Memorandums. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Legal document embodying the terms of a contract or other agreement; or the formal attestation clause signed by witnesses to a deed. Source: Beal, Peter. 'Dictionary of English manuscript terminology, 1450-2000'. (2008).
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the Duke of Hamilton, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, during his terms of office as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland., 1953-1958, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10240/5-35
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers contain a large number of photocopies of documents dating back to the 17th century.
Dates:
1953-1958, undated.
Papers of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians: Women's Club., 1934-1972.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21624-21626
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1934-1972.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning a dispute with Edinburgh Town Council., 1681-1687.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/11(ii)
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning a dispute with Edinburgh Town Council., 1688-1699, undated.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/11(iii)
Dates:
1688-1699, undated.
Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs., 1437-1912, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14750-14777
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1437-1912, undated.
Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs., 1541-1687, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14751
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Relief, 1541, of the castleward of Belton (folio 1);(ii) Copy of the instrument of sasine, 1603, of Lady (Margaret) Hay of Yester of the lands of Belton, Killpallet, Byrecleuch, Yester Park and 'Hedinghill' (folio 2);(iii) Papers, 1629-1648, concerning tacks of teinds to East Lothian lairds (folio 4);(iv) Papers, 1647-1653, of a dispute between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and Patrick Hepburn of Nunraw...
Dates:
1541-1687, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning estate and local affairs.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs.
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General and East Lothian papers.
Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs., 1660-[circa 1834].
File
Identifier: MS.14754
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Note, 1660, of the conditions agreed between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and William Knowles for draining the moss of Crombieside in the barony of Duncanlaw (folio 1);(ii) Papers, 1681-1826, being chiefly contracts, memorials and petitions concerning Gifford village, including material relating to Gifford paper mill (folio 3);(iii) Timber contracts and articles of roup, 1703-1773 (folio 47);(iv) Articles of...
Dates:
1660-[circa 1834].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning estate and local affairs.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs.
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General and East Lothian papers.
Papers of transactions and lawsuits between the Tweeddale and Lauderdale families, deriving chiefly from the marriage between the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale and Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of the Duke of Lauderdale., 1632-early 18th century, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14546-14550
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1632-early 18th century, undated.
Papers relating to sedition, formerly part of the papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
File
Identifier: MS.3011
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Notes of the speeches and opinions of the Court at the trial of Charles Sinclair for sedition at Edinburgh, 1794; see ‘State trials’, edited by T J Howell, volume xxiii (London, 1817), page 778 (folio i);(ii) Memorandum for Dundas on the trial of Thomas Muir for sedition at Edinburgh, 1793; see ‘State trials’, edited by T J Howell, volume xxiii (London, 1817), page 118 (folio 49);(iii) List of papers on treasonable...
Dates:
1793-1799.
Programmes, 1935-1940, 1963-1972, of concerts of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians: Women's Club; and miscellaneous memoranda concerning the foundation of the Club, 1934-1935, and its subsequent development, 1947., 1934-1972.
File
Identifier: MS.21624
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1934-1972.
Three letters and a fragment of another, 1837, undated, of George R Gleig to Sir John M Wilson, and a signed and amended memorandum, 1844, by Gleig on the duties of military chaplains., 1837, 1844, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15385, folios 88-99
Tissue-book of General Sir George Murray containing contact copies of his correspondence on the expedition to the Baltic, preceded (folio 1) by a copy of a memorandum by Murray on the expedition., 13 March-13 May 1808.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.1.15
Scope and Contents
Leaves are cut out before folio 1 and a leaf is torn out between folios 10 and 11.
Dates:
13 March-13 May 1808.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray concerning actions in Scandinavia.
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Tissue-books of General Sir George Murray containing contact copies of his correspondence on the expedition to the Baltic.
Typed copies of letters and memoranda of Alexander Marshall, the eldest son of William Marshall, who died 1807 when a Major in the Indian Army volume, compiled in 1899 by David J Mackenzie., 1793-1800.
File
Identifier: MS.15370
Scope and Contents
The letters are written by Alexander Marshall to his father whilst on active service in India.
Dates:
1793-1800.
Volume originally owned by Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and apparently originally used as an account book and subsequently to contain sketches, then turned over and used by Edward Charles Ellice of Invergarry to contain notes and memoranda relating to the estate of Glengarry for the years 1814 to 1912., ?1818-1912.
Item
Identifier: MS.15168
Scope and Contents
The volume contains sheets watermarked 1818.
Several leaves have been torn out at both ends of the volume and many leaves are blank except for the year recorded upon them.
The beginnings of an index to the original account book, the rest of which has evidently been torn out, appear, inverted, on folio 1 (i.e. what was originally the back of the volume).
Dates:
?1818-1912.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich.