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Copies. Derivative objects.

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Copies of letters, tracts and other papers concerning the troubles in Scotland during the reign of Charles I.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.14
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The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.6.9.

Dates: 1637-1639.

Copies of memoranda on suggested naval operations by Sir Home Riggs Popham, including copies of his letters to Lord St Vincent, volume 2., 1804.

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Identifier: MS.67B
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Across the left-hand corner of folio 3a is the following note in pencil: 'This was written in consequence of General Pichegru and Dumourier wishing Government to attack Walcheren, to which I strongly objected in consultation with those officers, and was then desired to propose a scheme for offensive operations'. Sir Home Riggs Popham suggested attacks on the Island of Oleron in France and the islands of Schaven and Goeree in Holland.

Dates: 1804.

Copies of memorials, 1786-1788, addressed by the Carron Company to Sir Thomas Dundas as arbiter, claiming repayment of water lost to them through the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal.

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Identifier: MS.3006
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Copies of reports of the Carron Company's inspectors, 1772, ?1775, and of George Whitworth, for the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, 1785, 1788, are included.

Dates: 1786-1788.