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Collection, made in the eighteenth century, of Jacobite songs, odes, satirical verse, etc.
File
Identifier: MS.2910
Scope and Contents
The collection is divided into 'Choice Poems, &c., on Several Occasions preceeding 1745' and 'Poems composed since the Attempt, 1745', and contains poems by Alexander Robertson of Strowan, Dryden, Montrose, Dr Archibald Pitcairne, and others, with a few ascribed to William Hamilton of Bangour, and many by 'Valerius' and other anonymous writers.At the end (folio 39 verso) is a Jacobite calendar, below which are the names Margaret Lowther and Almaria Trueworth, with a Royalist...
Dates:
1662-1749, undated.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a ‘coat of arms’ watermark. The scribe of the manuscript is William MacMurchy (see Adv.MS.72.2.12). MacMurchy also wrote versions of fourteen of the poems in this manuscript in what are now Adv.MS.73.2.2 (thence printed in ‘Reliquiae Celticae’, volume 2, pages 310-420) and the Inverneill MS (photostat, National Library of Scotland MS.14981). A number of the poems are plainly by the scribe himself.Ewen MacLachlan described it in his ‘Celtic Analysis’...
Dates:
18th century, before 1778.