Petitions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Includes any written requests and lists of signatures submitted to an authority to appeal for the performance of specific action.
Found in 254 Collections and/or Records:
Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745., 1745-1761, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17514-17531
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The majority of the papers grouped here are Lord Milton's political papers, reflecting his manifold interests and involvements. There are however some of earlier and later date, generated or collected by other members of the Fletcher family.
Dates:
1745-1761, undated.
Papers concerning the Peers of Scotland., 1707-1761.
File
Identifier: MS.17534
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise a list of Peers according to the Rolls of the last Parliament of Scotland, 1707; copy of a petition by them to Queen Anne concerning their right to sit in the House of Lords by virtue of a peerage of Great Britain, 1710; notes of limitations on Scots peerages, 1740; opinion on the succession to Lord Newark, 1741; the Earl of Bute's list for voting at the election of Representative Peers, 1747; ten proxies, signed but not completed, for the same election; two claims to...
Dates:
1707-1761.
Papers concerning the Society of Writers to His Majesty`s Signet.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.6
Scope and Contents
The papers include copies of acts and proposals to prevent abuses within the Society, 1666-1699 (folio 3); a declaration of loyalty to William III, 1701 (folio 19); and petitions to the Society, 1699-1733 (folio 21).
Dates:
1632-1733.
Papers concerning Widows Fund, Annuitants, Poor relief, and other financial papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/9
Dates:
1703-1856.
Papers mostly concerning the prosecution and imprisonment of John Cameron of Fassifern.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12341
Dates:
1753-1759, 1809 and undated.
Papers of Hugh Elliot relating to the Governorship of the Leeward Islands., 1809-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13054-13058
Scope and Contents
Most of these papers consist of official correspondence with the government, and with the formal depositions and memoranda concerning legal cases mostly against planters for cruelty to their slaves. The case against Arthur Hodge in which Hugh Elliot by his own personal interference secured a conviction is well documented.
Dates:
1809-1813.
Papers of Hugh Elliot relating to the Neapolitan Mission., 1802-1808, 1814.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13023-13053
Scope and Contents
These papers cover every aspect of Hugh Elliot's official activities during his embassy at Naples and subsequently at Palermo, 1803-1806. In addition to normal diplomatic affairs, they deal extensively with naval operations in the Mediterranean and with military campaigns in southern Italy, particularly Calabria.
Dates:
1802-1808, 1814.
Papers of John Rennie relating to various mills., 1787-1831, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19816
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Barclay and Perkins Brewery, estimates and valuations, 1805-1807, 1809, 1813-1816, with a note of all payments made by the brewery to John Ronnie and Sons, from 1794 to 1831 (folio 1);
(ii) Billinge's Silk Mill, Twyford, drawings and notes, 1799 (folio 25);
(iii) The Earl of Bridgewater's threshing machine at Home Farm, Ashridge, 1811-1813 (folio 31);
(iv) Cement mill at Loftus, Yorkshire, letters, 1811 (folio 58);
(v) Claverton Mill, plan of water levels,...
Dates:
1787-1831, undated.
Papers of John Spottiswoode, Advocate, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, 1702-1728.
Series
Identifier: MSS.658-660
Dates:
1698-1718.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning a dispute with Edinburgh Town Council., 1633-1680.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/11(i)
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 Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, 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., 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 the Incorporation of Sailors of Fisherrow and Musselburgh, or Fisherrow Sailor’s Society, comprising correspondence, petitions to the Society for assistance, receipts, and documents relating to the winding-up of the Society, and, at the end, printed Rules of the Society., 1684-1889.
File
Identifier: MS.1999
Scope and Contents
The papers were loose in an iron box retained by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (see MS.1998, folio iv).
Dates:
1684-1889.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Minute books and cash books of the Incorporation of Sailors of Fisherrow and Musselburgh, or Fisherrow Sailor’s Society, from 1669 to its dissolution in 1889, with relevant papers.
Papers of the Justiciary Court of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/56
Dates:
1880.
Papers of the "Keep Our Scottish Battalions" Campaign.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11230
Dates:
1991-1994.
Papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.545
Scope and Contents
Included are:(i) Commission by the Marquess of Montrose to Sir James Lamont, 14th of that Ilk, to raise the fencible men in the Sheriffdom of Argyll (contemporary copy), 1645 (folio 1);(ii) ‘Articles of Capitulatione aggreed upon betuixt James Campbell of Ardkinlas ... and Sir James Lamount of Inuerin, Knight, ... annent the surrender and overgiving of his garison at Toward. At Auchevullin, the 3 of Junii, 1646’ (contemporary copy); the document is printed from...
Dates:
1645-1734.
Papers of the MacLeods of Geanies relating to the loss of Assynt., 1654-1763.
File
Identifier: MS.19295
Scope and Contents
In 1738, Hugh MacLeod, 2nd of Geanies, re-opened the case of his uncle, Neil, 9th of Assynt, to recover the lands of Assynt lost following Neil's reputed betrayal of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose in 1650. The documents relate mainly to Hugh MacLeod's case, 1738-1763, being mostly legal papers, but including the petition of Neil MacLeod to General Monck of 1654. There are also papers concerning the case in the hand of Donald MacLeod, 3rd of Geanies.
Dates:
1654-1763.
Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition., 1811.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11620-11624
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition., 1811.
File
Identifier: MS.11620
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Papers relating to claims of the military on Amboina (folio 1);
(ii) Letter of Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, to Hugh Hope in Java (folio 116);
(iii) Copy of a dispatch from the Bengal Government to the Court of Directors concerning John Richardson, Political Agent in Bundelkhand, with an excerpt of a private letter from Richardson to the Chief Secretary (folio 121);
(iv) Copy of a dispatch from the Bengal Government to the Court of...
Dates:
1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition.
Papers relating to the collieries at Urquhart and Lochgelly., 1703-1792.
File
Identifier: MS.13304
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Papers relating to conditions of employment of colliers at Urquhart and Lochgelly, 1730-1743, 1783, 1792, including bonds of coalhewers to the mines, papers relating to renegade colliers, and petitions, etc., concerning the position of the coalgrieve (folio 1);(ii) Lists of absences from the Urquhart colliery, 1743-1744 (folio 78);(iii) Miscellaneous bills and receipts relating to the collieries, 1703, 1705, 1729-1746, consisting...
Dates:
1703-1792.
Papers relating to the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh, many of which appear to have been cut from the prison register., 1662-1794.
File
Identifier: MS.215
Scope and Contents
The papers include a petition of Christian Strachan, accused of parricide, for appointment of counsel, with signature of James Erskine, Lord Grange, 1712 (folio 4); warrants for committing to, continuing in, or liberating from, the Tolbooth, 1662-1673 (folio 5), 1736 (folio 10), 1794 (folio 13); the imprisonment of seven soldiers of the City Guard for firing on the mob at the execution of Andrew Wilson, 1736 (folio 10); names of eleven persons who escaped from the Tolbooth as a result of the...
Dates:
1662-1794.