Petitions.
Found in 254 Collections and/or Records:
Petition, 16 December 1791, to the Court of Session of the Governor and Company for raising the Thames Water in York Buildings (Incomplete), with the answers, 26 January 1792, for Alexander Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet., 1791, 1792.
A table is included with Alexander Mackenzie’s answers.
Petition against entry to the European Economic Community, organized by the Edinburgh Regional Council of the Scottish National Party.
With circa 21000 signatures.
Petition by John Grahame of Braco to the Lords of Council to make an inventory of his father`s writs., 25 January 1631.
Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.
Petition by Sir Robert Fletcher of Innerpeffer to Commissioners for Administration of Justice against Patrick Livingston in Mureton., 11 June, 26 November 1653.
Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.
Petition for relief addressed by the Federal Republicans and Friends of Peace of Nantucket Island to Sir Alexander Cochrane., 1814
Petition of Alexander Mounsey, sometime tenant-farmer of Skipmires, in the parish of Tinwald, Dumfriesshire, ‘but now residing in the township of Vaughan in the County of York and Province of Upper Canada’, to the House of Commons., 1861.
The petitioner, who is heir at law of William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, petitions the House to order to be laid before it an account of Paterson’s share in the Equivalent, and to cause the large amount of it which is believed to remain unappropriated to be devoted to the spread of botanical knowledge in Scotland by means of university scholarships, etc.
Petition of Alexander Munro, of Bearcrofts, seeking restoration of his office of Clerk of Session, inserted in a volume of printed papers concerning the subsequent legal proceedings., 1693.
These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.
Petition of Andrew Rutherfurd for admission to the Faculty of Advocates., 8 June 1811.
Petition of the parish of Yester concerning the Minister of Yester., 1821.
223 signatures.
Petition of thread-manufacturers in Aberdeen regarding flax ordered by them in Holland and rendered unobtainable by the blockade, with covering letters., 1799.
Petition presented by pensioners and discharged soldiers of the County of Lanark to the House of Lords.
The petitioners claim exemption from the payment of Road Money, a tax levied for the repair of roads, etc., in lieu of Highway Duty, in virtue of an Act exempting ex-soldiers from the latter. The document, which bears 86 signatures, is accompanied by a letter to the 2nd Viscount Melville, 1823.
Petition, resolution and other papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Petition to King George III of the pensioned officers of the Scots Dutch Brigade, with a memorandum concerning the petition., April 1796.
Petition to Lords of Council by Samuel Blackburn, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, against John, Lord Saltoun., 1669.
The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.
Petition to Parliament by justices and magistrates of Edinburgh concerning roads., Mid 18th century.
Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.
Petition to the Dean of Guild by Sir William Bruce.
Concerning the repair of a tenement in the High Street, Edinburgh.
Petition to the Privy Council by Thomas Ogilvy, merchant, burgess of Dundee., March 1595.
Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.
Petitions and Answers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the admission of Robert Forsyth, teacher of civil law in Edinburgh.
Petitions and correspondence relating to improvements on the Sutherland Estates., 1885-1930.
Petitions and memoranda, chiefly written by or addressed to members of the Erskine family in their various official capacities., 1583-1801.
The contents include: directions, 1583, for the education of Ludovick, 2nd Duke of Lennox (folio 1); papers, 1728-1756, on the coal, linen and woollen trades in Scotland (folios 39-106, passim); papers, 1747-1760, on the state of the Highlands after the 'Forty-Five, mostly advocating the raising of volunteer companies under the command of the factors on the Forfeited Estates to help keep the Highlands quiet in case of an invasion from France (folios 61-140, passim).
Petitions and other papers relating to Intrants to the Faculty of Advocates.
Petitions, chiefly of prisoners seeking better conditions or release, and a few of others seeking recompense for losses, together with some related documents such as certificates and bail-bonds., 1745-1747, 1755, 1761, undated.
The majority of the papers are addressed to the Lord Justice Clerk, some to other officials and soldiers.
Petitions for admission, and decisions thereon of the Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh., 1667-1668.
Containing approximately seventeen items.