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“Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee nation, who died in 1775.
Collection of papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Copies of memorials, 1786-1788, addressed by the Carron Company to Sir Thomas Dundas as arbiter, claiming repayment of water lost to them through the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Copies of reports of the Carron Company's inspectors, 1772, ?1775, and of George Whitworth, for the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, 1785, 1788, are included.
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
Legal papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Legal papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case against William Blackwood, merchant in Edinburgh.
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.
Material in the process brought by Matthew Sharp of Hoddam, reviving one started by John Sharp of Hoddam in 1712, with a view to dividing the common lands of Ecclefechan and Hoddam.
Memorials, minutes, &c., of the sheriffs substitute of Scotland, relating to increases in the scale of their salaries.
Includes printed material.
Memorials received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
The contents are as follows:
(i) ‘Memorial representing ... the necessity of continuing the present duties on foreign linen and the bounties ... by the committee of the ... dealers in linen in the shire of Forfar’, etc., 1788; with a letter of George Dempster of Dunnichen, MP, supporting the memorial, 1788 (folio 1);
(ii) Memorial respecting the necessity of signing the oath of allegiance in Scotland, 1791 (folio 12).
Microfilm of “Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee Indians, who died in 1775.
Microfilm of documents concerning the Highlands of Scotland, including a history of the Macdonalds.
Microfilm of transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
The papers include: Minutes, Reports, Complaints 1739-1867. including those of J Hill Burtin, 1844 and 1867.