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Assorted administrative papers of Yes Musselburgh, and of the Musselburgh and District Branch, Scottish National Party, relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, collected by Nan Proudfoot.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13682/1-2
Scope and Contents

The papers include minutes of meetings, campaign strategy documents, newsletters, financial reports, and other documents.

Dates: 2012-?2014.

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.

Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27287-27373
Scope and Contents

Nancy Brysson Morrison was the sister of Margaret M Morrison, who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost', and T J Morrison, the novelist and script-writer. As well as publishing under her own name, she wrote numerous romances under the pseudonym 'Christine Strathern' between 1942 and 1959, but they are not represented among these papers.

Dates: 1918-1986, undated.

Manuscript containing minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804) and letter book, 1816-January 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet, and father-in-law of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy).

 File
Identifier: MS.20758
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors (guardians, curators) of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804). As well as the record of their discussions on estate business, the minutes include copies of letters, a report, 1806, by Robert Reid, surveyor, Perth (folio 13 verso), and statement of accounts, 1806 (folio 21 verso). (ii) Letter-book, May, 1816-January, 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet...
Dates: 1804-1817.

Papers of and concerning Deacon Brodie.

 File
Identifier: MS.3284
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Statement of Deacon Brodie's affairs (folio 1);Letter of Captain John Dent, of the ship in which Deacon Brodie attempted to escape, recommending 'Mr. John Dixon' (Brodie) to a friend at Ostend (folio 3);Report of Groves, messenger-at-arms, on his visit to Ostend in pursuit of Brodie in June (folio 5);Draft of a statement, pleading guilty, which George Smith intended to make, said to be in Smith's hand (folio 9);...
Dates: 1788.

Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates: 1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.

Records of the Amalgamated Slaters` Society of Scotland.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.124- is now Acc.4707.

Records of the service of the Home Guard (formerly Local Defence Volunteers).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3816-3822
Scope and Contents

The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.

Dates: 1940-1945.

'Rentall of my Lord Semple his whole estait both of stok and teynd as the lands now presentlie payeis as follows', 1644.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3934
Scope and Contents

The statement, which may have been drawn up on the succession of Francis, 6th Lord Sempill, to his father Hugh, gives the rentals of the Barony of Glassford in Lanarkshire and lands in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, with the names of the tenants.

On folio 8 verso is an authority given by the Earl of Winton and other friends of the house to William ?Houie to uplift the rents, 7 March, 1645.

Dates: 1644-1645.

Signed statements by George Leslie, Burgess of Edinburgh, that he has subscribed the National Covenant (1638), Solemn League and Covenant (1643), and renewed Solemn League and Covenant (1648).

 Item
Identifier: MS.1656
Scope and Contents

The signed statements are written at the end of the printed Covenants, which are bound in one volume bearing the initials G L on the binding.

Dates: 1638-1648.

Small collections and single letters.

 File
Identifier: MS.3813
Scope and Contents The contents include:letters signed by the Earl of Arran as Regent in favour of John Mure of Rowallan, 1551;orders to the authorities of Ayrshire to keep order, with special reference to the rescue of the Covenanter David Houston, 1688;a statement regarding the conduct of the Earl Marischal on the death of Queen Anne at Sheriffmuir, 1768;letters of Sir James Hall, chiefly to Dr Alexander Marcet, 1804-1813;papers relating to Gretna...
Dates: 1551-1923.

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.

 File
Identifier: MS.126
Scope and Contents

Inserted at the beginning is an account of the circumstances in which Sir Walter Scott wrote this statement.

Dates: 1821-1822.

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Amalgamated Slaters' Society of Scotland 1
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Dunbar, family, of Mochrum 1
National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks, Edinburgh branch, -1946 1