Coats of arms. devices (symbols).
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
'Le blason des armoiries’ ([Lyons], 1581), by Hierome de Bara., 1581, [circa 1804].
Letters and papers of various correspondents., 1579-1844.
Letters, newspaper-cuttings, and notes found loose in MSS.1813-1814: Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood., 19th century.
The material is chiefly of later date than 1813.
References to the items have been made at the appropriate places in MSS.1813-1814.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Frere, B. to Frere, Catherine., 1825-1925.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Head, B. to Head, G., 1829-1884.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Malet to Mallet, B., 1828-1926.
Lists of ballads, broadsheets and chapbooks, copied, circa 1818, from Joseph Ritson’s transcript of ‘a large sheet in ye folio of Old Balads belonging to the British Museum’, and from other sources., [Circa 1818.]
At the beginning is, ‘An index to the Miscellany Collection of a great number of ... (mostly Scots) Ballads & songs with other verses & poems both pious historical & jococe. The whole composed by diverse Scots & English poets’, in an early 18th century hand.
At the end is a printed list of juvenile works published by J Harris, St Paul’s Churchyard, 1817.
Map of Midlothian, by John Adair., Circa 1682.
Relief shown pictorially. Features include compass arrow; estates and settlements; trees; lochs, rivers and tributaries; ships; bridges. Mounted on paper. Dedication by John Adair to Robert, Earl of Lothian. Has 16 coat of arms drawings.
Microfilm of copies, 1796, of William Rose, the genealogist, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740; and, arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612].
The contents are as follows:
Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, the genealogist, in Montcoffer (Adv.MS.15.1.9);
Arms of the English and Scottish nobility, [circa 1612]. A collection, previously owned by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman (Adv.MS.15.1.10).
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material, chiefly by Robert Mylne.
Microfilm of heraldic material.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Microfilm of testimonial for Sir James Balfour of Denmilne by the English College of Arms, followed by the signatures and mottoes of the various heralds and pursuivants below paintings of their own arms.
Minutes of the sederunts and proceedings of the Commission of the Star Chamber.
Miscellaneous notes concerning English heraldry, dealing chiefly with the ceremonial, with some on historical matters.
At the end, on two sheets bound into the volume (folios 182-183), are sketches of coats of arms in trick, including, among others, those of the Heptarchy and of the three English Kings of Arms, Garter, Clarenceux, and Norroy. With the sketches are notes about the disposition of the shields on a building which may have been the old College of Arms.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.
Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of the north-east of Scotland, and to Scottish history more generally, collected by William Rose., Late 17th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries., 12th century-13th century.
Notes and letters on the genealogy of the Douglas family of Springwood Park including transcripts of charters and notes on other families related by marriage to the Douglases., 1739-1875, undated.
Notes on the succession of legendary and early kings of England, from Brutus to Harold.
Patent of nobility and grant of arms by the Emperor Ferdinand III to Johann Geull, his sisters Agnes and Elizabeth, and their heirs, with a coloured armorial (folio 5).
Patent of nobility by the Empress Maria Theresa, in favour of Johann Baptist and Karl Joseph Hepperger, merchants in Botzen.
The manuscript is written in an engraved frame dated 1757, and includes a painting of the Hepperger coat of arms. Inserted at the beginning is a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1842, and other material concerning the document.
"Precis des Memoires sur le Service Journalier de l'Infanterie, 1718", by the author of the ‘Mèmoires' himself, Henri François, Comte de Bombelles; with a prefatory letter to the Duc de Chartres.
Printed works on heraldry, with manuscript notes chiefly concerning the genealogy of the Borthwick family, probably by John Borthwick of Borthwick and Crookston, circa 1804., 1581, 1622, [circa 1804].
The coats of arms illustrating the works have been painted in watercolours.