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Two manuscripts bound together, containing the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.14
Scope and Contents The first part, sections (i)-(xv), contains the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, written by G H about the middle of the 15th century; the second, sections (xvii)-(xxi), contains the burgh laws, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, in Scots, written at the same period. Sections (xxii)-(xxiii) are a slightly later addition. Section (xvi) is an 18th-century copy.(i) `Leges et consuetudines quatuor...
Dates: 14th century-15th century.

Typed transcripts, 1956-1957, concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose in the period 1455-1710.

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Identifier: Acc.3566/1-2
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Comprising typed transcripts of the town council minutes and burgh count books of the Burgh of the Chanonry of Ross, 1647-1658, and the Burgh of Fortrose, 1674-1710, and of charters and other deeds concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose, 1455-1661.

Dates: 1956, 1957.

Valuations of parishes in Perthshire.

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Identifier: MS.9841
Scope and Contents

The parishes are listed under presbyteries. On folio 25 is a list of 'weeklie stent of excise on ilk paroch in perthshyre', followed by a summary of the valuations. The first page is missing. A later note in shorthand on the inside of the front cover is dated 7 April 1696.

Dates: 17th century.

Volume, compiled 1752, of the ‘Attorney General`s Opinions` on English excise cases, 1672-1707.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.2.2
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The collection is said by John Maule of Inverkeilor, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, to have been `Copyed from a Book in the excise Office at Edinburgh and gifted to me by the Commissioners of Excise`. The case opinions are arranged chronologically and refer almost entirely to duties, allowances and other regulations on spirits, beer, cider, perry and vinegar. Entries from page 197 postdate the Union of 1707.

Dates: 1672-1707.

Volume consisting chiefly of caricatures, 1875-1879, by Lord Archibald Campbell, son of the 8th Duke of Argyll.

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Identifier: MS.7195
Scope and Contents John Francis Campbell of Islay, Gaelic scholar and government official, George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Lord Colin Campbell, Member of Parliament for Argyll, are frequently featured. The volume includes an answer to a petition, ?1681, by the Earls of Erroll and Strathmore, and a list of debts, 1681, due by Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll. There are also two letters of Lord Archibald Campbell, one of J F Campbell of Islay, and a Gaelic poem, 1685, on Archibald, 9th...
Dates: 1681-1879.

Volume containing copies of legal opinions (mostly of Robert Blair of Avontoun as Solicitor General), and of other legal letters and papers (some printed) on various topics.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.8
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A letter is tipped in at folio 20, copies of legal papers are tipped in at folios 76 and 114, and printed legal papers are tipped in and pasted in at folios 29 and 32 verso respectively; folios 85-113, 116-120 are blank.

Dates: 1746, 1798-1824.

Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.

Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.2
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Part of a speech to the English Parliament on the financial affairs of James I, probably by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, ?1610 (folio 1).(ii) Copy, dated 1613, of Salisbury`s speech to Parliament, 15 February 1610. For summaries, see ‘A Life of Robert Cecil’, pages 297-299, and ‘Parliamentary Debates in 1610’, pages 1-9 (folio 4).(iii) Notes on rumoured preparations by Catholic forces, by Mr Foster,...
Dates: Late 16th century-17th century.

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Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
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Anderson, Andrew, surgeon, fl 1804-1853 1
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Brander, Michael (writer) 1
Bruce, Alexander Low, Deputy-Chairman of William Younger and Company, brewers, 1839-1893 1
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Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 1
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Gower, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-, 2nd Duke of Sutherland 1
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