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15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
"Accomptt of each Heretores frie Rent with in the Shyre of", Fife.
Accounts and papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company).
Accounts and papers relating to the Scottish Mint.
The papers consist of the counter warden`s accounts of silver minted from February 1699 to November 1700; of orders for payment by the Generals and Masters of the Mint; and of receipts of various employees.
Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
‘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’.
Copy, 17th century, of a journal kept by a member of Sir Robert Cecil`s suite during the period of his embassy to France, February-April 1598, before the signing of the Treaty of Vervins.
The entries for each day are brief, and much of the manuscript consists of copies of official correspondence sent and received by Cecil, some of which was published in ‘An Historical View of the Negotiations between the courts of England, France and Brussels’, pages 100-157.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.
`Diurnall of the 2d parl: of our Soverainge Lord King Charles from the 15 day of Julay 1641 to ye 27 of November holden at Edinburghe’ by Sir James Balfour.
Early 16th-century manuscript of the accounts of the Bishopric of Dunkeld, covering the years 1506-1517.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
‘Grant manuscript.’
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
`Journal kept during travels in Holland 1668 (in Danish)`, containing the travels of a Danish nobleman, who accompanied the Danish Prince George to Holland.
`Journal of architecture` by James Playfair.
The manuscript records Playfair`s day-to-day architectural work, with notes of his expenses and a few accounts for clients.
Throughout the period, Playfair was living in London and visiting Scotland once a year. The journal, which is particularly detailed for 1788-1789, gives the names of his clients and information about drawings and other work done for them. The buildings included Cullen House, Bothwell Castle and Dupplin Castle, and were mostly in Scotland.