Government records.
Subject
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Scope Note: Records made or received by an agency of government and maintained in the conduct of government business.
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Copies, 1707, from manuscripts in the British Museum of state papers and letters concerning Scotch affairs and the interference of the English government in them from about the period of Queen Mary’s arrival in Scotland to the time of her execution.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.1 (i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.3.28-30.
The manuscript is in a neat hand, with a few unimportant notes by the transcriber.
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
‘Epistolæ Regum Scotorum’, a register of correspondence of State, including contemporary copies of royal letters.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.9
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. I. State Papers, part I (F.R.184)
Dates:
1505-1545, 1576-1626.
‘Letters and instructions of state between England and Scotland’, a volume of copies in a modern hand from original papers in the Cotton Library being chiefly letters of English Ambassadors in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.18
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.2.
Dates:
1580-1581.
Manuscript of which the greater part consists of historical collections or copies of English state papers concerning Scotland in the Cotton collection.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.13
Scope and Contents
The documents are chiefly in the hand of Matthew Crawfurd professor of ecclesiastical history at Edinburgh in the beginning of the 18th century. The last part of the volume appears from a note of Crawfurd’s to have been copied for him by David Casley, Keeper of the Cotton manuscripts. At the beginning of the volume is a list, also in Crawfurd’s hand, of ‘the blazoning of the arms of a great many surnames in Scotland’ copied from the original by Professor Thomas Crawfurd who died in 1664....
Dates:
16th century.
‘Matthew Crawfords historical collections’, copies of English state papers concerning Scotland in the Cotton collection and State Papers Office, in the hand of Mathew Crawford, Professor of church history at Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.3
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.2.21-23.
Dates:
16th century.
Microfilm of papers concerning the foundation of the Bank of England, collected by Charles Lord Halifax, and latterly in the library of Lord Glenbervie.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1392
Dates:
1682-1692.
Microfilm of ‘Reports of ministers’, contemporary copies of answers of ministers to queries of a committee of the General Assembly concerning the augmentation of ministers’ stipends.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.428-429
Dates:
1749-1750.
Microfilm of state papers, being copies, 17th century, of correspondence.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2087
Dates:
[?1586-?1623].
Microfilm of state papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-9, letters and papers.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2-4
Dates:
[1560-1624.]
Microfilm of state papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 21 and 28.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1286-1287
Dates:
[1560-1618.]
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers chiefly of or concerning Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Series
Identifier: MS.16428
Dates:
1794-1902, undated.
Notes of what passes in the parliament 1641, from the time of the Kings coming, 17th August; and other parliamentary fragments.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.8
Dates:
1561-1679.
Papers concerning the foundation of the Bank of England, collected by Charles Lord Halifax, and latterly in the library of Lord Glenbervie.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.7
Dates:
1682-1692.
‘State papers collected by Walsingham, Burleigh &ce’, copies of English state papers, from the reign of Elizabeth I, concerning relations with France, Spain, the Netherlands and Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.11
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers concerning the matters passed between England, France & Spain, and the Netherlands, of which a table is given at folio 91 verso.
(ii) Papers concerning matters that have passed between England and Scotland during the reign of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, of which a table is placed at the end of the volume.The tops of the leaves are considerably damaged by damp and two leaves are wanting before folio 5.The description of...
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
Transcripts of damaged passages of Adv.MS.34.1.11: ‘State papers collected by Walsingham, Burleigh &ce’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.15
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.