Criminal court records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents that are a product of courts dealing with criminal, rather than civil cases.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland in the early 17th century, before 1637, for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. The volume consists of copies and extracts of various historical and legal works.The full contents are listed below, primarily taken from Dolezalek's census and the 'Historical Catalogue' record. Any gaps in the foliation refer to blank sheets or sheets used for titles and headings.Extracts of the rental book of the Abbey of Dunfermline. This is printed...
Dates:
Early 17th century, before 1637.
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3722-3723
Dates:
1685-1740.
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary., 1685-1716.
File
Identifier: MS.3722
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary, 1716-1740.
File
Identifier: MS.3723
Scope and Contents
Plan of the Estate of Finhaven, lying in the parish of Oathlaw, and County of Forfar. 1818. 33 x 19.5 inches. 12 Scotch chains to an inch. Robertson, George (1818), Walker, David (1840). (Folio 5.)
The other folios have not been described.
Dates:
1716-1740.
Microfilm of criminal proceedings: a transcript, circa 1809, made by direction of Thomas Thomson, then Deputy Clerk Register, of part, 1493-1504, of the original records of the High Court of Justiciary.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.182
Dates:
1493-1504.
Register of criminal proceedings in the bailie-court of the Canongate.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.4
Scope and Contents
‘A collection of a few proceedings and pleadings in criminal prosecutions in the Court of the Baillie of the Regality of Canongait’.
Dates:
1675-1710.