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- By Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie. Covers the years 1436–1565.
- (16th century; English translation from the original Scots)
- The work was inspired by the plague outbreak of 1564-69 and Skeyne wrote it in Scots so the common people could either read it themselves or understand it if it was read out to them.
- (16th century; Scots facsimile)
- Searchable database of wills and testaments also provides full transcripts of the originals and some facsimiles.
- Includes auxiliary helps such as guides to handwriting and to Scottish occupations.
- Note: requires free registration to access records.
- (1500-1901; facsimiles and transcripts)
- Treaty that was supposed to establish permanent peace between England and Scotland.
- (May 28, 1503; English)
- The transactions of two memorable embassies: 1st to King James V in order dispose him towards a reformation. 2nd to the governor and states of Scotland concerning a marriage betwixt Mary their young queen and Edward VI.
- (1540-1543; English facsimile)
- Mary Queen of Scots
- A project of the Edinburgh University Library.
- (1550-1740; facsimiles)
- Published as two volumes in 1845.
- Provided by Google Books.
- (1558-1576; text-searchable facsimiles with updated English transcriptions)
- John Knox's infamous diatribe against female rule.
- (1558; English)
- Treaty between Scotland and England in which Scotland sides with England in rejection of their traditional alliance with France.
- (1560; English)
- Builds off the Treaty of Berwick to form an Anglo-Scottish union.
- (1560; English)
- Presbyterian of faith instituted after the Scottish reformation.
- (1560; English)
- Act of the Reformation Parliament denying the authority of the Pope over the Church of Scotland.
- (1560; English)
- Books regulating the ecclesiastical order of the Church of Scotland. Adopted after the Scottish Reformation.
- (1560 and 1578; English)
- Early in the morning of 10 February 1567, Kirk o’ Field house in Edinburgh was destroyed by an explosion. The partially clothed bodies of Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and his servant were found in a nearby orchard, apparently strangled but unharmed by the explosion.
- (1567; written and illustrated facsimiles)
- George Buchanan's Dialogue on the Law of Kingship among the Scots.
- (1579; Latin with English translation)
- Eyewitness account of the death of the Mary, ordered by Queen Elizabeth
- In cooperation with Eye Witness to History
- (1587; English transcription)
- Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. A source used for Shakespeare's Macbeth, King Lear and Cymbeline. Organized by chapter.
- (1587; Old English transcription)
- Act ratifying the second book of discipline.
- (1592; English)
- By Robert Carey
- From Elfinspell
- (1597; English transcription)
- Scottish hymnal.
- (1600; English)
- With Sir Robert Cecil and others in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Containing papers illustrative of transactions between King James and Robert Earl of Essex. Also includes correspondence which arranged for for James' ascension to the English throne.
- (1600-1603; facsimile; English)
- Chiefly written by, or addressed to His Majesty King James the Sixth after his accession to the English throne.
- (beginning 1603; Old English facsimile)
- Agreement between Scottish presbyterian movement and English parliamentarians during the English civil war.
- (1643; English)
- Established Scottish adherence to the standard worship practices in Britain.
- (February 6, 1645; English)
- Section III. - The Solemn League and Covenant.
- The document which allied the Scotch Presbyterians and the Puritans in their struggle against Charles I.
- (1643-44; English)
- Broadsides were single sheet publications cheap to produce and easy to distribute (simplest form of newspaper).
- Nearly 1800 broadsides available through "The Word on the Street" website.
- This collections is one of almost two dozen online collections from the National Library of Scotland.
- (1650-1910; search and browse tools for PDF text image facsimiles and transcriptions; illustrations)
- Influential Quaker text by Robert Barclay.
- (1678; English)
- Speech delivered by Michael Cameron, which served as a Covenantor declaration of war that set the events of the Glorious Revolution in motion.
- (1680; English)
- Documents provided by The Jacobite Heritage.
- (1689; transcriptions with modernised spelling)
- Act of Scottish parliament that constitutes key piece of Scottish constitutional law.
- (April 1689; English)
- Passed by the same Parliament that passed the Claim of Right.
- (April 13, 1689; English)
- Act establishing Presbyterianism as state church in Scotland.
- (1690; English)
- Treatise by Scottish thinker John Law.
- (1705; English facsimile)
- Respective acts of English and Scottish parliaments ratifying their merger into one nation.
- (1707; English)
- Written by philosopher Francis Hutcheson, a participant in the Scottish Enlightenment.
- (1727; English facsimile)
- Defense of religious dissidents by Andrew Clarkson.
- (1731; English)
- First English treatise on economics by James Steuart.
- (1767; English facsimile)
- Important essay of the Scottish Enlightenment by Adam Ferguson.
- (1767; English fascimile)
- Most influential work of Adam Smith.
- (1776; English)
- Good source for those studying the social impact of industrialization.
- (1791-1845; facsimiles and maps)
- Entire run of the society's proceedings, monographs, and Archaeologia Scotica.
- (1792 to the present; facsimiles)
EuroDocs > History of Scotland: Primary Documents > 16th - 18th Century
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