| Description Of Item | A list on the front of the notebook gives the following contents: 7th Earl of Argyll, Scots Peerage and Register of the Privy Council of Scotland; George Erskine Scots Peerage; Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie; Craven King's College, Aberdeen; Ruthvens Register of the Privy Council of Scotland; Nicolas Lemery 1696 Sb; Derwydd Papers deposited by Stepney-Gulston 1966; Susan Spens, George Stepney 1997; Murray-Threipland; Edward Lluyd DNB entry 1893; Ruthven of Freeland, Debrett's Peerage 2000; James VI Lilbrary Miscellany of the Scottish History Society 1893; William Lilly, True History of King James the First 1715; Ruthven Ladies' Cabinet; Tower of London Calendar of State Papers; Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows 1982; Andrew Lang, James VI and the Gowrie Mystery; Aulicus Coquinariae 1650; Highland superstitions; Samuel Cowan Who's Who entry1920; Sir Emile Cowell-Stepney Who's Who entry; William Plessner, The Place of the Turba Philosophorum in the Development of Alchemy 1954; Robert Multhauf, John of Rupescissa and the Origin of Medical Chemistry; Robin Blake, Anthony Van Dyck - A Life 1999; Ruthven letter to Digby 1632; Attilio Zanca, Gold The Solar Medicine 1990. |