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Minutes. Administrative records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records of what was said and done at meetings or conferences.

Found in 322 Collections and/or Records:

Administrative records of the Bible Board for Scotland.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11182/1-41
Scope and Contents In the early 19th century there was much public complaint about the cost and quality of Bibles produced on both sides of the Border where the respective King's printers enjoyed monopoly rights to the printing of acts of Parliament, proclamations, the Authorised Version of the Bible, the metrical psalms, catechism, etc (in England the universities of Oxford and Cambridge also had the Bible printing privilige). When the existing Scottish patent expired in 1839, new letters patent were issued...
Dates: 1832-1981.

Archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13695
Scope and Contents

The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.

Dates: 1891-2009

Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10893/1-451
Scope and Contents

Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

Dates: 1972-1991.

Assorted administrative papers of Yes Musselburgh, and of the Musselburgh and District Branch, Scottish National Party, relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, collected by Nan Proudfoot.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13682/1-2
Scope and Contents

The papers include minutes of meetings, campaign strategy documents, newsletters, financial reports, and other documents.

Dates: 2012-?2014.

'Book containing minutes of what passed in the Convention of Estates, 1648.'

 File
Identifier: MS.8482
Scope and Contents The text describes the proceedings of Parliament, 9 March to 18 April, 1648, including meetings of the committees of eighteen and twenty four, and, occasionally, of the separate estates. Two of the meetings were also attended by ministers delegated by the Commission of the General Assembly. The debates mainly concern the conflict between the Parliament and the Church over the terms of the Engagement.The record is, in some respects, fuller than that in the ‘Acts of the Parliament...
Dates: 1648.

Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3411
Scope and Contents According to a note on folio 2, the book was purchased by the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith in 1669, and it contains records of transactions from the Acts and Statutes, 1525 to 1754. These records, which are not continuous, are chiefly of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They include: a note of entry-fees to be paid by freemen and their sons, with the Oath of Admission (folio 22 verso); minutes of the admission of freemen from 1601 to 1754, with their marks...
Dates: 1525-1754.

Books of the Incorporation of Kelso Glovers and Skinners.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3081-3083
Dates: 18th century-19th century.

Coal accounts of Niddrie Mill, including accounts of money advanced by Lord Niddrie to erect the mill, production figures, expenses and profits.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17952
Scope and Contents

At the back of the volume there are minutes and accounts of tacksmen of customs, 1686-1692.

Dates: 1686-1700.

Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vols. I-II
Scope and Contents

The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.

Dates: 1793-1794.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.

 File
Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates: [1562]-1563, [1568].

Copy by John Boswell of "Decreets of Division of Valuations in the Shire of Ayr".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7357
Scope and Contents

Consisting of records of meetings of the Commissioners of Supply and other papers.

Dates: 1774, 1779.

Copy of minutes of Jedburgh Sheriff Court.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3867
Scope and Contents

Concerning the Roxburghshire election, 1790.

Dates: circa 1800.

Correspondence and papers of Charles Stuart, then a member of the Bengal Council, and later a professor of Oriental Languages at the East India College, Haileybury.

 File
Identifier: MS.9368
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of private letters from Charles Stuart to Henry Dundas, lst Viscount Melville, and to his friend William Dundas, the latter's nephew, with extensive enclosures, largely minutes and reports by Stuart, and copies of official correspondence and dispatches. The private correspondence contains particular detail on fiscal policies and the internal politics of the Bengal administration.

Dates: 1784-1792.

Correspondence and papers of Dr Alastair M Dunnett.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10464
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with Lord Thomson of Fleet, the directors of the Thomson Organisation, Armand Hammer and Presidents of Ocidental Petroleum.

With minutes and papers of the Publicity, Environment and Planning Committee of the Occidental North Sea Consortium.

Dates: 1977-1987.

Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20005-20036
Scope and Contents

There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

Dates: 1833-1925, undated.