Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Four theological works in hands apparently of early seventeenth-century provenance (folios 1, 40, 59, 100); (ii) Two holograph sermons of John Gray (folio 107); (iii) Amended copies by Andrew Blackball of sermons of Robert Rollock 1598 (folio 115); (iv) "A serious address to the minrs of ye Presbyterian Party" in Gray's hand (folio 141); (v) "A short catechisme" followed by a sermon, both in another seventeenth-century hand (folio 152); (vi) Sermons, 1694,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Inventories, 1659-1694, undated, of household and legal papers (folio 1);(ii) Legal papers, 1662, concerning the claims of the 4th Viscount Stormont against the creditors of James Murray, 2nd Earl of Annandale (folio 28);(iii) Order, 19 June 1667, for a seat in Lady Yester Kirk for the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 48);(iv) Note of pictures bought in 1691 (folio 49);(v) Inventories, 1691-1697, of...

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On folio i verso is the name 'Robertus Lowis, Chyrurgo Pharmacus', 1701. A loose leaf found in the volume has been fixed in (folio 58).

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The contents include a treatise, 1656, on the making of plasters (folio 1), a copy of Dr Hermann Boerhaave's prescriptions for powders for a fever (folio 68), and a photostat of a prescription, undated, by Jon Macolo, physician to James VI (folio 70).

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The papers include: prescriptions made by Sir Edmund King for the lst Marquess; theological notes in the hand of the 2nd Marquess; "Giornale dell' Antichità e rarità di Roma. 6 Febraro 1720"; poems, lists of books and of plants, etc. There are also some nineteenth-century notes concerning Lord Charles Hay.

Scope and Contents One of the most important sections is that on poetry (folios 1-18). Included here (folio 1) is an anonymous translation into English made in ?1710 of George Buchanan's ‘Francisci Valesii et Mariae Stuartae regum Franciae et Scotiae, epithalamium’. An interesting and anonymous ballad (folio 8) is called 'The Westland Letany', being a satire on the misgovernment of Scotland by Lauderdale, written circa 1673. There is also a copy of 'Hardyknute' (folios 14-16), a ballad attributed to Lady...

Scope and Contents The 'Lilium' is followed by Rémacle Fuchs's ten tables of common prescriptions (folio 342) and a portion of Gordon's ‘De decem ingeniis curandorum morborum’ (folio 352).The margins bear relevant notes in Gaelic and Latin in various hands; on folio 338 verso are pious sentences in English; the date 1702 appears on folio 94. There are notes of the Earl of Buchan on folios i, iii verso.The manuscript is incomplete at the end and the last leaves are much broken; otherwise...

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Contains the papers of the following: Jacobites, 1715-1745; Keithhall, Kinkell and Kintore, 1753; Kildonan, 1763; Kilmonivaig, 1768; Leith Incorporation of Carters, 1807; Liberton Poor's Funds, 1759-1761; Medical prescriptions, receipts, etc., 1727, undated; Midlothian roads, undated; Montrose bridge, 1770; Oaths of Allegiance etc., 1691, 1754; Parliament of Scotland, 1326, circa 1703-1704; Peers (Scots), 1708-1709, 1770.