National Archives of Scotland

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state letters and papers, in generally professional secretary hands, with (ff. ii^r-iii^r) a list of contents, v + 529 leaves, in modern cloth.

Among the Warrender Papers, formerly classified as Vol. B.

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Hugh, seventh Earl of Eglintoun, from Portmore, 7 December 1663.

1663.

Edited in William Fraser, Memorials of the Montgomeries, Earls of Eglinton, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1859), I, 313-14, with a facsimile of the signature.

Autograph fair copy of two poems, on one side of a single folio leaf, signed by Jonson and dated January 19^th 1619 [i.e. 1618/19], presented to William Drummond of Hawthornden.

The MS is accompanied by an 18th-century transcript on a single leaf endorsed Copy of Ben Johnsone's verses of which I have the oreginal in the Charter house.

1619.

Among papers of the Clerk family of Penicuik.

Edited from this MS in The Works of William Drummond (Edinburgh, 1711), p. 155 (see Herford & Simpson, I, 177-8): and cited (he sent to me this Madrigal / on a lovers dust, made sand for ane Houre Glasse...) in Drummond's Conversations with Jonson (see Herford & Simpson, I, 150, and DrW 303). Facsimile in IELM, I.ii, Facsimile XXII. A facsimile of the MS is also among papers relating to Jonson given by Dr Percy Simpson to the Bodleian in 1952 (now MS facs. c/e 25, f. 4).

Autograph calligraphic MS, almost entirely on rectos only, 53 leaves (95 x 135 mm.), in green velvet.

A presentation MS to Ludovick Stuart (1574-1624), second Duke of Lennox and Duke of Richmond, with a dedication to him, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures and a coloured self portrait.

1607.

Owned in 1865 by Sir George Clerk, Bt., of Penicuik.

Autograph letter signed, to John Drummond, from London, 15 January 1700/1.

1701.

Hodges, No. 67. McKenzie, III, 149-50 (Letter 14).

Autograph letter signed, to John Drummond, from London, 10 April 1701.

1701.

Hodges, No. 68. McKenzie, III, 153 (Letter 17).

A letter by Urquhart, to Alexander, Earl of Leven, the text in the hand of an amanuensis and signed and subscribed by Urquhart, from Middelburg, 10/20 September 1655.

1655.

Edited in Jack & Lyall, p. 46.

A series of letters and documents, in a guardbook of miscellaneous papers, in half blue morocco.

Comprising:

(i) Eight letters by Anne, Lady Halkett, all autograph and signed but for one in the hand of an amanuensis and then signed by her, each a folio or quarto pair of conjugate leaves with an address panel and traces of black wax seals; seven of them to James Kennoway on business affairs, one unaddressed concerning the unjustly imprisoned John McCawo, 3 June 1673 to 31 October 1692.

(ii) Ten receipts for payments by Kennoway to her, and related accounts, partly in her hand, 1668-80.

(iii) A list of debts of her husband, Sir James Halkett, at his death, 1670.

1668-92.

Copy, headed A Neve adveis to a panter &c, on six pages of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

Late 17th century.

Among papers of the Shairp family of Houstoun.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning from a Jipsye in the morning, on one side of a single folio leaf.

c.1620s.

Among papers of the Hay family of Haystoun.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The 5 sense, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

c.1620s.

Copy of the Chorus Sacerdotum on one side of a single quarto leaf, endorsed Ex Very Mediocres.

Early 18th century.

Among archives of the Carr family, Marquesses of Lothian.

Copy, untitled, on a single leaf, addressed on the verso To the Right Honourable The Countess of Panmure and folded as a letter.

c.1720s.

Among papers of the Earl of Dalhousie.

Copy, untitled, with other verses, on one side of a folio leaf, addressed on the verso to The Right Hona^bl The Earle of Panmure, folded as a letter, with a black wax seal.

c.1720s.

Among papers of the Earl of Dalhousie.

A valedictory letter by Rochester virtually on his death-bed, to Lady Southesk's cousin, James Hamilton (1658-1712), Lord Arran, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Rochester, 8 June 1680.

1680.

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

Autograph note of assignation signed by Rochester, to an unnamed Lady [possibly Lady Southesk (d.1698), daughter of William, second Duke of Hamilton], evidently folded so small as to be capable of being confidentially palmed to her, undated.

Late 17th century.

Among the muniments of the Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton, formerly at Lennoxlove. These muniments were acquired in 1982.

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

Autograph note of assignation signed by Rochester, to an unnamed Lady [possibly Lady Southesk (d.1698), daughter of William, second Duke of Hamilton], evidently folded so small as to be capable of being confidentially palmed to her, undated.

Late 17th century.

Among the muniments of the Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton, formerly at Lennoxlove. These muniments were acquired in 1982.

Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, Not the Worst part of my wretched life: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.

A large folio register of the Scottish Privy Council, in various professional secretary hands, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in later blind-stamped calf.

Late 16th century.

Autograph letter signed by Urquhart, to John Macronald, Advocate, from London, 9 December 1653.

1653.

Edited (from photostats at Yale) in Jack & Lyall, p. 44-5.

Autograph letter signed by Urquhart, to John Macronald, Advocate, from London, 14 January 1653/4.

1654.

Edited (from photostats at Yale) in Jack & Lyall, p. 45.

A folio guardbook of state and miscellaneous papers, in prose and verse, in various hands and paper sizes, unnumbered.

Copy, in the hand of Robert Veitch, who describes himself as a skipper in Leith, as by Gulielmo Drummond de Hauthorden, on eleven pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

1731.

Among the muniments of the Earl of Haddington.

Autograph, on vellum, 89 leaves, in elaborately embroidered binding.

1543.

Edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of the embroidered binding as frontispiece. Facsimiles of the dedication to Katherine Parr and of the last page in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (pp. 263-4). The French dedicatory epistle only edited in Autograph Compositions, pp. 9-12.