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With these papers were some of David Herd (see MSS.1924-1928).

Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in black ink, with red for the title, numbers and initials, and in a Muscovite skoropis’ hand.Списокь стор ʼroвoro ӳcтaвaThe manuscript begins: ·ã·, Ha двинѣ ẏ̑ аханrecкoro ropo втамо, жнѣ Ϭытна на яман'кеThe manuscript ends: и о напрасноrо ẏ̑божестьа свойхъ, люде хранять..There is a colophon on folio 72: и̓ по ẏ̑ка великоrо rдря й по помѣте,боя̑рина а̇̑ѳонасъя лаврентьė̑вича, а̇̑рдина нащокина й по...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The main interest of the papers lies in the military and diplomatic material relating to General St Clair's career in the British army over thirty years. The 2nd son of the 10th Lord Sinclair, James St Clair succeeded as titular 12th Lord Sinclair in 1750 on the death of his brother, who was attainted in 1715. In 1747 he married Janet, daughter of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, and widow of Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet of Newbyth. He served with the Foot Guards in Gibraltar in...

Scope and Contents The book was started about 1747, and all entries of earlier date are noted as being taken from an 'old book', which is the 'booke of the actis, statutis, and ordinances of the glovers of Kelso, anno 1631'-1746, presented to the National Library in 1927 (MS.70).The book contains the following:(i) Acts, 1679-1703 (page 3);(ii) Regulations for searching the butcher-market for skins and hides, 1776 (page 17);(iii) Elections, 1659-1738 (page 41);...

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Scope and Contents (i) 'Taxtio super integra ecclesia Scoticana tam super pralatiuris quam aliis beneficis numonluis ad valarem annuum £40 sel ad rationem £30,000' (page 1); (ii) 'Libellus taxationum seu contrivutionum spiritualitatis conceparcum S.D.N. Regi per fraelator et Clericas Regni Scotiae' (page 16); (iii) Extent rolls of the Shires of Scotland in some instances distinguishing the property of the Crown, kirklands, and temporal lands, all apparently of the 16th century but dated at the end Sept 10 1687...

Scope and Contents The reports include:(i) The cultivation of coffee, 1824 (folio 3);(ii) The Baroda revenue system, undated, but post 1821 (folio 21);(iii) Memorandum, 7 August 1820, on the revision of the judicial code of the Bombay presidency, 7 August 1820 (folio 32);(iv) Regulations, undated, but circa 1820, concerning the duties of a collector, revenue regulations concerning village representatives, and queries concerning land values, with a glossary of...

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The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Scope and Contents From the Series: William Hugh Elliot Murray Kynynmound was the eldest surviving son of the 2nd Earl of Minto, who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1814 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1859. He was Member of Parliament for Hythe, 1837-1841, for Greenock, 1847-1852, and for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1857-1859; served as chairman of the Lunacy Commission, Scotland, 1857. As an active back-bench MP and peer, who was closely related to some of the leading political figures of his time - he was, for example, the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1924-1935, concerned with the purchase of Mary, Queen of Scots, manuscripts (1924), and with the business of the National Library Board of Trustees (folio 1); (ii-xi) 'Miscellaneous documents', 1922-1936, as follows. (ii) Copy of a letter, 1922, of Sir Frederick Kenyon, British Museum, to Dr W K Dickson on a Treasury grant to the Advocates' Library (folio 68); (iii) Correspondence with Sir John Lamb and Lord Novar (Secretary for Scotland) on the...

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The mess book consists of the printed 'Mess Regulations' for each year, names of ‘Strangers’ and ‘Guests’ and by whom invited, and ‘names of troopers absent from Mess’.

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The contents are as follows: (i) Detailed regulations, circa 1790, for drill and manoeuvre exercises with Sepoy infantry and extracts from regulations dealing with courts martial, military funerals, etc. (folio 1). (ii) Botanical and medical notes and musings upon 'heroic vertue', circa 1790 (folio 56). (iii) Battalion orders at Tellicherry and Bombay for the 7th Battalion of Sepoys, 1788-1790 (folio 65 verso).

Scope and Contents These records of the Wrights, bowyers, coopers, chirurgeons, parchment makers, masons, and glaziers, who formed the Wrights Incorporation, reveal their collective interest in the regulations of trading standards and the control of admission. There are also indications of the social function of the Incorporation and their involvement with the pre-Reformation Church.The haphazard nature of the entries in both volumes suggests that they may possibly be rough copies kept by the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Copy of a private Act of Parliament for vesting the entailed estates of Melgund and Kynynmound in Trustees, 1792 (folio 1);(ii) A cutting from the ‘Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary’, 13 August 1807, reporting the investiture of Sir George Barlow as a Knight Companion of the Bath (folio 11);(iii) 'Regulations Proposed by the Court of Directors to the General Court for the most advantageous Management of the Company's Affairs...

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The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.

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Alexander Carlyle's papers consist chiefly of journals, sermons, lectures, autobiographical writings, writings on various topics, poetry and papers on church and other affairs. The later papers (MSS.23927-23930) consist of a list of his books, excerpts from his writings and excerpts of proceedings in the action against him by the Presbytery of Dalkeith.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Memorial for the ministers of the Church of Scotland on the window tax, 1757 (folio 1). See also MS.11017, folios 64-65. (ii) Notes and printed bill concerning the writ of Habeas Corpus, [1758] (folio 3); (iii) Drafts of speeches to be delivered in the House of Commons on the conduct of the war, with notes on bribery at elections and the swearing of oaths, [1759] (folio 11); (iv) Memorial for John Forbes of Culloden, 1762 (folio 22); (v) Notes relating...