University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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List of 17 titles (partial cites only) in Latin and French, in an unnamed repository, concerning history, classical literature, and philosophical commentary, such as the "Dictionaire Critique de M. Bail".

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Case law collected (in an unknown hand, but annotated in Gregory's) and presented to the Bishop of London, visitor of Balliol College in December 1705, in the matter of one Alexander Chalmers of Aberdeen not being granted the privileges of Master of Arts in the College.

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Gregory took down this extemporaneous discussion of law in light of the Act of Union from Sir David Dalrymple, as the two of them travelled together from Edinburgh to London in December 1707. A postscript contains Dalrymple's thoughts from Bath the following May, after he had had a chance to consult his library.

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This is a Latin transcription of a sixteenth-century satire on the morals of the clergy, probably by George Buchanan, glued onto a more recent catalogue of clerical vice, of unclear authorship.

Scope and Contents A list of questions about the manner of valuation of Welsh assets in light of political "Accession" to England. The precedents were doubtless of interest to Gregory, about to start intensive work on analogous Scottish issues in connection with the Act of Union, which came into force within a year. Calculating the customs and excise "Equivalent" compensatory payment was almost certainly the particular job before him here. Sir Humphry Mackworth (1657-1727) was a Shropshire politician and...