Scope and Contents

This is an older copy of Adv.MS.24.3.4 containing volumes I and II.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This is an older copy of Adv.MS.24.3.4 containing volumes I and II.

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A miscellany of charters and other formal documents from the collection of John Smith, Edinburgh. Most of the documents are deeds relating to land tenure in East Lothian, particularly to lands and properties in Dunbar.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

A miscellany of charters and other formal documents from the collection of John Smith, Edinburgh. Most of the documents are deeds relating to land tenure in East Lothian, particularly to lands and properties in Dunbar.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

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This volume contains two series of reports for the period of the Commonwealth in Scotland. The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.4.24).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Sinclair, Maitland, Culroes, decisions MS’, to which Thomas Ruddiman has prefixed a note which informs us that it was a copy from the originals in the library of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, who has himself explained the collection;(ii) Subjoined to it is ‘a compend of decisions by an uncertain author’;(iii) Transcript of the manuscript inventory of pious donations from James I’s reign to that of James VI....

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‘Sinclair’s practiques’. The volume consists of the same collection as in Adv.MS.24.1.4 in part. From the beginning to page 314 of this volume corresponding with the Pitmedden manuscript (Adv.MS.24.1.4(iii)), and from the beginning to page 272 of the third series of paging. After which the collection continues down to 1591.

Imperfect at the beginning.

Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.3.1).

The decisions are in different hands.

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The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.5.6.34).

Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.7.46).

Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac 5.5.24).

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Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, reported by Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, at several periods, and in a series of volumes. The intermediate volumes containing Fountainhall’s ‘Note of Decisions till the Revolution 1688’ in a small octavo manuscript’, and his ‘Remarks in three quarto paper books from 1st November 1689 to the 1st November 1692’, are not known to be extant.

Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.4.27).