_Macfarlane Manuscripts_ (Vol. iv., p. 406.).--In reply to your
correspondent ANTIQUARIENSIS, I have to inform you that the "Macfarlane
Collections" preserved in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, are chiefly
of an "ecclesiastic nature." In Turnbull's _Fragmenta Scoto-Monastica_,
published by Stevenson of Edinburgh, 1842, I find it stated that--
"Mr. Walter Macfarlan of Macfarlan (_Scotice_, of that Ilk) was an
eminent antiquary, who devoted his attentions strictly to the
historical monuments of his own country, especially the
ecclesiastic remains. He caused to be made, at his own expense, by
his clerk, one Tait, copies of most of the chartularies accessible
in his time. These are distinguished for their fidelity and
neatness. Mr. Macfarlan died 5th June, 1767, and his MSS. were
purchased by the Faculty of Advocates."
Of these valuable and highly important chartularies there has been
printed, 1. Aberdeen; 2. Arbroath; 3. Balmerino; 4. Dryburgh; 5.
Dunfermline; 6. Kelso; 7. Lindores; 8. Melros; 9. Moray; 10. St.
Andrews; and 11. Scone.