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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelFile
Ref NoMS 3320/6/5/15
Alt Ref NoMS 3320/6/95
TitleManuscripts, posters, certificates and prayers
Date1773 - 1888
Extent1 file
DescriptionMiscellaneous papers, 1773-1888 and undated. Formerly box 8, bundle 8 Including:

Biographical account of the families of Abernethy and Fraser of Saltoun;

Collection of anecdotes, epitaphs and poems, undated;

American satirical posters (2), one supposedly reporting a meeting of the "True sons of Liberty" in New York, 27th July, 1774, in the presence of John Calvin, John Knox and others, the second an address to the Delaware pilots by the "Committee for Tarring and Feathering", advising them not to pilot in tea ships, to which is appended a letter to the captain of a ship bound for America with a cargo of tea. Philadelphia, 27th November 1773;

Certificate of the consecration of the Reverend James Brown as bishop in the church in Scotland, 24th October 1788;

On the conduct of the Clergy under Persecution by Dr Richard Grey, printed, London, 1736. Charles Pressley written on front cover;

Manuscript prayer of the Rev. Charles Pressley

Notebook or diary of Charles Pressley;

Letters to the Reverend Charles Pressley from Bishop Skinner, Reverend G.H.Forbes

Prayer for Advent, in the writing of the Reverend Hugh Shane, 1788.

Accounts of Miss Panton and Dr Panton and the estate of the late Francis Napier, W.S., 1811 - 1818

Handwritten notes titled 'From Todd's memories of Bishop Walton

Notes on Bishop Jolly's parentage

Notes titled Bishop Jolly's confessions

Notes titled 'lines by Dr Cyril Jackson, Dean of Christ College.
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