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15 letters of Douglas Young to R E Muirhead.
File
Identifier: Acc.6401
Scope and Contents
With a copy of a petition on behalf of Douglas Young.
Dates:
1940-1959.
64 charters and documents, 1513-1773, of the Flemings of Wigtown.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10539
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1513-1860.
Charters and other formal documents of the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11339
Dates:
early 16th century to mid 19th century.
Circular letter and printed petition concerning Cecil Aylmer Cameron, convicted of attempted fraud.
File
Identifier: Acc.9753
Dates:
? 1913.
Collection of 25 papal bulls, 1156 or 1158-1555, and a petition to the Pope, 1542x1561, with original binding.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.19
Scope and Contents
Of the bulls, numbers 1-2, 4-7, 11-13, 17-23, and 25 concern the Bishopric and/or the Church of St Andrews; numbers 3, 8, 10, and 14 Dunfermline Abbey; number 9 the ransom of David II; number 15 the erection of the Collegiate Church of Seton; and numbers 24 and 26 appointments to the benefices of Cruden and Largo. Number 16 is a petition for indulgences on behalf of Henry Lauder, advocate of Mary Queen of Scots. The majority are of the thirteenth century. A more detailed...
Dates:
1156 or 1158-1542x1561.
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.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
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`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
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.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.17
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
May-June 1639.
Copy of a petition of debarred advocates, said to have been prepared by Sir George Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.20
Dates:
1675.
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.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11570
Dates:
1998.
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.7194
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) A list, circa 1642, of the cannon belonging to the Marquess of Argyll (folio 2);(ii) Business correspondence and papers, circa 1653-1669, of Sir James Lamont and Archibald Lamont of Stilaig, his brother, including some draft petitions of Sir James to the English commissioners in Scotland, claiming restitution for injuries inflicted on himself and his family by the Marquess of Argyll (folio 4);(iii) Business correspondence...
Dates:
1640-1893.
Deeds and printed petitions concerning the Crawford family.
File
Identifier: Acc.11351
Dates:
1586-1830.
Deeds and printed petitions concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11350
Dates:
1619-1845.
Deeds and printed petitions concerning the Minto family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11349
Dates:
1745-1922.
Deeds, printed petitions, vouchers and accounts concerning the families of Lockhart of Lee and of Hay of Tweeddale.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11348
Dates:
1599-1819.
Formal documents from the papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8896-8907
Dates:
1805-circa 1852.
Genealogical and legal papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.13
Scope and Contents
(i) Copy of `Appeal to the House of Lords, George Udny v. John Henry Allat or Udny and William Skinner: Supplemental Joint Appendix [list of interlocutors in the case and genealogical tree of the family of Udny of Udny]’, London, 1866. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) Printed list of witnesses in the trial of Thomas Hardy, indicted for High Treason, 1794. The names of the witnesses are annotated, e.g. `L.C.S.` [London Corresponding Society], `informer`, etc. (Folios 12-15.)(iii)...
Dates:
1794-1866.
Historical papers formerly belonging to the antiquary Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.1
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern events in Scotland from 1637 to 1652, and include copies of acts, proclamations, petitions, etc. The subjects include the service book, the National Covenant, teinds, and the College of Justice. There is also a copy of ‘Irene’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden (folio 213). A list has been inserted of those items which have been published.There are a few notes by Mylne, identifying some of the papers. His instructions for binding the collection and his...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Jacobite letters and papers assembled by Donald Louis Nicholas.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8611
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Pretenders and members of their families, and the Risings of 1715 and 1745.The letters are as follows:1. Letter 17 June 1709 of Prince James Francis Edward, The Old Pretender, to Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Duc de Villars, meréchal de France.2. Letter 28 July 1709 of Mary of Modena, Queen Consort of James II, King of Great Britain.3. Letter 4 May 1711 of The Old Pretender to the Duc de Villars.4. Letter 13 June...
Dates:
1709-1793, 1821, 1824 and undated.
Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.622-632
Scope and Contents
These papers are in continuation of MS.535.
The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.
Dates:
1804-1857.
Letters, chiefly of the first two Viscounts Melville and other Dundases.
File
Identifier: MS.3834
Scope and Contents
Many of the letters appear to have been addressed to John Wauchope, Writer to the Signet. Those of the 1st Viscount Melville are mainly drafts. The letters deal, among other matters, with family affairs, Scottish politics and appointments, the defence of Scotland, the affairs of the sons of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, and work done by Sir Francis Chantrey. Other papers include a draft petition in the name of the Scottish Representative Peers against the Bill for abolishing their election,...
Dates:
1719, 1771-1820, undated.
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).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Microfilm of papal bulls, 1156 or 1158-1555, and a petition, 1542x1561, to the Pope; and, Bills, 1819, 1822-1825 accepted by Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.354
Dates:
1156 or 1158-1542x1561, 1819-1825.
Miscellaneous documents and letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.35
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers connected with the reduction of the process of forfeiture of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, William Douglas, Earl of Angus, and Francis Hay, Earl of Errol, 1597. See also Ch.B.40, and ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, volume iv, pages 124-130. (Folio 1.)(ii) Mock petition to the Lords of Session, in verse, beginning:`The Humble Petition of Mr Robert Cook,Having lost all His Means in following his...
Dates:
1597-1752.