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Annotated printed reports on the proposed scheme to provide for the widows of members of the Faculty of Advocates.
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`.
Copy of the 'Evidence taken before the Lords Committee' ... on the 'Act for making a railway from Glasgow to Crofthead ... to be called the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway'.
This manuscript relates specifically to objections to it raised by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr railway company, but also includes much evidence from local manufacturers as to the use they could make of the proposed line. The line was opened in 1848.
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
Legal papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case against William Blackwood, merchant in Edinburgh.
Minutes, letters, and accounts concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library regarding the proposal to build a new corridor.
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library, including inventories, petitions and accounts.
Miscellaneous papers, relating chiefly to lands and families of Angus, several accompanied by modern transcripts.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers concerning Widows Fund, Annuitants, Poor relief, and other financial papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning exemptions from Jury Service.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
Papers, printed and manuscript, relating to the claim of Colonel William Fullarton of Glenquich to the title and dignity of Lord Spynie.
Includes the remarks of Lord Hailes on the Spynie peerage case (folio 92), and copies of deeds relating to the lands of the Abbey of Lindores, 1592, 1736, 1738 and 1743 (folio 130).
Petitions and Answers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the admission of Robert Forsyth, teacher of civil law in Edinburgh.
Printed papers and manuscript notes by Lord Shand concerning the Free Church Appeal Case in the House of Lords.
The contents consist of Lord Shand’s copy of the House of Lords papers in the Free Church appeal case (The general assembly of the Free Church of Scotland and others v the Right Honourable John Campbell, Lord Overtoun and others), 1904, with his Lordships manuscript notes and the printed draft judgements of Lords Davey, Robertson, and Lindley.
Printed 'Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI', by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, interleaved, with autograph notes by Andrew Crosbie, Advocate.
This is one of the copies issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks.
Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI, by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Contains three of the printed, interleaved copies which Lord Hailes issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks, with autograph notes by Lord Auchinleck, James Gordon, Advocate, and Hailes himself.