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1. Add Ch 66988

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Title:
Notarised copy of the divorce of Alexander Stewart, duke of Albany, and Lady Katherine Sinclair
Scope & Content:
Notarised copy of the divorce of Alexander Stewart (b. 1454, d. 1485), duke of Albany, and Lady Katherine Sinclair. This was part of an attempt to secure the succession of Albany's son from his second marriage, John Stewart. John Otterburn, official of St Andrews in the archdeaconry of Lothian ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
1515
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add Ch 76708

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(29/242{12}). NOTIFICATION by Alexander [Stewart], Duke of Albany and Earl of March, that he has taken his cousins Sir John of Swyntoune and John his son and heir apparent into his maintenance and protection. Dat. at Dunbar, 6 Nov. 1475. Calendared in H.M.C. Portland, II, pp. 2-3. Scots. Paper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Scots
Date Range:
6 Nov 1475
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4156

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Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1650-1658 (especially 1654-1655)
Scope & Content:
The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1650-1658
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 18981

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Title:
Royalist correspondence, primarily addressed to Prince Rupert, 1643-1644
Scope & Content:
This is the second volume of the 'Rupert Correspondence' - overwhelmingly letters received by Rupert, Prince and Count Palatine of the Rhine (1619-1682) in 1644 - which descended in the family of Rupert's secretary Thomas Bennett until they were purchased by the publisher Richard Bentley, who in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, and Scots
Date Range:
1643-1644
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 32651

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Title:
Transactions between Scotland and England, 1543 (Hamilton Papers)
Scope & Content:
Official correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland between June and August 1543. Volume 6 of the Hamilton Papers (Add MSS 32646-32657). ff. 2r-3v Letter from Sir Ralph Sadler, ambassador to Scotland, to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Sir William Pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Scots
Date Range:
3 June 1543-31 August 1543
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 48027

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Title:
Papers and correspondence relating chiefly to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1559-1594
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence relating to Mary, Queen of Scots: the conspiracies and plots involving her and her trial and execution and its aftermath, 1559-1594, n.d. Mostly contemporary copies. Further official copies of many of the items are in Cotton MS Caligula C IX. This volume was compiled b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
1559-1626
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 48032

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LEGAL TREATISES, etc., including 'Regiam Majestatem' and 'Quoniam Attachiamenta'. Partly compiled, c. 1570, by 'M. G.', whose hand occurs in artt. 5, 8, 15 and 16. 1. f. 3b. 'Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum'. Latin. Beg. 'Soke hoc est secta de hominibus . . . '. Harley 4700, ff. 210b-211. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
c 1570
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 48033

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STATUTES AND TREATISES. 1. f. 1. Chapters of 'Quoniam attachiamenta', numbered lxxxj-lxxxiii, as 48032, f. 235. Latin. 2. ff. 1b-5. 'Incipit quoddam notabile de maritagio. Tractatus immediate post Regiam Maiestatem.', in 18 chapters. Latin and Scots. As 48032, art. 8. 3. f. 5b. Laws of Malc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1184-1599
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 48049

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Title:
Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1565-c. 1600
Scope & Content:
This volume is made up of copies and drafts relating to Mary Queen of Scots and more broadly to Scottish politics in the reign of King James VI (up to c. 1600). The volume forms part of the papers collected by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council, and there are many endorsements, memoranda and dra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1560-1605
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 48050

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Scope & Content:
DIGEST OF SCOTS LAW in seven books; 16th cent. (after 1555, see f. 72b). Latin and Scots. See The Practicks of Sir James Balfour of Pittendriech, ed. P. G. B. McNeill, Stair Soc., xxi, xxii, 1962, 1963, vol. 1, p. lviii and n.47, where the present MS. and another, National Library of Scotland Ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

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