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Declarations.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents conveying formal statements intended to create, preserve, assert, or testify to a right.

Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:

Declaration of deacons of trades regarding the uprightness of their conduct in the election of magistrates., 1717.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.2021
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These papers relate to the affairs of the town of Inverness. The dealings of the Forbes in their private capacity with Inverness are placed under Ch.1642-1843.

Dates: 1717.

Declaration of trust by Helen Ellice to William Ellice and Edward Kerrison., 10 March 1812.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12723
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 10 March 1812.

Declaration of trust concerning estates in Canada to be conveyed by Edward Ellice to Andrew Colvile, Russell Ellice and John Abel Smith., 30 November 1841.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12732
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 30 November 1841.

Declaration of truth by James Phyn, John Inglis and James Forsyth with George Morison., 20 December 1799.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12683
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 20 December 1799.

Declaration on behalf of Elizabeth Cant, wife of John Falconer of Newton, passing from arrestment all monies belonging to Falconer in the hands of Sir Robert Fletcher of Innerpeffer., 16 December 1653.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14505
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 16 December 1653.

Declarations, 1717, regarding the conduct of the townspeople in the rising of 1715., 1717.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.2023
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These papers relate to the affairs of the town of Inverness. The dealings of the Forbes in their private capacity with Inverness are placed under Ch.1642-1843.

Dates: 1717.

Instrument of declaration by the brewers of Edinburgh to Sir William Binning of Wallyford, tacksman of excise, and his reply., 13 October 1680.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15172
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.

Dates: 13 October 1680.

Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Legal documents concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1664-1829.

 File
Identifier: MS.5327
Scope and Contents The legal documents comprise the following: (i) Condescendences, 1766-1822 (number 1); (ii) Submissions, 1703-1812 (number 7); (iii) Summonses, 1654-1818 (number 12); (iv) Executions, 1664-1804 (number 23); (v) Protests, 1724-1779 (number 43); (vi) Suspensions, 1672-1772 (number 82); (vii) Declarations, 1674-1824 (number 97); (viii) Instructions, 1672-1822 (number 113); (ix) Intimations, 1793-1820 (number 132); (x) Minutes, 1676-1825 (number 139); (xi) Instruments, 1678-1680 (number...
Dates: 1664-1829.

Legal documents relating to properties in the West Indies belonging to Alexander Ellice and his descendants., 1768-1862.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.12633-12707
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 1768-1862.

Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates: 1231-1641.

Letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., [Circa 1808]-1811.

 File
Identifier: MS.11714
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Draft by the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the British occupation of Goa, circa 1808 (folio 1); (ii) Copy of a letter of Robert Nelson, Navy Office, 1809, concerning hemp (folio 7); (iii) Papers, 1809, concerning a memorial of the merchants of Calcutta relating to convoy protection (folio 9); (iv) Letters, 1810-1811, concerning naval prizes in the Far East (folio 44).

Dates: [Circa 1808]-1811.

Letters and papers on various subjects., 1575-1824, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3135
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Discharge of Andro Hart, printer, to Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, 1592 (folio 1);(ii) Discharge of Robert Brysone, printer and bookseller, and Evan Tyler, printer, to Mr George Halyburton for liturgies delivered to the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, 1637 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of the Earl of Mar to Thomas Kennedy, Lord Advocate of Scotland, demanding an immediate report on the presence of a French ship near Inverkeithing, 1714...
Dates: 1575-1824, undated.