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Chatechetical instructions identified by Dean Christie as being in the hand of Robert Keith, Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus. Begins with extract from a sermon by Keith on the death of Bishop Rattray, preached 15 May 1743. The contents of the rest of th...

Chatechetical instructions identified by Dean Christie as being in the hand of Robert Keith, Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus. Begins with extract from a sermon by Keith on the death of Bishop Rattray, preached 15 May 1743. The contents of the rest of the volume are "evidently a skeleton draft with intervening blank leaves of a course of instruction for Confirmation and first Communion with further warnings on the infidelity of the times, possibly incorporating draft notes left by Bishop Rattray"

Includes [pp.87-96] notes, identified as being in the hand of Bishop William Falconer from Bishop Ken[nedy?] on the Eucharist. With signature, George Grub, 1837. Volume presented by George Grub 1837. Volume presented by George Grub's son, Charles Grub to Dean Christie, 1918. Also includes an App.endix bearing on the authorship of the manuscript "being a letter in reply to the enquiry of Rev. Charles Grub" and letter, 1 May, 1918, Charles Grub to Dean Christie enclosing the volume.

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Commonplace book of J.H. Forbes. Includes transcripts of discourses and prayers arranged as infra, with manuscript note in 19th century hand: "Presented to the Library of Laurencekirk".

376pp. [Donor unspecified]. [pp.1-2]. "Linlithgo[w] Thursday, 22 September, 1709. By Lady Ebden to J. G...n". Begins "Go gett a quair of paper. Make it in the form of a book..." followed by prayer. [pp.3-59]. Book 1, chapters 1-21. "This Book is entitled The Last Revelation that I shall be putt in print to the sons and children of man". Chapter 1 begins, "I who am about the giving of this Revelation and the living and true God". [pp.59-84]. Book II, chapters 1-7. Begins, "Is it to be thought that I can always bear not such provocations...". [pp.84-167]. Book III, chapters 1-27, "Linlithgo[w], Saturday, 24 September, 1709". Begins with prayer. Chapter 1 begins "Now the full time is come which was long looked for...". [pp.168-372]. Book IV, chapters 1-66, "Linlithgo[w], Monday, 26 September, 1709". Begins with prayer. Chapter 1, begins "The next text of Scripture that is to be considered is this Pails going to Damascus..."

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Commonplace book of J.H. Forbes. Includes transcripts of discourses, sermons and prayers, by [Thomas] Barnes, "Lady Clava", James Cunningham, T. Dutton, Guy Nutt, John Potter [successively Bishop of Oxford and Bishop of Canterbury]. With manuscript not...

Commonplace book of J.H. Forbes. Includes transcripts of discourses, sermons and prayers, by [Thomas] Barnes, "Lady Clava", James Cunningham, T. Dutton, Guy Nutt, John Potter [successively Bishop of Oxford and Bishop of Canterbury]. With manuscript note in 19th century hand, "Presented to the Library of Laurencekirk".

c.700pp. [Donor unspecified].

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