Further Reading and Online Books

• Heraldry, by Alexander Nisbet, 1742 (reprinted in 1984) - See link on our Heraldry page
• Annals of Teviotdale, by Rev James Morton, 1832
• Criminal Trials in Scotland 1488-1624, by Robert Pitcairn, 1833
• Annals and Antiquities of Dryburgh, by Sir David Erskine, 1836
• The History and Antiquities Roxburghshire
• Formulary of Old Scots Legal Documents, compiled by Peter Gouldesbrough
• Queen Victoria’s Highland Journals, edited by David Duff
• The Memoirs of Walter Pringle of Greenknow, edited by the Rev Walter Wood, 1867
• The Red Book of Grantully, by William Fraser (2 vols), 1868 - See link to 2 volumes below.
• Border Memories, by W Riddell-Carre, 1876
• The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, edited by George Burnett (many vols), 1882
• The Douglas Book, by William Fraser (4 vols), 1885 - See link to all 4 volumes below.
• The History of Selkirkshire or Chronicles of Ettrick Forest, T Craig-Brown (2 vols), 1886
• The History of Galashiels, by Robert Hall, 1898
• The Early History of Stichill, by George Gunn, MA, 1901
• The Annals of a Border Club, by George Tancred (2^nd edition), 1903
• Records of the Baron Court of Stitchill 1655-1807, by Rev George Gunn, MA 1905
• Scottish Family History, by Margaret Stuart, 1930
• The Records of the Pringles or Hoppringills of the Scottish Border, by Alex Pringle, 1933
• The Pringles of the Valleys, by Eric, Mark and John Pringle, 1957
• Excavations at Smailholm Tower, by George L Good and Christopher J Tabraham, 1988
• Selkirk Protocol Books 1511-1547, edited by Teresa Maley and Walter Elliot, 1993
• Smailholm Tower, edited by Chris Tabraham, reprinted 1994
• Memories of Stitchell 1860-1938, by James Smith, 1994
• Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage - See link on our Heraldry page
• Burkes Peerage - See links on our Heraldry page
• Genealogical Notes of the Family of Pringle of Newhall and Stichill, manuscript written by Alexander Pringle of Whytbank and Yair, 1840
• Various family documents e.g. inventories, wills, trust dispositions and settlements, entails, letters, diaries, etc. relating to Sir John Pringle, 5^th baronet, his brother Sir Norman Pringle, 6^th baronet, his son Sir Norman William Drummond Pringle, 7^th baronet and his son Sir Norman Robert Pringle 8^th baronet, 1870-1919

Note:

• Some of the above publications only mention Pringles of Newhall and their descendants once or twice
• Most of the above records contain errors, omissions or gaps

(He is a senior member of the Pringle of Stitchill family. He can be contacted via E-mail: )

Pringle related - free online books:

• The Records of the Pringles or Hoppringills of the Scottish Border, by Alex. Pringle, MA, BSc.
• Records of the Baron Court of Stitchill, 1655-1807; (1905)
• The Prindle genealogy: embracing the descendants of William Pringle the first settler, in part for six, seven and eight generations, and also the ancestors and descendants of Zalmon Prindle for ten generations, covering a period of two hundred and fifty-two years, 1654-1906 (1906)
• The genealogy of Jacob Farrand Pringle and his wife Isabella Fraser Pringle (1892)
• Lunenburgh or the old Eastern district (1890), by Jacob Farrand Pringle
• The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
• Peebles and Selkirk (1914), by George C. Pringle, MA.
• Letters by Major Norman Pringle, late of the 21st Royal Scots Fusileers [microform] : vindicating the character of the British army, employed in North America in the years 1814-15, from aspersions cast upon it in Stuart's "Three Years in North America" (1834)
• The poetical works of Thomas Pringle (1839)
• The Poetical Works of Thomas Pringle: With a Sketch of His Life (1838)
• Select Remains of John Alexander Pringle [of Whytbank], Esq (1841)
• Select remains of John Alexander Pringle [of Whytbank], Esq (1841)
• Memoir of Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison
• Border memories; or, Sketches of prominent men and women of the border (1876)
• Memoirs of Walter Pringle of Greenknow
• The history of Galashiels, by Rober Hall
• Observations on the diseases of the army, by Dr Sir John Pringle, Bt.
• The life of General James Wolfe, the conqueror of Canada, by Dr Sir John Pringle, Bt.
• The Scottish nation : or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland, by William Anderson (Volume 3).
• A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, by John Pringle
• Sermons and letters of the late Rev. Alex. Pringle, D.D.
• The poems and songs of William Hamilton of Bangour

• Letters by Major Norman Pringle, late of the 21st Royal Scots Fusileers: vindicating the character of the British army, employed in North America in the years 1814-15, from aspersions cast upon it in Stuart's "Three Years in North America"
• Refutation of aspersions on "Stuart's years in North America." by James Stuart
• Three years in North America, vol 1, by James Stuart
• Three years in North America, vol 2, by James Stuart
• A biographical sketch, by William Winston Seaton of the "National intelligencer." (On pages 117 and 118 there are complimentary references to Major Norman Pringle, later 6th baronet, in regard to the British burning of Washington D.C. on 24th August 1814.)

