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Admirall decisions.
The manuscript comprises:
(i) `Decisions of the Lords of Session in Maritime cases ordine Alphabetico. [1662-1684].` (folios 4-19);
(ii) `Ane abbreviat of the Registers of the High Court of Admirality [of Scotland], 1613[-1673].` (folios 20-104)
Book of sederunt of the administrators of the charitable Contributions for the relief of the indigent Episcopal clergy and their widows.
The volume contains minutes of meetings, which were held at the Exchange Coffee House, Edinburgh, and the decisions of the administrators about requests for assistance, and lists (in three categories) the names of those to be assisted. The entries as far as 17 March 1758 (folio 16) are in the hand of William Gordon, bookseller, Edinburgh, who appears to have presented the volume to the Charity (folio 1).
‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
'Decisions of ye Court of Session by Lord Abes[]hill, wrote by himself'.
Durie`s `Decisions`, in two series: 11 July 1621-30 January 1630; 2 February 1630-20 July 1633.
The manuscript is of part of Durie`s ‘Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session’ and pre-dates the printed edition of 1690.
One folio has been lost after folio 1, and five after folio 8.
`Major Practicks` of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall.
Manuscript, 18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Auchinleck, Ld. Balmanno’s Practicks’.
Auchinleck was admitted an Ordinary Lord in 1626, and retained the position until his death in 1639. His practicks, arranged alphabetically, are unpublished.
Manuscript, ?1645-?1652, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Practickes and Decisions of the Lords of Sessione Observed and Collected be Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno, Knight, One of the ordinarie Lords of the Colledge of Justice`.
On folio 224 is written: `Jo: Wr[quhart] scripsit Apud Strathloch 8. octob. anno 1645`; and on folio 2: `Ex Libris Jacobi Gordon P.R. Anno 1652 Novris 13. J.B.R. D.D.` (James Gordon, Minister of Rothiemay, was a son of Robert Gordon of Straloch, the Geographer.)
Auchinleck was admitted an Ordinary Lord in 1626, and retained the position until his death in 1639. His practicks, arranged alphabetically, are unpublished.
Manuscript, mid 17th century, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Pratiques and Decisions of the Lords of Sessione observed and collected be Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno, Knight, One of the Ordinarie Lords of the Colledge of Justice.`
Manuscript of 3 legal works, written in a late 17th-century hand.
Manuscript of ‘Decisions of the Court of Session MDCCLXXXI-MDCCCXXII, in the Form of a Dictionary’, collected by David Hume when he was Professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh, arranged and prepared for publication when he was Baron of the Exchequer, and finally published posthumously in 1839.
The only difference from the published work is that the cases are not numbered continuously, but internally within each heading, and that there are no indexes (except for a fragment, Adv.MS.81.7.19, folio 207).
In the individual descriptions, the numbers of the cases (as in the published work), the headings, and the pages of the published work are given in that order.
Manuscripts of early laws, statutes, and practicks, written from the 15th to the early 17th centuries, and combined probably in the early 17th century.
’Practiques observed befor the Lords of Session from 1626 till 1638. Collected Alphabetically By S[ir] G[eorge] Au[chinleck, Lord Balmanno] With ane perfect index wher in what page each practique is to be found. Written in anno 1661 By A.G.`
The writer was possibly Archibald Gibson, admitted Writer to the Signet in 1661. For this work and the manuscripts of it see the catalogue entry for Adv.MS.6.1.7.