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Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description
The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.
The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.
Dates:
1820-1974.
Instructions, 1579, of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms, to heralds, and a minute-book of executions, 1608-1609, by Thomas Lamb, Messenger-at-arms.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.12
Scope and Contents
‘Instructions set forth by Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms and his brethrene heralds at speall comand of my Lords Regent and Lords of secret counsall to be observit be ye officiare of armes within this realme in all tymes cumy for dew service to our soverane Lord and his Leidgis at Ed[r], the secund day of Jannuar 1577’. The five first pages are written in the same hand.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the...
Dates:
1579, 1608-1609.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Papers of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3435
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. two minute books, 1923-1949
2. sederunt book, 1932-1949
3. lists, 1924-1949, of officer bearers.
Dates:
1923-1950.