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CARSTARES, the Reverend William (1649-1715, chaplain and chief adviser on Scottish affairs to William III). An archive of autograph letters signed ('W.Carstares' and 'W.C.'), and unsigned; letters addressed to him by various correspondents; and correspondence and documents relating to Carstares and members of his family including John Carstares (father), William Dunlop (brother-in-law), Sarah Dunlop (sister), Alexander Carstares (brother), and others, 1650 - 1732, altogether approximately 245 items, various sizes . Provenance . On William Carstares' death many of his letters and papers were retained by his sister, Sarah Dunlop, who bequeathed them to her son, Alexander. In 1874 the archive was in the possession of his descendant, Graham Dunlop, of Gairbraid (R.H.Story. William Carstares , 1874); it was subsequently sold. The archive includes: CARSTARES, the Reverend William. Approximately 93 autograph letters, signed ('W.Carstares' and 'W.C.') and unsigned, most to William Dunlop (his brother-in-law and, from 1690, Principal of Glasgow University) and Sarah Dunlop (his sister), the remainder to his wife and to unidentified correspondents, London, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, Namur, and other places, 17 April 1671 - n.d. [1703], approximately 104 pages, 8vo and 4to , address leaves, contemporary and later endorsements, seals (seal tears, splits in folds, tears, duststains); Autograph manuscript of a catechism in defence of presbyterianism, n.d., 48 pages, 8vo ; an autograph draft letter on the East India Act and a memorandum on the 'Scottish Councill' and its history and 'inconveniences', 4½ pages, 8vo (1696); 12 documents relating mostly to his imprisonment (1684/5); an autograph fragment and 2 copies (in unidentified hands and incomplete) of his own account of it; a warrant signed by the Earl of Moray for a letter of remission to be issued to Carstares (September 1684); Other correspondence including: STUART, James, of Coltness (d.1713). Twenty-one letters, apparently autograph, unsigned, to William Carstares, London, Windsor, Newark, Edinburgh and n.p., 19 January - 9 December 1687 and Edinburgh, 5 August 1699, 9 pages, 4to and 17½ pages, folio , address panels (in 1687 to Carstares at Leiden or to intermediaries at Rotterdam), seals (tears with occasional loss of words, a few small holes, some leaves frayed and discoloured); and approximately twenty-seven letters (most unsigned) to William Carstares by other correspondents, mostly Edinburgh, n.d. [1697] and 23 July - 8 October 1698 (20 letters), partly in cipher, approximately 40 pages, 8vo and 4to ; DUNLOP, the Reverend William (1649? - 1700). Autograph letter signed ('WD') to his wife, Carolina, 30 June 1687, one page, 4to ; two licences to perform marriages in Carolina and a letter by his wife; and approximately 15 documents (mostly financial -- accounts, receipts, discharges and similar); CARSTARES, the Reverend John (d.1686, father of William). Approximately twenty-two letters and documents, some addressed to John Carstares and to his wife (Janet), by members of their family and acquaintances, on ecclesiastical and family matters, approximately 40 pages, all sizes ; John Carstares' signed testament (24 April 1664), one page, folio ; 7 letters by Alexander Carstares (brother of William) to Sarah Dunlop (his sister), Rotterdam, 1706-1732, 10 pages, 4to ; and twenty-four letters by various signatories (mostly unidentified), most to John Carstares, William and Sarah Dunlop, and other relatives including James Mure; a letter by Andrew Kennedy to the Secretary of State (James Johnson , Rotterdam, 1695, giving a dramatic account of the death of the wife of Mr Livingstone of Kilsyth in an accident at Antwerp, together approximately 35 pages, mostly 4to and folio ; other items including fragments of letters, copies of memoranda to Their Majesties' Commissioners and the General Assembly in Edinburgh; a few later items including 18th- and 19th-century letters and