Legal documents.
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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 1551 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, accounts and legal papers of the Grahams of Airth concerning Jamaica and the estate of Ardoch Penn., 1775-1834, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10924-10925
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
1775-1834, undated.
Correspondence and legal and official papers of Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats., 1611-1612, 1654-1720, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6488
Scope and Contents
This volume has been divided into the following sections: correspondence (folios 1-26), family legal papers (folios 27-70), official legal papers (folios 71-80), official accounts (folios 81-154). The official papers concern Sir Patrick Murray in his capacity as General Receiver of Crown Rents and Foreign Excise.
Dates:
1611-1612, 1654-1720, undated.
Correspondence and legal documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith and John Smith., 1790-1914.
File
Identifier: MS.7185
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence, 1799-1914, chiefly from Thomas Smith, when a missionary in Calcutta, to his sister, Catherine, wife of Thomas Smith, tenant in Libberton. Smith's letters deal mainly with family affairs but include some comments on life in India, the disruption of 1843, the effect of the Corn Laws, and the Indian Mutiny. The miscellaneous correspondence includes a letter to Smith from Alexander Duff, the missionary. (Folio 1.)(ii) Legal...
Dates:
1790-1914.
Correspondence and legal documents relating to a law case between Walter Oswald and Elizabeth Henderson Oswald, parents of Henry Robert Oswald, senior, and John Henderson, brother of Elizabeth Henderson Oswald, over the property of their father, Robert Henderson, and of their two brothers., 1807-1841.
File
Identifier: MS.9041
Dates:
1807-1841.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Oswald family.
Correspondence and legal papers of the Library of the Kirk of Saltoun., 1898-1899, 1920-1941.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9270/32-34
Scope and Contents
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Includes:
18 volumes of sermons
three volumes of library catalogue
papers concerning the management of the Library and of the affairs of the parish.
Dates:
1898-1899, 1920-1941.
Correspondence and other papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the affairs of the Dukes of Hamilton., 1702-1799, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8262
Scope and Contents
The subjects include: management of the Hamilton estates in England, legal and financial business, and political affairs in Lanarkshire.
Dates:
1702-1799, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning his legal clients.
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Legal papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Dukes of Hamilton, and the Douglas Cause.
Correspondence and papers, 1740-1741, concerning Sir Robert Munro of Foulis, and legal and financial papers, 1732-1762, undated, concerning Primrose, Earls of Rosebery, especially James, 2nd Earl, and his children., 1732-1762, undated.
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Identifier: MS.17742
Scope and Contents
Following upon an incident during the Council elections at Dingwall, Sir Robert Munro was charged before the High Court.
Lord Milton was one of the trustees of James, 2nd Earl of Rosebery.
Dates:
1732-1762, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
Correspondence and papers, 1807-1815, and printed legal papers, 1808-1810, concerning the lawsuit between Admiral John Elliot and Archibald Cochrane of Ashkirk concerning Essenside Loch., 1807-1815.
File
Identifier: MS.12868
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
John Elliot entered the Royal Navy in 1745 and reached the rank of Admiral in 1799. He was Member of Parliament for Cockermouth, 1767-1768, and served as Governor of Newfoundland, 1786. Most of this material relates to his estate of Essenside in the parish of Ashkirk, Roxburghshire, and to his mining interests, especially the affairs of the White Water Mineral Company. In the family and general correspondence, there is material relating to his naval career, especially his Governorship of...
Dates:
1807-1815.
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 John Elliot (1732-1808), 4th son of Lord Minto, Lord Justice Clerk.
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Estate, financial and legal correspondence and papers of and concerning Admiral John Elliot.
Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament., 1685-1807, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.12885-12948
Scope and Contents
William Nassau Elliot of Wells was Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany, 1761-173, and his son, William Elliot of Wells was Member of Parliament for Portarlington, 1801-1802, and for Peterborough, 1802-1818, and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the ‘Talents' Ministry, 1806-1807. The Elliots of Wells were only very distantly related to the Elliots of Minto, the common ancestor being Robin Elliot of Redheugh (florished 1582). However, William Elliot of Wells was a...
Dates:
1685-1807, undated.
Correspondence and papers concerning London property of the 4th Earl of Minto., 1894-1898.
