Petitions.
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Petitions and other papers relating to Intrants to the Faculty of Advocates.
Single items and small collections of letters of a variety of nineteenth-century theological and legal figures.
The volume includes letters of Sir Archibald Alison, 1844-1846, Thomas Chalmers, 1814-1845, Lord Cockburn, 1850-1854. Sir William Jardine, 1829-1852, Francis Jeffrey, 1805-1849, Sydney Smith, 1810-1826, letters, 1812-1835, of and to Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, and letters, 1828-1835, to William Aird Thomson from other ministers with petitions, 1835, from some parishes on his proposed election as Moderator of the General Assembly.
Six letters of Robert Hamilton and three of Richard Wilson, managers of theatrical companies.
Concerning applications for licences to perform at Perth.
With two associated manuscript petitions, a printed proposal, and two playbills.
Statement of the case of the petitioners in the case of the 'Beacon' newspaper, in the hand of Walter Scott [?1821], with the printed 'Petition', 1821, and 'Answers' thereto, 1822.
Inserted at the beginning is an account of the circumstances in which Sir Walter Scott wrote this statement.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).