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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.
Found in 1664 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of dispatches and papers from Robert Townsend Farquhar to the Governor-General in Council sent to Thomas Stamford Raffles, secretary to the 1st Earl of Minto in Java, by Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, Bengal, in June 1811., 1811.
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Identifier: MS.11681
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:
1811.
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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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with various Governors and others.
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Copies of dispatches and papers from Robert Townsend Farquhar to the Governor-General in Council sent to Thomas Stamford Raffles, secretary to the 1st Earl of Minto in Java, by Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, Bengal, in June 1811.
Copies of dispatches and papers from Robert Townsend Farquhar to the Governor-General in Council sent to Thomas Stamford Raffles, secretary to the 1st Earl of Minto in Java, by Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, Bengal, in June 1811., 1810-1811.
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Identifier: MS.11682
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:
1810-1811.
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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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with various Governors and others.
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Copies of dispatches and papers from Robert Townsend Farquhar to the Governor-General in Council sent to Thomas Stamford Raffles, secretary to the 1st Earl of Minto in Java, by Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, Bengal, in June 1811.
Copies of election rolls, canvass lists, and other election papers., 1710-1895, undated.
File
Identifier: MSS.13356-13358
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1710-1895, undated.
Copies of election rolls, canvass lists, and other election papers., 1710-1775.
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Identifier: MS.13356
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1710-1775.
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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Papers concerning the Elliot family of Minto relating to local affairs.
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Correspondence and papers concerning elections and politics in Roxburghshire.
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Copies of election rolls, canvass lists, and other election papers.
Copies of election rolls, canvass lists, and other election papers., 1777-1780.
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Identifier: MS.13357
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1777-1780.
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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Papers concerning the Elliot family of Minto relating to local affairs.
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Correspondence and papers concerning elections and politics in Roxburghshire.
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Copies of election rolls, canvass lists, and other election papers.
Copies of election rolls, canvass lists, and other election papers., 1781-1895, undated.
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Identifier: MS.13358
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1781-1895, undated.
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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Papers concerning the Elliot family of Minto relating to local affairs.
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Correspondence and papers concerning elections and politics in Roxburghshire.
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Copies of election rolls, canvass lists, and other election papers.
Copies of 'Higden Mappaemundi', numbers 2-18, with 'Higden Cartography', being a typed list of the maps and notes on differences., 14th century-17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3024
Dates:
14th century-17th century.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents
On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows:
(i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3);
(ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4);
(iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11);
(iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates:
1546-Late 16th century.
Copies of the indexes of the principal published collections of Scottish dance music from the 18th to the 20th century, compiled by John Murdoch Henderson., 18th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21709
Scope and Contents
The volume includes notes on each of the collections and on pages 100-102 some biographical notes about composers of the tunes. On pages 184-193 there is a list of the first appearances of tunes in these collections.
Dates:
18th century-mid 20th century.
Copies of William Aikman of Cairnie, chronological lists of Lord Chancellors, Lord Presidents, Lord Clerks Register, Lord Advocates, and Lords of Session, and other documents concerning the College of Justice.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.13
Scope and Contents
The volume is titled ‘A collection of several Acts of Parliament, Acts of Sederunt and other documents concerning the privileges and Immunities of the College of Justice by W. Aikman of Cairnie, Advocate, 1687’. The original board contained the note, ‘This Book was written by William Grant, Servitor to William Aikman of Cairnie, Advocate, collector thereof 1687’.The contents are as follows.(i) List of the Chancellors of Scotland since the Institution of...
Dates:
1687.
Copy, 17th century, of Sir Thomas Hope's ‘Minor practicks’, followed by a list of chapters., 17th century.
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Identifier: MS.17811
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:
17th century.
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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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning law .
Copy, 20th century, of ‘Account of the Rothesay and Caithness fencibles’ by Sir John Sinclair, 1800, followed by a list of officers of the 2nd Battalion in 1798., 1800, [Early 20th century-before 1969.]
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Identifier: MS.15926
Scope and Contents
The list of officers of the 2nd Battalion in 1798 is on page 13.
Dates:
1800, [Early 20th century-before 1969.]
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.6
Scope and Contents
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).
Dates:
1606-1667.
Copy, made apparently in 1729, of ‘the most material passages’ of ‘Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum’ by Thomas Dempster (Bononiae, 1627).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.22
Scope and Contents
Almost all the entries in the printed book have been summarized in the manuscript, which also contains details not recorded in the printed book; many of the entries are partly in English. A later and more detailed entry on Robert Bodie has been written (in English) in the same hand on a small sheet of paper (folio 32) tipped into the volume. The frequent unintentional omissions made in the copying of the manu¬script have been supplied in the same hand in the margins. The dates 2...
