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Signatures. Names.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Persons' names written in their own hand.

Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates concerning charges and discharges., 1696-1702.

 File
Identifier: F.R.41
Scope and Contents

Includes an inventory of bonds for the current Dean of Faculty and Mr John Fairholm, Treasurer. Signed by John Mackaile.

Dates: 1696-1702.

Album titled 'Autograph and Portraits', and labelled 1, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool., 1820-1840.

 Item
Identifier: MS.967
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.

Dates: 1820-1840.

Album titled 'Autograph and Portraits', and labelled 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool., 1820-1840.

 Item
Identifier: MS.968
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.

Dates: 1820-1840.

Autograph album of Florence Marian McNeill containing signatures cut from letters and other documents., 1907-1946, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26258
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1907-1946, undated.

Autographs of 'Divines and Judges' collected by William Finlay Watson., 16th century-19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.588-589
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.

The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).

Dates: 16th century-19th century.

Catechism, 17th century, on the contents of 'Regiam majestatem'., 17th century-1705.

 File
Identifier: MS.1949
Scope and Contents The work is in the handwriting of J Skene (apparently Sir James Skene, Lord President Curriehill), whose signature occurs on folio 6.It is preceded by an extract from ‘An historical essay showing that the crown and kingdom of Scotland is imperial and independent' (Edinburgh, 1705) by James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, in a hand of the eighteenth century (folio i); and short biographies of Scottish authors of the sixteenth century, partly taken from Thomas Dempster's 'Historia...
Dates: 17th century-1705.

Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2716
Scope and Contents

A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.

Dates: Late 18th century, 1818.

Collection of autographs, made circa 1840, consisting chiefly of franked envelopes and signatures., [Before 1840.]

 File
Identifier: MS.15975
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).

Dates: [Before 1840.]

Compendium containing copies of several treatises on Scots Law., 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1951
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'Institution of the Colledge of Justice', describing the foundation of the College, its procedure and personnel (page i), preceded by an index (folio ii); it appears to have been written after 1613;(ii) Hope's ‘Minor practicks’ (page 45), preceded by an index (page 41);(iii) 'Practiques observed befor The Lords of Sessione Collected alphabeticallie be (?)rj from 1627 to 1637' (page 141), preceded by an index (page 133);...
Dates: 17th century.

Confessions of Margaret Duchall and others, accused of witchcraft, and their delations against other persons, with the signatures of those who heard them, Alloa., 1658.

 File
Identifier: MS.1909
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: 1658.

Correspondence and financial papers., 1810-1852.

 File
Identifier: MS.573, folios 31-55
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: forged One Pound Note of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, 1810 (folio 31); petition of Nathaniel Gow for a pension, with correspondence, 1826 (folio 32); letter signed by four Principal Clerks of Session (including Thomas Thomson) relating to the accounts for office room, etc., 1848 (folio 48); letter of Duncan McNeill, afterwards 1st Baron Colonsay, 1848 (folio 50); letter of Charles Neaves, Solicitor-General, to William Edmonstoune Aytoun, Sheriff of Orkney,...
Dates: 1810-1852.

Inventory of the Crown jewels and plate of England, made on 20 May 1559, and subscribed by John Astley, Master of the Jewel House., 1559.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2825
Scope and Contents

A note (folio 104) signed by Burghley, Sir Walter Mildmay, and Sir Ralph Sadleir, as commissioners of the Crown, states that a new inventory has been made on 14 March 1575, and that the present one is to be accounted as void.

Dates: 1559.