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Legal notes in two separate series: (i) `Some additional remarks upon the Viscount of Stairs his Institutiones of the Law of Scotland`; (ii) `Treatise of Teynds`.
Letter-book of John Ewing, Writer to the Signet, legal agent for the Earls of Morton, concerning the Earls` affairs in Orkney and Shetland.
The correspondence is mostly legal and financial in nature, dealing with the running of the estate, the tenants` accounts, and the supply of butter, beer and malt, but there are some references to contemporary events such as the South Sea Bubble and the threat of a Spanish invasion. There is a break in the correspondence from 1721 to 1730, and some of the later letters are signed R E.
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.
Letters, notebooks and manuscripts of and concerning Hugh Miller, geologist.
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Manuscript, circa 1560, of the Regiam Maiestatem, burgh laws, statutes, Quoniam attachiamenta, De judicibus, forest laws, and various smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots.
Manuscript of the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, written soon after the middle of the 15th century, and belonging to the Charterhouse at Perth.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem and other legal texts; with three items formerly loosely inserted therein.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, and burgh laws, written in 1439.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, all in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘De judicibus’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, written in the early 16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, mostly written by James Monynet in 1488, with some later additions.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh laws, `Quoniam attachiamenta`, and `De judicibus`, written by Alexander Foulis in 1454; the last two items have been completed and other statutes, etc., added by a later hand.
Memorial, circa 1745, concerning the state of the Highlands.
The memorial is preceded by a note, dated 1838, by W F Skene, relating to the manuscript.
An endorsement (folio 12 verso), written by the original donor, Thomas Stewart, ascribes the memorial to Lord President Forbes.
Microfilm of documents relating to Lanarkshire, chiefly concerning the parish of Carluke.
Microfilm of manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.
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Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie (MS.16497);
Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).