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Accounts and papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company).
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
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.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Balcarres Papers.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Anderson`s personal affairs, his business interests (as lawyer, factor, and Postmaster-General), and his historical researches (which culminated in the posthumous publication of ‘Diplomata Scotiae’) are all represented.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
Correspondence and papers of the Murrays of Stanhope.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Letters and papers, chiefly of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Much of the correspondence is personal or concerns Anderson`s historical work, but some is of a legal or financial nature. Folios 154-158 consist of invitations to funerals.