Chartularies.
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Chartularies of Inchcolm Abbey and of Scone Abbey transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane., 14th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
Chartularies of the bishopric of Moray transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane., Late 13th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
The wording and ornament of the title pages suggest a division into three groups:
(i) Adv.MSS.35.2.5, 35.3.6, 35.3.7, 35.39: 1738-1739.
(ii) Adv.MSS.35.3.2, 35.3.4: 1740.
(iii) Adv.MSS.35.3.3, 35.3.5, 35.3.8: 1740-1744.
The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library, with notes taken from Richard Augustine Hay`s works. Only those documents the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.
Chartulary, concerning the estates of the Marquess of Tweeddale., 1707-1735.
Chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey and a selection of deeds of Coldingham priory transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane., 15th century, 16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton, vol. I’., ?Early 17th century.
There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.
‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton, vol. II’, ?Early 17th century.
There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.
Copy, on paper of the Records of Scotland watermarked 1816, of the cartulary of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Soutra, late 14th century, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in an unidentified hand., ?12th century, late 14th century.
Tipped in at the end (page 101) is a copy by Hutton of a charter probably of 12th-century provenance referring to the hospital.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 2., 1686-1689.
The volume contains transcripts of the cartulary of the Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr, Arbroath (Adv.MS.34.4.2), in a different arrangement (folio 17); a Calendar of Saints` days observed in Scotland before the Reformation (folio 267), and a list of feasts formerly held in Scotland (folio 286 verso).
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 3., 1686-1689.
The volume contains a transcript of the cartulary of Paisley (Adv.MS.34.4.14) (folio 13); an account of the Stewarts, as far as the death of King James II (folio 277); and a history of the Trinitarian monks (folio 295).
General and East Lothian papers., 1541-1891, undated.
Microfilm of transcripts, 1818, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of copies of the cartularies of the abbeys of Dryburgh, 15th century, and Balmerino, [after 1331]., [After 1331], 15th century.
The transcripts are of: a copy of the cartulary of the abbey of Dryburgh (folio 1); and a copy of the cartulary of the abbey of Balmerino (folio 320). The transcripts are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.1, folio 429 and after, and 9A.1.2, on paper watermarked 1818, and bound with endpapers watermarked 1818. The copies from which the transcripts were made were at Panmure at the time of transcription. Marginalia in pencil by Hutton on many of the leaves. Folios 289-318 are blank.
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay, volume 1., 12th century-17th century.
The papers are in some confusion and many others dispersed. Some (Adv.MS.25.9.10) were acquired by the Advocates` Library in 1881 as part of the Riddell Papers; and others (Acc.5022 and Acc.5694) were acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 1970 and 1972.
The purposes for which the papers were originally compiled and the circumstances of their dispersal are alike unknown.
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay, volume 2., 12th century-17th century.
Bound in at the front of the volume (folios 1-49) are some extracts from cartularies made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane.
Morton chartulary, a register of the writs of the Douglases of Lochleven, Earls of Morton., 14th century.
`Registrum Coenobii Arbrothensis: Impensis Walteri McFarlan De Eodem, Transcriptum. 1740`., 14th century, 1700-1707, or after.
The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.4.2, 14th century, with extracts from Hay on Arbroath, 1700-1707, or after (page 331; from Adv.MSS.34.1.8, page 191, and 34.1.10(ii), pages 434-498) and Fyvie (page 408; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, page 386), and a list of the charters (page 409).
‘Registrum Coenobii de Aberbroth Volumen II Continens Assedationes Terrarum Impensis Walteri MacFarlan de Eodem Transcriptum, Anno MDCCXLIV`., 15th century.
The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.4.3, 15th century, with a list of the charters (page 577).
`Registrum Coenobii de Cambus-Kenneth: Impensis Walteri McFarlan de Eodem In ipsius usum transcriptum MDCCXXXVIII`., 1535, 1700-1707, or after.
The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.1.2, 1535 (the list of the charters is trans¬ferred to the end), with extracts from Hay on Cambuskenneth, 1700-1707, or after (page 313; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 511-516) and from ‘Collections concerning the Scottish History’, pages 264-265 (page 319), and a rental of the abbey in 1561 (page 321; `Ex MS[??] penes T[homam] C[alderwood] de P[olton] Jurisconsultum`). The rental is in Macfarlane’s own hand.
‘Registrum Coenobii de Dunfermline: Impensis Walteri Macfarlan de Eodem In ipsius usum transcriptum. MDCCXXXVIII`., 13th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.1.3A, 13th century-16th century (the index on folios 11-15 is placed after the first section), with an extract from Hay on Dunfermline, 1700-1707, or after (page 784; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 323-338), an additional note by Macfarlane himself (page 804), and a list of the charters (page 805).
`Registrum Coenobii Kalsonensis: Impensis Walteri Macfarlan de Eodem In ipsius usum transcriptum MDCCXXXVIII`., 14th century, 1700-1707, or after.
The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.5.1, 14th century (the medical treatise on folios 213 verso-215 is placed after the chartulary, the defaced last leaves of which are not completely transcribed; the rental on folios 1-6 is transferred to the end), with extracts from Hay on Kelso, 1700-1707, or after (page 489; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 500-504) and Lesmahagow (page 495; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 509-510), and a list of the charters (page 497).
`Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Impensis Walteri Macfarlan De Eodem Transcriptum. 1740`., Late 14th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
The manuscript is copied from Adv.MSS.16.1.10, late 14th century-16th century (page 1), and 34.4.4, 1st half of 16th century (page 505; documents already tran¬scribed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 are omitted), with an extract from Hay, 1700-1707, or after, on the see of Aberdeen (page 593; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 159-90) and a list of the charters (page 625).
`Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis Impensis Walteri MacFarlan De Eodem Transcriptum Anno MDCCXLII Volumen I`., Late 13th century-16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.4.10, late 13th century-16th century, with an extract from Hay on the see of Moray, 1700-1707, or after (page 548a; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 559-566).
`Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis Impensis Walteri MacFarlan De Eodem Transcriptum Anno MDCCXLIIl Volumen Il`., 16th century.
The manuscript is copied from Adv.MS.34.4.9, 16th century, folios 117-154, 92-116, 155-321, with a copy of the rental of the see of Moray in 1565 (page 1085, from Adv.MS.34.5.2, folios 2-39), and a list of the charters (page 1125). The rental is in another hand.
Transcript, 1809-1814, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of the cartulary of the cathedral and diocese of Brechin, 15th century-16th century., 15th century-16th century.
Written on sheets of paper watermarked between 1809 and 1814 and bound with endpapers watermarked 1818.
The cartulary was at Panmure at the time of transcription.
Transcript, 1819, of the cartulary of Kelso Abbey, after 1316, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton by William Robison, writer, Aberdeen (folio ii), from an 18th-century copy at Panmure House., After 1316.
There are marginalia in pencil by Hutton on several of the pages.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1815, of the cartulary of the Dominican priory of St Andrews, 13th century-14th century., 13th century-14th century.
The transcript was made from the original which was then at Panmure. A few textual losses are supplied by Hutton from "the other copy", presumably that known as the `Magnum Registrum’. A bifolium containing a few excerpts by John Stuart, formerly loosely enclosed, is at Adv.MS.9A.1.20, folio 1. The volume is bound with endpapers watermarked 1818.