Consisting of original papers and other documents illustrative of the history and literature of Scotland.
Notes:
Vol. ii
Editor:
[Edited by James Dennistoun and Alexander Macdonald.]
Contents:
Pt. 1: Acts of the Parliament and of the Privy Council of Scotland, relative to the establishing and maintaining of schools, from the year MCCCCXCVI to the year MDCXCVI.
Appendix - Extracts from the accounts of the common good of various burghs in Scotland relative to payments for schools and schoolmasters, between the years 1557 and 1634.
Extracts from original letters of George Earl of Morton to his son James Lord Aberdour, as to proceedings in Parliament relative to the Porteous mob, 1736. [Letters, 1737.]
Acts, statutes and other proceedings of the provost, bailies and council of the burgh of Edinburgh, from the year MDXXIX to the year MDXXXI.
Letter from Mr Zachary Boyd to Mr Patrick Lindsay, Archbishop of Glasgow, XXVIII Jan. MDCXXXVII.
Bands of friendship by Scott of Balwery, Orrok of that Ilk, and Boswell of Glasmont, to the laird of Raith etc., from the year MDIX to the year MDLVI. [Also two letters of James V, 1533, 1541; and a protection by Mary Queen of Scots, 1556 (Latin).]
Acts and statutes of the lawting, sheriff, and justice courts, within Orkney and Zetland, from the year MDCII to the year MDCXLIV.
List of the parishes and islands within the earldom of Orkney and lordship of Zetland (exclusive of the bishoprick of Orkney), and certificate of the number of examinable persons in each parish and island, heads of familys, days services, etc. February 1748.
Journal from Kirkwall to Edinburgh. [17th or 18th century. Routes, mileages and prices of ferries.]
Documents relative to the printers of some early Scottish newspapers, etc. from the year MDCLXXXVI to the year MDCCV. [Concerning censorship.]
Pt. 2: Extracts from the records of the burgh of the Canongate near Edinburgh, MDLXI-MDLXXXVIII. [Partly Latin.]
Royal letters and instructions and other documents from the archives of the Earls of Wigton, MDXX-MDCL. [Mainly 1640s, concerning the activities of the Marquis of Montrose and other royalists.]
Excerpts from the household book of my Lord Archbishop of St Andrews from 1663 to 1666. [Archbishop James Sharp.]
Appendix - Note by Mr Dennistoun, regarding the letters of Henry II, printed in vol. i of the Miscellany. [See 15.26.]