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Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

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A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.

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Four sermons on Psalm xlv, 1-4, followed (after page 994) by meditations on affliction, based on various texts of Scripture, in another hand. Marie Maule may be the wife of Charles, Earl of Mar.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers consist principally of his sermons, which were subsequently much worked on by his daughter, Jean Stewart, also a Church of Scotland minister. Next are papers relating to the Loan Committee of Crown Court Church, which give an insight into the financial hardship suffered by at least part of the congregation during the interwar period. There are also several correspondence files, which are illustrative of Moffett’s involvement in the community based around Crown Court Church, as...

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Some family and other papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre's father, the Reverend John Ebenezer McIntyre (1874-1961), successively minister of Hightae and Dalton, Motherwell, Manse Road, and St Mary's, Edinburgh, United Free churches, and later of Barony and St James Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, precede the main collection.

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Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.

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Also includes a copy made by the Reverend William Anderson in 1873 from a poem on the Reform Bill written on a corn-box in a stable in 1832 (folio 294).

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G Purefoy's name appears on folio 1.

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Also included are "A short account of the Lord's way of providence..." (folio 28), extracts from a diary, with texts and a prayer signed by James Fairnie, St Andrews, 1731 (folio 60), and a group of prayers for use before and after sermons (folio 73).

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All the sermons are anonymous, but some can be identified as the work of Alexander Carlyle (MS.3466, folios 1-27), and most of the remainder are probably by Thomas Masson, Minister of Dunnichen (MS.3466, folios 85-125; MS.3467).

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All the sermons are anonymous, but some can be identified as the work of Alexander Carlyle (MS.3466, folios 1-27), and most of the remainder are probably by Thomas Masson, Minister of Dunnichen (MS.3466, folios 85-125; MS.3467).

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The sermon at folio 1 is headed "Sermons preached against Popery begun Febr: 1686’ but no others appear to have been preached, or at least copied, on this subject. The volume contains copies by John Gray of sermons by Robert Meldrum, Minister of Yester (pages 85-104), Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow (page 256) and Benjamin Calamy (page 289).

There are the remains of two pairs of clasps.

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The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

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The volume contains copies by John Gray of sermons of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow (folio 58) and of "Mr L.C.", presumably Laurence Charteris (folio 78); and a copy in another, early eighteenth-century, hand of a sermon by Leighton (folio 178).

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Bound, or rebound, during the eighteenth century, doubtless by the Gray Library, Haddington.

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The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

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The volume also contains various memoranda at page 147.

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The volume contains excerpts by John Gray from printed books at folios 83 verso.

There are the remains of a clasp.

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The sermons although individually undated were preached in 1672 and 1673 according to a note at folio 1.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.