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Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Volume containing eleven printed papers and five manuscript items in the case brought by Alexander Murray of Broughton, 1822-1825, against the 6th Earl of Selkirk and the town council of Kirkcudbright over fishing in the River Dee., ?1822-1825.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.18
Scope and Contents
The printed papers consist of an engraving of a chart, 1742, and ten legal papers, and the manuscript items are notes and extracts, some from printed sources, concerning lands in the area.
Dates:
?1822-1825.
Volume containing extracts (folio 1) made about 1794 (the date of the watermark of the leaves) from the topographical collections of Walter Macfarlane of that ilk, 1748-1749 (Adv.MS.35.3.12), followed by fragments (folio 63), being folios 109-112 and 127-144, of ‘The Geography of Moray`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.13
Scope and Contents
The items appear to have been collected for George Chalmers (a letter to whom, 1798, is at folio 17) as materials for his ‘Caledonia’, the first volume of which was published in 1807. The descriptions of parishes at folios 1-10, 11-16, 19-50 verso, are taken from Adv.MS.35.3.12(i), pages 81-90, 291-299 and 310-340 respectively, and at folios 50 verso-61 from Adv.MS.35.3.12(iii), pages 259-270. `The Geography of Moray` is unidentified; it appears to have been written in the latter half of the...
Dates:
1748-2nd half of 18th century.
Volume containing fair copies of poems in the hand of Margaret Loudoun., 1803-1809.
File
Identifier: MS.23226
Scope and Contents
Margaret Loudoun's pencilled signature, dated 1809, is at folio i. (Some of the poems, at folios 28 verso and 42 verso, and possibly at folios 5 verso and 8, are addressed to her.) The poems, several of which are by (or a few, to) Francis Jeffrey are dated between 1793 and 1809: the leaves are watermarked 1803. A leaf has been cut out between folios 19 and 20.
Dates:
1803-1809.
Volume containing: (i) ‘An Essay on the Origine of the Royal Family of the Stewarts’ by Richard Augustine Hay (Edinburgh, 1722); (ii) ‘A Vindication of Elizabeth More from the Imputation of being a Concubine ...’ by Richard Augustine Hay (Edinburgh, 1723)., 1722-1723.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.9
Scope and Contents
The volume contains George Paton’s signature and bookplate on the verso of the title page of (i), marginalia in another hand on pages 118-119 of (ii), and, on leaves bound in at the back of the volume, copies in his hand of most of Hay’s additions and corrections in his copy of (i) which he gave to Alexander McFarlane on 22 September (not April) 1725.
Dates:
1722-1723.
Volume containing inter alia translations or copies, 1706 or after, of treatises on maritime law, chancery styles, and Crown patrimony, an index to Stair’s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, and copies of Scottish patents, 16th and 17th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`
Dates:
16th century-1706.
Volume containing miscellaneous copies, in a 17th-century hand, of documents concerning the affairs of the Church of Scotland.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scot`s Apologetical Narration`, the account by William Scott, minister of Cupar, of the affairs of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the meeting of parliament after the arrival of King Charles I in Edinburgh in 1633 (folio 1). The account was printed from an earlier, fuller, privately owned copy in ‘An apologetical narration of the state and government of the Kirk of Scotland since the Reformation …’, page 1. This...
Dates:
17th century.
Volume containing notes, copies and extracts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few extracts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.24
Scope and Contents
A large number of the sources used were at the Advocates` Library, and of these many had previously been in the possession of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms (for example, the charters (now in Adv.MSS.15.1.18 and 15.1.19) excerpted at folio 91, and what follows, and folio 263, and what follows, and the cartularies excerpted at folios 1-8, 22-33, 43-49 verso, 230 verso-274 verso), as had the manuscript (now British Library, Harl MS. 4693) once in his possession which is...
Dates:
Circa 1709-circa 1717.
Volume containing typed copies, 1936, of letters, 1838-49, of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, to the Rt Hon Charles Arbuthnot., 1838-1849.
File
Identifier: Acc.1656/2
Dates:
1838-1849.
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20668-20669
Dates:
1885-1889.
Volume entitled 'Claims of Paishwa and Scindea on Guicawar'., 1802, 1806-1808.
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Identifier: MS.13671
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes:(i) Contemporary copies of official correspondence, 1806-1808, chiefly between Francis Warden as Secretary to the Bombay Council and Alexander Walker (folio 1);(ii) Copies of official correspondence, August-December 1802, between Jonathan Duncan, Walker and Barry Close at Poona concerning the movements of Holkar's pindaris and Sindhia's threat to Gujarat (folio 67);(iii) Copies of official correspondence, August-December 1806 and...
Dates:
1802, 1806-1808.
Volume entitled (folio 2) `Memoirs of the Family of Rose of Kilravok`, being the epitome by Lachlan Shaw, minister of Elgin, of `A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock`, by Hugh Rose, minister of Nairn.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.7
Scope and Contents
Rose`s work was first written in 1683-1684: Shaw`s epitome records also later members of the family until about 1756 (folio 69 verso), with a supplement until about 1772 (folio 83 verso). This copy appears to have been written for the antiquary William Rose in Montcoffer in the same hand as Adv.MS.32.6.8, and has a note inside the front cover, a contents list at folio 1 and a few textual additions in his hand.
