Petition of Alexander Mounsey, sometime tenant-farmer of Skipmires, in the parish of Tinwald, Dumfriesshire, ‘but now residing in the township of Vaughan in the County of York and Province of Upper Canada’, to the House of Commons., 1861.
Item
Identifier: MS.193
Scope and Contents
The petitioner, who is heir at law of William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, petitions the House to order to be laid before it an account of Paterson’s share in the Equivalent, and to cause the large amount of it which is believed to remain unappropriated to be devoted to the spread of botanical knowledge in Scotland by means of university scholarships, etc.
Dates
- Creation: 1861.
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Extent
2 Leaves ; 21 7/8 inches x 17 1/8 inches.
Language of Materials
From the Series: Undetermined
Arrangement
2 folios.
Physical Description
Vellum.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
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National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk