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Legal papers, 1901-1912, relating to the Trust of Mr Alexander Low Bruce and his African Estates.
Legal agreements, 1901-1912, relating to the Alexander Low Bruce Trust, and disposal and legal status of his African Estates.
Legal papers concerning property in Newhaven and Leith belonging to Marion Evanson and her Paterson descendants.
Legal papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Legal papers concerning the property of Silvermills, Edinburgh.
Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Law, Riddell, Vere and other families, and the sequestration of Henry Raeburn and Co, Leith.
Legal papers in the trial of Alexander Wilson for libel of William Henry, Silk-manufacturer, Newtown of Paisley, in his broadside poem ‘The Hollander’.
The papers are bound with the broadside poem 'The Hollander'.
Legal papers, maps and prospectuses, largely concerning a Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh canal, and the Slamannan Railway, Stirlingshire.
Legal papers of Professor Andrew Dewar Gibb, Queen`s Counsel, comprising case notes, opinions and related documents.
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.
Legal papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning parts of the process of Guthrie of Gellie and Fishers of Ayrshire.
Legal papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case against William Blackwood, merchant in Edinburgh.
Legal papers of the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.
Concerning Leith Links.
Legal treatise concerning to forms of process in Scottish criminal cases.
Letter, 1790, and memorial, undated, signed by James Bruce of Kinnaird.
James Bruce requests a reward for his services in giving advice on the possibility of an attack on Ferrol or Gascony and in exploring Barbary and the Nile, and describes his interviews with the authorities in London.
From the handwriting of the endorsement, the letter appears to have been addressed to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Letter book of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register.
The topics include the militia, suppression of riots in Glasgow, estate affairs, appointments in the Excise service and advice on points of law. The inverted pages contain opinions on legal cases.
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.
Letter-book of John Russell of Braidshaw, Writer to the Signet (adrnitted 1711), started in 1700 and continued until 1712, with an almost complete gap between December 1704 and January 1707, and another between November 1707 and May 1709.
The volume contains copies, drafts and summaries of his outgoing letters, and copies of legal and financial documents concerning himself and his sisters. Several letters are addressed to merchants and officials in Rotterdam (where his father had been a merchant) and in other parts of Holland.
Letter of William Fullarton.
Concerning his claim to the title of Lord Spynie, with notes of Lord Hailes on the case, and a printed "Additional Appendix to the Case...".
Letters and legal and business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.
The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.
Letters and legal documents of the Napier family of Merchiston.
A collection of 55 documents bound into a large volume, ca. 1900, where they are mostly mounted onto the pages. Items 1-29 are legal documents; 30-40 concern early 17th-century family matters; 41-50 concern domestic Scottish affairs during the reign of Charles I, and 51-55 relate to events in the reign of Charles II.
A list of the documents is kept with the volume.
Letters and memoranda, 1785-1794, written by the descendants of peers attainted in the 1715 Jacobite rising in an attempt to recover their titles and estates.
Most of the letters and memorandums, 1785-1794 are from the Earl of Mar, addressed apparently to the Earl of Seaforth (folios 13-67).
Also included are notes and copies of opinions, 1761-1820, on the succession to five peerages attainted in the 1715 and 1745 risings (folios 68-137), and miscellaneous notes, undated, on peerages (folios 1-12).
Letters and other documents concerning Scots and the West Indies.
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.