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‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents
The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates:
1661-1681.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
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.