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Robert Riddell manuscripts

 

‘An account of the ancient Lordship of Galloway’, R.R. Vol 7

 

 

 

 ‘An account of the ancient Lordship of Galloway …. To the year 1455’ (p.1);  A tour in Nithsdale, 1787, ‘  pts.i-iii (pp.59, 94, 203), illustrated with watercolours and engravings;  ‘An excursion by Dr Clapperton to Lough Urr, 1787’ (p.248);  list of barons and lairds in Dumfriesshire and Galloway (p.257); and the ballads,  ‘The Bedesman on Nithsdale’ and ‘The Death of Lauch’ (pp.264, 272).

 

-       Basil Skinner’s notes, 1959

 

 

 

Content absent from Basil Skinner’s summary of the manuscripts.

 

Title

Page

Preface

iv

Family tree of Alan Lord of Galloway

16

A sketch of the standard borne at the battle of Otterburn

36

A Remission granted by James the Sixth King of Scotland to Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar

52

Drawing of the wax seal of the abbey of Holy-wood

209

Copy of the inscription on the bell of Holyrood Abbey

211

The old house of the Earls of Nithsdale

585

 

 

 

 

Last updated: Feb 2023