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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...
Dates:
15th century.
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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.6
Scope and Contents
The earliest section (folio 14) includes a number of mythological coats (for example, those of Cupid and the Nine Worthies) and some of members of the nobility and gentry from 1573 onwards. Many of the later additions are dated between 1630 and 1641. There are a few pedigrees and three indices to the compilation (folios i verso, 82 verso, and 86 verso). There is also a list of arms painters authorised in England (folio 88 verso), with a note `all theas in my life time kepte open shope and...
Dates:
Late 16th century-1664.
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas and other documents, mostly conferring titles.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.6.2-34.6.3
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Correspondence and genealogical papers concerning the Forrester family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10884-Deaccessioned
Dates:
Undated.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates:
1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19) copied from a manuscript of 1685 or later, with some additional material taken from ‘The Great historical geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary’ (page 1).(ii) Genealogical material taken partly from Camden, Dugdale and other historians (page 395).(iii) Verses on the death of William, 6th Earl of Douglas (page 480)....
Dates:
1685, or later.
Index of family names mentioned chiefly in Scottish chartularies, titled, 'Genealogical notices'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.14
Dates:
18th century.
Photocopy of R Magnus Trail, "A Short Account of the Family of Trail of Blebo and their Descendents Copied from Authentic Family Documents". (1950)
Item
Identifier: Acc.7984
Scope and Contents
With an index compiled by Rosalie Trail Fuller.
Dates:
1950-1981.
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12335/84-243
Scope and Contents
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.
Dates:
1539-2001.
The Clan Gregor Centre archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11713/1-85
Scope and Contents
Material concerning the history and genealogy of the McGregors, including printed items and a full set of the journal "The Quaich", 1989-1997.The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1915-1926, 1981-1999, undated.
Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) a chronological list of hereditary and other offices under the Great Seal, and the names of those to whom they were granted, from 1499 to 1650 (folio 1);(ii) an inventory of the writs of the lands and barony of Tulliallan arranged chronologically from 1402 to 1536 (folio 25 verso);(iii) notes from writs then in the possession of David Erskine concerning the Earls of Countesses of Buchan and some other peers...
Dates:
Early 18th 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.