Showing Browse Resources: 1 - 13 of 13
Documents relating to the management and improvement of the estate of Ladykirk, Berwickshire.
Series
Identifier: MSS.998-999
Scope and Contents
Detailed schemes of inclosing, building, stocking, planting, and general work on the farm are described.
Dates:
1758-1784.
Financial journals of the Faculty of Advocates Widow’s Fund.
Series
Identifier: F.R.425-F.R.428
Dates:
1830-1939.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates:
1822-1936.
'Journal book of Francis Ronaldson Surveyor to the General Post Office Edinburgh.'
Item
Identifier: MS.10687
Scope and Contents
Francis Ronaldson was appointed Assistant Surveyor in 1786 and General Surveyor in 1789. His journal book records his many journeys throughout Scotland, inspecting and establishing post offices, investigating complaints, instructing postmasters, and making surveys for the extension of the mail coach services. It also includes his quarterly accounts of expenditure on these journeys. A watercolour caricature of Ronaldson and some biographical notes on him taken from John Kay, ‘A series of...
Dates:
1786-1814.
'Journal of the Management of the Coall and Salt Works of Prestongrange', 2 April 1748-24 November 1750.
Item
Identifier: MS.3720
Scope and Contents
The journal is preceded by a 'narrative of some part of the management of the said works' from 15 May 1745, a few days before the works were bought by William Grant, until 2 April 1748; with weekly coal bills from 9 August 1745 to 2 April 1748. Weekly salt bills for the same period are not given (see folio 16).The journal from 2 April 1748 (folio 16 verso) contains, in its earlier stages, a considerable amount of technical matter relating to mining. On the financial side, the...
Dates:
1745-1750.
Journals of the meetings of the Estates of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.9
Scope and Contents
The meetings began on 14 March 1689 in Edinburgh and the journals are complete to the adjournment on 24 May.
Dates:
1689.
Microfilm of ‘Cartae de Cella de Coldingham, in ecclesia Dunelmensi Conservatae’, 1702-1703; and, copy, 1828, of the account, 1568, of the adventures on the coast of Norway of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.351
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Cartae de Cella de Coldingham, in ecclesia Dunelmensi Conservatae’. An inventory, 1702-1703, of Coldingham Priory compiled by John Smith, prebendary of Durham (Adv.MS.15.1.13);Copy, 1828, of the account of his activities leading to his flight from Scotland in 1567 and his subsequent adventures on the coast of Norway composed by James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, in 1568, whilst he was confined at Copenhagen by order of the King of Denmark....
Dates:
1568, 1702-1703.
Microfilm of ‘Diurnall of the 2d parl: of our Soverainge Lord King Charles from the 15 day of Julay 1641 to ye 27 of November holden at Edinburghe’ by Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.541
Dates:
1641.
Microfilm of journal of the Calabar Mission of the United Presbyterian Church, kept by the Reverend Hope M Waddell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.931
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Journal, volume 1, January-June 1846 (MS.7739);
Journal, volume 7, 1846-1850 (MS.7740);
Journal, volume 8, April 1850-June 1851(MS.7741);
Journal, volume 10, September 1853-July 1855 (MS.7742);
Journal, volume 11, September 1855-September 1856 (MS.7743).
Dates:
1846-1856.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes' collection of Jacobite papers, volume 4.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1679
Dates:
1746-1775.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, volume 2.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.72
Dates:
1746-1775.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes's collection of Jacobite papers, volume 2.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1582
Dates:
1746-1775.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10283-10286
Dates:
1653-1804.