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Short manuscript treatise on landscape gardening.
Among the subjects discussed are: terraces, lawns, fountains, pleasure grounds, walks, and bowling greens. The writer favours the geometrical arrangement of gardens, and reacts against the 'natural' theories of a former generation.
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’.
`State of Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, its extent, causes, and proposed remedy.` An apparently unpublished treatise, dated `London March 21st 1803`.
Synopsis and corrected manuscript of Forbes Macgregor, "What is Education in Scotland? An Orbit of Minerva" (1970).
Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.
Thomas Chaloner, "An Answer to the Scottish Papers", an unpublished Swedish translation.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’.
Transcript of a political treatise on peace of Sir Robert Cotton.
Transcript of “Discourse en forme de lettres sur le gouvernement de Geneve et sur l’affire du sieur Micheli du Crest copié a Lyon en 1734.”
Copies of papers concerning the judgement of the Council of Two Hundred of Geneva against Jacques-Barthélemi Micheli du Crest.
At the end is a printed notice, 1736, of the “consultations” of the Parliament of Paris on the same subject.
Transcripts of Italian diplomatic and political papers.
‘Treaties at Newcastle and London 1640-1641’, being a collection of copies of the letters & proceedings connected with the military and other operations of the Scotch in England from August 1640 to March 1641 including the whole minutes of conferences and proceedings of the English & Scotch Committees.
Treatise against drunkenness.
Treatise, apparently unpublished, entitled "The Science of Heraldry", the families and arms all being Scottish.
‘Treatise concerning the clans, in two parts’, a fair account of the state of the Highlands about the beginning of the 18th century, with many suggestions for their improvement.
The contents are as follows: 1st part: ’Some remarks on the Highland clans; 2nd part: ‘Methods proposed for civilizing the clans’.
Treatise in three volumes on a union between Great Britain and Ireland.
Treatise, "Logistica, Arithmetica, Geometrica, Algebraica et Logarithmetica", including notes on the Scottish Mint.
Treatise on alchemy titled ‘Een oog water voor de verkeerde chymise wegwysers’.
Treatise on heraldry, closely related to ‘A System of Heraldry’ by Alexander Nisbet, but very much shorter.
The treatise was compiled in the reign of James VII, 1685-1701 (see folio 38) and quotes from authorities such as Menestrier, Guillim and Sir George Mackenzie.
Engraved plates illustrating various arms have been inserted, most of which examples are to be found in ‘A System of Heraldry’, by Alexander Nisbet.
Treatise on land-holding and transfer.
Contains English laws and illustrative instances especially in reference to land.
Treatise ‘On nobility’ by Sir James Balfour.
Treatise on prelacy.
‘Ane inquirie into that now so much debated case viz. whether it be the duty of the Lords people in Britain & Ireland to hear such as have submitted to the prelatical government as to join with them in the exercise of such acts as belong to the pastoral office’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: Jac.V.5.2.3.
Treatise on Scots law.
A collection of notes on points of law; at the end is an abridgement of Acts of Parliament from Thomas Hope’s ‘Major practicks’.