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Church of Scotland, Establishment and disestablishment

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Acts of the two synods of Lothian and Glasgow in 1702, 1702

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [29(2)]
Scope and Contents

Acts of the two Reformed synods, of Lothian and Tweddal and of Glasgow and Aire, both in October of 1702. The hand is unknown.

Dates: 1702
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Dedication of the Presb: Eloquenio to the E of Crawford, c1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [28]
Scope and Contents

Transcription of a book dedication, possibly referring to "Scotch Presbyterian eloquence display'd, or, The folly of their teaching discovered from the books, sermons and prayers : and some remarks on Mr. Rule's late Vindication of the Kirk: interspers'd with some genuine adventures in love", which appeared in 1692. It is in Gregory's hand, but signed "J.C."

Dates: c1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Dubitationes de Actu 1692, 1692-1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [80]
Scope and Contents

A page of what appears to be Gregory's thoughts on the legality of his interrogation pursuant to (possibly) the 1690 Act for the Visitation of Universities. On the reverse is a 1694 jotting on pitches and chords in pipes of particular dimensions.

Dates: 1692-1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Engagement at Dumfermelin, 4 April 1703

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [101]
Scope and Contents

A synopsis of the Provincial Synod of Fife.

Dates: 4 April 1703
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Folio B, c1669-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: Most of the scientific content of Folio B comes from early in Gregory's career. It includes an index of later letters of John Collins (1625-1683) to James Gregorie (1638-1675), a number of Edinburgh lectures in geometry, mechanics, and optics, and some tables and manuscript pieces of 'Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae', the 'Institutes of Astronomy', and the...
Dates: c1669-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Gay Scotland, Issue 21, Jul 1985

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Identifier: GD61/10/2/23
Scope and Contents Front cover shows Peter Tatchell and Sharley McLean campaigning to lay wreaths in memory of LGBT victims of Nazi facism. This issues covers: an announcement of a general forum arranged to discuss the proposal of a new management committee for the Gay Centre at Broughton Street; the funding for the London Lesbian and Gay Centre being withheld by the Government as they believed the users of the Centre were not from an economically deprived group; support for lowering the age of consent from...
Dates: Jul 1985
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Befriending Library Resources / Gay Scotland

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from David Landsborough, 25 February 1843

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/4
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from David Landsborough giving news of family members and news of "the Disruption" in the Church of Scotland. Natural history is also discussed, particularly a new species of Caledonian pine to be named C. Spherospherneum and a new genus of fossil to be named Lyginodendron Landsburgii Lyginos.

Dates: 25 February 1843
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Letters to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay

Some things relating to the Church of Scotland, May 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [214]
Scope and Contents

Parliamentary action vis-a-vis church rights.

Dates: May 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

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