Warrants. Permissions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents giving authority to do something; especially used in civil and criminal law for the arrest of persons or for their production in court as witnesses.
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Account-book, containing particulars of the expenditure of Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I), the Duke of Buckingham, and Sir Francis Cottington, on their visit to Spain, April-September 1623., 1623.
Item
Identifier: MS.1879
Scope and Contents
The keeper of the accounts refers to 'my brother Richard Wyche'.
At the end of the volume are specimens of various kinds of warrant and passport.
A typed transcript has been placed with the manuscript.
Dates:
1623.
Account of James Durham, argentar., 1641.
Item
Identifier: MS.20776
Scope and Contents
The charge (folio 2) is followed by warrants by Sir James Carmichael, treasurer-depute, and receipts by James Durham, for payments. The discharge (folio 24) is arranged by section of the household and is without vouchers.
Dates:
1641.
Act and warrants of the Dean of Guild Court in favour of John Ritchie and Company, containing related letters., 1875-1886.
File
Identifier: Acc.11812/165
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates:
1875-1886.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Titles, financial records and papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
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Papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch', relating to the premises of the business.
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Title papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
Appointments, awards and honours., 1857-1902.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9942/49-50
Scope and Contents
Item 50 not received by National Library of Scotland.
Dates:
1857-1902.
Blank Privy Council warrant for the arrest of Jacobites in Scotland, addressed to the 3rd Earl of Leven., 1708.
Item
Identifier: MS.14835, folios 3-4
Dates:
1708.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume second'., 1748-1753.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.4B
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These volumes concern the local politics of Ross and Cromarty and Sutherland, the claims of the Earl of Sutherland on account of his exertions in opposing the Rebels, the means by which Sir John Gordon of Invergordon obtained the place of Secretary to the Principality, many documents concerning the Principality and Crown rents, and other matters apparently suggested to the writer by his connexion with Sir John Gordon.In both volumes, mixed up with private or local &...
Dates:
1748-1753.
Dividend warrants., 1937-1947.
File
Identifier: Acc.9416/17
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Associated companies and other organisations represented in the records include: The Carfraemill Hotel Co, Ltd; The Barnton Hotel Ltd; Barclay Perkins and Co, and Messrs Cockburn and Murray; The Littlemill Distillery Co; and the Scottish Wholesale Wine Distributors' Association.
Dates:
1937-1947.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Records of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd.
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Correspondence and papers of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd. and associated companies and other organisations.
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Correspondence and papers, mostly legal and financial documents, of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd. and associated companies and other organisations.
Documents, originals and copies, concerning the administration of Scotland., 1628-1764, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17503-17504
Scope and Contents
The seventeenth-century papers mostly concern Sir George Fletcher and the military contributions of the parish of Saltoun in the Civil War, the eighteenth-century ones are largely copies of commissions and warrants of office in the royal gift, apparently collected to act as models for renewal; but there are also papers concerning Holyroodhouse, local government, the disarming of the Highlands, Leith Harbour, the price of meat, trade with the American colonies, the censorship of newspapers,...
Dates:
1628-1764, undated.
Family papers, including contracts, retours and sasines, some concerning Gilbert Skene., 1540-1661.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/3
Scope and Contents
Contains:39. Copy assedation Alexander, Bishop of Brechin, in favour of James Guthrie burgess of Edinburgh and Christiane Barron his spouse of the teinds of the lands of Bannabrioth and half of the mill-lands thereof in liferent and for three heirs lives and 90 years thereafter. Edinburgh, 27 January 1577.40. Contract at Edinburgh 16 September 1575 between Mr Gilbert Skene, doctor of medicine on one part and John Melros, writer burgess of Edinburgh on the other part...
Dates:
1540-1661.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates:
1231-1641.
Letters and state papers of James VI., 1578-1621.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.6
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers are drafts made or collected by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, the Secretary of State. Letter, The Hague, 30 January 1587, of the Council of State of the United Provinces to James VI; in French (folios 1-2). - This letter does not appear to have been published or summarised elsewhere, and is briefly summarized here:The Council have received James’s letters concerning restitution to be made for Scottish merchandise seized by warships from...
Dates:
1578-1621.
