Documents.
Found in 1533 Collections and/or Records:
Bound volumes of correspondence and papers of General Thomas Wentworth relating to the War of the Austrian Succession., 1747.
Bundle of papers from the library at Duns Castle, Berwickshire, including correspondence of and relating to the Earls and 1st Duke of Roxburghe, a letter and poems of Dr Archibald Pitcairne, and a document relating to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton., 1668-1796, undated.
‘Caledonia, seu dissertationes de primis Caledoniae incolis.’
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.514.
‘In quibus, Origo, Antiquitas, Mores, Instituta, Linqua, Religio Veterum Caled oniorum una cum situ ac Natura Regionis, monstrantur. Volumen Primum. Eveteribus scriptis collegit, et in ordinem Ne pereat, digessit Patricius Ninianus Gemius de Gemijs & societate Jesu.’
'Canon sive regula vitæ’ by George Sibbald of Rankeillour, in the hand of, and with notes by, Sir Robert Sibbald.
Canvass books and related papers., [Circa 1794-circa 1812], 1832-1837.
Canvass papers, pledge letters and voting statistics for the by-election campaign of Robert Graham., 1834.
‘Case for Arthur Forbes, 9th of Culloden … claiming the title and Baronetcy of Foveran, …’., 1843.
A legal paper written apparently in 1843 (folio 98 verso).
Certificates, letters of appointment and other official documents of Charles Murray., 1873-1941.
Church affairs of Ferintosh, particularly the patronage of Urquhart and Logie Wester over which John Forbes had a dispute with the Bishop of Ross., 1603-1689.
‘Churches estate in a natione, vol. I’., Early 17th century.
‘Churches estate in a natione, vol. II’., Early 17th century.
‘Churches estate in a natione, vol. III’, Early 17th century.
‘Collectanea relative to the surname and family of Napper in England’, by the Honourable and Reverend Henry Alfred Napier, Rector of Swyncombe., 19th century.
Collection of autographs formed by William Finlay Watson (died 1881), bookseller, Edinburgh.
The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.
The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).
Collection of epigrams, songs, copies of letters and documents, etc., relating to current events in France., 1712-1730.
Collection of papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Collection of papers relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents.
Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1639-1642.
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.
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`.
'Collection of the moste principall speeches, argumts. and other passages, and proceedings in the parliamt. begun the xviith of March, 1627 [1628 according to the modern reckoning], in the third year of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles. And continued untill the xvith daie of June then next following. 1628.', 1628.
The collection of papers concerning the parliament of England are in a contemporary hand. Imperfect, lacking several leaves.
‘Collection of the principal officers of state & others in the Kingdom of Scotland, the erection of Abbacies & other such, & the genealogy of the nobility’, in the handwriting of Walter Goodall.
Complaint made to Henry VI by the Duke of Gloucester, and ‘A fulle lamentable cronicle of the dethe and fals murder of James Steward [James I]’.
Confidential papers chiefly printed for the use of members of the Cabinet., 1838-1852.
Copies, 17th century, of diplomas, gifts, and other documents, 1615-1651, in favour of Sir James Carmichael, 1st Baronet, of Westraw, and 1st Lord Carmichael; and of papers, 1600-1618, concerning the vicarage and stipend of Pettinain., 1600-1651.
Copies, 17th century, of letters, 1636-1640, of Samuel Rutherfurd chiefly written during the period of his banishment to Aberdeen in 1637.
The letters are followed (folio 56) by copies of sermons and similar material of Hugh Mackail, David Dickson and others.
The inverted folios contain political and other poems, including 'The black bastel' by James Melvill.