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Public records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records originating with or maintained by a government and available for access by the public.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton’, the title in the hand of Sir James Balfour prefaced to the collection from original charters, public records & chartularies made by Sir Thomas Hamilton, Clerk of Register and First Lord of Haddington.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1a-b
Scope and Contents

There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.

Dates: ?Early 17th century.

‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton, vol. I’., ?Early 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1a
Scope and Contents From the Series:

There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.

Dates: ?Early 17th century.

‘Collection of charters, evidents and antiquities collected by E. Hadinton, vol. II’, ?Early 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.1b
Scope and Contents From the Series:

There is no method preserved in the arrangement of the charters nor any index to the contents of the volumes but along the margins, especially of the first volume are notes in the hand of Sir James Balfour, which though imperfect are convenient.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.4.16.

Dates: ?Early 17th century.

Public account-book from the time when Sir Thomas John Cochrane was Governor of Newfoundland., 1825-1829.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2377
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: 1825-1829.