| Description | Correspondence, transcripts (some with originals) and other papers which were in the possession of the Reverend Canon Wilkinson, and were used in the compilation of the Aberdeen Diocesan Fasti, c. 1932 and undated. Including:
Notes and research material that includes published articles and publications on the episcopal church and clergy in: Aberdeen (St Andrew's, St John's, and St Paul's), Aboyne, Banchory, Braemar, Buckie, Bucksburn, Corse and Cushnie, Cruden, Cummestown, Deer, Ellon and Udny, Folla Rule, Forge, Fraserburgh, Fyvie (Woodside), Kirkwall (St. Olaf's), Lerwick, Longmay, Longside, Meldrum, New Pitsligo, Peterhead, Portsoy, and Turriff.
List of Episcopal ministers deprived by the Committee of Estates in May 1689, which was taken from a pamphlet of Ridpath's entitled Scot's Episcopal Innocence, 1694.
Notes by Canon Foster on Canon Hawdon's old papers.
Aberdeen Diocesan Library, list of subscriptions, 1805 - 1827.
Transcripts of the Kildrummy papers, 1680 - 1717.
Original or contemporary copy and transcript of 'The humble address of the poor farmers', undated.
Transcript of ' A true narrative of Captain Andrew Wood's conversion to the true church, undated.
Sermon, preached on the completion of his forty year's ministry in St James's Church, Cruden, in 1865, by the late Rev. J.B. Pratt, M.A., LL.D.
Outline of life of Reverend James Gordon Jnr. 'Based chiefly on his manuscript diary kept in January 1692 - December 1710.
Notes of the incumbents of St. Andrew's Aberdeen, including the history of the church's two hundred years of existence, published on the bi-centenary of the reconstitution of the congregation. Written by the Very Reverend H Erskine Hall, MA, provost, 1917.
Particulars of the life of Alexander Hepburn minister of Peterhead;
Transcript of an obligation required by the Presbytery of Deer of Mr Moore, Fraserburgh, whereby he was to engage not to preach or to exercise any part of the ministry in any place within the boundaries of the Presbytery, " as long as the Lord in His holy and wise providence shall continue the legal establishment of the Presbyterian government with this part of the kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland," undated, (With the original or manuscript copy);
Transcript, with original attached, of a letter to the Right Reverend John Alexander, Alloa, from Patrick Duncan and others, on the distressed state of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, undated;
Typescript (with original) of the appointment of Bishop Freebairn as Primus, by the Bishops of the Church in Scotland. Edinburgh, 31 December 1731;
Declaration (original and transcript) by David Guthrie and other subscribers that they had received from the Right Reverend Mr John Alexander, the sum of £1 sterling as their proportion of a benefaction made by the English Church to the "suffering clergy of the Church of Scotland", Restenot, 22 August 1750;
Copy of a letter (original and transcript) by the Bishop of Raphoe to Bishop Skinner, Aberdeen, concerning the aggrieved state of the Church in Scotland; "the chief obstacle to effective relief seems to arise from an apprehension to exciting the jealousy of the Scotch Established Church which looks with alarm to the progress of Episcopacy. Perhaps even now Scotland presents a phenomenon in society directly opposite and surely less rational than that which subsists in Ireland, where the established church does not accord with the religion of the numerical majority, but with the intelligence and property of the country", Dublin, 25th October 1823; |