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Formal documents of J B S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15522-15524
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: a publishers` agreement, 1937, a draft deed of covenant with his first wife Charlotte, 1946, and a certificate of election to the National Institute of Sciences of India, 1953.
Dates:
1937-1953.
Gaelic poetry and a Deed of Renunciation, apparently from the papers of Colonel Robert Bruce Aeneas McLeod Sutherland.
File
Identifier: MS.14875
Scope and Contents
The poems are apparently from the papers of the donor, Norman Kent’s grandfather Colonel Robert Bruce Aeneas McLeod Sutherland (died 1887). The latter’s father, Captain Alexander Sutherland, was brought up at Sciberscross, Strath Brora, received his commission in 78th (Seaforth) Regiment in 1794, and served as a recruiting officer throughout Scotland.The contents are as follows.(i) Deed of Renunciation of Barbara Guthrie, wife of James Sutherland of Evelix, 1713...
Dates:
1st half of 18th century, undated.
Indenture and discharge concerning Alexander Gray, Brechin.
File
Identifier: Acc.10192
Dates:
1849-1852.
Indenture for the Camden Estate, Trinidad, between William Lushington, and John Stewart and Alexander Fraser.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14555
Scope and Contents
Document is an indenture of release between Lushington, and Stewart and Fraser of Inchcoulter. The indenture provides a legal description of the plantation and outlines the ownership rights of both the physical plantation and the enslaved workers.There are four schedules providing details on the names, ages, employment, sex, colour, stature, country, marks [distinguishing features] and relations of the enslaved workers. The Scottish connection is clear as...
Dates:
1807-1819.
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.
Legal papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/1
Dates:
1710, 1812-1829.
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
File
Identifier: F.R.342
Dates:
1819-1838.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: MS.21246
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by two hands in the second half of the fourteenth century, with one slighly later addition (section (i)) and fifteenth-century additions (sections (ii), (x) etc.). In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the volume had East Fife connections.The contents are as follows.
(i) Styles of writs, brieves, etc., in 107 chapters. The majority belong to the reign of Robert II. (Folio 2.)
(ii) An alphabetical index to the volume, 15th century. (Folio 17...
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Microfilm of books of Assumption.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.482
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Book of Assumption of Beneficies (Adv.MS.31.3.12);
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife, 16th century-early 17th century (Adv.MS.31.3.13);
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals, 16th century-1628, of Church and Crown lands in Scotland (Adv.MS.31.3.16).
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.902
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Minutes, letters, and accounts concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library regarding the proposal to build a new corridor.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/3
Dates:
1826-1831.
Miscellaneous documents from the Lauriston Castle Collection.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.3-12
Dates:
15th century-1773.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Urquhart family of Burdsyards.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8437-8442
Scope and Contents
An inventory is available.
Dates:
1666-1827.
Miscellaneous legal documents and legal instruments.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.14-18
Dates:
1457-1761.
Miscellaneous papers relating to the Incorporation of Hammermen of Perth.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.15258-15321
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: charters and sasines of property in North Street, Perth, 1544-1668 (further records of the Incorporation held in the Scottish Record Office - GD1/427 - show that by 1718 the Hammermen had acquired much of the North Street property by purchase from David Moncrieff who in turn had acquired it from Sir William Stewart of Inneruytie) and one for property in South Street, 1781. Also the oath sworn by the Perth Hammermen on the Test Act 1681, in 1682, and extracts from the Burgh...
Dates:
1544-1692, 1781.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.291
Dates:
1554-19th century.
Papers concerning Scottish history.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6687
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. letters of horning, circa 1657, in the name of Oliver Cromwell, against several hundred people for absenting themselves from courts held at Inverness2. minutes, 1693, of the committee of the Scots Parliament appointed to consider the financial projects of Hugh Chamberlain3. two documents, 1697, concerning the commission appointed to enquire into witchcraft in Renfrewshire4. eight documents, 1597-1802, concerning Scottish...
Dates:
1597-1802.
Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6275/1-133
Dates:
1618-1941, undated.
Papers of and concerning the Holden family of Baldovie; with a document concerning Thomas Greig, and with genealogical notes on the Guthries of Guthrie.
File
Identifier: MS.50266
Scope and Contents
Documents, 1753, concerning the clandestine marriage of Abraham Holden and Elizabeth Barclay (folios 1-4).Letters and documents, 1759-1776, of and to John Holden concerning Richard Holden's death, the sale of Scottish goods in West Africa, instructions for a survery and a bond (folios 6-13).Letters of Richard Holden (fl 1747-circa 1761), 1747-1758, of Richard Holden to his father and brothers concerning slaving voyages and the sale of enslaved people (folios...
Dates:
1717-1822.