Jacobite Collection
Title
Jacobite Collection
Date
1688 to approximately 1923
Description
The University of Guelph Library purchased a collection of Jacobite materials for the Scottish Studies Collection in 1975 with a grant from the Macdonald Stewart Foundation of Montreal. Today, the collection includes over 450 Jacobite and anti-Jacobite works including Jacobite histories, biographies, fictional accounts, speeches, sermons, polemics, satires, chapbooks, broadsides, letters, manuscript materials, and artefacts.
The Jacobite period spanned a number of important political, religious, and economic events in Scotland. Separate from the Jacobite Collection Archival & Special Collections also holds related complementary materials such as Scottish chapbooks containing Jacobite songs, ballads, and poetry popular in the 19th century, and materials related to other contemporary political, religious, and socio-economic events including the Darien colony scheme in 1698-99, and the Act of Union with England in 1707.
The provenance of the materials varies but bookplates represented in the collection include those of Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm, the 17th Laird of Poltalloch, a member of Parliament, and Chieftain of Clan Malcolm/MacCallum; Duncan MacNeill, the 1st Baron Colonsay; book collectors Alasdair Campbell of Kilmartin (d. 1901) and John Whitefoord Mackenzie; and the Scottish-American industrialist, Andrew Carnegie, among others.
Digitization of the Jacobite Collection began early in 2022 and has been made possible with support from Kevin James, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair & Professor of History, and Curtis Sassur, Head, Archival & Special Collections.
Acknowledgements
Ashley Shifflett McBrayne, Special Collections Librarian (Acting) - Project Lead
Graham Burt, Archival & Special Collections Associate
Gavin Hughes, M.A. Student, History
Andrew Northey, M.A. Student, History
Wilda Thumm, M.A. Student, History
Bev Buckie, Archival & Special Collections Associate
Lara Carleton, Archival & Special Collections Clerk
Gillian Manford, Archival & Special Collections Clerk
Adam Doan, Systems Architect and Developer
Ali Versluis, Head, Research & Scholarship (Acting)
The Jacobite period spanned a number of important political, religious, and economic events in Scotland. Separate from the Jacobite Collection Archival & Special Collections also holds related complementary materials such as Scottish chapbooks containing Jacobite songs, ballads, and poetry popular in the 19th century, and materials related to other contemporary political, religious, and socio-economic events including the Darien colony scheme in 1698-99, and the Act of Union with England in 1707.
The provenance of the materials varies but bookplates represented in the collection include those of Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm, the 17th Laird of Poltalloch, a member of Parliament, and Chieftain of Clan Malcolm/MacCallum; Duncan MacNeill, the 1st Baron Colonsay; book collectors Alasdair Campbell of Kilmartin (d. 1901) and John Whitefoord Mackenzie; and the Scottish-American industrialist, Andrew Carnegie, among others.
Digitization of the Jacobite Collection began early in 2022 and has been made possible with support from Kevin James, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair & Professor of History, and Curtis Sassur, Head, Archival & Special Collections.
Acknowledgements
Ashley Shifflett McBrayne, Special Collections Librarian (Acting) - Project Lead
Graham Burt, Archival & Special Collections Associate
Gavin Hughes, M.A. Student, History
Andrew Northey, M.A. Student, History
Wilda Thumm, M.A. Student, History
Bev Buckie, Archival & Special Collections Associate
Lara Carleton, Archival & Special Collections Clerk
Gillian Manford, Archival & Special Collections Clerk
Adam Doan, Systems Architect and Developer
Ali Versluis, Head, Research & Scholarship (Acting)
Items in the Jacobite Collection Collection
Official catalogue of exhibits : Highland & Jacobite Exhibition, Inverness, 1903 : Free Library and Science & Art Building, Inverness : open from 14th July to 26th September, 1903
Number 9 of 12 presentation copies with red plaid cloth on boards.
Inscription on front free endpaper: "This forms No. 9 of Twelve special copies of the Catalogue of the Highland and Jacobite Exhibition, Inverness 1903, and is presented to…
Inscription on front free endpaper: "This forms No. 9 of Twelve special copies of the Catalogue of the Highland and Jacobite Exhibition, Inverness 1903, and is presented to…
Rob Roy, the Celebrated Highland Freebooter; or, Memoirs of the Osbaldistone Family.
'2' is printed at the bottom of the title page
The genuine dying speech of the reverend parson Coppock, pretended Bishop of Carlisle: Who was drawn, hanged and quartered there, Oct. 18. 1746, for High Treason and Rebellion; Containing an Account of his Education, his Method of obtaining Orders, the Motives of his going into the Rebellion, and the Conduct of some of his Brethren, with many other curious Particulars. Publish’d by Parson Coppock’s Order, for the Satisfaction of the Publick.
With a half-title.
Price from imprint: Price Six-Pence.
Price from imprint: Price Six-Pence.
A candid and impartial account of the behaviour of Simon Lord Lovat, from the time his death-warrant was deliver’d, to the day of his execution. Together with A faithful Narrative of the particular Incidents which happen’d that Day in the Tower, in the Sheriff’s Apartment, and on the Scaffold. Interspers’d with Some of his Lordship’s remarkable Sayings, a Letter which he wrote to his Son, and the Copy of a Paper which he delivered to the Sheriff. By a gentleman who attended his Lordship in his last moments.
With a half-title.
P31 misnumbered 13.
Price from imprint: price Six-Pence.
P31 misnumbered 13.
Price from imprint: price Six-Pence.
The massacre of Glenco. Being a true narrative of the barbarous murther of the Glenco-Men, in the highlands of Scotland, by way of military execution, on the 13th of Feb. 1692. Containing The Commission under the Great Seal of Scotland, for making an Enquiry into that Horrid Murther: The Proceedings of the Parliament of Scotland upon it: The Report of the Commissioners upon the Enquiry, laid before the King and Parliament. And the Address of the Parliament to King William for Justice upon the Murderers. Faithfully extracted from the Records of Parliament. And publish’d for undeceiving those who have been impos’d upon by false Accounts.
Attributed to George Ridpath. Sometimes also attributed to Charles Leslie.
Reasons against the succession of the House of Hanover, with an enquiry how far the abdication of King James, supposing it to be legal, ought to affect the person of the Pretender.
"Price 6 d." on the title page.
By authority of the Sheriffs. An account of the behaviour of William, late Earl of Kilmarnock, and Arthur, late Lord Balmerino, From the Time of their being delivered into the Custody of the Sheriffs of London, to the Time of their Execution. With Every remarkable Incident that happened during that Time, and particularly the Conference between those Two Lords. As taken down by a Gentleman then present.
Preface signed: T. Ford.
Below imprint in square brackets: price One Penny.
Below imprint in square brackets: price One Penny.