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Papers of John Skene of Hallyards.
Comprising:
1. account, 1679, of expenses paid by John Skene
2. receipts, 1688, for pay by Skene to the Midlothian Militia
3. two lists, 1678 and circa 1680, of Scottish militia.
Papers of John Spottiswoode, Advocate, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, 1702-1728.
Papers of Scottish interest, collected by R R Gove-Brown-Henderson.
Papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion.
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Papers of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association.
Papers relating to the military service of Lieutenant Walter R Cuthbert, RFA, in Mesopotamia and India.
Includes a list of photographs taken in Mesopotamia, papers connected with Cuthbert`s post-war claims for arrears of pay and allowances, a receipt from British Empire Union and copies of sketches by Mrs Cuthbert (Wendy Wood) made during her husband`s RFA training.
Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.
From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.
Records of Donaldson`s College, Edinburgh, the National School for Deaf Children.
Records of East Edinburgh Unionist Association.
Minute books, membership registers, financial records and related papers, 1921 – 2001, of the East Edinburgh Unionist Association.
Records, war diaries and other papers concerning the Lothians and Border Horse in the 2nd World War.
Includes post war papers, minute books and financial records of the Lothian and Border Horse Regimental Association and its predecessor body.
Register-books for the poor pensioners of the Faculty of Advocates.
Register of donations to the Faculty of Advocates.
Volume commencing 1683 containing a Register of Donations and other materials for a catalogue, including an Index Materiarum. At the beginning is Sir George Mackenzie's Inaugural Address, 1 March 1689. Pasted on the flyleaf is an original Minute of a Committee of Faculty, 1687, anent the making of a Catalogue, signed bu Mackenzie and others (Mackenzie was Dean 1682-1690).
Sederunt book of the tutors and curators of Sir James Wemyss, 3rd Baronet, of Bogie, concerning the estate of the late Sir John Wemyss.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).