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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 76671-76767

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Add Ch 76671-76767
Title:
PORTLAND CHARTERS: charters acquired with the Portland Papers (Add. MSS. 70001-70523), allocated to the British Library by H.M. Treasury in May 1987, having previously been on deposit in the British Library as Loan MS. 29. The Portland charters contain a significant group of early 12th-13th century charters chiefly associated with Fountains Abbey (Add. Ch. 76710-76718) as well as two important collections of early Scottish charters (Add. Ch. 76696-76709; 76747-76763). For a calendar of Add. ...
Scope & Content:
Portland Papers: Harley family; Earls of Oxford: Papers of the Harley and related families: 9th-mid 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
97 items

3. Add Ch 76708

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Add Ch 76708
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Scope & Content:
(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

4. Add MS 4156

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Add MS 4156
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

5. Add MS 10308

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Title:
Poems of Sir Robert Ayton
Scope & Content:
Collection of poems in English and Scots by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638), poet and courtier. Collected by his nephew and executor, Sir John Ayton. f. 1r: Title page, ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, late Secretarye to the most Illustrious, Anna and Henrietta Mary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Scots
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 18981

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Add MS 18981
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

7. Add MS 32646-32657

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Add MS 32646-32657
Title:
OFFICIAL correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland during the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII., from 1532 to 1545; and (in the last volume) a few similar letters of the beginning of the reign of Edward VI., in 1548, and the correspondence of Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State, with Edward Wotton, Ambassador to Scotland in 1585. Twelve volumes. A large portion of the series relates to the embassy of Sir Ralph Sadler to Scotland in the...
Scope & Content:
Marches of England and Scotland: Official correspondence and papers relating to: 1532-1545, 1548, 1585. Hamilton State Papers: Transactions between England and Scotland: 1532-1548, 1585. England General Chronicles and History: Transactions between England and Scotland: 1532-1548, 1585.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, Scots, and Spanish
Date Range:
[7 Mar 1532]-27 May 1590
Extent:
12 items

8. 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

9. Add MS 40732

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Title:
Gilbert the Hay, The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure, a translation of the Alexander Romance into Scots heroic couplets by the Scottish poet Gilbert the Hay (b. c. 1397, d. 1465). Gilbert's translation was likely influenced by earlier French sources of the Alexander romance. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Add MS 48000-48196

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Add MS 48000-48196
Title:
THE YELVERTON MSS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers chiefly of Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council (b. 1541, d. 1601), together with additions of the 17th century, including manuscripts of Sir Henry Yelverton, Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1566, d. 1629), Beale's son-in-law, Sir Christopher Yelverton, Justice of the Kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
[1100-1899]
Extent:
197 items

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