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Sederunt book, 1744-1748, of the Trustees of William Elliot.
With household accounts, 1760-1778.
Sederunt book of Trustees of John Macfarlane, possibly of Coneyhill.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.
Adv.MS.27.2.1-27.2.5 appear to have been arranged and bound in their present order in 1680.
Both the series Adv.MS.273.1-27.3.4 and Adv.MS.27.4.1-27.4.4 were collected in 1680.
Several arguments of all the twelve judges of England in the Court of Exchequer concerning the case of ship money.
Single manuscripts and small collections, presented at various times.
Six unrelated Scottish historical documents.
Sixty-three deeds, mostly relating to tenure of lands in North and South Kinkell.
Small miscellany of letters (probably a remnant from a large collection), mostly by John Farquharson, formerly President of the Scots College, Douai, to the Scottish antiquary and historian, George Chalmers.
There are also three copies, all in Farquharson`s hand, of a memorial concerning the college. The items do not appear to have been arranged in any obvious order.
Special retour of George Miller of Gourlaybank, an heir to George Sandilands, portioner of West Barns.
Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI, by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Contains three of the printed, interleaved copies which Lord Hailes issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks, with autograph notes by Lord Auchinleck, James Gordon, Advocate, and Hailes himself.
Statement of the case of the petitioners in the case of the 'Beacon' newspaper, in the hand of Walter Scott [?1821], with the printed 'Petition', 1821, and 'Answers' thereto, 1822.
Inserted at the beginning is an account of the circumstances in which Sir Walter Scott wrote this statement.
Style book of Alexander Duncan.
A collection of styles apparently written by Alexander Duncan, whose name is on the first page.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.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).
‘Tables to chancery reports’, a digest of cases in the Court of Chancery of England.
Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.
Ten legal documents, some relating to lands in Angus.
The deeds, charters and formal papers relating to the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance, and the formal legal and personal papers of Andrew Stuart, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, W.S.
Three deeds concerning the lands of Auchry and the family of Gordon of Gordonstoun.
Three documents of the Cockburn family.
Transcriptions and translations will be found in MS.2996(ff.14-37).
Three formal documents from the papers of Charles Herries, a merchant in London who was Colonel of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster.
Comprised of: a document certifying his bankruptcy, 1798; a declaration of trust granted to him, 1799; a probate of his will, 1819.
Three formal documents relating to George Smith and the firm of Smith, Elder and Company.
The documents relate to copyrights. A detailed list is available.