Other free online books:

1. The minstrelsy of the Scottish border (Volume 1), by Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford
2. The minstrelsy of the Scottish border (Volume 2), by Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford
3. The minstrelsy of the Scottish border (Volume 3), by Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford
4. The minstrelsy of the Scottish border (Volume 4), by Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford

• Minstrelsy: ancient and modern, with an historical introduction and notes, by William Motherwell
• The ballad minstrelsy of Scotland, romantic and historical, collated and annotated, by Gardner

• The Black Douglas, by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
• Douglas's Aeneid, by Lauchlan MacLean Watt
• The Douglas cause, by Baron Douglas, Archibald James Edward Douglas
• Douglas Genealogy: The Descendants of John Douglas of Middleborough, by Joshua Lufkin Douglas
• A true history of several honourable families of the Right Honourable name of Scot, in the shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent, By Captain Walter Scot

1. The Douglas book (Volume 1), by Sir William Fraser
2. The Douglas book (Volume 2), by Sir William Fraser
3. The Douglas book (Volume 3), by Sir William Fraser
4. The Douglas book (Volume 4), by Sir William Fraser

1. The Scotts of Buccleuch (Volume 1, part 1), by Sir William Fraser
2. The Scotts of Buccleuch (Volume 1, part 2), by Sir William Fraser
3. The Scotts of Buccleuch (Volume 2, part 1), by Sir William Fraser
4. The Scotts of Buccleuch (Volume 2, part 2), by Sir William Fraser

1. The life, progresses, and rebellion of James, duke of Monmouth, Vol. 1, by George Roberts
2. The life, progresses, and rebellion of James, duke of Monmouth, Vol. 2, by George Roberts
3. On the left of a throne: a personal study of James Duke of Monmouth, by Evelyn Nepean

• The manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry ... preserved at Drumlanrig castle, by Sir William Fraser
• The manuscripts of the Duke of Athole, K. T., and of the Earl of Home, by Sir William Fraser
• The manuscripts of the Duke of Roxburghe; Sir H.H. Campbell, bart.; the Earl of Strathmore; and the Countess Dowager of Seafield, by Sir William Fraser
• The manuscripts of the Duke of Hamilton, K.T., by Sir William Fraser

1. Memoirs of the earls of Haddington (Volume 1), by Sir William Fraser
2. Memoirs of the earls of Haddington (Volume 2), by Sir William Fraser

1. The red book of Grandtully (Volume 1), by Sir William Fraser
2. The red book of Grandtully (Volume 2), by Sir William Fraser

1. The red book of Menteith (Volume 1), by Sir William Fraser
2. The red book of Menteith (Volume 1), by Sir William Fraser

• Liber S. Marie De Dryburgh; Registrum Cartarum Abbacie Premonstratensis De Dryburgh. Edited by Sir William Fraser
• Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, by Sir William Fraser
• The monastic annals of Teviotdale: or, The history and antiquities of the abbeys of Jedburgh, Kelso, Melros, and Dryburgh, by Rev. James Morton
• Liber Ecclesie de Scon. Munimenta vetustiora Monasterii Sancti Trinitatis et Sancti Michaelis de Scon. (Scone Abbey)
• Liber Cartarum Sancte Crucis. Munimenta Ecclesie Sancte Crucis de Edwinesburg (Holyrood Abbey)
• Liber Collegii Nostre Domine. Registrum Ecclesie B.V. Marie et S. Anne infra muros Civitatis Glasguensis MDXLIX. Accedunt munimenta Fratrum Predicatorum de Glasgu Domus Dominicane apud Glasguenses carte que supersunt MCCXLIV-MDLIX
• Registrum S. Marie de Neubotle. Abbacie Cisterciensis Beate Virginis de Neubotle chartarium vetus. Accedit appendix cartarum originalium. 1140-1528
• Carte Monialium de Northberwic. Prioratus Cisterciensis B. Marie de Northberwic munimenta vetusta que supersunt
• Liber S. Marie de Calchou. Registrum cartarum Abbacie Tironensis de Kelso, 1113-1567
• Liber S. Marie de Calchou. Registrum cartarum Abbacie Tironensis de Kelso, 1113-1567, Vol. 2.
• Registrum Cartarum Ecclesie Sancti Egidii de Edinburgh. A series of charters and original documents connected with the church of St. Giles, Edinburgh. M.CCC.XLIV.-M.D.LXVII
• History of St. Mary's abbey, Melrose
• Chronica de Mailros, e codice unico in Bibliotheca Cottoniana servato, nunc iterum in lucem edita. Notulis indiceque aucta.
• Liber Sancte Marie de Melros. Munimenta vetustiora Monasterii Cisterciensis de Melros.
• Liber Sancte Marie de Melros. Munimenta vetustiora Monasterii Cisterciensis de Melros, Vol. 2.
• Selections from the records of the regality of Melrose
• Registrum Domus de Soltre : necnon ecclesie collegiate S. Trinitatis prope Edinburgh, etc. = Charters of the Hospital of Soltre, of Trinity College, Edinburgh, and other collegiate churches in Mid Lothian
• Fala and Soutra: Including a History of the Ancient "Domus de Soltre"
• Registrum de Dunfermelyn. Liber cartarum Abbatie Benedictine S.S. Trinitatis et B. Margarete Regine de Dunfermelyn

• Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn, by Fr Richard Augustine Hay
• Sinclairs of Roslin, Caithness, and Goshen
• Rosslyn: the chapel, castle and scenic lore
• A Sinclair genealogy, 1750-1950
• The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair
• The Sinclairs of England
• Sinclair : a family history beginning with William Sinclair
• The history of the Sinclair family in Europe and America for eleven hundred years

1. The accounts of the great chamberlains of Scotland, and some other officers of the crown, rendered at the exchequer. Vol. 1. 1326-1370.
2. The accounts of the great chamberlains of Scotland, and some other officers of the crown, rendered at the exchequer. Vol. 2. 1371-1406
3. The accounts of the great chamberlains of Scotland, and some other officers of the crown, rendered at the exchequer. Vol. 3. 1406-1453

1. The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, volume 1

• The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, volume 2
• The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, volume 3
• The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, volume 4
• The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, volume 5
• The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, volume 6
• The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, volume 7
• The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, volume 8

An index, drawn up about the year 1629, of many records of charters, granted by the different sovereigns of Scotland between the years 1309 and 1413

1. Criminal trials in Scotland, embracing the entire reigns of James IV. and V., Mary Queen of Scots and James VI. Volume 1.
2. Criminal trials in Scotland, embracing the entire reigns of James IV. and V., Mary Queen of Scots and James VI. Volume 2.
3. Criminal trials in Scotland, embracing the entire reigns of James IV. and V., Mary Queen of Scots and James VI. Volume 3.

1. Origines parochiales Scotiae: the antiquities ecclesiastical and territorial of the parishes of Scotland, Vol. 1.
2. Origines parochiales Scotiae : the antiquities ecclesiastical and territorial of the parishes of Scotland, Vol. 2.

• A history of the border counties: Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, by Sir George Douglas
• The lord wardens of the marches of England and Scotland : being a brief history of the marches, the laws of march, and the marchmen, together with some account of the ancient feud between England and Scotland
• Borderland studies
• Highways and byways in the Border; by Andrew Lang and John Lang
• The ruined castles of Mid-Lothian : their position, their families, their ruins, and their history
• Annals of Hawick, A.D. M.CC.XIV.-A.D. M.DCCC.XIV.
• Glimpses of Peebles, or, Forgotten chapters in its history

1. The border papers. Calender of letters and papers relating to the affairs of the borders of England and Scotland, volume 1
2. The border papers. Calender of letters and papers relating to the affairs of the borders of England and Scotland, volume 2

1. History and antiquities of Roxburghshire and adjacent districts, vol 1
2. History and antiquities of Roxburghshire and adjacent districts, vol 2
3. History and antiquities of Roxburghshire and adjacent districts, vol 3
4. History and antiquities of Roxburghshire and adjacent districts, vol 4

1. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, vol 1
2. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, vol 2
3. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, vol 3
4. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, vol 4
5. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, vol 5

• Papers relative to the Royal Guard of Scottish Archers in France. From original documents
• The History of the Royal Company of Archers: The Queen's Body-guard for Scotland
• The Scottish soldiers of fortune; their adventures and achievements in the armies of Europe. With illus. by F.A. Fraser
• The Scots army, 1661-1688, with memoirs of the commanders-in-chief
• Royal Letters, Charters, and Tracts, Relating to the Colonization of New Scotland, and the Institution of the Order of Knight Baronets of Nova Scotia, 1621-1638.
• The Darien papers: being a selection of original letters and official documents relating to the establishment of a colony at Darien by the company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies. 1695-1700.

• The heraldry of the Douglases
• The heraldry of the Murrays
• The heraldry of the Hamiltons
• The heraldry of the Johnstons
• The heraldry of the Campbells
• The heraldry of the Stewarts

Stewarts of Appin

• Calendar of the Stuart papers belonging to His Majesty the King, preserved at Windsor Castle, Volumes 1-2
• Calendar of the Stuart papers belonging to His Majesty the King, preserved at Windsor Castle, Volumes 3-4
• Calendar of the Stuart papers belonging to His Majesty the King, preserved at Windsor Castle, Volumes 5-6

1. The Scots Peerage, vol 1
2. The Scots Peerage, vol 2
3. The Scots Peerage, vol 3
4. The Scots Peerage, vol 4
5. The Scots Peerage, vol 5
6. The Scots Peerage, vol 6
7. The Scots Peerage, vol 7
8. The Scots Peerage, vol 8
9. The Scots Peerage, vol 9