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12 letters of James VI and I to Patrick Galloway, Moderator of the General Assembly.
Copy of the contract by Sir William Alexander for the first settlement of Nova Scotia.
Includes copy of a letter signed by James VI and I granting Alexander funds for the colony.
Letter, in secretarial hand and signed by the King, of James VI to George Keith, 4th Earl Marischal.
Letter announces the proclamation of a parliament and requests the Earl Marischal`s presence to discuss "enormitis committed".
Manuscript, "Jus Liberae Monarchiae", Latin translation of James VI, "The True Lawe of Free Monarchies"
Photocopies of biography, 1603, of James VI and I, (Archiviolo b. 208, ff 12) and two other documents.
Includes:
instructions, 1538, to a Papal nuncio on visiting Scotland (Archiviolo b. 158, ff 323-324)
letter, 1593, of James VI to the King of Poland concerning the Grand Duke of Tuscany (Scaffalatura 69/51/23).
Photocopies of grant, 1642, by Charles II to William Hay, Clerk of Session, and letter, 1615, of James VI and I to the Earl of Dunfermline, Lord Chancellor.
Photocopy of a letter of James VI to Neill Campbell.
Concerning the appointment of Donald Campbell to the deanery of Lismore.
Photocopy of a letter of King James VI of Scotland to George Keith, Earl Marischal, Ambassador Extraordinary to Denmark.
Letter concerns the King`s proposed marriage with the princess Anne of Denmark, the document bearing an autograph postscript by King James.
Photocopy of letter of James VI to Archbishop John Spottiswoode.
Ordering the apprehension of Jesuits and seminary priests.
Photocopy of letter of James VI to Sir Patrick Vaus of Barnbarroch.
Concerns William Angus, presbendary and sacristan of the Chapel Royal, Stirling.
Transcripts, 18th century, of eight letters, 1590-1600 and undated, of King James I to Sir Robert Mure, of Caldwell.
With a document, "The Bride of Lammermuir", containing a narrative of the original marriage of Janet Dalrymple on which Sir Walter Scott based his tale.