Scope and Contents
The apology is addressed to Alexander Cameron’s brother, probably his elder brother Donald (who succeeded their father in 1748) and is the manuscript (or a contemporary fair copy of the manuscript) accompanying the letter he wrote him from Boulogne in August, apparently the month before he entered the philosophy course at the Scots College, Douai, in September 1730.The apology appears to be unpublished. The letter, which is held at Achnacarry, is discussed and printed in 'The...
Dates:
[1730.]