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Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.24
Scope and Contents
The following dates of writing are given: 15 September 1712 (folio 2), 10 April 1713 (folio 76), 13 November 1712 (folio 80).The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year of God, 1691. With a copious relation of the siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in the year 1689. By W.S. An. 1691.` The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen...
Dates:
1338, circa 1670-1732.
Volume of John Riddell commenced between 1811 and 1814 and completed in 1819, containing extracts and copies of documents, and notes., 1727, ?1811-1819.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.2
Scope and Contents
The volume contains: (i) a copy of a transcript made in 1727 of the documents in the charter chest of the family of Hay of Erroll (folio 2), some of which were printed in ‘The miscellany of the Spalding Club’, volume ii, page 303 and what follows; (ii) extracts and transcripts of documents, and notes relating to other Scottish peerages (folio 45 verso), including a list of the Baronets of Scotland (folio 166 verso). A bifolium (folios 107-108) is stitched to folio 109. An incorrect...
Dates:
1727, ?1811-1819.
Volume of John Riddell commenced in 1811 and discontinued about 1831 entitled (folio 1) `Genealogical and historical Collections Vol 2`, containing notes, extracts and a few transcripts of documents relating to various Scottish peerages., 1811-?1831.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.3
Scope and Contents
An incomplete pagination has been ignored.
Dates:
1811-?1831.
Volume of John Riddell commenced in 1824 and completed in 1827 containing notes and copies and extracts of documents in private hands relating to various Scottish families., 1824-1827.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.4
Scope and Contents
An incomplete pagination added in pencil in a later hand has been ignored.
Some papers which were formerly loosely enclosed in this volume are now at Adv.MS.26.3.5.
Dates:
1824-1827.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1830-1838.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.7
Dates:
1830-1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1833-circa 1840.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.8
Dates:
1833-circa 1840.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1839-1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.9
Dates:
1839-1844.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1844-1845.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.10
Dates:
1844-1845.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1846-1852.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.11
Dates:
1846-1852.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of material concerning the 'Scots White Paper Manufacture'., 1694-1707.
Item
Identifier: MS.1913
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: copy of articles of agreement between Nicolas Dupin and Dennis Manes on the one part and members of and subscribers to the Scots White Paper Manufacture on the other, signed by Dupin and Manes, 1694 (folio 1); signed subscriptions, 1694-1699 (folio 7); 'The Register of the Actings and Proceedings of the Paper-Company of Scotland confirmed be Act of Parliament, 10th July, 1695', 1703-1707 (at end, inverted).
Dates:
1694-1707.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents
Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13
Dates:
1563-1670 and undated.
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
File
Identifier: MS.6302
Scope and Contents
The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.
Dates:
[1787, or after.]
Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.2
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Part of a speech to the English Parliament on the financial affairs of James I, probably by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, ?1610 (folio 1).(ii) Copy, dated 1613, of Salisbury`s speech to Parliament, 15 February 1610. For summaries, see ‘A Life of Robert Cecil’, pages 297-299, and ‘Parliamentary Debates in 1610’, pages 1-9 (folio 4).(iii) Notes on rumoured preparations by Catholic forces, by Mr Foster,...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Volume of topographical surveys.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume (somewhat out of order) are as follows:(i) a report of a survey of Loch Broom made in July 1793 (folio 1);(ii) a report, addressed to John Rennie, of the survey of Loch Bay made in May 1793 by John Baine (folio 23) which was given in to the Highland Society; (iii) John Mackenzie`s letter, 1798, forwarding the reports (folio 53);(iv) a copy of a report by Thomas Telford to Nicholas Vansittart, then secretary of the...
Dates:
1793-1801.
Volume received bound containing a copy of the decreet ‘absolvitur’ of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale against the 7th Earl of Kincardine., 1712.
Item
Identifier: MS.14495
Dates:
1712.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Legal, financial and miscellaneous papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale.
Volume titled, 'Copies of Warrants and Orders by Lieut. General St Clair Commander in Chief of an Expedition intended for North America, and afterwards sent to the Coast of Brittany, 1746 and 1747’., 1687, 1746-1747.
Item
Identifier: MS.25690
Scope and Contents
Many of the Orders were issued by David Hume, then Secretary to James St Clair. The volume is inscribed at the front 'Miscellaneous Records on The History of Scotland by Sir D D'. At the back is a copy of 'An Answer to some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther And The Original of the Reformations; Lately Printed at Oxford ... 1687'. With miscellaneous historical notes in Lord Hailes' hand.
Dates:
1687, 1746-1747.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
Volume V 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.2133
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 VI 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.2134
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 VII 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.2135
Scope and Contents
There are two poems, with notes, sent to Donald Gregory by 'A.S.' (Alexander Stewart?). They are watermarked 1834.
(i) "An saoil sibh féin nach foghainteach", 18 lines. To Gregor MacGregor (Grigar Odhar Ard mac Dhonncha nan Gleann) (page 299);
(ii) "A Righ, gur mór mo chuid mhulaid", 22 lines. Said to be by a daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy on his beheading her husband, Gregor MacGregor of Glenstrae. Cf."Bárdachd Gháidhlig", page 244; A and A Macdonald, 'Macdonald collection of...
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 VIII 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.2136
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 written in 1796 entitled `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.20
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of a collection of copies and extracts of charters and other formal documents dating from the early 14th to the early 18th century from the Register of the Great Seal and the Records in Chancery (folio 2), an appendix concerning certain Scottish peerages (folio 63 verso), a list of the Parliaments of England and of Great Britain (folio 96 verso), names of Scots Representative Peers who sat in the House of Lords in the 18th century (folio 97 verso), and an index to the...
Dates:
Early 14th century-18th century.
Volume 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'., [1836, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.2138
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'.
Volumes containing records of the Gray Library, Haddington., 1639-1885.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16479-16482
Volumes, each stamped 'Piobaireachd M.S.S.' on the upper board, written in the same hand about the end of the nineteenth century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22119-22120
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century.