Charters
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.196
Dates:
1641-20th century.
Papers of the Christies of Stenton.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10628
Scope and Contents
Includes charters, correspondence, legal papers and accounts.
Dates:
1597-1878.
Papers of the family of Cathcart of Cathcart, Lords and Earls Cathcart and Lords Greenock, including the papers of Major-General the Honourable Sir George Cathcart.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12686
Dates:
Late 14th century-circa 1905.
Papers of the family of Forbes and Stuart Forbes of Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.137- is now Acc.4796.
Dates:
1447-20th century.
Papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes of Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4796
Dates:
1447-1969
Papers of the Sutherland Estates relating to the management of the Estates and the personal and business affairs of the Sutherland family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.313
Dates:
13th century-1861.
Photocopy of inventory of the charters of the Maxwells of Monreith, compiled by Robert C Reid.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5597
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Photograph of a charter of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester.
File
Identifier: Acc.4256
Scope and Contents
Granting lands in East Lothian.
With notes of Grant G Simpson, on the charter.
Dates:
circa 1210.
Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.13
Scope and Contents
The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library. Only those documents not known from other sources are indexed in detail. The contents are as follows:(i) `Registra Coenobiorum de Melrose et Balmerino Impensis Walteri McFarlan de eodem Transcripta Anno MDCCXLII`, copied from Adv.MSS.34.4.11, late 13th century (folio 1), and 34.5.3, 14th century (folio 67), with extracts from Richard Augustine Hay on Melrose, 1700-1707, or after (folio 54; from...
Dates:
Late 13th century-1707, or after.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.3.1-37.3.15
Scope and Contents
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
1153-1249, ?1905, or after.
Selkirk Charters.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7611-7636
Scope and Contents
A collection of formal documents, mostly instruments of sasine and charters concerning properties in the town of Selkirk.
Dates:
1519-1696.
`Sir Lodovick Steuart of Kirkhill Advocat his Collectiones ... with Several Valuable Additions of charters andc ... out of the valuable Collectiones of Mr Richard Hay ... Ex Manuscriptis Roberti Mylne scribae ...`, a transcript of parts of Sir Lewis Stewart`s collections, compiled early in the 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.12
Scope and Contents
The volume, almost entirely in the hand of Mylne, begins (folio i verso) with an index (extra entries have been added later; those for the letters B, C, D, K and M continue on folio v verso, those for P on folio vi verso); there follows (page 1) a transcript of Stewart`s historical collections as in Stewart`s own manuscript (Adv.MS.22.1.14) with most of the additions found also in the transcript Adv.MS.34.3.11, and further additions, some not by Mylne; finally (page 352) come the transcripts...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
The deeds, charters and formal papers relating to the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance, and the formal legal and personal papers of Andrew Stuart, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, W.S.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.4549-4762
Dates:
1476-1790.
Three charters.
File
Identifier: Acc.4645
Scope and Contents
Concerning lands in Roxburghshire.
Dates:
1567, 1654, 1771.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732, and an essay entitled `The Superstitions of Perth`, 1788, by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.13.1.1-13.1.7
Scope and Contents
This is part i of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Scott`s transcribing work is interspersed with historical notices by him.
Dates:
1241-1732, 1788.
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.1-22.2.4
Dates:
?12th century-1st half of 16th century.
Transcripts of circa 100 charters granted to dependents by Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, and his son, Archibald, 1st Duke of Argyll.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7771
Dates:
1671-1698.
Volume consisting mostly of transcripts of medieval charters and other formal documents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.23
Scope and Contents
The transcripts are written on paper watermarked 1794.Most of the originals were written between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries and many were issued by the kings of Scotland and their relatives. Several documents relate to religious institutions: at folios 62-71 verso are transcripts of documents contained in the cartulary of Reading Abbey (British [Museum] Library Egerton MS 3031) relating to the priory of the Island of May. The volume, which is in the same hand...
Dates:
?12th century-?14th century.
Volume containing notes, copies and extracts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few extracts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.24
Scope and Contents
A large number of the sources used were at the Advocates` Library, and of these many had previously been in the possession of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms (for example, the charters (now in Adv.MSS.15.1.18 and 15.1.19) excerpted at folio 91, and what follows, and folio 263, and what follows, and the cartularies excerpted at folios 1-8, 22-33, 43-49 verso, 230 verso-274 verso), as had the manuscript (now British Library, Harl MS. 4693) once in his possession which is...
Dates:
Circa 1709-circa 1717.
Volume containing transcripts by Alexander Brown, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, of some early Scottish charters, with a few other writings.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.4
Scope and Contents
The volume appears to have been begun about 1780 and entries made until about 1787, but by far the greater part of the volume is blank. The contents are as follows:(i) transcript of instrument and protest of Sir Alexander Moray of Abercairnay, 7 December 1391 (page 1). Printed (from the original, then at Abercairney) in ‘Liber Insulae Missarum’, page xlix; see page xii.(ii) memorandum, 1781, concerning chapel in grounds of seat of Cockburn family at...
Dates:
Before 1172-1781.
Volume entitled (folio i) `Miscellania [sic] Scotica Curiosa Or A Collection of Curious, rare, and valuable Paper`s: Relating to Scotland, and Scots Affaires. Collected and Coppied, from the Originalls. by C:R:S:` containing transcripts of Scottish historical documents, extracts of manuscripts and copies of correspondence, from various sources, 1419-1731, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.18
Scope and Contents
The collection was compiled by Captain Robert Seton, Judge Advocate for Scotland, and consists of:(i) Copies of correspondence, 1566-1567, of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (folio 1) including two letters of Mary, Queen of Scots not recorded in Labanoff`s collection. The letters are similar to, but not the same as many of the letters in MS Calig CI from the Cottonian Library in the British Library: they may have been copied from the portion of the collection that was destroyed in the...
Dates:
1419-1731.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.24
Scope and Contents
The following dates of writing are given: 15 September 1712 (folio 2), 10 April 1713 (folio 76), 13 November 1712 (folio 80).The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year of God, 1691. With a copious relation of the siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in the year 1689. By W.S. An. 1691.` The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen...
Dates:
1338, circa 1670-1732.
Volume written in 1796 entitled `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.20
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of a collection of copies and extracts of charters and other formal documents dating from the early 14th to the early 18th century from the Register of the Great Seal and the Records in Chancery (folio 2), an appendix concerning certain Scottish peerages (folio 63 verso), a list of the Parliaments of England and of Great Britain (folio 96 verso), names of Scots Representative Peers who sat in the House of Lords in the 18th century (folio 97 verso), and an index to the...
Dates:
Early 14th century-18th century.