Broadsides. Notices.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
12 volumes relating to the peerage of Great Britain collected by James Maidment.
Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.
Collection of Scottish poems and satirical verse.
The first 70 folios are in manuscript while the latter half of the volume consists of a collection of printed broadsides of the 18th century. Several of the manuscript items appear in print and a list of them is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Legal papers in the trial of Alexander Wilson for libel of William Henry, Silk-manufacturer, Newtown of Paisley, in his broadside poem ‘The Hollander’.
The papers are bound with the broadside poem 'The Hollander'.
Notebook containing notes, probably taken by Peter Stewart, writer, Provost of Campbeltown, on dictates on rhetoric delivered by Hugh Blair.
The notebook has some miscellaneous early 19th century newspaper cuttings posted in (folios i-v) and a notice of the death of Sir Thomas Reid, Baronet, written 1823, probably by William Ferguson (folio 183 verso). An article by A I B Stewart, ascribes the volume to Peter Stewart and gives family details (loosely enclosed at back, folio 190-196).
Transcript by John Dougall, 1821, from the Harley manuscript, ‘The Morall fabillis of Esope’ by Robert Henryson, schoolmaster of Dunfermline.
A modern transcript from the Harleian MS.3865. Prefixed are five leaves of notices respecting the manuscript and the transcriber John Dougall, London, 1821.