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Clan histories of the Grants, Macraes, and Chisholms.
Cockburn and Pitcairn Family papers.
The collection includes: 188 letters of and to Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, 1806-1854; genealogical collections; and correspondence of Francis Jeffrey Cockburn and his wife, Elizabeth Anne, some of or concerning her father Robert Pitcairn of Hobart Town, Van Diemen`s Land, circa 1812-1887.
Collection of English arms in trick, probably compiled as a working notebook by herald painters in London, one of whom appears to have worked with Sir Henry Saint George, Garter King of Arms.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century.
Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
‘Collections’ made by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, containing a number of genealogical papers and copies of military documents which he probably used when engaged on compiling ‘Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783’.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Computer disc of Gary J McMaster`s "Clann a` MLaighstir of Ardgour" (Early MacMaster history).
Copies, 1642, of various works, 1529-1549, made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:
(i) `A Descriptione of the Westerne Iles of Scotland` by Sir Donald Monro, 1549 (folio 1).
(ii) `Geneologies of the cheiff clans of the lies` by Sir Donald Monro, n.d. (folio 20).
(iii) `Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum` by John Ben, 1529 (folio 24).
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas and other documents, mostly conferring titles.
Copies of genealogies and deeds relating to the families of Scott of Duninald and Renny of Usan, Forfarshire, compiled by Gladys Hope Allen; with related correspondence.
Copies of letters, 1845-1860, of John Connel and John Taylor to relatives in Scotland.
With letter, undated, of William Edmond, to his sister Mrs James McQuat, Balfron, and a family tree of the McQuats.
Copies of press cuttings and other papers and photographs of the Macarthur family, Nairn, Scotland and Manitoba, Canada.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Copy, 1613, of Joannes Ferrerius ‘Historiæ Compendium de origine et incremento Gordoniæ familiæ….’ by Constable D’Aubigny, for the use of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun.
There are a few leaves prefixed, containing the later history of the family, to the Battle of Glenlivet, written in English, in a hand of the seventeenth century, (by Straloch says Sibbald).
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (Jac.V.5.9).
Copy, 1689, from the original manuscript of ‘The genealogie of the most noble and ancient house of Drummond’ by David Drummond, Advocate.
Copy, 1786, of `A Genealogical account of the MacRas` by John MacRa, minister of Dingwall.
Copy, circa 1702, with additions to 1703, of `Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’, probably made in 1672, attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh.
The original compilation was probably made in 1672 (see Adv.MSS.32.6.1, folio 154 and 34.3.14, folio 42) and is attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. However, an 18th-century footnote added to the title page of Adv.MS.34.3.19 states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it.
Copy, dated 1741, by Roderick Chalmers, Ross Herald, of `The descent and pedegree of the most noble and auntient house of the Lords of Sincleer` drawn up by Henry, Lord Sinclair in 1590.
Copy, eighteenth century, of 'The Genealogie off the Mackenzies preceeding the year 1661. Written in the year 1669. By a Person of Quality’.
This copy of the well-known genealogy in 1732 belonged to a John Matheson (folio i) and had probably been written by him about the same time. Although many leaves have been cut out at the end, the copy is almost complete. It includes a poem entitled ‘Arbuthnet on Sr. George Mackenzie off Rosehaugh’, beginning:
“Well then since the Relentless doom is spoke
And there is no mortall power can ward the Stroak
Scotland must ruin, it’s the Almighties will” (folios 73-74).