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Biographical notes on the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1789, collected by John Philp Wood, probably in connection with his biographies in Adv.MSS.37.2.2-37.2.4.
File
Identifier: MS.2995
Scope and Contents
The notes are followed by extracts from the Balcarres Papers and notes on the Court of Session, undated; with an index and a note on the papers by John Philp Wood's daughter, Marion Wood, who arranged them, 1877 (folio 29).
A list of Advocates (folio 1) and an account of the Duke of Hamilton's duel with Lord Mohun (folio 25), found loose in the volume, have been pasted in.
Dates:
1877, undated.
Material for Sir Robert Sibbald`s projected `Bibliotheca Scotica`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) An alphabetical index of Scottish authors and their works, circa 1700 (folio 1). The beginning is probably missing (the pagination commences with page 11). Most of the entries are copied from ‘Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum lib.XIX’. It is followed by an appendix (folio 137 verso) in which the entries are more detailed.(ii) `De Scriptoris Scoticis`, circa 1702 (folio 150). A bibliography of works, including...
Dates:
Circa 1700, circa 1702.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Typescript copy of Joseph Macleod, "Mrs Henry Siddons (Harriet Murray), 1783-1844, and the Edinburgh Theatre Royal" (1976).
File
Identifier: Acc.7005
Scope and Contents
With index.
Dates:
1976.