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MISCELLANEOUS Papers, relating chiefly to the history of Scotland; with a collection of Jacobite and other Songs, as follows:-

Copies of Treaties between Denmark and Scotland in 1469 and 1550, Lat. f. 7;-" The Genealogic of the House of Drummond," f. 22;-Protestation of Alexander Craufurd of Clashlochie, Sheriff depute of Kinross, against the address to the Prince of Orange, 8 March, 1689, f. 38 b;-Statutes of Heriot's Hospital, compiled by Walter Balcanqwell, Dean of Rochester, f. 39;-" A Homily spoken by Pope Clemement the Eleventh upon Christmas Day, 1702," f. 50;-Proccedings of the House of Peers concerning Thomas Erskine's claim to the estates of the Earl of Alar, 1720, f. 52;-Letter of the Duke of Lorraine to Queen Anne, refusing to remove the Chevalier de St. George from his dominions, dat. 26 Nov. 1713. f 53;-Several declarations of the Pretender, dat. 29 Aug. 1714, 20-25 Oct. 1715, 10 Oct. 1720, ff. 54, 65, 67;-Letter concerning the Report of the Secret Committee, 1715, f. 58 ;-Letter from the Duke of Ormonde, 1715, f. 64 ;-Address of the episcopal clergy of the diocese of Aberdeen to the Pretender, 29 Dec. 1715, f. 66;-List of persons against whom the penalties of the Act of Parliament have been applied, 15 Sept. 1715, f. 68;-Orders for the payment of the rents of the forfeited estate of Lovat, to Simon, Lord Lovat, 1716, f. 70 ;-

Depositions at Carlisle against the prisoners there, Dec. 1716, f. 72;-A collection of Jacobite, religious, and other poems, both manuscript and printed, 1714-1723, in English and Latin; (many of these were composed by, and in the handwriting of, John Colme,) with some of earlier date, ff. 77- 183;-Letter from Andrew Plummer, 2 Oct. 1779, f. 184;-Two letters from Alexander Guthrie, painter, Nov. 1724, f. 185;-Letter from Lord Deskfoord, 23 July, 1759, f. 187;-Various political poems, f. 190;-A table of the Kings of Scotland to George 1. f. 193. At the commencement of the volume is inserted a table of contents, made when it contained more pieces than it does at present. xviiith cent. Folio. [14,854]