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Claims. Legal documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: To demand what is due. Where a proprietor insists for what belongs to them against the person witholding it, they are said to make a claim. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'. 7th edition.

Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:

Letters and papers concerning the claims of Colonel James Seton, Robert Seaton and Archibald William, 13th Earl of Eglinton, to the Earldom of Winton., 1824-1826, 1840, and undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.25-26.1.26A
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1824-1826, 1840, and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Letters and papers concerning the claims of Colonel James Seton, Robert Seaton and Archibald William to the Earldom of Winton., 1824-1826, 1840 and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.25
Scope and Contents

Memorial, undated, for Colonel James Seton (folios 1-6); letters, 1824-1826, of Robert Seaton, a saddler in Bellingham, concerning his claim to the Earldom of Winton, with papers on behalf of Archibald William in opposition to Seaton's claim (folios 7-65); and, papers, 1840, of Archibald William in his own claim to the title (folios 66-246).

Dates: 1824-1826, 1840 and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Letters and papers concerning the claims of Colonel James Seton, Robert Seaton and Archibald William, 13th Earl of Eglinton, to the Earldom of Winton.

Letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1806.

 File
Identifier: MS.11280
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Copies of dispatches and enclosures of the Bengal Government to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, May-June 1806 (folio 1); (ii) Letters and papers, 1806, concerning claims on the East India Company by Benjamin Lacam, Lady Jane Jodrell, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Sentleger, the estate of William Burke, Robert Townsend Farquar, and Walter Farquar (folio 94); (iii) Copy of a minute by the 1st Earl of Minto, as President of the Board of Control,...
Dates: 1806.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto chiefly as President of the Board of Control.

Letters and papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto at the Board of Control., February-April 1806.

 File
Identifier: MS.11276
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: February-April 1806.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto chiefly as President of the Board of Control. / Letters and papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto at the Board of Control.

Letters and papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto at the Board of Control., May-July 1806.

 File
Identifier: MS.11277
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: May-July 1806.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East. / Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto chiefly as President of the Board of Control. / Letters and papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto at the Board of Control.

Letters, papers and printed items relating to claims to the Earldom of Winton., 1824-1826, 1840, and undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.25-26.1.27
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1824-1826, 1840, and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

List of claims for compensation against the Deeside Railway by tenants on the Pitfodels estate., 1852.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19989, folios 125-134
Dates: 1852.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.

Manuscript draft, 1835 (folios 1-19), and printed copy (bearing numerous marginalia by John Riddell) of ‘The Case of Robert Barclay Allardice of Urie and Allardice claiming the title of Earl of Airth’ (no place of publication, no date) (folios 21-26), with a printed “Pedigree of the family of Robert Barclay Allardice, Esquire”, 1837, (folio 20)., 1835, 1837, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.1, folios 1-26
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1835, 1837, and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Papers in the claim to the Earldom of Airth by Robert Barclay Allardice of Ury and Allardice (died 1854).

Memorial, 1830, excerpts from charters under the Great Seal and memoranda, undated, in the claim of John F M Erskine, Earl of Mar (succeeded 1828) to the Earldom of Kellie (folios 1-68), and draft petition with answers, 1836, and various papers, undated, in the claim to titles and dignities of George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly (folios 69-153)., 1830, 1836, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.17
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1830, 1836, and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Memorial and Claim for the Trustees of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, on the estate of Hugh Seton of Touch., [Circa 1805.]

 File
Identifier: MS.19206
Dates: [Circa 1805.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and legal papers of Hugh Seton of Touch, formally Smith, Archibald Seton, 13th of Touch, and Barbara Seton, 14th of Touch.

"Memorial for Clementine Fleming claiming the title of Countess of Wigtown, 1817", apparently a copy or a transcript of the claim made in 1779 by Clementine, Lady Elphinstone, née Fleming., 1779.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.21
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.

Dates: 1779.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection.

Memorial for William Alexander (Surveyor-General of the Province of New Jersey, afterwards a major-general in the American Army), claiming the title of Earl of Stirling., 1759.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.19
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.

Dates: 1759.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection.

Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates: 1532-18th century, and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.

 File
Identifier: MS.19989
Dates: 1815-1907.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Miscellany, mostly of drafts of papers, some incomplete, relating to the claim by David Maitland Makgill Crichton of Rankeillour to be served heir male general to James, 1st Viscount Frendraught., Circa 1827, circa 1835, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.14
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: Circa 1827, circa 1835, and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Miscellany of papers, consisting of numerous memoranda, transcripts of documents, and a few letters, relating to different families of Ogilvy, to the Earldom of Findlater and the claim thereto by Alexander Ogilvie, Doctor of Medicine., 1607, 1812, 1814, 1845-1850, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1607, 1812, 1814, 1845-1850, and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting., Circa 1830, circa 1836.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.3-26.1.4
Scope and Contents

Almost all the papers are undated, but appear to have been written about 1830 and about 1856, and many are incomplete.

Dates: Circa 1830, circa 1836.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale made by Sir George Frederic Johnstone, of Westerhall, 7th Baronet, and by John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale.

Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting: volume 1., Circa 1830, circa 1836.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Almost all the papers are undated, but appear to have been written about 1830 and about 1856, and many are incomplete.

Dates: Circa 1830, circa 1836.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale made by Sir George Frederic Johnstone, of Westerhall, 7th Baronet, and by John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale. / Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting.

Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting: volume 2., Circa 1830, circa 1836.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Almost all the papers are undated, but appear to have been written about 1830 and about 1856, and many are incomplete.

Dates: Circa 1830, circa 1836.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale made by Sir George Frederic Johnstone, of Westerhall, 7th Baronet, and by John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale. / Miscellany of papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, written or corrected by John Riddell as drafts for rewriting.

Papers, 1814-1818, and undated, concerning the claim of Andrew Stirling of Drumpellier as representative of the family of Stirling of Cadder (folios 1-153), and an earlier (and differently arranged) version, ?1858, of John Riddell’s ‘Comments on the Keir Performance’., 1814-1818, ?1858, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1814-1818, ?1858, and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Papers, 1818, in the claim of the Marquess of Abercorn to certain dignities and honours of the House of Hamilton, consisting of statements and opinions thereanent, and copies of a decreet of the Duchess of Hamilton against the Earl of Abercorn, 1658, and of a reported case of the Duke of Hamilton, 1747., 1658, 1747, 1818.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.15
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1658, 1747, 1818.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Papers, 1828, and undated, in the claim of John Smith Cuninghame of Caprington to bear the arms and supporters of Cuninghame of Caprington (folios 1-115), and papers, 1845-1846, and undated, in the competing claims by his son Thomas and Sir Robert K Dick Cuningham, 7th Baronet, of Prestonfield (folios 116-191)., 1828, 1845-1846, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1828, 1845-1846, and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers concerning the claim of Archibald William to the Earldom of Winton., 1840.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.26
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1840.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Letters and papers concerning the claims of Colonel James Seton, Robert Seaton and Archibald William, 13th Earl of Eglinton, to the Earldom of Winton.

Papers concerning the claim of Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn to the Earldom of Dundee., 16th century-17th century, 1843.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.11
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of a genealogical table, and draft statements and opinion by John Riddell, 1843, and undated (folios 1-160), extracts made apparently in 1846 of 16th- and 17th-century public records relating to members of the family (folios 161-179), and a small miscellany of other papers (folios 180-190).

Dates: 16th century-17th century, 1843.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

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