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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates: 1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.

Early 16th-century manuscript copy of the work known as 'Liber Pluscardensis', a chronicle of the history of Scotland founded mainly on the 'Chronica gentis Scotorum' of John of Fordun, and the 'Scotichronicon' of Walter Bower.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.2
Scope and Contents The manuscript begins with five books closely following the first five books of Fordun as given in Bower, followed by 15 chapters of Book VI, somewhat abridged from Bower, Book VI, chapters 9-23 nearly as compiled by Fordun. This is followed by the rest of Book VI and by five more books, being an abridgement of Scotichronicon, though at variance with it on some points, and introducing much original matter.The manuscript is a copy, made probably in the early 16th century, of MS...
Dates: 1461.

Early copies of an address, 29 January 1689, of the Provost, Bailies, and Council of Glasgow to William, Prince of Orange, and of an Act, 1690, of the same body., 1689-1690.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2617, folios 8-9
Scope and Contents

The address (folio 8) calls upon William of Orange to establish a free Parliament and the Protestant religion, and points out that Glasgow was the first city to publish his declaration. The Act (folio 9) lays down that no tavern-keeper shall hold municipal office.

Dates: 1689-1690.

Eighteenth century copy of letters to, or about, various members of the Mure of Rowallan family, by Sir Hew Dalrymple., 1493-1631, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3416
Scope and Contents Of forty-seven items, thirty-two are copies of originals in the National Library, the originals being MS.3813, folio 1, MS.6318, folios 7, 10, Ch.2042-2043, and Adv.MS.54.1.7 (1-8, 10-12, 14-21, 23-30). For Adv.MS.54.1.7, the principal correspondents of which are Mary, Queen of Scots, and John Mure of Rowallan, see a descriptive article by Walter Seton of Abercorn in ‘The Scots Magazine’, August, 1925. The remaining fifteen items, numbered as in the volume, are:(1-2) Letters...
Dates: 1493-1631, undated.

Eighteenth-century copy of selected General Orders by Field-Marshal George Wade, 1744, and the Duke of Cumberland, 1745-1748.

 File
Identifier: MS.7191
Scope and Contents

The Duke of Cumberland's orders are arranged chronologically under various subject headings, of which the most important are: 'General and Staff Officers', 'Forrage and Forragers', 'Camp Duty and Regulations', 'March of the Army', 'Detachment Guards', 'Picquets', 'Signals at a Review', 'Exercise and Firing', and 'Regulation of Colours'.

Dates: 1744-1748.