Church of Scotland, Establishment and disestablishment
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Lectures and sermons of George Gilfillan (1813-1878), minister of School Wynd Secession Church, Dundee
Fonds
Identifier: MS GIL 1
Scope and Contents
7 notebooks of lectures and sermons.1. Sermon notes, 1835-1836[?]. End leaves bear repeated ownership marks and pen trials.2. Two lectures 'On the existence and character of God', beginning front and back within the volume3. A popular history of British Poetry (continued).4. Lecture 2 - 4 on 'Robertson of Brighton'.5. Lecture 7 - 13 'On Christ'.6. Five lectures on British Literature7. Notes of sermons...
Dates:
1835-1871
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letter from the non-intrusion committee to the Earl of Aberdeen [Church of Scotland General Assembly], 27 January 1840
Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/22/20
Dates:
27 January 1840
Letter to Rev. T. H. Keir, Aberdeen, Scotland from Hugh E. Baikie, Beawar, India, 14 May 1946.
Fonds — Box CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 61
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from David Landsborough, 25 February 1843
Item
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
Letters relating to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870)
Fonds
Identifier: MS ERS T
Scope and Contents
Proof copy of printed letters relating to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870). Contains pencil annotations instructing to "preserve", "omitt", "begin here", etc., for each letter. Contains less content than William Hanna's 1878 published edition, including letters with Thomas Chalmers, the portrait (frontispiece), the preface, and the expository writing providing context to each letter. However, some letters within this volume are omitted from the published version - including a number...
Dates:
1877-1878
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript by James Fraser (1695-1796), minister of Alness
Fonds
Identifier: MS FRA 2
Scope and Contents
Original manuscript of James Fraser's "The Scripture doctrine of santification. Being a critical explication and paraphrase of the sixth [and] seventh chapters of the epistle to the Romans, and the four first verses of the eighth chapter."Quarto notebook with 384 numbered pages. Manuscript is dated 25 July 1769, and a note regarding its donation by Rev. Robert Mackintosh on 13 July 1926 is loosely inserted at the front fly leaf. Front fly also bears an inscription to Rev. Charles...
Dates:
1769
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript by John Forbes (c.1568-1634), minister of Alford
Fonds
Identifier: MS FOR 1
Scope and Contents
Manuscript copy of an earlier work by John Forbes, Minister of Alford, c.1568–1634. Created c. 1726."The Reformation of Religion in Scotland, Containing Beginning Progress [and] Establishing of the Truth, both in Doctrine [and] Discipline, writtin the same.Written be that faithful Servant and Witnes of Christ. Mr John Fforbes. Ex authoris Autographo"Contains several notes and inserts regarding provenance, including a contents list that is purportedly...
Dates:
c. 1726
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript copy of ‘Livre des Anglais’
Fonds
Identifier: MS GEN 2
Scope and Contents
Copie du Livre des Anglais [sic]. Manuscript Déposé aux Archives de Genève. [copy of the 'book of the English'. Manuscript deposited with the Archives of Geneva]. Covers the years 1555-1560 when John Knox was a member of the English church in Geneva, listing members of the congregation, ministers, child baptisms, marriages and funerals.Manuscript copy of the original, made 14 - 19 May 1856 and certified by Ad. C. Grivel, Archivist. The copy was comissioned by a Mr. Lawrence of...
Dates:
1856; Other: 1555-1560
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Manuscript of Walter Bruce Davis
Collection
Identifier: MS DAV 3
Scope and Contents
Typed manuscript entitled 'Alexander Duff; Prince of Indian Missionaries'. 338 pages
Dates:
1975
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
'Memorandum of a plan for presently raising a permanent endowment fund for the Free Church', 25 April 1843
Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/22/28
Dates:
25 April 1843