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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelFile
Ref NoMS 3320/6/5/14
Alt Ref NoMS 3320/6/90; Formerly box 6, bundle 16
TitleLetters, addresses, extracts and notes
Date1753 - 1861
Extent1 file
DescriptionBundle of miscellaneous papers. 1753-1861 and undated. Including:

Copy of a letter from Bishop Sandford of Edinburgh to John Bowdler concerning general ignorance in England of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Edinburgh, 2nd February 1807.

Notes on the constitution of the Church of Scotland by George Hill, principal of St Mary's College, Professor of Theology in the University of St. Andrews, 1803.

Notes from D. Campbell's lectures on ecclesiastical history, undated.

Extract from a letter by an English ordained clergyman officiating in what is called an "English Chapel" in Edinburgh, to the Reverend G. Gaskin, DD, rector of the united parishes of St. Bennet's and St. Leonard's in Eastcheap, London, on the questions of the Union of the different episcopal churches in Scotland and the submission of clergy ordained in England to the Episcopacy in Scotland, undated.

Notes on politics, 1753.

Address by the members of the Scottish Episcopal Friendly Society, asking that the bishops take measures either by pastoral letters or by general synod "to open the eyes of all classes of our communion to the daily increasing evils of separation and fanaticism", undated.

"Tullochgorum" form of marriage used by the Very Reverend J Skinner, undated.

Letter by J.H. Forbes concerning the activities of the committee of canons which was considering the form of the Scottish Office. Burntisland, 7th June 1861.

Letter by Bishop Skinner to the free-holders of the county of Aberdeen calling attention to the disabilities from which the Episcopal clergy in Scotland suffered, and asking them to petition both houses of parliament for redress. Aberdeen, 2nd March 1792.
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