Selection from the papers of the family of Boyd of Kilmarnock, MCCCCLXVIII-MDXC.
Dispute between the abbot and convent of Lindores and the inhabitants of Newburgh, MCCCIX. [Latin. For an English abstract see 24.42.]
Burlesque sermon of the fifteenth century. [From a 15th century ms. written in North West England.]
Verses and letter from Mr John Edmestoun to King James VI. [Letter 15 Nov. 1607.]
Account of the last moments of Queen Anne of Denmark, 27th March 1619. [Copy of a letter.]
The trial of Mungo Murray for assaulting Thomas Sydserf, comedian, IV and XI June MDCLXIX. [Before the Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh.]
Brevis narratio martyrii venerabilis sacerdotis Thomae Maxfeildij, qui passus est Londini in Anglia 11ยบ die Julij anni praesentis 1616.
Epistolae virorum clarorum ad Jacobum Sextum, Britanniae Regem. [Letters from Cornelius Van Drebbel, George Carleton (Bishop of Chichester), John Cameron, and Father John Barnes; the last is dated Paris 1625.]
Virorum doctorum epistolae. [Letters from Meric Casaubon to a bishop (undated); and from Launcelot Andrewes (Bishop of Winchester) to Peter du Moulin, 1618.]
Joannis Hoskyns supplicatio ad regem. [Verse. 1615. Hoskins had been imprisoned in the Tower of London since 1614 for remarks made in the English parliament on James VI and I's Scottish favourites.]
Trials for witchcraft, sorcery, and superstition, in Orkney. [Trials of 1624, 1633, 1640 and 1643 in the sheriff court, and an examination before the kirk session of Sanday, 1633.]
True relation of my Lord of Warwick's passage. [An account, evidently by Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, of a near escape from capture by Spanish ships off Lisbon while on a privateering expedition, 1627.]
Award by James the Sixth as to the succession to the barony of Sanquhar. [Following on the execution of Robert, 6th Lord Sanquhar, in London in 1612.]
Letters by King James VI to the Countess Dowager of Angus. [c. 1593]
Letters of Thomas Lord Ellesmere, lord high chancellor of England. [To James VI and I, 1608 and (with the Duke of Lennox) 1615; and to John Murray, 1614 and 1616.]
Letters and papers relative to the history of Great Britain during the reign of James I. From the Balfour mss. [1614-24, and several undated.]
Letters and papers relative to Irish matters. From the Balfour mss. [1604-24, and several undated.]
Satire against Scotland. [1617. The second printed edition (1649) attributes authorship to James Howell, but it is more likely to be the work of Sir Anthony Weldon.]
Answer to the satire. [Reply to the above, in the form of a letter.]
The complaint of the muses upon Sir William Alexander. [Verse. By James VI and I, c. 1616-18.]
Memoir of John Geddy. By Robert Mylne, junior. [Geddy was a late 17th century Scottish writer on bee keeping.]
Correspondence between George Ridpath and the Rev. Robert Wodrow. [1706-19.]
Account of the discussion in parliament as to the losses of [Daniel] Campbell of Shawfield. [In a letter from George Drummond to James Erskine, Lord Grange, 5 Mar. 1726.]