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15 letters of Douglas Young to R E Muirhead.
With a copy of a petition on behalf of Douglas Young.
64 charters and documents, 1513-1773, of the Flemings of Wigtown.
With, 16 charters, 1592-1693, of the Earls Marischal
petition, 1746, of David Carmichael of Maudsley to sell entailed lands
four deeds, 1813-1860, concerning property in Sierra Leone.
Charters and other formal documents of the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Circular letter and printed petition concerning Cecil Aylmer Cameron, convicted of attempted fraud.
Collection of 25 papal bulls, 1156 or 1158-1555, and a petition to the Pope, 1542x1561, with original binding.
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.
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`.
Contemporary copies of state papers, concerning the negotiations between Charles I and the Covenanters, which led up to the Pacification of Berwick and the Covenanters` protestation of 1 July.
Also included are the petition of the Scots living in Ireland to the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland, 1639 (folio 9), and an incomplete treatise `A distinction betweene the Ecclesiasticall Lawe and the Common Lawe`, undated (folio 18).
Copy of the petition to the Secretary of State for Scotland (Donald Dewar) in favour of the Calton Hill site for the Scottish Parliament and opposing the choice of Holyrood Road.
Deeds and printed petitions concerning the Crawford family.
Deeds and printed petitions concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.
Deeds and printed petitions concerning the Minto family.
Deeds, printed petitions, vouchers and accounts concerning the families of Lockhart of Lee and of Hay of Tweeddale.
Formal documents from the papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice.
Genealogical and legal papers.
Historical papers formerly belonging to the antiquary Robert Mylne.
Jacobite letters and papers assembled by Donald Louis Nicholas.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Miscellaneous documents and letters.
Orkney genealogies and anecdotes `collected by Robert Nicolson who served as Sheriff Substitute of Orkney from 1793 to 1814 inclusive`.
Papers concerning the 10th and 11th Earls of Selkirk and the Selkirk peerage.
Papers concerning the Society of Writers to His Majesty`s Signet.
The papers include copies of acts and proposals to prevent abuses within the Society, 1666-1699 (folio 3); a declaration of loyalty to William III, 1701 (folio 19); and petitions to the Society, 1699-1733 (folio 21).
Papers mostly concerning the prosecution and imprisonment of John Cameron of Fassifern.
Papers of the "Keep Our Scottish Battalions" Campaign.
Petition against entry to the European Economic Community, organized by the Edinburgh Regional Council of the Scottish National Party.
With circa 21000 signatures.