Dates:
1627.
Copy made by John Riddell, on paper watermarked 1809, of the `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs` (folio 7), and of the appendix (folio 162) and index (folio 183) thereto in Adv.MS.34.3.20., Early 13th-early 18th century, ?1809-?1842.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.6
Scope and Contents
The copy is written in a formal hand on alternate leaves, the others being left blank for notes and additions, which have been added at various times until 1842 (folio 79 verso), or possibly later.Stitched in at folio 7 is a `List of ancient Peerages to be met with in the Registers of Parliament` in Riddell`s hand (folio 1). A note (folio 9) formerly stitched to folio 7 verso has been tipped in at folio 11. A letter of Lord Lindsay to Riddell, 1855, which was formerly pinned to...
Dates:
Early 13th-early 18th century, ?1809-?1842.
Copy made by Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming, Abbot of Ratisbon, of papers in the dispute between the Irish and the Scottish benedictines over the rightful ownership of the former Irish monasteries in Germany, and particularly that of St. James, Ratisbon.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.1
Scope and Contents
The papers copied are:(i) the supplication for the return of the monasteries made on behalf of the Irish benedictines by Dom Columbanus Duffy, Prior of St. John`s, Waterford, with a list of questions for the Scottish benedictines to reply to (folio 2); (ii) excerpts from documentary and printed sources referred to in the supplication (folio 7); (iii) Fleming`s notes, with additional observations, on all the foregoing (folio 26); (iv) his reply...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Copy made in or about 1690 by James Clapperton, Dalkeith, of the chronicles of the Civil War in Scotland compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.23
Scope and Contents
The text of this manuscript is the same as that common to the other copies in this Library, agreeing with them against the printed book in some small omissions and additions, and numerous variants in vocabulary, spelling and word order. In addition to the text, the manuscript contains: summaries (in red) in the margins of most of the pages; at page i, a table of contents (as far as page 105 only); at page 161, a list of Royalist supporters executed in England during the Commonwealth period;...
Dates:
Circa 1690.
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
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Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
Dates:
1559-1618.
Copy of "Shaw's Diary for 1864" containing various accounts of William Green, bookseller, Edinburgh (who became macer to the Court of Justiciary in 1871).
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Identifier: MS.8918
Scope and Contents
The accounts consist chiefly of a list of books supplied to Dundee Free Library, July-December 1869 (folios 1-7), and accounts rendered (chiefly for law books), 1869-1871 (folios 1-45 inverted).
Dates:
1869-1871.
Copy of Sir Walter Mildmay`s statutes of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Forty-four statutes, followed by a list of their titles., 1585-1588.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.2(i), folios 2-30
Dates:
1585-1588.
Copy of the inventory of James Innes, with a list of enslaved people., 1798.
Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 56-57
Scope and Contents
Concerning the property of the late James Innes.
Dates:
1798.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and other documents concerning Scots and the West Indies.
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Letters and documents of, to and concerning Archibald Anderson, James Innes, and others, in Jamaica, and Robert Scollay and Thomas Bolt, in the Shetland Islands.
Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.21
Scope and Contents
The report is signed by Major General George Wade, folio 15.A copy of each of the following papers follows the official report:a list of the arms surrendered by the clans between August and October 1725 (folio 15 verso);Wade’s instructions to the Officers Commanding the Highland Companies, 22 September 1725 (folio 16 verso);letters of submission of persons attainted of high treason, written between August and October 1725 (folio 17 verso);...
Dates:
1726.
Copy of “The Royal Naval Engineers` Note Book” by John R Harvey (Chatham, 1889), in which are written lists of Scottish topographical works arranged in order of county, followed by a list of family histories.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.3
Scope and Contents
The lists appear to have been compiled about 1896 in the Advocates` Library and kept up until about 1903, which appears to be the latest date quoted.
Dates:
1889, 1896-1903.
Corrected list of debts submitted by Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar, to be discharged by the executors of her husband's estate., Circa 1635.
File
Identifier: MS.5103
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
Circa 1635.
Corrections and additions by the first Earl of Cromer in an advance proof of a speech he afterwards delivered on Free Trade and Protection to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Unionist Free Trade Club on 10 January 1908.
File
Identifier: MS.2250
Scope and Contents
Also included are three letters to the donor, James MacLehose, the Glasgow printer (including one from Lord Cromer accompanying the corrected proof), the final printed copy of the speech and the menu and toast list of the luncheon at which the speech was delivered.
Dates:
[1908, or before.]