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Microfilm of transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.289
Dates:
1678-1708.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
17th century.
Transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
File
Identifier: MS.821
Scope and Contents
With an original letter from the Society for the Reformation of Manners, London, to the similarly named society in Edinburgh, 1708. The writers include the chief leaders of the movements in question.
Dates:
1678-1708.