Subscription lists.
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Album of Thomas Constable, publisher, containing the names of subscribers to ‘Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland’ by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, among which are signatures, 1842, of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
Kennel Book, 1797-1926, compiled by James Hunter Rutherford W.S. (adm.1877), of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt. With correspondence, accounts and subscription lists, 1915-1948, of and relating to the Hunt.
The main interest of this collection lies in the Kennel Book. Its author, James Hunter Rutherford, was Honorary Secretary of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt and Master of Foxhounds from1915-1926. He was the author of The History of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt, 1775-1910, Edinburgh, 1911. The Kennel Book records every hound that was part of the hunt, its name, parentage and fate.
List of subscribers (many from Scottish towns) to the national testimonial to John Bright.
Manuscript of 'The Gododdin' by William Owen Pughe, with facing English translation, and other papers.
Microfilm of Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.
The contents are as follows:
Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).
Microfilm of subscription book of the Darien Company, Glasgow lists.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Music books and papers of Robert Moir (died 1869), who was President of the Edinburgh Church-Music Society and subsequently Conductor of Music at St Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall.
Papers concerning the erection of a monument to the Gaelic poet, Rob Donn.
Papers of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC).
Papers of Trinity Bowling Club.
Includes minute book, proposal book, subscription lists, account books, record of matches, menu card and photographs.
Photocopies of minutes and a subscription list, concerning the founding of the school at Frenchie.
Portion of the autobiography of George Miller, bookseller in Haddington and Dunbar, covering the years 1803 to 1818.
Some leaves are missing at the beginning and end of the volume.
Inserted are some letters to George Miller, printed prospectuses, subscription sheets, etc.
Proposals for raising a subscription among Judges and Members of the Faculty of Advocates, former pupils of David Hume as Professor of Scots Law, with a view to procuring a memorial to him on his retirement from that office.
The proposal is signed by fifty-two subscribers, including Sir Walter Scott. Chantrey was asked to execute a bust of Hume, but was unable to undertake the commission (see Scott's letter to Chantrey of 7 September 1822, and note, in the Centenary Edition of his letters).
‘Record of Subscriptions & Payments in the County of Berwick in aid of Government towards the Defence of the Country', a ledger kept by Alexander Christie of Grueldykes.
The ledger contains subscription-lists of the various parishes and copies of relevant correspondence 1798-1802, with loose letters, 1799-1803, 1810-1811.
Records of the Incorporation of Linlithgow Shoemakers, consisting chiefly of minutes, accounts, and lists of members.
Signatures, undated, of Sir Alexander Carnegy of Balnamoon, Mr George Haliburton, Minister of Menmuir (afterwards Bishop of Dunkeld), and other subscribers in the parish of Menmuir, appended to ‘A solemne league and covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1643).
Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles`s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures.
Subscribers' list for John Mackenzie's 'Eachdraidh a' Phrionnsa' (1844)
A bound volume containing the signatures and addresses of 291 subscribers to Mackenzie's Gaelic history of the Jacobite Rising, 'Eachdraidh a' Phrionnsa', first published in Edinburgh in 1844.