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Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-3: letters and papers on various topics, chiefly addressed to James VI., 1560-1622, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(iii)
Dates:
1560-1622, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
‘State papers collected by Walsingham, Burleigh &ce’, copies of English state papers, from the reign of Elizabeth I, concerning relations with France, Spain, the Netherlands and Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.11
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers concerning the matters passed between England, France & Spain, and the Netherlands, of which a table is given at folio 91 verso.
(ii) Papers concerning matters that have passed between England and Scotland during the reign of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, of which a table is placed at the end of the volume.The tops of the leaves are considerably damaged by damp and two leaves are wanting before folio 5.The description of...
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
Statement by James Browne, advocate, and editor of the 'Caledonian Mercury', containing an account of conversations and copies of letters between himself and Robert Blackie., 1829.
File
Identifier: MS.6290, folios 158-172
Scope and Contents
The manuscript concerns an article in the ‘Caledonian Mercury’ questioning the authenticity of a snuff-box presented by Mr Blackie to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland as having belonged to Robert Burns.
Dates:
1829.
'Statutes and Orders of the most Ancient and most Noble Order of the Thistle': eighteenth-century copies of statutes of 1703-1721., 1703-1721.
File
Identifier: MS.5832
Scope and Contents
The 2nd Marquess of Lothian was invested with the order in 1705.
Dates:
1703-1721.
Stencil book containing copies of letters sent from India, of Gilbert, 1st Earl of Minto, to the 2nd Earl of Minto, concerning politics and private family and estate business., 1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.11743
Scope and Contents
The original letters are in MS.11742.
Dates:
1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Family and general correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Family correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Letters, with some enclosures, of Gilbert, 1st Earl of Minto, to the 2nd Earl of Minto, concerning politics and private family and estate business.
Store book of Colonel [John] Adlecron's Regiment, 39th Foot, kept by Stephen Julian and Edward Forde, successive quartermasters, when the regiment was based in the Carnatic at Fort St David and Fort St George.
File
Identifier: MS.6291
Scope and Contents
Copies of other documents of a military nature have been added. The volume has been damaged and several pages are missing, particularly at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) Quarterly records of stores issued for the use of the regiment, September 1754, to March 1759 (folio 1);(ii) Copy of 'Instructions for the Commanding Officer of Train of Artillery attending His Majesty's Forces ordered to the East Indies', dated 21 February 1754 (folio 30...
Dates:
1744-1778.
Style-book, 1751, of James Marshall, writer in Edinburgh, containing a copy of a deed, 1735, regarding the Struthers family., 1735, 1751.
Item
Identifier: MS.2125
“Swinton’s kirk MSS’, a collection of copies of Scottish historical documents, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts C’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.20
Scope and Contents
A volume of miscellaneous collections consisting among others of:
(i) A copy of instructions and letters, 1539-1543, of Sir Ralph Sadler;
(ii) A bulky and ill arranged collection of copies of charters to Scotch religious houses and Bishopricks (namely: Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Cambuskenneth, Melrose, Dunfermline, Coldingham, Trinity College of Edinburgh, Dunbar, Lindores, Haddington and Corstorphine), taken from the Chartularies of Aberdeen, St. Andrews (then in hands of H. Maule and formerly...
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of Scottish historical documents, for the most part copies from the Cotton Library, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts B’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.19
Scope and Contents
A collection copied by various hands without sufficient accuracy, possibly for Matthew Crawford.The contents are as follows:
(i) Letter, 3 May 1582, of Sir John Foster to Secretary Walsingham.
(ii) Advertisement out of Scotland, 22 June 1582.
(iii) Letter, 20 August 1582, of the Queen of England to the King of Scotland.
(iv) Depositions of George Douglas sent the 14 September from Stirling, and received the 20 September at Windsor. ‘Septr. 28 1582’.
(v) The heads whereof George...
Dates:
17th century.
'Swintons of that Ilk and their cadets' (Edinburgh, 1883) by Archibald Campbell Swinton, with manuscript notes, 1927-1929, by Captain George Swinton, and additional facsimiles and printed matter by the same writer., 1814, 1883, 1927-1929.
File
Identifier: MS.350A
Scope and Contents
On page ii is a copy of a letter, 1814, of Sir Walter Scott to John Swinton of Broadmeadows about the Swinton family tree.
Dates:
1814, 1883, 1927-1929.
