Scope and Contents Legal and miscellaneous documents comprising the following: (i) Bills, etc., 1683-1812 (number 1); (ii) Certificates, 1761-1815 (number 38); (iii) Measurements of land, etc., 1766-1821 (number 50); (iv) Assessments, 1808-1819 (number 83); (v) Articles of roup, 1768-1811 (number 93); (vi) Inventories of books, writs, etc., circa 1695-1824 (number 98); (vii) Miscellaneous memoranda, 1631-1829, undated (number 117); (viii) Miscellaneous legal documents, 1641-1828 (number 242); (ix)...

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The letters include correspondence and memoranda relating to the charges brought by Lady Douglas against the Princess of Wales in 1805. Many of the letters are addressed to the painter David Roberts. In addition, there are a few letters of the painter John Macwhirter.

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Also included are some lines from 'Glenfinlas' (not in Walter Scott's hand), a spurious memorandum purporting to be by Scott and two portraits.

Part of the letter to John Clarke Whitfeld was published by Sir Herbert J C Grierson in ‘The letters of Sir Walter Scott’, volume iii, page 194.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The seigneury of Anfield, or Beauharnois as it was usually called, was purchased by Edward Ellice (died 1863) from the Marquis de Lotbinière. Most of the papers consist of reports of various agents who administered the estate. Negotiations for the sale of Beauharnois were started in 1839, when the North American Colonial Association of Ireland agreed to purchase, but the huge amounts of money involved protracted the affair, and it was not finally disposed of until 1866.There are...

Scope and Contents The letters of, to and relating to Augusta Leigh has been placed at the start of the sequence. The rest have been ordered by alphabetically by the name of the Leigh family member to which they concern, followed by miscellaneous items.Letters of and to Augusta Leigh with related material:Letter wrapper addressed to Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck possibly in the hand of Augusta Leigh, 1821: folio 1;Letter of George H Gilchrist to Augusta Leigh, 1825:...

Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Hollond, Spencer Edmund.Letter, 1902, of Spencer Edmund Hollond to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Holloway, Marseille Middleton.Letters, 1846, 1873 and 1887, of Marseille Middleton Holloway to John Murray III. Folios 3-7.Holloway Blount and Duke.Letters, 1909, of Holloway Blount and Duke to John Murray IV. Folios 8-10....

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Extract of Haddington Presbytery minutes concerning Andrew Dunlop, 1722 (folio 1);(ii) Printed Act of the Justices of the Peace of East Lothian dividing the county into three districts, 1737 (folio 2);(iii) Printed Act of the Justices of the Peace of Roxburghshire for the maintenance of the poor, supressing vagarancy and repairing roads, bridges and ferries, 1737 (folio 3);(iv) Printed queries of the East Lothian...

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Andrew Stuart's sister, Jane Stuart, married Thomas, 8th Earl of Dundonald, and Stuart took a keen interest in the affairs of his sister and his nephews and nieces.

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Andrew Stuart's sister, Jane Stuart, married Thomas, 8th Earl of Dundonald, and Stuart took a keen interest in the affairs of his sister and his nephews and nieces.

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Andrew Stuart's sister, Jane Stuart, married Thomas, 8th Earl of Dundonald, and Stuart took a keen interest in the affairs of his sister and his nephews and nieces.

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The papers contain the lawsuit in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested on his behalf the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas, son of Lady Jane Douglas Stuart, to the lands of the Douglas family. Andrew Stuart acted as agent for the Hamilton claimant, and played an active part both in France and in Britain in the preparation and presentation of the Hamilton Case.

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The papers contain the lawsuit in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested on his behalf the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas, son of Lady Jane Douglas Stuart, to the lands of the Douglas family. Andrew Stuart acted as agent for the Hamilton claimant, and played an active part both in France and in Britain in the preparation and presentation of the Hamilton Case.

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The papers contain the lawsuit in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested on his behalf the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas, son of Lady Jane Douglas Stuart, to the lands of the Douglas family. Andrew Stuart acted as agent for the Hamilton claimant, and played an active part both in France and in Britain in the preparation and presentation of the Hamilton Case.

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The papers contain the lawsuit in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested on his behalf the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas, son of Lady Jane Douglas Stuart, to the lands of the Douglas family. Andrew Stuart acted as agent for the Hamilton claimant, and played an active part both in France and in Britain in the preparation and presentation of the Hamilton Case.

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The contents are as follows: (i) Notes, memoranda and press cuttings, 1874-1879 (folio 2); (ii) Brief added notes, 1905-1921, about the estate (folio 31).

Some leaves have been cut out between folios 32 and 33.

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The contents are as follows:

"Memorandum concerning the disposal of Lady Charlotte Erskine's Estate", 1786;

Sketch plan of land in Redgorton parish, 1785;

Copy of a letter of the Honourable Charles M Cathcart, 1812, the original of which is in MS.3610.

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Professional papers as counsel, 1979-89, of David A O Edward, QC, Salvesen Professor of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, 1985-9, and from 1989 a Judge of the European Community Court of the First Instance.

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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).

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The memorials, depositions, lists of witnesses, and other papers begin on folio 1.

The volume also contains (folio 117) memoranda giving details of French precedents for the criminal process, which show signs of having been prepared for publication.