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Rose, Hew / Hugh [either by or after him]
A Genealogical Manuscript of the Family of Rose of Kilravock
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Written by Hew [Hugh] Rose, Minister of Nairne, 1683-84, or a near-contemporary copy of the manuscript written by Rose, comprising 223 manuscript pages: [4], 115 [i.e. 110], [12 blank] 120-229, pp.5-6 and 37-40 appear to be lacking, the text appears to be continuous from p.62 to 68, initial leaf and p.198 torn with a little loss, finely bound in red morocco gilt with gilt floral spray borders to covers, 19.5 x 30cm, with ALS tipped-in to rear from C. Innes of the Spalding Club, dated Edinburgh 20th February [18]44, requesting to borrow the manuscript
Provenance
Early ownership signature of Hugh Rose of Geddes to the first page; The Reverend Dr Rose of Inverness apparently had possession of this copy in the 1840s, and the tipped-in letter inside is written to him. Possession seems to have transferred back to Kilravock Castle at a later date.
Footnote
This bound manuscript (apparently originally in the possession of the Reverend Dr Rose of Inverness), alongside another copy at Kilravock itself, was used as the basis for the Spalding Club's publication A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock, 1848. C. Innes writes in his introduction:
“The History of the Family of Kilravock, written in 1683-4 by Mr. Hew Rose, minister of Nairne, though hitherto unprinted, has been long known to Scotch genealogists; and many manuscript copies have been in circulation… it occurred to me that interest of the book might be much increased by joining to the ”genealogical deduction" of the author, a selection from the papers of the family which happen to be in my hands."
This “unusually rich and indiscreminate assemblage of family papers…” is also largely transcribed within the Spalding Club's publication, providing an invaluable record of the Rose family.
The present manuscript is arranged into generations of the Lairds of Kilravock, beginning with the first Hugh Rose of Geddes, who it is supposed died around 1306, to the 14th Laird, Hugh Rose (d.1687), and interwoven into the history of Scotland and its monarchs.