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Minutes of resignation. Legal instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Legal instrument recording the surrender of a vassal's estate to the superior.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates: 1231-1641.

Letters and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1812-1813.

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Identifier: MS.11336
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Copies of the 1st Earl of Minto's 'Minute on quitting the Government of India and the minutes of the members of Council in reply', 2 October 1813 (folio 1); (ii) Copies of, and correspondence concerning, addresses to the 1st Earl on leaving India from the British inhabitants of Calcutta, Murshidabad and Berhampur, the natives of Rangpur, the Dutch inhabitants of Batavia, and the native and European inhabitants of Malacca, 1813 (folio 10); (iii) Letters to the...
Dates: 1812-1813.