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Charters and formal documents of the Graemes of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven, Perthshire.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.15439-15440
Scope and Contents
Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.
Dates:
1680-1871.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...
Dates:
15th century.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Copies of royal edicts concerning Iceland, taken from a printed book of royal edicts and mandates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.3.5-21.3.7
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 19, No. 20, No. 21. Collectio variarum Regiarum Constitutionum and Mandatorum de rebus Islandicis præcipue tractantium.`
Dates:
18th century.
Copy, late 15th or early 16th century, of material, early 14th century-1364, concerning the Parlement de Paris.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.15
Scope and Contents
(i) List of contents (folio 1).(ii) Guillaume du Breuil, `Stylus curie Parlamenti` (folio 5). This manuscript was known to Félix Aubert who edited the ‘Stilus curie Parlamenti’ (Paris, 1909). It belongs to Aubert`s second family of manuscripts; chapter 25 follows chapter 21, and chapter 37 item 39 is omitted. There are many inaccuracies and the scribe made a number of additions in the margin.(iii) `Sequuntur ordinationes adiunctiones et statuta parlamenti` (folio...
Dates:
Late 15th or early 16th century.
Copy of decreet arbitral and decisions of the Court of Session (practicks).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.13
Dates:
1661-1663.
Decreet and contract of excambion between the 5th Duke of Roxburghe and the Minister of Roxburgh in respect of the land of the entailed estate of Roxburgh and of the glebe.
File
Identifier: Ch.2158-2159
Dates:
1820-1821.
Decreet of sale of the lands and Barony of Clackmannan and Sauchie by the creditors of David Bruce of Clackmannan in favour of Charles Craigingelt, alias Keirie of Woodside, 1705-1706, extracted from the books of Council and Session by Sir James Dalrymple, 1707.
Item
Identifier: Ch.944
Dates:
1705-1707.
Decreit of Improbation, Lord Ramsay against Lord Yester, Lord Buccleuch and many others, concerning the lordship and barony of Melrose, etc.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.21
Dates:
1619.
Extract decree in causa, The College of Justice v The Town of Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: F.R.35a
Dates:
1687.
Firman granted by the Mogul Emperor Shāh `Ālam, in 1802, conferring the dignity of Khān on Robert Wilson, surgeon in the service of the East India Company (1762-1822).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.11
Dates:
1802.
Incomplete collection (lacking original pages 1-2) of fair copies, with frequent calligraphic embellishments, of royal decreets and other formal documents relating to the administration of teinds (tithes) in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.21
Scope and Contents
The documents are copies of originals mostly from the period 1626 to 1643, but they include a commission, January 1678, granted by Charles II, and the copyist`s hand is characteristic of the late 17th century.
Dates:
1626-1643, 1678
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.
Letters concerning the Douglas Cause pasted into the published work 'The Case of Archibald Douglas' (1769).
Item
Identifier: Acc.14116
Scope and Contents
Contains two copies of letters, one in French, of letters written by Colonel Sir John Stewart regarding the birth of his children and their claim to the Douglas fortune.
A copy of the legal judgement and some notes in French have also been pasted into the volume.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1753 and 1769.
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 of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents
Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates:
1567-1596, and undated.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning James Sutherland.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/5
Dates:
1692-1808.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.17
Scope and Contents
The items of manuscript interest consist of presentation and other notes (numbers 26, 112), a poem (91) and a letter, 1711 (108), of Archibald Pitcairne; poems by Thomas Kincaid and Allan Ramsay (89, 92) and a poem (90) and notes in other contemporary hands (4, 5, 32, 45, 95, 102, 109); and notes and extracts (2, 3, 6, 39, 46a, 70, 88, 92a, 95a, 102a, 104) in Robert Pitcairn`s hand, and a copy by him, dated 1825, of a decreet of the Privy Council in favour of Archibald Pitcairne, 1700 (111)....
Dates:
1700, 1711.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13
Dates:
1563-1670 and undated.