Charters.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents, usually sealed, granting specific rights, setting forth aims and principles of a newly established entity, and often embodying formal agreements and authorizing special privileges or exemptions. (AAT) This term was not used in the NLS published catalogues. Lists or calendars of charters were indexed under the more general term 'Writs'. (NLS) .
Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:
Notes and letters on the genealogy of the Douglas family of Springwood Park including transcripts of charters and notes on other families related by marriage to the Douglases., 1739-1875, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8107
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Most of these notes and letters were collected by Sir George H Scott-Douglas in preparation for the printing of the family's pedigree (MS.8109).
Dates:
1739-1875, undated.
Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart in Scotland., 4th quarter of 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8298-8300
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Correspondence, notes, drafts and memoranda concerning the genealogical researches of Andrew Stuart for his ‘Genealogical history of the Stewarts’, and other works.
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart.
Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, examined for genealogical purposes in the Register Office, the Advocates’ Library and other official repositories in Scotland by Andrew Stuart., 4th quarter of 18th century.
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Identifier: MS.8298
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of material examined in the Register office begin on folio 1; those of material in the Advocates' Library on folio 210), and other official repositories.
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart.
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Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart in Scotland.
Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, in the possession of private families and individuals in Scotland, examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart., 4th quarter of 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.8299
Scope and Contents
Includes notes on material in the possession of the Stuarts of Castlemilk, the Dukes of Hamilton, and the Dukes of Queensberry.
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart.
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Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart in Scotland.
Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from Scottish charters, other legal documents, and books, of which the ownership is not indicated, examined for genealogical purposes in Scotland by Andrew Stuart., 4th quarter of 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.8300
Scope and Contents
Notes from some printed sources are also included.
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart.
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Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart in Scotland.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers collected by Sir Walter Scott concerning the Border district., 1326-1828, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.903
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of copies of charters and other documents, relating to families (Haig, Scott of Raeburn, Scott of Buccleuch, Haliburton, Dalgleish, etc.) and lands of the district.
Dates:
1326-1828, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning antiquarian matters chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Papers of and concerning Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great., 1690-[1904, or before].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5162-5163
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Although with the Paul Papers through the family connection with the Erskine Murrays these papers are to be considered complementary to the Erskine Murray Papers.
Dates:
1690-[1904, or before].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Correspondence and papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Assorted papers of and concerning the family of Erskine of Alva.
Papers of the Douglas family used by the Hamilton lawyers in the Douglas Cause lawsuit, apparently to establish the principle of the Douglas succession., 1321-1707, 1712, 1761-1762.
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Identifier: MS.5350
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Inventories, 1712, 1761, of Douglas papers in the Douglas charter chest and elsewhere. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies and extracts, 1761-1762, of Douglas charters, 1321-1633. Many of these were printed from the originals by Sir William Fraser in ‘The Douglas book’, volume iii; only those charters not printed in this work have been indexed. (Folio 44.)(iii) Copies and extracts, 1761-1762, of Douglas deeds and writs, 1588-1707. (Folio...
Dates:
1321-1707, 1712, 1761-1762.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
Papers of the Edinburgh Branch of the British Deaf and Dumb Association., 1947-1996.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13643/133-137
Scope and Contents
The British Deaf and Dumb Association was founded in Leeds in 1890. In 1971 it became known as the British Deaf Association.
Dates:
1947-1996.
Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
File
Identifier: MS.20988
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Legal documents and correspondence, 1488-1789 (folio 1); (ii) Notes, ?1786-1821, on legal cases (folio 33); (iii) Genealogical papers, 1707-1731, undated (folio 65); (iv) Poetry, 18th century-19th century, including an early copy, dated 1734, of Allan Ramsay's poem, 'The Thimble' (folio 93); (v) Notes, undated, by George Crawfurd, the antiquary, and a translation of a charter, 1748, by Thomas Ruddiman (folio 107).
Dates:
1488-1821, undated.
Sasines and charters of Easterseat of Foulshields in favour of the Carmichael family., 1671-1681.
File
Identifier: Acc.9843/13
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Dates:
1671-1681.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters, instruments and other formal and legal documents concerning the lands of Foulshields, in the parish of Livingston, the Wardrop family, and other related families.
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Formal and legal documents relating to various families and the lands of Foulshields.
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Formal and legal documents relating to the Carmichael family and lands of Foulshields.
