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Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents

Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.

Dates: 16th century-19th century.

Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents

William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.

Dates: 1778-1961, undated.

Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows: (i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3); (ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4); (iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11); (iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates: 1546-Late 16th century.

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates: 1532-18th century, and undated.

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