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Found in 3635 Collections and/or Records:
Contemporary copies of 'Thirteen Sermons preached by . . . Mr. John Livingston, Minister at Ancrume, in the year 1651 ... ten years before his banishment to Holland’., 1651.
File
Identifier: MS.3469
Contemporary copies of twenty-five letters to Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, from Pope, Swift, Arbuthnott, Gay, and the Duchess of Queensberry, with copies of Swift's 'Characters' of the Countess and of Sir Robert Walpole., 1719-1731.
File
Identifier: MS.5754
Scope and Contents
Two leaves are missing between folios 15 and 16; folio 16 contains stanzas 17-24 of a political ballad, beginning 'Is Cartwright then to Ireland gone'.
Dates:
1719-1731.
Contemporary copy of a document concerning the expenses of the French royal household, entitled `Estat et menu général de la dépense ordinaire bouche de la chambre aux deniers du Roy’, the Prince de Condé`s authorisation of the year`s expenditure.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.32
Scope and Contents
The document includes a list of persons entitled to eat at the King`s table; food, wine and other commodities required throughout the year, with special allowances for feast days and other occasions; and expenses for the dukes of Burgundy, Anjou and Berry. It is followed (folio 119) by a similar authorisation for the household of the Dauphin.
Dates:
1689.
Contemporary copy of a letter, 1823, of Henry Brougham of Zachary Macaulay.
File
Identifier: Acc.8586
Scope and Contents
With associated letter, 1925.
Dates:
1823, 1925.
Contemporary copy of a letter of Alexander Dickson, Inspector of Artillery, to Colonel Stephen Chapman.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9742
Scope and Contents
Concerns the battle of Waterloo.
Dates:
1815.
Contemporary copy of a letter of James VII and II to the Scottish Privy Council, requiring them to enforce toleration for Roman Catholics., 21 August 1686.
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Identifier: MS.2617, folios 6-7
Dates:
21 August 1686.
Contemporary copy of a letter of John Armistead.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7744
Scope and Contents
Concerning the occupation of Newcastle by the Scottish army.
Dates:
1641.
Contemporary copy of a letter of Richard Bancroft to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, containing Bancroft`s apology to James VI for his sermon preached at Paul`s Cross some months earlier., 1590.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(xiv), folios 46-53
Contemporary copy of a letter of Thomas Savage describing the Clifton Moor Skirmish.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11428
Dates:
1745.
Contemporary copy of a letter of William Maitland of Lethington to Mary Queen of Scots, concerning the negotiations for the Queen`s marriage., 1563.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(ii), folios 15-16
Contemporary copy of a list of articles proposed by James VI to the General Assembly held at Perth in 1597, including The Assembly`s answers., 1597.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(ix), folios 35-36
Contemporary copy of a list of proposed acts presented by the Earl of Arran to the Parliament of May 1584., 1584.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(vii), folios 31-32
Contemporary copy of a narrative of the capture of Stirling Castle by the Ruthven Lords, including their proclamation., 1585.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(iii), folios 17-22
Contemporary copy of answers of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, to certain interrogatories put to him concerning his negotiations in Spain for the marriage of Charles I., 1624.
Item
Identifier: MS.1747
Dates:
1624.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts: part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, and answers of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, to certain interrogatories put to him concerning his negotiations with Spain for the marriage of Charles I.
Contemporary copy of `Discoverie and Historie of the gold mynes in Scotland` by Stephen Atkinson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.6
Dates:
1619.
Contemporary copy of letter of James VII and II to the Scottish Privy Council, 21 August 1686, requiring them to enforce toleration for Roman Catholics; and of the Council's reply., 1686.
File
Identifier: MS.3426
Contemporary copy of oath sworn by 14 Covenanters adhering to the Rutherglen Testimony, 1680
Item
Identifier: Acc.5484
Dates:
circa 1680.
Contemporary copy of 'Observations in a Tour to Portugal and Spain by Thos. [i.e. John], Earl of Strathmore & John Pitt, Esqr., 1760’., 1760.
Item
Identifier: MS.2758
Scope and Contents
With six folding architectural drawings.
Dates:
1760.
Contemporary copy of part of a letter describing the execution of Lord Balmerino.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12821
Dates:
1746.
Contemporary copy of Sir Ralph Sadler`s correspondence during his embassies to Scotland in 1539-1540 and 1543.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.10
Dates:
1539-1543.
Contemporary copy of some articles devised by the Arran administration to be observed by `all the preachers of the word and office bearers in the kirk`., 1585.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(iv), folios 23-24
Contemporary copy of specifications by John Rennie and others for the Crinan Canal.
Item
Identifier: MS.9499
Scope and Contents
Also included are John Rennie's estimate for the work (folio 33 verso) and notes on the cost of the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1789 (folio 47).
Dates:
1793.
Contemporary copy of the Apology of Humphrey Chambers, rector of Claverton to the Church of England, for omitting to read the king`s declaration concerning the use of lawful sports on Sundays; Chambers was consequently imprisoned, but later became rector of Pewsey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.4.7
Scope and Contents
On folio v verso is the inscription `Edinr Febr 1739 a + l + n + o`.
Dates:
1633.
Contemporary copy of the demands presented by the English before the peace settlement in 1559., 1559.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(v), folios 25-26
Contemporary copy of the minutes of a conference held to discuss the accommodation scheme put forward by Archbishop Leighton., 1670.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(vi), folios 27-30