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Copies. Derivative objects.

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.17
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A copy, in a hand of the late 17th century, of the `Memoirs` of Walter Pringle (folio 1). These were first published in 1723 from a copy of the original manuscript by James Pringle of Greenknowe, 1684. The relationship of the present manuscript to that copy is unknown.(ii) A detached leaf, headed Section XIX and paginated 81-82, concerning the history of Clan Chattan (folio 35). Written in a small late 17th-century...
Dates: 2nd half of 17th century.

Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.21
Scope and Contents The report is signed by Major General George Wade, folio 15.A copy of each of the following papers follows the official report:a list of the arms surrendered by the clans between August and October 1725 (folio 15 verso);Wade’s instructions to the Officers Commanding the Highland Companies, 22 September 1725 (folio 16 verso);letters of submission of persons attainted of high treason, written between August and October 1725 (folio 17 verso);...
Dates: 1726.

Copy of the Orderly-book, 23 October 1745-14 August 1746, of the Duke of Cumberland’s Army under Marshal Wade., 1745-1746, 1829.

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Identifier: MS.303
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Also included is correspondence, 1829, concerning the manuscript, including copies of letters of A Macdonald of the General Register House and Sir Walter Scott (folios 13-16).

Dates: Majority of material found within 1745-1746, 1829.

Copy of the 'Recollections' of Alexander Carlyle, in an unknown hand, with notes and additions in the hand of the Very Reverend John Lee., 1805.

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Identifier: MS.3463
Scope and Contents On the first page of the manuscript is a note by John Lee to the effect that 'The following is a literal copy of a Manuscript of Dr Carlyle written a few months before his death in the year 1805'. From the notes in the 1910 edition of the ‘Autobiography’, it appears that John Hill Burton used this or an identical copy. The manuscript records in rambling fashion various events in Alexander Carlyle's life between the years 1723 and 1737. On page 71 there is a supplement to the original...
Dates: 1805.

Copy of the song entitled ‘Borlean McIntosh his march into England in Novr. 1715’, usually known as ‘The Highland Muster-roll’, beginning "Wat ye wat ye wha’s coming"., 18th century.

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Identifier: MS.174
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Notes state that the song was written "in derision of McKintosh’s march", being supposed to be played by his pipers on entering Preston; but this version has no more special application to Mackintosh of Borlum than others.

The song bears the number 100, being evidently part of a collection.

Dates: 18th century.

Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.18
Scope and Contents The title, and the statutes of Henry VIII, are introduced by small gold initials within blue and brown parti-coloured squares. Many of the statutes of Henry VIII, and most of those of Mary and Philip have a title or a summary in red in the margin, written in the same hand as the text; several have marginal annotations in another hand of the late 16th or early 17th century. All the statutes, except that of Elizabeth, have been numbered, and at folios i-ii is a list of contents, written in a...
Dates: 1558.

Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter presented to James V of Scotland when he was invested with the order in 1535., 1535.

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Identifier: MS.7143
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The text is preceded by a large drawing in colour (most of the silver in which is oxidized) of the royal arms of England (impaled with those of St George) and of Scotland (folio ii verso). The preface and the first of the statutes are introduced by large illuminated initials and the remainder by small gold initials within alternate red and blue squares. Lacking the seal formerly attached to the cords visible at folios 1 and 18 verso.

Dates: 1535.

Copy of the valuation book of the Sheriffdom of Dumfries, Stewartry of Annandale, and five kirks of Eskdale., 1739.

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Identifier: MS.5106
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This copy was attested by James Callendar, Clerk to the Presenter of Signatures in the Court of Exchequer, 1740.

Dates: 1739.