Consisting of original papers and other documents illustrative of the history and literature of Scotland.
Editor:
[Edited by James Dennistoun and Alexander Macdonald. Vol. 1, pt. 1.]
Contents:
The library of Mary Queen of Scots, and of King James the Sixth. [1576-1602.]
The archearis of our Soverane Ladyis Gaird. MDLXII-MDLXVII. [Accounts of payments to Mary Queen of Scots' bodyguard.]
Contract of marriage betwixt Alexander Ogilvy of Boyne, and Mary Bethune, daughter of Robert Bethune of Creich, May 3, 1566.
Extracts from the registers of the presbytery of Glasgow, from November 1592 to March 1601.
Extracts from the buik of the general kirk of Edinburgh, in the years 1574 and 1575.
Extracts from the registers of the kirk session of the burgh of Stirling, from November 1597 to December 1600.
Obligation by John Earl of Cassilis, to make certain payments to his brother Hugh Kennedy of Brunston, upon his taking the laird of Auchindrain's life, Sept. 4 1602. [John Muir of Auchindrain was suspected of murdering Sir Thomas Kennedy of Cullean.]
Letter from King James VI to the Privy Council of Scotland, and proclamation by the Privy Council, anent the robes of earls, judges, magistrates, churchmen, advocates, clerks of the Session and signet, in the years 1606 and 1610.
The household account of Ludovick Duke of Lennox when commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland in the year 1607.
Indenture of a horse race betwixt the Earls of Morton and Abercorn and the Lord Boyd, dated at Hamilton, Aug. 15 1621.