Watermarks.
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Business letters, connected with Banffshire and Aberdeenshire., 1646-1803.
The letters do not form a complete series, having been collected, with many blank sheets, for the sake of their watermarks, which are described by William Cramond, in 'Water-marks on Northern Letters', in ‘Glasgow Herald’, 2 January 1897 (folio iv). The written documents, which come chiefly from the papers of Alexander Gordon of Aberdour, factor to the Earl of Aberdeen, and of William Rose, factor to Earl Fife, deal principally with the families of Abernethy, Gordon, and Duff.
Copy written in an unidentified hand of Alexander Carlyle's 'Recollections'., 1801-1805.
The copy is written on sheets watermarked 1801 (folios 1-74) and 1805 (folios 75-134). They record events in Alexander Carlyle's life between 1723 and 1737 and appear to have been written before the autobiography, as revised portions appear to have been incorporated into it. Many passages have been lightly deleted and other marks made in pencil.
Leaf of paper bearing printed examples of two watermarks in red ink, namely, a pot, and three claw hammers with a chevron and crown., 1673.
The paper, which had been used as a cover for papers, bears Scottish names and the date 1673.
Note, undated, of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, who conveyed Napoleon to England in the ‘Bellerophon’, written on paper watermarked with Napoleonic medallions., [1815, or after.]
Papers of and concerning Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux, on maritime subjects., 1792-1806, undated.
'Paradise lost' by John Milton, books iii-vi, pages 193-535 (printed), interleaved, with autograph notes of John Gibson Lockhart, as if in preparation of a new edition., [1813, or after.]
The paper is water-marked 1813.
'Specimens of Canntareachd' by Angus Mackay, on paper watermarked 1853.
Transcripts, early nineteenth century, of charters of the Earls of Morton.
From the watermark, these transcripts appear to have been made in H M Register House early in the 19th century.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.
Volume containing fair copies of poems in the hand of Margaret Loudoun., 1803-1809.
Margaret Loudoun's pencilled signature, dated 1809, is at folio i. (Some of the poems, at folios 28 verso and 42 verso, and possibly at folios 5 verso and 8, are addressed to her.) The poems, several of which are by (or a few, to) Francis Jeffrey are dated between 1793 and 1809: the leaves are watermarked 1803. A leaf has been cut out between folios 19 and 20.