Manuscripts.
Found in 4488 Collections and/or Records:
A small map of Eskdale and Liddesdale., [?1636-?1652.]
'A Time to Keep', manuscript., June 1966-July 1966.
'A treatise of algebra', signed 'Carre, his book', with a partially erased date, probably 1743., ?1743.
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
'Aberdeen, Banf [sic], Murrey [sic] [Etc.] to Inverness : [and] Fra the north water to Ross / Robertus Gordonius a Strathloch describebat 1640.' , [?1636-?1652.]
Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own articles and papers., 1935-1939, 1953.
Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 17th century-1843.
Account, 1669-1670, of the Fleming family to James Crichton for the demolition and repair of buildings at Boghall, with a transcription, 19th century, of pages 1-3., 1669-1670.
Account, apparently by John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, of his period of office as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with extracts from his correspondence., 1777-1780.
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Account book of Laurence Oliphant of Gask as Treasurer of the Jacobite army at Perth from October 1745 to February 1746., 1745-1746.
Account book of pay to the militia men in Queensferry., 1715.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: account of `the whole acres lying about the Queensferry’: a list of lands with notes of tenants, etc., 17th century.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: notes concerning lands in Duntarvie., 17th century.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas, relating to the abbey of Holyrood, crop 1543., 1543.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rental., 1603.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rental., 17th century.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rental., 1778.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rental and accounts., 1636-1655.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Rental, 1636-1654 (folio 1).
(ii) Accounts relating to crops, 1636-1655 (folio 1 inverted).