Add MS 37538 D

D. 1. Letters to the Rev. John Alexander, Presbyter of Alloa and [ 1743] Bishop of Dunkeld, on the state of the Scottish church, questions of theology, etc., from (a) Alexander Livingstone; Dunfermline, 28 July 1727. f. 16;-(b) Robert Lyon; Stretton, 2 June, 1747, 22 June, 1754. ff. 19, 21.

2. Statement, without date, addressed to the same, of a prophecy made in 1740 by an old covenanter to a son of "Ross of Priesthill," "that in 1745 K. James the 7th's grandson wou'd arrive in Scotland, wou'd gain two battles, but the Regnant Kings son wou'd come and totally defeat him," etc. f. 17.

3. John Alexander, Bishop of Dunkeld, to Rev. Arthur Petrie, on the distressing state of the Scottish Church; Alloa, 13 May 1771. f. 23.

4. Rev. Nicholas Brett to --, referring to statements of his father [Rev. Thomas Brett, non-juror, d. 1743] respecting the first edition of John Johnson's [Vicar of Cranbrook, d. 1725] The Unbloody Sacrifice, and his other works; 6 Feb. 1745/6. f. 25.

5. Statement concerning the MS. collections left by John Hunter, the anatomist (d. 1793), and their destruction by Sir Everard Home, his executor, in 1823, made by William Clift, Hunter's assistant (d. 1849); no date. With a note by Prof. Richard Owen that Clift confided the statement to him "with his copies of the Hunterian MSS." Printed (see f. 33) in Hunter's Essays and Observations, ed. R. Owen, 1861, vol. ii. p. 497. f. 26.

6. Diploma of James Baylie, writer to the Signet, as a member of "the Loyall Scots Club"; Edinburgh, 7 May, 1695. Vellum. f. 36. Presented by C. Davies Sherborn, Esq.