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Dean William Leslie Christie
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Manuscripts from the Episcopal Chest.

(500) Letter, 25 August, 1735, Rev. Alexander Robertson, Edinburgh to Bishop Keith. Asks whether he considers the consecration (of Robert White as Bishop of Dunblane) canonical. Letter, 1 September, 1731, Bishop Keith to Alexander Robertson. Relates to election of David Freebairn to the "district" of Edinburgh.

Dean William Leslie Christie

Manuscripts from the Episcopal Chest.

(590) Protect by the Bishop, Presbyters and Deacons of Brechin against the pretentions to authority over the national (Episcopal) Church in Scotland by the English Bishop, Smith. Includes facsimiles of signatures of the Brechin clergy, the Aberdeen clergy, and some "southern" clergy.

Dean William Leslie Christie

Manuscripts from the Episcopal Chest.

(519) Letter, John McKenzie, Edinburgh to Bishop Keith, Edinburgh. States reason why he cannot comply with Canon excluding him from attending a meeting of the Edinburgh clergy and that the Canon is a direct contradiction to the established maxim "one bishop in one city".

Dean William Leslie Christie

Manuscripts from the Episcopal Chest.

(533) The second address of the presbyters of Edinburgh to Bishop Keith. Complains of the bishops' silence over a previous address and asks for assurance that the English Liturgy would not be proscribed. Includes marginal notes attributed to Bishop Keith and further notes by Christie.

Dean William Leslie Christie

Miscellaneous transcriptions

Transcripts made by Dean Christie from Bishop Robert Forbes 'Folio Book': Copy of a letter from the Rev. William Harper Senior to George Drummond, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Sketch of Persecuted Church of Scotland given to Mr Walter Ferguson, writer, in 1770 ['Probably the composition of Bishop Robert Forbes']. Copy of a Memorial for the Persecuted Episcopal Clergy in Scotland, Aberdeen, 26 November, 1772 [by Bishop George Innes]. Transcript not dated.

Dean William Leslie Christie

Miscellaneous transcriptions

Peterhead Documents, 1765-1813. Includes: Letters of Robert Kilgour relating to site for new chapel, removal of Mr Sangster from Lonmay, terms of union of congregation under Bishop Torry. Extracts from Centenary Book of St. Andrews, Glasgow. Roll of bishops of Glasgow. Transcribed (with facsimiles), 1911.

Dean William Leslie Christie

Miscellaneous transcriptions

Extracts from various publications intended to illustrate the history of the Episcopal Clergy (18th century) in or about Hawick'. Includes: Letter, 14 June, 1909, from J.J. Vernon, Hawick Archaeological Society, to Dean Christie. Pamphlet: The Ecclesiastical Place-Names of Roxburghshire. J.J. Vernon. Hawick, 1907. Pamphlet: Old Melrose. J.J. Vernon. Pages from St. Cuthbert's Church Monthly Magazine, Hawick, 1904-1905, containing articles by J.J. Vernon: 'Historical Notes Teviotdale in the Olden Time', etc.

Dean William Leslie Christie

Miscellaneous transcriptions

Garioch volume of notes. n.d. Commonplace book containing notes from various sources on Alexander Garioch [Episcopal Minister of Stonehaven] 18th century feuars in Stonehaven, property in Stonehaven, 'Capt. Jolly's cave', 'William Gibbon's clothes'.

Dean William Leslie Christie

Miscellaneous transcriptions

Stivens Letters, Vol. 1: letters of Andrews Stivens, Lieutenant on board 'H.M.S. Lenox' at Spithead and afterwards of 'H.M.S. Louisia' to William Mowat, merchant in Stonehaven, his brother-in-law, 1735-1739 and of William Mowat to his wife Christine Stephan, c.1717-1732. Also includes: Will of Robert Stivens, merchant in Aberdeen, 1741 and of Andrew Stivens, 1739. Letter, 5 December, 1785, Francis Dauney, Episcopal Clergyman in Kingston, Jamaica, to his sister Margaret Dauney, wife of Rev. John Shand, Minister of Kemnay, Kintore. Writs and correspondence relating to Alexander Forbes of Blackford. Genealogical notes and references to Stivans mortification. Transcribed c.1906.

Dean William Leslie Christie

Miscellaneous transcriptions

27 July, 1744, the presbyters of Edinburgh to Bishop Keith. Relates to the presbyters' previous request for a mandate to elect a bishop and their fears over the encroachment of their rights by the bishops and the use of the English Liturgy. [pp.25-47]. [Enclosed with letter of 18 August].

Dean William Leslie Christie

Miscellaneous transcriptions

Bishop Robert Kilgour, Peterhead to Robert Spark, Montrose. Approves their [Patrick Rose, Mr Jamieson and Robert Spark] caution "with regard to matter of Dundee" and mentions "giving supply to the congregation at Drumlithe". [pp.115-117].

Dean William Leslie Christie

Miscellaneous transcriptions

Patrick Rose, Arbroath to Robert Spark, Drumlithie. Relates to the matter of the election of a Mr Brown to the position of Bishop. Includes extracts of letters from Bishop Rose to Bishop Abernethy and from Bishop S[trachan] to Patrick Rose. [pp.165-171].

Dean William Leslie Christie

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