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century.
Volume entitled 'Governor General’, containing copies of letters of Henry Dundas to Lord Cornwallis, and others., 1786-1799.
Item
Identifier: MS.3387
Scope and Contents
The volume contains copies of letters of Henry Dundas to Lord Cornwallis, 1786-1792 (page 1), Sir John Shore, 1793-1797 (page 238), and Lord Mornington, 1798-1799 (page 270).
The book was not kept up and the last letter is unfinished.
Dates:
1786-1799.
Volume entitled 'Notes on Climbing in and about Wasdale'., 1866-1891, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.6345
Scope and Contents
Inside the front cover of the volume are the words "this book is a facsimile of the Climbers' Book at Wasdale Head Hotel", with the signature 'R.W. Lloyd, November 1953' (folio i). It includes pages of ‘All the year round’, 1884, and ‘Chamber's Journal’, 1887, containing articles on climbs in the English Lake District, by C N Williamson, and on 'The Death-Roll of Snowdon' (folio 1); entries, 1866-1891, copied from the Wasdale Head book, describing the impressions of mountaineering visitors...
Dates:
1866-1891, undated.
Volume entitled 'Pirates, Cambay and Kattywar'., 1805-1808, [circa 1820].
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Identifier: MS.13675
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes:(i) Contemporary copies of official correspondence and memoranda, November 1807-January 1808, concerning the movement of naval vessels in joint operations against the Kathiawar pirates because of the threat to trade (folio 1);(ii) Contemporary copies of official correspondence and memoranda, July 1805-September 1806, concerning revenue matters in Cambay (folio 120);(iii) Official memoranda, July 1806, concerning the position of Sir...
Dates:
1805-1808, [circa 1820].
Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.9
Scope and Contents
The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).
Dates:
1522-1613.
Volume formerly containing charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 1627 or after-18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18 (1 of 2)
Scope and Contents
Copies of charters have been added: 4 in a seventeenth-century hand (folios 75-76), 4 by Thomas Ruddiman, 1705-1710 (folios 77-78), and 1 (incomplete) in an eighteenth-century hand (folio 78 verso).
Dates:
1627 or after-18th century.
Volume I of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1830.
File
Identifier: MS.2129
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
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Volumes I-X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
Volume II of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1830.
File
Identifier: MS.2130
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
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Volumes I-X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
Volume III of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1831.
File
Identifier: MS.2131
Dates:
1831.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
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Volumes I-X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
Volume IV of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.2132
Dates:
[1836, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
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Volumes I-X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
Volume IX of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.2137
Dates:
[1836, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
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Volumes I-X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'.
Volume, labelled ‘Miscellaneous`, containing copies of financial and statistical returns and estimates, regulations and a few letters of Colonel Oakes (later Lieutenant-General Sir Hildebrand Oakes, Baronet) whilst quartermaster-general in Portugal., 1796-1798.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.6.3
Scope and Contents
A note on the front cover in General Sir George Murray`s hand states that it was borrowed from Lieutenant-General Sir Lewis Lindenthal.
Dates:
1796-1798.
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 during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
Volume of copies and extracts apparently made for William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of the accounts of Robert Lord Boyd, Collector General of Thirds, for the year 1576, covering Kirklands in Inverness, Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, Fife, Strathearn, Nairn, Banff, Elgin, and Forres (folio 1).(ii) Minutes extracted from the Exchequer Register, covering the periods July 1630 to November 1634 (folio 73), January 1642 to June 1647 (folio 104 verso), and July 1661 to June 1674 (folio 116)....
Dates:
1576-1684.
Volume of copies of 'Confidential. Correspondence respecting the Affairs of Italy 1846- 1847' formerly belonging to Lord John Russell., 1846-1847.
File
Identifier: MS.12110
Dates:
1846-1847.
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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Political and diplomatic correspondence and papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto relating to his Special Mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy and to his continuing interest in Italian politics and the cause of Italian unity.
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Copies of printed papers and printed Foreign Office 'Confidential' diplomatic correspondence relating to the affairs of Italy.
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'Confidential. Correspondence respecting the Affairs of Italy 1846- 1847,' with a second copy of the same volume, formerly belonging to Lord John Russell.
Volume of Covenanting documents, containing copies of papers representing an extreme 'Cameronian' view.
File
Identifier: MS.5408
Scope and Contents
Some leaves are missing from the beginning of the volume.The contents are as follows:(i) Fragment of a declaration against those who accepted the Declaration of Indulgence (folio 1);(ii) A declaration of 'the poor society of Tindwall' against William III, the established Presbyterian Church, and the defection of Alexander Sheilds, William Boyd and Thomas Linning (folio 10);(iii) 'Some causes of Lords contraversie, holding forth some few steps...
Dates:
[Circa 1700.]