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Speeches. Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of any public address or talk.

Found in 923 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vols. I-II
Scope and Contents

The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.

Dates: 1793-1794.

Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates: 1554-1720.

Collection of manuscripts, apparently belonging to William Edmondstoune Aytoun., 1653-1746.

 File
Identifier: MS.4932
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Contemporary copy of a 'Report of the committee from the commissioners of Shyres, 20 July 1653', concerning shire valuation and taxation in Scotland. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript of the first part of 'A journall of the siege and the taking of Buda, begun in June in the year 1686' (folio 2). To this is added a transcript in William Edmondstoune Aytoun's hand, apparently of the whole manuscript, in which he inaccurately dates the siege 1684,...
Dates: 1653-1746.

Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1638-1642.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.2687
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.

Dates: 1638-1642.

Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1639-1642.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.2688
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.

Dates: 1639-1642.

Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1640-1642.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.2687-2688
Scope and Contents

The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.

Dates: 1640-1642.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Collection of twelve seventeenth-century sermons, those with date and place noted being preached at Dalserf or Carluke in 1655., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5769
Scope and Contents

Included is the deathbed speech of Ephraim Melville, minister of Linlithgow (page 386).

Pages 237-244 are misplaced between pages 228 and pages 229.

Dates: 17th century.