Robert Riddell manuscripts A Collection of Scottish Antiquities, selected by R.R. Vol 6

‘1788’ (title page torn away). ‘A catalogue of great and learned men born in Dumfriesshire’ (p.36); a history of Sweetheart (pp.7, 52), with a satirical poem on William Copland of Colliston, who sold it for demolition (p.55); the ballad, ‘The Bedesman on Nithsdale’ (p.56); anecdotes of Prince Charles Edward (p.147); English, Welsh, Irish, and Manx antiquities, including runes (p.199); an account of sculptures stones and other primitive antiquities of Scotland (p.235).List of the contents of preceding pages on p.155. - Basil Skinner’s notes, 1959