'Tabula super bibliam': an early 15th-century glossed copy of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.2
Scope and Contents
The text begins 'Ante fir. lux producitur' and the interlinear gloss '[fir]mamentum. quia deus appellat diem'. There are also interlinear capitals indicating to which parts of the chapter the verse refers. Rubrics at the beginning of each book give the number of chapters. The text is followed (folio 123) by mnemonic verses on the books of the Bible with the numbers of their chapters, beginning 'Pentateu genesis exitque levi'; explanatory verses (folio 123 verso) beginning 'Finit tractatus...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.
File
Identifier: MS.68
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notarial copy of the proceedings in the case of the magistrates of Elgin v the Procurator of the Church of Scotland, 1713. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Memorial concerning the opposition offered by the Bank of England to the draught of a warrant for a charter to incorporate the proprietors of the Scots Equivalent Debentures', 1719. (Folio 12.)(iii) Correspondence, 1719, of the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, on the prosecution of the...
Dates:
1713-1790.
Ten copies (facsimiles and transcripts), 18th century-19th century, of royal charters and other documents relating to events in Scottish history, ?1143-1692. An undated letter of C K Sharpe to John Riddell is also enclosed (number 7)., ?1143-1692.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.17
Testimonials and appreciations of Edwin Muir and his work., 1935-1960.
File
Identifier: MS.19670
Scope and Contents
The papers include a copy o Edwin Muir's report on his work in Prague in 1947 (folio 14), and a collection of presscuttings, 1949-1960 (folio 95).
Dates:
1935-1960.
'The Arignement of Robert, Earll of Essex': a copy of reports of the trials of Essex on 13 and 19 February 1601, and of Captain Thomas Lee on 16 February 1601., 1601.
File
Identifier: MS.5443
`The coppie of the reversioun of the landis of Ettrikhous, Shorthous, and Dalgleis, giuen be Sir Walter Scott of Quhitslaid to Sir Robert Scott of Thirlstane.`
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.22
Dates:
1623.
'The Tragic Greek Campaign of 1941', a typescript account, compiled by Arthur Murray apparently in 1955, of the expedition under Wavell organised in 1941 by Winston Churchill to relieve Greece., [?1955]-1960.
File
Identifier: MS.8819
Scope and Contents
The typescript is accompanied by a note, 1960 (folio i), and copies of correspondence, 1956 (folios ii-xi).
The work was intended but not accepted for publication.
Dates:
[?1955]-1960.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence of Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Baron Murray of Elibank and correspondence and papers of his brother, Arthur Cecil Murray, Viscount Elibank.
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Correspondence and papers of Arthur Murray, who succeeded as Viscount Elibank in 1951.
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Articles, memoranda, notes and jottings of Arthur Murray concerning the career of Sir Winston Churchill.
Theological writings and letters of James Tayes, written chiefly at Bo'ness.
Item
Identifier: MS.5165
Scope and Contents
Internal evidence suggests that James Tayes, if not actually a Quaker, subscribed to some Quaker doctrines; a summary of this evidence will be found on folio i.
There are copies of correspondence with John Brand, minister of Bo'ness (page 94); and with James Aird, minister of Torryburn (page 160).
Dates:
1688-1703.
Three copies of a schedule of the documents produced in evidence before the House of Lords for the 24th Earl of Crawford in support of his claim to that title., 1845-1848.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.A.205-207
Three letters of J K Annand to John Morris.
File
Identifier: Acc.10811
Scope and Contents
Concerning the printing by Main of Annand`s "Ballants frae the German" (1986).
Includes copies of four replies of Main and a copy of the booklet.
Dates:
1985-1989.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
File
Identifier: MS.3076
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Poem by a Scottish author, describing the roads, bridges, etc., built by Wade in the Highlands and referring to the manners and resources of the country, 1737. It is followed by notes on allusions and meanings of words, and preceded by a preface in which the author discusses the difficulty which a Scottish writer finds in composing English poetry. It is quoted by J B Salmond, ‘Wade in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1938), page 204. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1737-1744.
Tissue-book of General Sir George Murray containing contact copies of his correspondence on the expedition to the Baltic, preceded (folio 1) by a copy of a memorandum by Murray on the expedition., 13 March-13 May 1808.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.1.15
Scope and Contents
Leaves are cut out before folio 1 and a leaf is torn out between folios 10 and 11.
Dates:
13 March-13 May 1808.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray concerning actions in Scandinavia.
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Tissue-books of General Sir George Murray containing contact copies of his correspondence on the expedition to the Baltic.
Tissue-books of General Sir George Murray containing contact copies of his correspondence on the expedition to the Baltic., 1808.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.15-46.1.17