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Complete MEMSO Catalogue

1. A Metrical Version of the History of Hector Boece by William Stewart (Rolls Series) (3 volumes)
2. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland (Treasurer's Accounts) (8 volumes)
3. Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum (3 volumes)
4. Acts of the Lords of Council in Public Affairs (1 volume)
5. Acts of the Privy Council of England (22 volumes)
6. Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series (6 volumes)
7. Calderwood's History of the Kirk in Scotland (8 volumes)
8. Calendar of Border Papers (2 volumes)
9. Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland (4 volumes)
10. Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland (4 volumes)
11. Calendar of Letters, Papers and State Papers Relating to England and Spain (21 volumes)
12. Calendar of Letters, Papers and State Papers Relating to England and Spain, Supplement (2 volumes)
13. Calendar of Papal Registers - Papal Letters (14 volumes)
14. Calendar of Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland (2 volumes)
15. Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Milan (1 volume)
16. Calendar of State Papers Relating to Ireland (23 volumes)
17. Calendar of State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots (9 volumes)
18. Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, America and West Indies (37 volumes)
19. Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan (5 volumes)
20. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (33 volumes)
21. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, Edward VI (1 volume)
22. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, Elizabeth (25 volumes)
23. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, Mary (1 volume)
24. Calendar of State Papers, Venice and Northern Italy (25 volumes)
25. Calendar of the Close Rolls (17 volumes)
26. Calendar of the Justiciary Rolls or Proceedings in the Court of the Justiciar of Ireland (2 volumes)
27. Calendar of the Patent Rolls (29 volumes)
28. Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon (Rolls Series) (2 volumes)
29. Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis - Papers Relating to the Highlands and Islands of Scotlan (1 volume)
30. Collection of State Papers of John Thurloe (7 volumes)
31. Documents Illustrative of the History of Scotland from the Death of Alexander III to the Accession of Robert Bruce, Joseph Stevenson (2 volumes)
32. Fasciculi Zizaniorum Magistri Johannis Wyclif cum Tritico ... (Rolls Series) (1 volume)
33. Foedera, Conventiones, Literae, et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica, inter reges Angliae et alios ... habita aut tractata (Rymer) and English syllabus (20 volumes)
34. History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde, From His Birth in 1610, to His Death in 1688 - Thomas Carte (3 volumes)
35. History of the Munros of Fowlis, Alexander Mackenzie (1 volume)
36. Ireland in the 17th Century or the Massacres of 1641-2 (2 volumes)
37. John Strype's Ecclesiastical Memorials (6 volumes)
38. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Reign of Henry VIII (33 volumes)
39. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Reign of Henry VIII, ADDENDA (2 volumes)
40. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Reign of Henry VIII, SECOND EDITION (3 volumes)
41. Liber Ecclesie de Scon - Book of the Chruch of Scone (Bannatyne Club) (1 volume)
42. Liber Prioratus Sancti Andree in Scotia - The Book of the Priory of St Andrews in Scotland (Bannatyne Club) (1 volume)
43. Liber S. Marie de Calchou - The Book of St Mary's of Kelso (Bannatyne Club) (2 volumes)
44. Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh - The Book of St Mary of Dryburgh (Bannatyne Club) (1 volume)
45. Liber S. Marie de Melros - The Book of St Mary's of Melrose (Bannatyne Club) (2 volumes)
46. Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc - The Register of Arbroath (Bannatyne Club) (2 volumes)
47. Lives of Edward the Confessor (Rolls Series) (1 volume)
48. Monumenta Franciscana (Rolls Series) (2 volumes)
49. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (3 volumes)
50. Register of the Privy Council (Scotland) (13 volumes)
51. Register of the Privy Council (Scotland) - Series 2 (3 volumes)
52. Register of the Privy Council (Scotland) - Series 1, Addenda (1 volume)
53. Register of the Privy Council (Scotland) - Series 2 (5 volumes)
54. Register of the Privy Council (Scotland) - Series 3 (4 volumes)
55. Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland (3 volumes)
56. Registrum de Dunfermlyn - The Register of Dunfermline Abbey (Bannatyne Club) (1 volume)
57. Registrum Episcopatus Glaguensis - Episcopal Register of Glasgow (Maitland Club) (2 volumes)
58. Registrum Honoris de Morton - Register of the Honour of Morton (Bannatyne Club) (2 volumes)
59. Robert Pitcairn - Criminal Trials in Scotland (Bannatyne Club) (4 volumes)
60. Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum - The Close Rolls, edited by Thomas Duffus Hardy (2 volumes)
61. Rotuli Scotiae - Scottish Rolls Preserved in the Tower of London (2 volumes)
62. Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, King's Advocate - His Life and Times (1 volume)
63. Statutes of the Realm (5 volumes)
64. The Chronicle of England by John Capgrave (Rolls Series) (1 volume)
65. The Douglas Book (Angus Memoirs) - William Fraser (1 volume)
66. The Douglas Book (Charters) - William Fraser (1 volume)
67. The Douglas Book (Correspondence) - William Fraser (1 volume)
68. The Douglas Book (Douglas Memoirs) - William Fraser (1 volume)
69. The Earls of Cromartie, Their Kindred, Country and Correspondence, ed. William Fraser (2 volumes)
70. The Hamilton Papers: Documents Illustrative of the History of Scotland in the XVIth Century (2 volumes)
71. The Lennox (2 volumes)
72. The Life of King James II, Collected out of Memoirs Writ of his own Hand (1 volume)
73. The Melvilles, earls of Melville, and Leslies, earls of Leven (Charters) - William Fraser (1 volume)
74. The Melvilles, earls of Melville, and Leslies, earls of Leven (Correspondence) - William Fraser (1 volume)
75. The Melvilles, earls of Melville, and Leslies, earls of Leven (Memoirs) - William Fraser (1 volume)
76. The Nicholas Papers (4 volumes)
77. The Scotts of Buccleuch (2 volumes)
78. The Sutherland Book - Charters and Index (1 volume)
79. The Sutherland Book - Correspondence (1 volume)
80. The Sutherland Book - Memoirs (1 volume)
81. Thomas Carte - Original Letters and Papers concerning England (2 volumes)
82. Vetera Monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum Historiam Illustrantia (1 volume)