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Register of criminal proceedings in the bailie-court of the Canongate.
‘A collection of a few proceedings and pleadings in criminal prosecutions in the Court of the Baillie of the Regality of Canongait’.
Register of donations to the Faculty of Advocates.
Volume commencing 1683 containing a Register of Donations and other materials for a catalogue, including an Index Materiarum. At the beginning is Sir George Mackenzie's Inaugural Address, 1 March 1689. Pasted on the flyleaf is an original Minute of a Committee of Faculty, 1687, anent the making of a Catalogue, signed bu Mackenzie and others (Mackenzie was Dean 1682-1690).
Register of members and contributions to the Free Church congregation in Sutherland.
Register of official letters and writs of Charles I, sent by William Alexander, later Earl of Stirling, in his capacity of Secretary of State for Scotland.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.3.23.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Register of letters and writs from 26 January 1626 to 8 July 1627 (page 1);
(ii) Register of letters and writs from 22 January 1615 to 20 February 1616 (page 193);
(iii) Register of writs, chiefly undated, and styles (page 205).
Register of official letters and writs of Charles I, sent by William Alexander, later Earl of Stirling, in his capacity of Secretary of State for Scotland.
The letters are not in strict chronological order. Folios 3-97 contain letters of 1626-1627; folios 97-143, letters of 1630-1635; and folios 144-372 also letters of 1630-1635. They are preceded by forms of address of various officials (folio 1).
Register of readers tickets expired at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Register of royal commissions, 2 November 1630-28 June 1642, under the signet, by authority of the Privy Council.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.3.22.
Register of seat rent in Lady Glenorchy`s Church, Edinburgh.
Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel.
Register of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables.
‘A noble and memorable register of all estates of nobilite created or restored sithence the conquest, etc., and of such nobles as were when the land was conquered by the Normanes’ with pedigrees and heraldic blazons. It endeth about the fortieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.17).
Register of title deeds, undated, produced by landowners in Argyll.
‘Register or double of protections’, a collection of writs passing the Royal Signet.
A register or collection of copies of writs passing the Royal Signet and sign manual, consisting of protections, relaxations, exemptions from the host, licences, commissiary, supersederes, dispensations, etc., from January 1586 till May 1588.
Registers of donations to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Registers of new publications sent to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Registers of private examiners for the Faculty of Advocates.
Registers of proceedings of curators and keepers of the Advocates' Library, chiefly in the handwriting of Thomas Ruddiman.
The registers contain full lists of books bought and recieved from Stationers' Hall.
Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.
"Rental of all the Land Estates in Scotland Advertised to Sell or Sett", and rentals and accounts of the estate of Hallyairds.
‘Report on Arrangement of Abbotsford Papers by Alexander Orrock, Junior [bookbinder] October, 1875’, a list of the manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott received from Abbotsford, indicating those which have been bound, etc.
Several of the manuscripts listed are now in the National Library.
Reports of the curators and of various committees of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.
'Roll of Beadsmen or Bluegowns’ in Scotland.
The roll, 1830-1863, states that ‘Each man receives one penny for every year of the King’s life’ (folio ii). James Penman, the last of the Bedesmen, is mentioned throughout, and his death in 1864 is recorded (folio 31 verso).
"Roll of Members of the Auld Callants Club Instituted 1834", includes amendments.
Roll of Scottish troops in the Swedish service, being photographs of selected pages of a manuscript volume in the Krigsarkiv in Stockholm, entitled "Militiehuvudbok över värvade trupper, 1630".
The photographs are of folios 51, 56-57, 71-72, 74-77, 79-87, 91, 93, 96, 98-101, 105-141, 209, and 241-250 of the original 'Militiehuvudbok ...', which is described in the catalogue of the Gustavus Adolphus Exhibition in Stockholm, 1932, as follows: ‘No. 444. A detailed list of all the enlisted troops, mainly of Scottish and German origin, who appear in the Swedish armies’.