Legal documents.
Subject
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Scope Note: Documents having legal relevance in general. For documents that give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, use ""legal instruments"".
Found in 2019 Collections and/or Records:
Berwickshire and Roxburghshire., 1631-1711.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11842-11858B
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1631-1711.
“Blair’s Collections”: Session papers of Robert Blair of Avonton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.7.1.11-7.1.17
Dates:
1796-1811.
Bonds, deeds and other formal documents of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1750-1865.
File
Identifier: MS.8093
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover the period from 1750 to 1945, but the bulk of the collection belongs to the lifetime of Sir George Henry Scott-Douglas, 4th Baronet, who succeeded his father as a minor in 1836 and died in 1885. During his minority and absences abroad with the army, his affairs were in the hands of a trustee, but after his return in 1851, Sir George took a keen interest in the running of his estates, as is evident from the long series of detailed factory accounts and correspondence....
Dates:
1750-1865.
Bonds, discharges and related material including judicial papers of the Campbells of Craignish., 1621-1825.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6223/3-7
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers form the main archive of the Campbells of Craignish, as preserved by the late Robert R Campbell of the Board of Education, the head of a senior cadet branch of the family. They consist almost entirely of formal estate records, financial papers, rentals, and accounts, and give in general a good view of the running of a highland estate in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Particulalry interesting in this context are the account books of Donald Campbell of Barrichbean....
Dates:
1621-1825.
‘Booke of the lawe of Olerone: as also for the holding of the Courte of the Admyrallte’ by James Humfrey, with lists of English ships and of ships’ stores.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.7
Dates:
1568.
Boon, Corsbie and Carfrae (Legerwood)., 1632-1711.
File
Identifier: Ch.11842-11853
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1632-1711.
Borthwick of Crookston legal papers, and other documents of Scottish provenance, 1513-1822.
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Identifier: Acc.13043
Scope and Contents
A collection of legal documents, 1452-1943, concerning the family of Borthwick of Crookston and some of their lands in the Scottish Borders, together with seven miscellaneous Scottish documents, 1513-1933, partly issued by the Scottish court. 1-16 Borthwick of Crookston papers1 Charter, 1 Feb. 1452, of King James II, freeing John Borthwick, son of William Borthwick of Crookston, from ward. With seal of James II attached.2 Letter of reversion, 1458, of...
Dates:
1452-1933.
Bound papers and pamphlets on the forfeited estates of Alexander Forbes., 1746-1749.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/204
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1746-1749.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Papers of Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo.
Bound volume of legal prints of Sir David Dalrymple., 1711-1712.
Item
Identifier: MS.25279
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir David Dalrymple (circa 1665-1721) fifth son of James, 1st Viscount of Stair, had a distinguished political and legal career. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688 and created a Baronet in 1701. Sir David began his political career when he represented Culross in the Scottish Parliament from 1698-1707. He was a Commissioner for the Union, 1706, MP for Haddington Burghs, 1708-1721, Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1701-1709, Lord Advocate, 1709-1711 and 1714-1720, Dean of the...
Dates:
1711-1712.
Briefs, memoranda, and other legal papers, concerning cases, many of them Jacobite, brought before Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald, and James Erskine, as sheriff of Perthshire., 1750-1799.
Series
Identifier: Ch.4448-4490
Scope and Contents
The papers include an abstract of precognitions of the Appin murder, with James Erskine`s notes on it (Ch.4453); royal commission appointing James Erskine a Baron of the Exchequer (Ch.4456); and documents concerned with the attempts of James Erskine, now Lord Barjarg, to settle his affairs after his son John`s death, leaving three young children (Ch.4481-4490).
Dates:
1750-1799.
Buccleuch affairs., 1543-1691.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11256-11312
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1543-1691.
Bundle of legal documents., Various dates.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4886/7
Burgh Court Book of Kelso., 1647-1725.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.847-848
Burgh Court Book of Kelso., 1647-1681.
Item
Identifier: MS.847
Burgh Court Book of Kelso., 1709-1725.
Item
Identifier: MS.848
Business and law papers, 1761-1804, undated, relating to various persons having dealings both with David Herd and with his employer, David Russell; with some inventories of writs, 1643, 1682, 1712., 1643-1804, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1925
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1643-1804, undated.
Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12184
Scope and Contents
Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.
Dates:
1838-1893.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.103- is now Acc.4496.
Dates:
1837-1925.
Business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'., 1832-1972, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11812/1-164
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates:
1832-1972, undated.
'Cartulary. I. Family Papers’, in fact containing only copies of a deed of entail by Matthew Cleland of Springfield, 1826, and of related documents., 1826.
File
Identifier: MS.18071
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.
Dates:
1826.
Case of Alexander Lennox Esq claiming the Honour, Title and Dignity of Earl of Lennox., May 1776.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15465
Scope and Contents
This item is printed.
Dates:
May 1776.
Case of Andrew Boyes against the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate., 1830-1836, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.1968
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1830-1836, undated.
Case of John [Bligh, 4th] Earl of Darnley, claiming the Title of Duke of Lennox., 1830.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15466
Scope and Contents
This item is printed.
Dates:
1830.
Case papers for the prosecution case in the impeachment of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
File
Identifier: Acc.11974
Dates:
circa 1806.
Case papers relating to the litigation in the Court of Session, 2nd Division, between Sir William Elliott and the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1819-1829.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11933-11934
Scope and Contents
Except for reports of speeches of the judges (MS.11933, folios 81, 142) and 'Answers for Lord Minto' to the notes of the accountant under remit (MS.11934, folio 139), these are printed Court of Session papers.
Dates:
1819-1829.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Executries and related papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the executry of William Elliot of Wells, the trustees of Wells estate, and the litigation of Sir William Francis Elliot, 7th Baronet of Stobs, with the latter (1819-1829).