The manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry ...
Subtitle: preserved at Drumlanrig castle ...
Contributors: Buccleuch, William Henry Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duke of, 1831-1914.; Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1637-1695.; James II, King of England, 1633-1701.; Dundee, John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount, 1648-1689.; Hamilton, William Douglas, Duke of, 1635-1694.; Moray, Alexander Stewart, Earl of, d. 1701.; Fraser, William, Sir, 1816-1898.; Scott, William.; Melfort, John Drummond, Earl of, 1649-1715.
Publisher: Printed for H.M. Stationery off.; by Eyre and Spottiswoode
Published: 1897
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Douglas family.; Scotland -- History -- 1660-1688 -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Notes: At head of title: Historical manuscripts commission.

Parliament. Papers by command. C.8553; Cd. 1827.

Vol. 1 issued as Gt. Brit. Historical manuscripts commission. Report. 15th, appendix, pt. VIII.

Vol. 2 has title: Report on the manuscripts of the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry ...

Vol. 2 printed by Mackie & co. ltd.

Vol. 1 edited by Sir William Fraser; v. 2, by W. Scott.

The manuscripts consist of charters and other documents of the Douglas family; papers of the first Duke of Queensberry as commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland, 1685; letters to him from James II, John Graham of Claverhouse, the third Duke of Hamilton, the fifth Earl of Moray, and the first Earl of Melfort.