Legal documents.
Found in 2019 Collections and/or Records:
Two incomplete manuscript copies, both in the same hand, of the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian.
Two leases, signed by Douglas, Earl Haig, pertaining to his tenancy of Eastcott, Kingston Hill, Surrey.
Two ledgers, 1872-1928, of the Marriage Contract Trustees of Thomas A Gibson Thomson and Jean Margaret Alan Stevenson, later Denton.
Includes six unrelated ledgers concerning trusts and executries.
Two legal manuscripts formerly in the collection of Robert Riddle of Glenriddle.
Two manuscripts bound together, containing the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Two notebooks, one containing poetry and the other a few legal and financial jottings of Lord Milton., 18th century.
In both volumes each page has been ruled in three columns, each column headed by three letters in an alphabetical sequence. The purpose for which this was intended has not been carried out and the volumes have been adapted for other uses.
Two short, nearly contiguous vertical strips of vellum from what appears to be a French legal document., 16th century.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark K.50.f) of ‘M. Acci Plauti comoediae viginti’ (Lugduni Batavorum, 1593).
Two vellum fragments stuck together, which appear to be from two unrelated English legal documents., ?16th century.
The larger of the fragments is apparently signed J Osborne at Westminster, 12 February 1563, and refers to one John Jeffery.
The fragments had been used as a binding strip in a copy (pressmark FF.1/2.14) of ‘Petri Canisii Societatis Jesu opus catechisticum’, (Lutetiæ Parisiorum, 1618), by Saint Peter [Canisius].
Ugston and Belton., 1585-1586.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Valuations, lists, and legal papers, loosely bound together, concerning the parish of St Ninians., 1723-1803.
The legal papers chiefly concern the struggle between the Kirk Session and the heritors over the right of patronage.
Valuations of parishes in Perthshire.
The parishes are listed under presbyteries. On folio 25 is a list of 'weeklie stent of excise on ilk paroch in perthshyre', followed by a summary of the valuations. The first page is missing. A later note in shorthand on the inside of the front cover is dated 7 April 1696.
Various agreements concerning the publication of the "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities", edited by William Smith., 1845-1865.
Various financial, legal and personal papers of Andrew Stuart., 1727-1800.
Andrew Stuart was a noted lawyer and politician. As lawyer he acted as agent for some important Scottish noble families, in particular the Dukes of Hamilton; as politician he represented Lanarkshire in Parliament, and was a member of the Board of Trade in Lord North's administration. The papers here are almost entirely of a legal and personal nature.
Various judicial papers of the 7th Lord Hay of Yester., 1603-1607.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Various legal and financial papers concerning Peeblesshire estates., [Circa 1560]-17th century, undated.
Various legal and financial papers concerning Peeblesshire estates., 1565-17th century, undated.
Various legal and financial papers concerning Peeblesshire estates., [Circa 1560]-1695, undated.
The papers concern the following:
(i) Rents and teinds, 1670-1682, undated, of Linton and Newlands (folio 1);
(ii) Stipend, 1687-1694, of Robert Elliot, Minister of Linton (folio 19);
(iii) Sale of the Tweeddale estates to the Duke of Queensberry, 1686-1695, including a list, October 1686, of lands in Tweeddale and the rights sold (folio 30);
(iv) Miscellaneous lands, [circa 1560]-1586, undated (folio 41).
Various papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine., [?1721]-1795, undated.
Contains papers of the following: H M Solicitors for Scotland, 1761; Spittalfield near Caputh, 1777-1795, undated; Stirling poor, 1739; Strowan Kirk, 1790; Sutherland freeholders, 1759; Trade and Fisheries, 1726-1781; Wade, General, 1725; Weaving [?1721]; York Buildings Company, 1735-1773.
Various political papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1624, 1791-1806.
Vellum fragment apparently from a folio-sized legal work with extensive glosses., ?14th century.
The text of the work, which is not recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’, is written in two columns.
The fragment was recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark K.34.e) of ‘ἐκλογων ἀποφθεγματων ὑποθηκων, περι φρονησεων λογος πρωτος’ (Venetiis, 1534), by Iohannes Stobaeus, where it was used as a binding strip inside the back cover.
Volume containing 9 printed papers in claims to the Earldom of Sutherland., 1769-1770, and undated.
A few brief notes and some unimportant marks have been written in the margins in different hands. A contents list has been written on the flyleaf in an apparently contemporary hand.
Volume containing a collection of 8 pamphlets relating to the laws of Scotland, printed at various times between 1814 and 1824., 1814-1824.
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Volume containing a collection of 15 printed legal papers, numbers 2-14 of which are concerned with the process between Sir Alexander Cockburn of Langtoun, Baronet, and Sir William Cockburn of that Ilk, 1743-1745., 1743-1745.
A contents list is written in an unidentified 18th-century hand on the flyleaf.
Volume containing a copy of ‘Vindication of the Clanronald of Glengarry’ (Edinburgh, 1821), presented by Colonel Alexander Ranaldson McDonell of Glengarry (on whose behalf the work was compiled), bearing a few notes by John Riddell, with four other works on the same subject., 1821.
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.