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Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/51
Scope and Contents
The papers include the following: Binding (1848), Sale of duplicates (1823), Cataloguing of manuscripts (circa 1839), Booklists (1832-1834), Faculty's collection of coins (1840), Music (1830-1833), Engraved portraits for sale (1824), Newspapers (1831, 1877), Booklets (1832-1834).
Dates:
1824-1881.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library, including inventories, petitions and accounts.
File
Identifier: F.R.343/9
Dates:
1780-1836.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10283-10286
Dates:
1653-1804.
Miscellaneous papers of the Scots and Irish Colleges, Paris, and English College, Douai, chiefly concerning the Scots College's defence of their property during the French Revolution.
File
Identifier: MS.5051
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Scots College: correspondence and official papers, 1791-1824, chiefly drafts of letters from Alexander Innes to French government officials (folios 6-115); leases and papers, 1787-1802, concerning college property (folios 117-146); accounts, 1770-1802 (folios 147-225);(ii) Irish College: miscellaneous papers in chronological order, 1787-1806 (folios 226-257);(iii) English College: miscellaneous papers in chronological order,...
Dates:
1770-1824.
Miscellaneous papers which belonged to Sir William Fraser, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
File
Identifier: MS.90
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i-iv) Four printed proclamations, etc., 1708, 1710, 1714 (folio 1);(v) Obligation by Patrick Hamilton and other inhabitants of Arran to provide levies, etc., for the defence of the religion, laws, and liberties of the Kirk and Kingdom whenever desired by the Earl of Argyll, 1639 (folio 6);(vi) Extract registered bond by Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum to the Committee of Estates to observe the National Covenant, 1641 (folio 8);...
Dates:
1590-1838.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.10335
Dates:
1651-1907, undated.
Neat abstracts of accounts of the Public Revenue during the reign of King William III.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.11
Dates:
1688-1702, 1710-1714.
Neatly written abstract of the Inspector General’s accounts of English imports and exports.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.5
Dates:
1702-1703.
'New book for the use of the wright[s] of Dunfermline ... Bought the 15 day of Sep: 1724 Att the disire of the Tread James Walker present Deacon’, a book containing minutes of meetings of the Incorporation of Wrights of Dunfermline.
Item
Identifier: MS.3866
Scope and Contents
The minutes are in two series which have been foliated separately. The first series (folios 1-22) contains records of admissions to the Incorporation at various dates within the period 1677-1763. The second series (inverted folios 1-126) relates almost entirely to appointments of deacons, boxmasters, and other officers, and to audits of boxmaster’s accounts, 1724-1727, 1730-1832. Inverted folios 127-179 and 181-184 are blank, and inverted folio 180 contains a list of members who had 'been...
Dates:
1677-1832.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Notebook of accounts between James Byres and Patrick Moir.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13900
Content Description
Relates to Byres's stay in Rome.
Dates:
1790.
Notebook of Alexander Drysdale, containing material on trigonometry with calculations of heights and distances illustrated with drawings in watercolours.
Item
Identifier: MS.14286
Scope and Contents
One example is taken from Leith (folio 26). Also included are some sketch plans of property near Fergus, Ontario, farm accounts and miscellaneous notes, 1835-1838.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Notebook of Andrew Rule, a schoolmaster in Aberdeenshire.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.12
Scope and Contents
As well as teaching in a number or local schools, mostly in the parish of Glenmuick, Rule taught book-keeping, navigation and arithmetic to private pupils. His notebook includes accounts, lists of books, minutes of visits to the schools by the committee of the presbytery, and reflections on the events of the year. These last are mostly of a religious nature, but he mentions his own and his children`s affairs and (folio 48) the political events of 1745.
Dates:
1713-1755.
Notebook of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.17
Scope and Contents
(i) Note of decisions (folio 1).(ii) Note of expenses (folio 1 verso).(iii) Note of expenses in London, 1667 (Crawford, page 180) (folio 2).(iv) Note of expenses (folio 3).(v) Journal of travels in England and Scotland, 1667-1670 (Crawford, pages 167-204, omitting folios 39-40) (folios 4-46).(vi) Observations on Public Affairs, 1669-1670 (Crawford, pages 228-236) (folios 46-34).(vii) Accounts, 1670-1671 (Crawford, pages...
Dates:
1667-1676.
Notebook of Thomas Ruddiman, containing mainly details of his personal expenditure.
Item
Identifier: MS.5047
Scope and Contents
The notebook also includes accounts of money disbursed by Thomas Ruddiman as Assistant Librarian of the Advocates' Library.
Dates:
1702-1713.
Notebook signed 'John Halkerston', kept, apparently, by Lord Colvill of Ochiltree's factor.
Item
Identifier: MS.5290
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains notes of financial transactions, 1709-1719, and a separate account of 1768.
Dates:
1709-1719, 1768.
Notebooks belonging to John, 4th Earl of Loudoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5728-5729
Dates:
1750-1765.
Notes and a journal of Alexander Murray concerning the Douglas Cause.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.21
Scope and Contents
Notes, dated 30 November 1762, on the Douglas Cause by Alexander Murray (afterwards Lord Henderland, Senator of the College of Justice) (folio 1), and journal, December 1762-February 1763, of his visit to Paris in connexion with it (folio 1 inverted).
Dates:
1762-1763.
Office correspondence and accounts of Bell and Bradfute, booksellers and publishers, Edinbrugh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.317
Dates:
1771-1854.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.301
Dates:
1726-1888.
Papers, accounts, receipts and correspondence relating to the financial affairs of James Ballantyne and Co, and to Sir Walter Scott as partner in the firm, most being connected with John Gibson W.S., as solicitor to the Trustees.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12952
Dates:
circa 1825-1827.
Papers and correspondence of the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9872/1-178
Scope and Contents
Containing the correspondence, accounts and papers of three Caithness families, the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower. The papers span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The bulk of the papers relate to the Ulbster estates in Caithness, under the Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Williamson's and Captain David Henderson's respective factorships. There are letters relating to The Caithness Fencible Regiment and the Caithness Highlander...
Dates:
circa 1678-circa 1907.
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.