The Bannatyne miscellany; containing original papers and tracts, chiefly relating to the history and literature of Scotland.
Notes:
Vol.iii.
Editor:
Edited by David Laing.
Contents:
Two ancient records of the bishopric of Caithness, from the charter-room at Dunrobin. With a prefatory notice, by Cosmo Innes. [Latin. Charter of constitution of the cathedral at Dornoch by Bishop Gilbert de Moravia (1222 or 1223-1245); and charter of Bishop Archibald Herok, 1275, relating to controversy between him and the Earl of Sutherland.]
Extracts from a manuscript volume of chronicles, in the possession of the Right Hon. Lord Panmure. [Mainly Latin. Ms. c. 1460. Includes extracts from 'The chronycle of Scotland in a part' on the origins of the Scots (another version of which is printed in 32.14); and from 'Nomina regum Scotorum', which ends with Robert III.
Diploma of Thomas, Bishop of Ornkey and Zetland, and the chapter of Kirkwall, addressed to Eric King of Norway, respecting the genealogy of William Saint Clair, Earl of Orkney. With a translation by Dean Thomas Guild, monk of Newbattle, 1554. [Latin. 1440s, not 1406 as dated in the texts printed, and evidently addressed to King Eric's successor, Christopher. From the ms. vol. detailed in the preceding item.]
Extract from Thorm. Torfaei Orcades. [Latin. From Thomodo Torfaeo's Orcades, 1697 and 1715. Investiture of Earl of Orkney at Copenhgen, 1434.]
The testament of Alexander Suthyrland of Dunbeath, at Roslin Castle, 15th November 1456.
The testament of Sir David Synclar of Swynbrocht knycht, at Tyngwell, 10th July 1506.
The diary of John Lesley, Bishop of Ross, April 11-October 16, 1571. [Partly Latin.]
The preface by Henry Charteris to his edition of Henry's Wallace, printed at Edinburgh, 1594.
A catalogue of the bishops of Orkney, 1112-1477. By Professor Munch, of Christiania.
Notes by Professor Munch on the extracts from the Panmure manuscripts in the present volume.
The testament of Richard Lawson, bookseller and merchant-burgess of Edinburgh, 1622.
The progress of my Lord Walden's journey in Scotland, in August 1614. [Theophilus Howard, later Earl of Suffolk.]
Carta Jacobi tertii Regis Scotorum, de tenemento terre cum orto murato in burgo de Edinburgh, concess. David de Dalrympill, 15 Octobris 1471.
Proceedings of the commissioners of the kirk, at a meeting held at Edinburgh, in July 1627.
An account of the foundation of the Leightonian Library. By Robert Douglas, Bishop of Dunblane. [Bishop Robert Leighton left his library to Dunblane on his death in 1684; Douglas' account was written 1691 but ends in 1688.]
Letters relating to the Leightonian Library, Dunblane, 1703-1710.
Letters of assedation to Agnes Countess of Bothwell; and other deeds connected with the Hepburns Earls of Bothwell, and the Hepburns of Waughton, 1520-1564. [Transcripts and extracts, partly Latin. 1485-1586.]
A Godly exhortation as set forth by John [Hamilton] Archbishop of St Andrews, commonly styled 'The twopenny faith', 1559. [From first edition, 1559.]
A plan of the city of St Andrews, from an original drawing by James Gordon, A.M., minister of Rothiemay, 1642.
The contract with James de Witte, painter, for the portraits of the kings of Scotland in the palace of Holyrood; and the accompt for portraits, by Godfrey Kneller, of King Charles II and his brother James Duke of York, 1684.
Extracts from 'The richt way to the kingdome of hevine', by John Gau, printed at Malmoe, in Sweden, 1533. [Also printed in 31.8.]
An advertisement and general queries for the description of Scotland, by Sir Robert Sibbald, M.D., his majesties geographer for Scotland, 1682. [1680s.]
Proposals by Walter Gibson, merchant in Glasgow, to persons who wish to transport themselves to America, 1684. [From a broadside.]
Advertisement to all tradesmen and others, who are willing to transport themselves into the province of East-New-Jersey in America, 1684. [From a broadside.]
Extracts from the acts and proceedings of the presbytery of Haddington, relating to Dr Gilbert Burnet, and the library of the kirk of Salton, 1664-1669. [1664-74.]
Letters of Patrick Earl of Bothwell, and articles which he undertook to maintain at the appointment of the King of France, 1548-1549.
Additional extracts relating to the Earls of Bothwell and the Master of Hailes. [Partly Latin. 1509-71.]
The retour and royal warrant of taxation of the lands in the sheriffdom of Edinburgh, in the year 1479.