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A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.
Act of Admission of the Royal Company of Archers in favour of Robert Brown.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Charters and formal documents of the Graemes of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven, Perthshire.
Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly of General Sir George Brown, Knight Commander of the Bath, with those of other members of his family, residing at Linkwood, Elgin.
Documents from the collection of manuscripts of William Marshall and his family.
Comprised of: two commissions awarded to George Marshall, as Lieutenant in the Aberdeenshire Militia, 1803 and as Ensign in the 92nd Foot, 1805; genealogical tables, circa 1904, of the family of William Marshall from his father to his great-grandchildren. In the hand of David J Mackenzie, circa 1904, and to his great-great-great-great-grandchildren, by James C Batley, 1961, with notes in his hand in red ink, 1977.
Eighteenth-century copy of selected General Orders by Field-Marshal George Wade, 1744, and the Duke of Cumberland, 1745-1748.
The Duke of Cumberland's orders are arranged chronologically under various subject headings, of which the most important are: 'General and Staff Officers', 'Forrage and Forragers', 'Camp Duty and Regulations', 'March of the Army', 'Detachment Guards', 'Picquets', 'Signals at a Review', 'Exercise and Firing', and 'Regulation of Colours'.
Formal documents from the MacLeod of Geanies papers.
Formal documents from the papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Formal documents from the papers of John Hill Burton.
Further political and estate papers of the Anstruther-Gray family of Kilmany, Fife.
Comprising the political, military, and personal papers of Lt. Col. William Anstruther-Gray [formerly Anstruther-Thomson] and William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, with family estate records, hunting and game books, and photographs.
General Order Book of the Fife Regiment of Militia containing printed and manuscript War Office circulars addressed to the commanding officer of the regiment.
Several of the circulars are signed by Viscount Palmerston as Secretary-at-War, and Viscount Sidmouth as Home Secretary.
Journals, orders, letters and other papers of Lieutenant-General Hon Sir William Stewart relating to commands and service at home and abroad, and to the formation of the Rifle Brigade.
Acc.9074/1-61 consist of 61 bound volumes entitled 'The Cumloden Papers'.
Letter- and order-books of Admiral Sir George Berkeley kept during his service as commander-in-chief on the coast of Portugal.
Letter-book of Field-Marshal George Wade, when "Commander in Chief of all his Majesty's Forces, Castles, Forts and Barracks in North Britain".
Letter book of the 79th Foot in the Peninsular War, and standing orders of one of the Highland regiments.
Letter books of Admiral Charles Graham, containing copies of his official correspondence and (on the inverted folios) of his orders and memoranda.
Letters and papers of Captain the Honourable (afterwards Admiral Sir) Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Mess bills and other papers of the 1st Edinburgh Regiment of Militia.
Lewis Gordon, Deputy Secretary of the Highland Society of Scotland, was regimental quartermaster of the 1st Edinburgh Regiment of Militia.
Mess book of the Edinburgh Squadron of the Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry.
The mess book consists of the printed 'Mess Regulations' for each year, names of ‘Strangers’ and ‘Guests’ and by whom invited, and ‘names of troopers absent from Mess’.