Scrapbook whose contents include photographs of Borthwick castle, several family photographs, watercolour paintings of frescos at Pompeii, and engraved facsimiles of early charters., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.10483
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
Late 19th century.
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Transcript of the 'Chronicon de Melross';
(ii) Relationes Arnaldi Blair;
(iii) 'Extracta de MS. D. Gul. Cunninghaim de rebus gestis Gul. Vallæ', 1296;
(iv) Dr. Jamieson’s notes upon the ‘Chronicon de Melross’;
(v) Three letters of Queen Mary extracted from a Roman Manuscript;
(vi) Dr Jamieson’s observations on Melville’s Memoirs and on Bede;
(vii) Off the revenue or patrimony of the Crown;
(viii) Bull of Pope Urban Vth Contra Magnqs Societates;
(ix) A Charter...
Dates:
Late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS’, a collection of copies of Scottish historical documents, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts C’., 17th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.20
Scope and Contents
A volume of miscellaneous collections consisting among others of:
(i) A copy of instructions and letters, 1539-1543, of Sir Ralph Sadler;
(ii) A bulky and ill arranged collection of copies of charters to Scotch religious houses and Bishopricks (namely: Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Cambuskenneth, Melrose, Dunfermline, Coldingham, Trinity College of Edinburgh, Dunbar, Lindores, Haddington and Corstorphine), taken from the Chartularies of Aberdeen, St. Andrews (then in hands of H. Maule and formerly...
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Transcript of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’: a copy of Adv.MS.33.3.25 (page 1);‘Addenda ex exemplari Anglico impresso’ (page 41);The ‘Relationes Arnaldi Blair’ copied from Adv.MS.35.6.10 (page 44);‘Addenda alia e chronico Melrosensi impresso’ (page 51);Copies of letters, 1563, of Queen Mary to the Council of Trent in Latin, and to the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Pope in Italian (page 65);...
Dates:
12th century-1683.
Transcript of Asser's ‘De rebus gestis Aelfredi’ and 'The appendix to the collection of the historie of England'., 11th century-1403.
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Identifier: MS.5736
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Transcript, late 16th century, of Asser's 'De rebus gestis Aelfredi', from the library of John, Lord Lumley. The unique eleventh century manuscript, Cotton Otho.A.Xll, was in the Lumley Collection before passing into the Cotton Collection and being burnt in 1731; The present manuscript seems to have been copied from this manuscript or a transcript of it, and then collated with Archbishop Parker's printed edition of 1574. See Stevenson, W H....
Dates:
11th century-1403.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.186-194
Dates:
1241-1732.
Transcripts, early nineteenth century, of charters of the Earls of Morton.
File
Identifier: MS.1016
Scope and Contents
From the watermark, these transcripts appear to have been made in H M Register House early in the 19th century.
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
File
Identifier: MS.1018
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.
Dates:
1382-1642, undated.
Transcripts, mid 18th century, of miscellaneous charters, [circa 1174]-1755, made by copyists of Walter Macfarlane.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.25
Scope and Contents
Among the transcripts are charters of the following:
Sinclair, Lauder, Stirling, Pitcairn, Lundin, Kenmore, Forlie, Mortoun, Churches of Crichtoun, Holyrood, Kynloss.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.4.29.
Dates:
[Circa 1174]-1755.
Transcripts, nineteenth century, and a typed copy thereof, of some of the charters and other formal documents, 1397-1731, of the Stuart family of Torrance., 1397-1731.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8247-8249
Dates:
1397-1731.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Transcripts, nineteenth century, of some of the charters and other formal documents, 1397-1731, of the Stuart family of Torrance., 1397-1731.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8247-8248
Dates:
1397-1731.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Transcripts, nineteenth century, and a typed copy thereof, of some of the charters and other formal documents, 1397-1731, of the Stuart family of Torrance.
Transcripts, nineteenth century, of some of the charters and other formal documents, 1397-1731, of the Stuart family of Torrance., 1397-1668.
File
Identifier: MS.8247
Dates:
1397-1668.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Transcripts, nineteenth century, and a typed copy thereof, of some of the charters and other formal documents, 1397-1731, of the Stuart family of Torrance.
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Transcripts, nineteenth century, of some of the charters and other formal documents, 1397-1731, of the Stuart family of Torrance.