Covenants.
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
"A Solemne [sic] League and Covenant" (Edinburgh, 1643), signed by ministers, and 22 members of the congregation of Kilmany and bearing the names of 186 further members.
Assignment and documents of covenants between Thomas Fairholme and Sir William Forbes, Baronet, Robert [later Sir Robert] Herries, James Hunter, Charles Herries, George Henderson and William Herries., 20 January 1773.
The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.
Collection of seven National Covenants.
Three of the covenants, Adv.MSS.20.6.14, 20.6.15, and 20.6.19, were probably signed in Edinburgh. The remaining four were all subscribed locally; in each case, the local signatures are preceded by the signatures, presumably written in beforehand in Edinburgh, of various noblemen, lairds, burgesses, and ministers of the Tables. Those dated 1638 lack the Glasgow Determination; those dated 1639 include it.
Contemporary calligraphic copy of the "Solemn League and Covenant" of 1643, made by John Govan.
Copies, in a seventeenth-century hand, of the National Covenant and letters, petitions, poems, etc., connected with it, circa 1637-circa 1641., [Circa 1637-circa 1641.], 1717-1718, undated.
At the end are accounts, 1717-1718, undated (folio 72). Inside the end cover, "Archibald Law with my hand ye pen laid at God's command" is written, in a seventeenth-century hand which does not appear to be any of those represented in the manuscript.
Copy, late 18th century, of a Solemn League and Covenant, 1666, apparently signed at Rullion Green.
Copy, printed by Robert Young, Edinburgh, 1638, of the King`s Covenant, which consisted of the Confession of 1580-1581 and the general band of 1589.
The acts of council authorising the Covenant have been added. The signatures are inserted between the two sections. This copy was circulated in Angus and it has over 913 signatures, including that of the Earl of Southesk, from Arbroath, Kirriemuir, Forfar, Alythm, and other parishes in the shire.
Covenant of George Seton as a Free Mariner of Bombay., 1810.
Deed of covenant, East India Company., 1842.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Deed of covenant, East India Company., 1845.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Deed of Covenant of Indemnity on the life of Catherine Elizabeth Richards, wife of Richard G Richards, Vicar of Hambledon., 1870.
These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.
Draft deed of covenant between J B S Haldane and his first wife Charlotte., 1946.
Comprised of: a publishers` agreement, 1937, a draft deed of covenant with his first wife Charlotte, 1946, and a certificate of election to the National Institute of Sciences of India, 1953.
Formal documents from the Seton and Bremner papers.
Formal documents of J B S Haldane.
Comprised of: a publishers` agreement, 1937, a draft deed of covenant with his first wife Charlotte, 1946, and a certificate of election to the National Institute of Sciences of India, 1953.
Letters and papers chiefly concerning the families of Forbes and Skene., 1622-1713.
Letter of Elizabeth Sinclair, Lady Sinclair, to Lord Forbes, 1622; fragment of a covenant with the Almighty signed by John Skene of Skene, 1677, l680; covenant with the Almighty by John Forbes of Balfluig, 1697; memoranda of Colin Campbell, Minister of St Nicholas, Aberdeen, 1703; poem on the union of the Parliaments, circa 1707; letter, 1713, of George Skene of Skene, Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen.
Microfilm of Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.
The contents are as follows:
Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).
National Covenant. A very large copy written by William Aytoun, and illuminated with letters in gold., 1639.
The arrangement of the signatures, with the noblemen at the top and the barons and burgesses down each side, implies that it was signed in parliament; the names themselves suggest the Parliament of 1639 rather than that of 1640.
National Covenant. An ornamental copy, written by John Laurie, writer, Edinburgh. It has thirteen (?twelve) signatures including those of Rothes, Loudoun, Balmerino, and Lindsay., 1639.
This copy was probably written between 9 May and 30 August 1639. It was probably signed to mark the defection of Lord George Gordon, eldest son of the Marquis of Huntly to the covenanting cause. Huntly and Lord George were taken prisoner in April 1639 and transported to Edinburgh. Subsequent pressure from the Marquis of Argyll – Lord Gordon’s uncle – induced the young man to sign. His signature is the twelfth on the Covenant.
National Covenant. Copy signed by the minister and some 400-430 members of the congregation of Inveresk, with a further 366 subscribing through notaries., 1638.
Three of the covenants, Adv.MSS.20.6.14, 20.6.15, and 20.6.19, were probably signed in Edinburgh. The remaining four were all subscribed locally; in each case, the local signatures are preceded by the signatures, presumably written in beforehand in Edinburgh, of various noblemen, lairds, burgesses, and ministers of the Tables. Those dated 1638 lack the Glasgow Determination; those dated 1639 include it.
National Covenant. Copy signed, once before and once after the addition of the Glasgow Determination, by the provost, bailies, and councillors of the burgh of Peebles, but also by burgesses of Jedburgh., 1638, 1639.
Three of the covenants, Adv.MSS.20.6.14, 20.6.15, and 20.6.19, were probably signed in Edinburgh. The remaining four were all subscribed locally; in each case, the local signatures are preceded by the signatures, presumably written in beforehand in Edinburgh, of various noblemen, lairds, burgesses, and ministers of the Tables. Those dated 1638 lack the Glasgow Determination; those dated 1639 include it.
National Covenant. Copy with fifteen signatures, including those of Montrose, General Leslie and Sir Thomas Hope, the Lord Advocate., 1638.
Three of the covenants, Adv.MSS.20.6.14, 20.6.15, and 20.6.19, were probably signed in Edinburgh. The remaining four were all subscribed locally; in each case, the local signatures are preceded by the signatures, presumably written in beforehand in Edinburgh, of various noblemen, lairds, burgesses, and ministers of the Tables. Those dated 1638 lack the Glasgow Determination; those dated 1639 include it.
National Covenant. Copy written by George Maxwell and subscribed by the ministers and congregation of the parish of Ayr. It has some 500-550 names, some of which may have been added after the original subscription in the spring of 1638., 1638.
Two cuttings from the ‘Ayr Advertiser’, 1874, are kept with the document, the second of which has a complete list of local signatures.
National Covenant. Copy written by John Trotter, Notary Public, and endorsed as the Confession of Faith for Fife. It has the subscriptions, grouped in presbyteries, of some 400-500 lairds, ministers, burgesses, and others from Fife., 1638.
Three of the covenants, Adv.MSS.20.6.14, 20.6.15, and 20.6.19, were probably signed in Edinburgh. The remaining four were all subscribed locally; in each case, the local signatures are preceded by the signatures, presumably written in beforehand in Edinburgh, of various noblemen, lairds, burgesses, and ministers of the Tables. Those dated 1638 lack the Glasgow Determination; those dated 1639 include it.