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Calligraphic transcript, 7 August 1782, by John McOmie of the copy made by James Scott, minister of East church, Perth, of the charter granted 14 April 1498 to the Carthusian monastery, Perth, by James Stewart, Earl of Buchan (created 1469), of his garden or orchard without the Spey (folio 4).
The main transcript is preceded by transcripts by McOmie of Scott`s account of the circumstances of the donation (folio 1) and Scott`s presentation note, 19 July 1782, to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767) (folio ii).
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
Correspondence and papers concerning various peerages on which James Maidment conducted genealogical research.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
List of charters from the 'Registrum Magni Sigilli’ (Register of the Great Seal), and other notes by Walter Macfarlane.
Microfilm of copies, 1796, of William Rose, the genealogist, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740; and, arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612].
The contents are as follows:
Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, the genealogist, in Montcoffer (Adv.MS.15.1.9);
Arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612]. A collection, previously owned by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman (Adv.MS.15.1.10).
Miscellaneous documents of Sir James Balfour.
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay in 1725-1726 and probably over a somewhat longer period, consisting for the most part of transcripts of royal, episcopal, baronial and other charters and other formal documents from the 12th to the 17th centuries, together with some extracts from medieval cartularies, and a few notes on contemporary published works.
The papers are in some confusion and many others dispersed. Some (Adv.MS.25.9.10) were acquired by the Advocates` Library in 1881 as part of the Riddell Papers; and others (Acc.5022 and Acc.5694) were acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 1970 and 1972.
The purposes for which the papers were originally compiled and the circumstances of their dispersal are alike unknown.
Miscellany (perhaps a part of a larger collection of papers), 1714, 1728, 1736, and undated, mostly relating to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and his ‘Diplomata Scotiæ’.
The largest groups consist of lists of abbreviations used in mediaeval documents (folios 64, 71-111) and copies of various forms of letters (folios 65-69); most of the remaining papers consist of notes on various subjects and transcripts of unrelated documents. An engraved facsimile, 1771, of a charter of William the Lion has been added to the papers (folio 9).
Notebook of George Crawfurd containing chiefly excerpts and notes on genealogies, charters of Mortification, and the later Abbots of Holyrood.
Notes upon Buchanan's history of Scotland, transcript of charters of David II and Robert III to the Laird of Edmonstoun.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
The contents are as follows: (i) Legal documents and correspondence, 1488-1789 (folio 1); (ii) Notes, ?1786-1821, on legal cases (folio 33); (iii) Genealogical papers, 1707-1731, undated (folio 65); (iv) Poetry, 18th century-19th century, including an early copy, dated 1734, of Allan Ramsay's poem, 'The Thimble' (folio 93); (v) Notes, undated, by George Crawfurd, the antiquary, and a translation of a charter, 1748, by Thomas Ruddiman (folio 107).
Photograph of a charter of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester.
Granting lands in East Lothian.
With notes of Grant G Simpson, on the charter.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).