File
Identifier: MS.12528
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers here concern primarily salaries, etc., for military service, payments for the purchase, letting, and repair of London property, marriage trusts, and dealings with bankers and stockbrokers.
Dates:
1894-1898.
Correspondence and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto's management of the impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey, formerly chief Justice of Bengal, for his conduct of the trial of the Maharaja Nand Kumar., 1787-1788.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11199-11202
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1787-1788.
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, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Political correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
Correspondence and papers concerning the executory of Eliza Forsyth Ross of Dingwall., 1849-1850.
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Identifier: MS.17946
Scope and Contents
The active executor was George Cameron, sheriff-substitute of Dingwall, but one of the others was the Reverend Peter Mackenzie.
Dates:
1849-1850.
Correspondence and papers concerning the executry and family trusts of Patrick Brydone, father-in-law of the 2nd Earl of Minto, from the Brydone family lawyer, John Russell, later Principal Clerk of Session., 1818-1829.
File
Identifier: MS.11937
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
1818-1829.
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.
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)., 1792, 1797, 1818-1831, 1842.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11925-11936
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
1792, 1797, 1818-1831, 1842.
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.
Correspondence and papers concerning three trusts of which Sir George H Scott-Douglas was a trustee., 1855-1937.
File
Identifier: MS.8096
Scope and Contents
The papers concern the following:
(i) John Waldie of Hendersyde trust, 1855-1884 (folio 1);
(ii) Hannah Charlotte Douglas's marriage settlement trust, 1859-1932 (folio 83);
(iii) Margaret Turnbull trust, 1880-1937 (folio 150).
Dates:
1855-1937.
Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection., 1607-1859, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.2.23
Scope and Contents
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
1607-1859, and undated.
Correspondence and papers, genealogical and legal, of Robert Anderson, Writer in Elgin, concerning principally the claim of James Grant, serving in Lord John Murray`s Regiment, to be retoured heir to the estate of Dalvey (Inv. XLIII, Mac. 67)., 1752, 1759-1760.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.
Dates:
1752, 1759-1760.
Correspondence and papers, mostly legal and financial documents, of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd. and associated companies and other organisations., 1776-1981.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9416/9-44
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Associated companies and other organisations represented in the records include: The Carfraemill Hotel Co, Ltd; The Barnton Hotel Ltd; Barclay Perkins and Co, and Messrs Cockburn and Murray; The Littlemill Distillery Co; and the Scottish Wholesale Wine Distributors' Association.
Dates:
1776-1981.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Christian Dalrymple of Hailes., 1775-1838, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25454-25499
Scope and Contents
Christian Dalrymple (1765-1838) was the heiress of Lord Hailes, being his daughter by his first marriage to Anne Brown. Although she inherited the Newhailes estate in 1792, the title passed to her cousin, James Dalrymple, who became 4th Baronet of Hailes. Christian Dalrymple did not marry. Her papers consist largely of family correspondence and her journals which provide a detailed record of her daily life over nearly forty years.
Dates:
1775-1838, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Colonel Francis Charteris of Amisfield (a cousin of Lady Milton) and his grand-son Francis Charteris (formerly Wemyss, later Earl of Wemyss), of whose tutors Lord Milton was one., 1666-1755, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17701-17716
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1666-1755, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning James Walter Buchan., 1901-1965, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11627/79-102
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes., 1684-1725, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25276-25280
Scope and Contents
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:
1684-1725, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes., 17th century-18th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25293-25453A
Scope and Contents
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes., 1714-1782, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25281-25292
Scope and Contents
Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes (1692-1751) was MP for Haddington Burghs, 1722-1734, and Auditor-General of the Exchequer, 1721-1751. He married Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington in 1725.
Dates:
1714-1782, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir James Stansfield., 1649-1733, undated.
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Identifier: MSS.25709-25742
Scope and Contents
A former Cromwellian Colonel, Sir James Stansfield settled in Scotland after the Restoration. At first, he lived in Edinburgh, where he became a prosperous merchant. Later, he purchased Newmills (subsequently Amisfield) in Haddington, where he was founder of the Newmills Cloth Manufactory.
As a wealthy man, he was able to 'accomodate' a number of needy people, notably Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount Kingston, whose affairs are well represented here. Later, however, Stansfield was beset with...
Dates:
1649-1733, undated.