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Digital copies of letters of James, Robert and William Low, emigrants in the USA.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13361
Scope and Contents
Digital copies in pdf format of ten letters, 1871 - 1884, of James, Robert and William Low of Forfar, emigrants in New Jersey, Texas and Chicago, with transcriptions of the letters in word and rich text format and family history notes in pdf format.
Dates:
1871 - 1884.
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts, 1754-1760, and undated, of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(I)-(X)
Scope and Contents
The transcripts extend from the earliest surviving rolls to Book 34; presumably Macfarlane`s intention was to continue the series to at least Book 59 (cf. his index, Adv.MS.35.1.8), but the absence of a title page in volume X suggests that it was the last completed.
Dates:
1315-1577.
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume I: the 12 rolls of Robert I (1315-1321), Robert II (1371-1390), Robert III (1390-1393), and Robert Duke of Albany as Governor (1406-1413), copied in 1754., 1315-1413.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(I)
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume II: books 1-5 (James I and II, 1424-1459), copied in 1755., 1424-1459.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(II)
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume III: Books 6-12 (James II, III and IV, 1464-1492), copied in 1756., 1464-1492.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(III)
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume IV: books 13-15 (James IV, 1492-1510), copied in 1757., 1492-1510.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(IV)
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume IX: books 30-31 (Mary, 1542-1558), copied in 1760., 1542-1558.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(IX)
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume V: books 16-22 (James IV and V, 1510-1528), copied in 1758., 1510-1528.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(V)
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume VI: books 23-25 (James V, Mary and James VI, 1528-1569), copied in 1759., 1528-1569.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(VI)
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume VII: books 26-27 (James V, 1536-1541), copied in 1759., 1536-1541.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(VII)
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume VIII: books 28-29 (James V and Mary, 1535-1546), copied in 1760., 1535-1546.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(VIII)
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane, volume X: books 32-34 (James VI, 1568-1577), copied circa 1760., 1568-1577.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.2.1(X)
`Diplomatic Correspondence (England) 1708-9` (folio 1); `Requests of the States General 1744-5’ (folio 49)., 1708-1709, 1744-1745.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.16
Dates:
1708-1709, 1744-1745.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Texts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
`Diplomatic Correspondence Regiments of Wood, Douglas, and Hamilton 1720-1` (folio 1); `Resolutions of the Council of State 1726-46` (folio 30)., 1720-1746.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.17
Dates:
1720-1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Texts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
`Documents relating to Scotch regiments of Wood, Douglas and Hamilton 1715-21` (folio 1); `Papers relating to the project of reforming the Brigade in 1758-59 and to the recall during the war in America 1776` (folio 50); `Petitions etc. sent to the Council of State 1702-9’ (folio 57); ‘Resolutions taken by the Council of State 1701-17’ (folio 68)., 1701-1776.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.15
Dates:
1701-1776.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
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Texts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson.
Eighteenth century transcripts of 34 letters of David Hume to Marie-Charlotte Hippolyte de Sanjou, Comtesse de Boufflers.
File
Identifier: Acc.10791
Scope and Contents
Includes transcripts of 11 letters of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Comtesse de Boufflers. The transcripts made with publication of an edition in view.
Dates:
1761-1776.
‘Excerpts from an "Inventary of Writs in the Charter house of Hamilton” Vol 2ᵈ. ...` in the hand of James Chalmers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.26
Scope and Contents
The excerpts were probably made for the benefit of James Chalmers` uncle, George Chalmers, in preparation for the third volume of the latter`s ‘Caledonia’.
The date of the manuscript has been suggested by the watermark of the sheets, 1812.
Dates:
1812, or after.
Extract, 1557, of a notarial transumpt of a protocol of John Fowler, Depute Clerk of Edinburgh, upon a sasine, 1532, of Katherine Allan and Andrew Wood, of land in Edinburgh., 1532, 1557.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.28
Dates:
1532, 1557.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.10
Scope and Contents
Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.5
Scope and Contents
A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
Extracts from printed sources and a transcript, made by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire, bound with two printed items., 1639-1640, 1825-1840.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.24
Scope and Contents
The extracts concern John Corbet, minister of Bonhill (folio 3), and the transcript is of David Laing`s copy, which had been discovered shortly before and was the only one known to Dennistoun, of Sir William Moore`s pseudonymously published ‘A counter-buff to Lysimachus Nicanor’, by Philopatris ([Edinburgh], 1640) (folio 11). Bound in between folios 8 and 9 are printed copies of Corbet`s ‘The ungirding of the Scottish Armour’ (Dublin, 1639) and his ‘The epistle congratulatorie of Lysimachus...
Dates:
1639-1640, 1825-1840.
Extracts transcribed, 1774-1775, from Perth Kirk Session records, 1577-1620, by the Reverend James Scott, with some historical notes and explanations by him., 1577-1620.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.1
Scope and Contents
The volume includes detailed notes on both the Gowrie conspiracy (folio 139) and William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway (folio 210 verso).
Dates:
1577-1620.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts, 1774-?1788, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1560-1668, made by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth, and a copy in his possession, 1784, of the ‘History of the united Parishes of Monivaird and Strowan’ compiled, circa 1774, by James Porteous of Dalvich, Minister of Monzievaird and Strowan.
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Extracts transcribed, 1774-1775, from Perth Kirk Session records, 1577-1624, 1631-1637, and from the Presbytery of Perth, 1624-1631, by the Reverend James Scott, with historical notes and explanations by him.
Extracts transcribed, 1774-1775, from Perth Kirk Session records, 1577-1624, 1631-1637, and from the Presbytery of Perth, 1624-1631, by the Reverend James Scott, with historical notes and explanations by him., 1577-1637.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.1.1-31.1.1A
Dates:
1577-1637.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts, 1774-?1788, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1560-1668, made by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth, and a copy in his possession, 1784, of the ‘History of the united Parishes of Monivaird and Strowan’ compiled, circa 1774, by James Porteous of Dalvich, Minister of Monzievaird and Strowan.
Extracts transcribed, 1775, from Perth Kirk Session records, 1620-1624, 1631-1637, and from the Presbytery of Perth, 1624-1631, by the Reverend James Scott, with historical notes and explanations by him., 1620-1637.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.1A
Scope and Contents
The volume includes detailed notes upon both witchcraft (folio 99 verso) and floods in Perth (folio 24).
Dates:
1620-1637.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts, 1774-?1788, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1560-1668, made by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth, and a copy in his possession, 1784, of the ‘History of the united Parishes of Monivaird and Strowan’ compiled, circa 1774, by James Porteous of Dalvich, Minister of Monzievaird and Strowan.
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Extracts transcribed, 1774-1775, from Perth Kirk Session records, 1577-1624, 1631-1637, and from the Presbytery of Perth, 1624-1631, by the Reverend James Scott, with historical notes and explanations by him.
Extracts transcribed, 1776, from Perth Kirk Session records, 1577-1596, by the Reverend James Scott., 1577-1596.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.1.3
Scope and Contents
The volumes include copious historical notes and historical explanations by Scott.
Dates:
1577-1596.