The Spottiswoode miscellany: a collection of original papers and tracts, illustrative chiefly of the civil and ecclesiastical history of Scotland.
Notes:
Vol. i.
Editor:
[Edited by James Maidment.]
Contents:
Genealogy of the family of Spottiswoode, from the ms. collection of Father Augustin Hay. [Richard Augustine Hay, 1661-1736.]
Papers relative to the murder of Matthew Sinclair by John Spottiswoode of that Ilk, 1611. From the Balfour mss. in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates.
Refutatio libelli de regimine Ecclesiae Scoticanae, 1620, by Archbishop Spottiswoode. [From the first edition, London 1620. An answer to a pamphlet by David Calderwood.]
The sermon preached by the right reverend father in God the Archbishop of St Andrews to the General Assembly holden at Perth, the 25th of August 1618. [By Archbishop John Spottiswoode. From the True narration of the assembly by David Lindsay, Bishop of Brechin, London 1621.]
The life of the right reverend father in God, James Spottiswoode, Lord Bishop of Clogher. [From the ms. of Father Richard Augustine Hay.] Spottiswoode lived 1567-1645. Authorship uncertain, though the last part is by Hay.]
Poems by Sir Henry Spottiswoode. [Mainly concerned with the civil wars, c. 1639-47.]
Address of Sir Robert Spottiswoode, lord president of the College of Justice, to the members of the Faculty of Advocates, summer session 1633.
Two letters relative to the murder of Sir Robert Spottiswoode and other royalists, dated from St Andrews 20th January 1645-6. [The letters are from a London 1646 pamphlet; both are dated 26 January. Also Major Nathaniel Gordon's declaration, 20 January 1646.]
Captain John Spottiswoode's petition to the estates of Parliament before pronouncing of his sentence, 28th May 1650.
Lochiel's interview with Sir Robert Spottiswoode on the night before his murder and his account of that tragedy. [From 1.24.]
Speech of John Spottiswoode, esq., to the Berwickshire freeholders, 1702. [Reprinted from the first edition, 1703.]
The trimmer: or some necessary cautions concerning the union of the kingdoms of Scotland and England. [By John Spottiswoode. From the first edition, Edinburgh 1706.]
Account of the battle of Balrinnes, 3d of October 1594. From a ms. formerly belonging to the Rev. Robert Wodrow. [Battle of Glenlivet.]
Letter addressed to His Majesty King James VI by Johne Harisone, giving an account of his visit to Barbarie to liberate captives. 28th November 1618.
Eximii animi dotibus, et in dei vinea cultoris fidelis, Domini Gulielmi Forbesii, Edinburgeni Episcopi, vita. 1634. [Verse. By Andrew Stephens or Stephenson.]
Information anent his majestie's printers in Scotland. [By Robert and James Bryson, against Robert Young. 1641.]
Answers for James Anderson, his majesty's printer, and Agnes Campbell, his mother, to the petition of Robert Saunders, printer in Glasgow. [1681? Saunders' petition was addressed to Parliament.]
Account of the shire of Forfar, circa 1682, by John Ochterlony, esq. of Guynd.
Documents relative to the palace of Linlithgow, 1540-1648.
Narrative of the retreat of a portion of the allied forces from Madrid to Ciudad Rodrigo during the war of the succession in Spain, July 1706. By a corporal in Harvey's Dragoons.
Letters of Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat to George Crawford, esq. 1728-30.
Letter from an English traveller at Rome to his father, of the 6th of May 1721 O.S. [From the first edition, 1721. Describes meetings with James Stuart, the Old Pretender. Ascribed to William Godolphin, Marquis of Blandford. Also printed in 8.1.]
Some account of the nature and constitution of the ancient Church of Scotland. [In the form of a letter by 'A.B.', written c. 1730-40.]