Minor state papers, chiefly of the eighteenth century, with a few from the end of the seventeenth, concerned partly with military and Parliamentary affairs, and the business of the Court., Late 17th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2667
Scope and Contents
The papers include memoranda, copies of 'humble addresses', departmental warrants, accounts and receipts.
Dates:
Late 17th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous papers, mostly relating to Jacobites., 1693-1825, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6290, folios 3-134
Scope and Contents
The papers include: a copy of a declaration, 1693, of James II to his Jacobite subjects, after his flight (folio 3); political verse, early 17th and 18th centuries (folio 5); copies of two speeches in the Scottish Parliament, 1702, one anonymous, concerning Presbyterian government (folio 18), and one by the Duke of Hamilton, signifying his retirement from Parliament (folio 19); a list, 1715, of clan chiefs, showing their political allegiances (folio 20); a copy of a letter, 1715, written by...
Dates:
1693-1825, undated.
Miscellaneous papers relating to James Augustus Grant., 1846-1878.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.15214-15228
Scope and Contents
Includes: commissions to Grant as ensign, lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel,1846-1869; warrants to him as Companion of the Bath and Companion of the Star of India, 1866, 1869; commission to him as Deputy Lieutenant of Nairnshire, 1876; his passport, 1863; his burgess tickets of Nairn and Dingwall, 1863; and minute of his freedom of the Turners` Company, 1878.
Dates:
1846-1878.
`Miscellany Exchequer Scotland`, a volume containing copies of accounts, warrants, minutes, reports and other papers created in the Court of Exchequer., 1705-1773.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.5
Dates:
1705-1773.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Monthly lists of incidental expenses, 1676-1697, and financial precepts addressed to Sir Robert Moray, 1671-1672., 1671-1697.
File
Identifier: MS.14627
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Unless specified otherwise, accounts in this section are of, to or concern the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, or Jean, Countess of Tweeddale.
Dates:
1671-1697.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts and related papers of, to or concerning the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, or Jean, Countess of Tweeddale.
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Particular and classified accounts.
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Particular accounts.
Morton papers, volume 4: 'Original Documents, 1466-1570'., 1466-1570.
File
Identifier: MS.76
Papers of the Earls of Lauderdale, chiefly of John, Duke of Lauderdale, with some other papers, collected by William Finlay Watson., 1641-1697, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.597
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers relate to the administration of Scotland during the period of the Duke of Lauderdale’s power, and consist of draft letters, warrants, commissions, petitions, memoranda, memorials, etc. They include, e.g. the draft of the letter of Charles II to Mr Robert Douglas to be communicated to the Presbytery of Edinburgh, 10 August 1660 (folio 27), printed in R Wodrow, ‘History of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland’ (Glasgow, 1829), volume i, pages 80-81, and ‘The Apologie of...
Dates:
1641-1697, undated.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian: volume 1: Various letters and papers., 1639-1747.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.26
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Letters to Patrick Lindsay, Member of Parliament, 1736-1737, concerning the Porteous Riots (folio 1).(ii) Letters to Patrick Lindsay, Member of Parliament, 1735, 1739, chiefly concerning the licensing of a theatre in Edinburgh (folio 19).(iii) Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745-1746, including a printed military pass of Prince Charles Edward to Patrick Lindsay, Lord George Murray`s releasement of...
Dates:
1639-1747.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning a dispute with Edinburgh Town Council., 1688-1699, undated.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/11(iii)
Dates:
1688-1699, undated.
Papers relating to the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh, many of which appear to have been cut from the prison register., 1662-1794.
File
Identifier: MS.215
Scope and Contents
The papers include a petition of Christian Strachan, accused of parricide, for appointment of counsel, with signature of James Erskine, Lord Grange, 1712 (folio 4); warrants for committing to, continuing in, or liberating from, the Tolbooth, 1662-1673 (folio 5), 1736 (folio 10), 1794 (folio 13); the imprisonment of seven soldiers of the City Guard for firing on the mob at the execution of Andrew Wilson, 1736 (folio 10); names of eleven persons who escaped from the Tolbooth as a result of the...
Dates:
1662-1794.
Printed circulars concerning the establishment of Volunteer Corps, requisitions and supplies, etc., 1803-1804.
File
Identifier: MS.13375
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1803-1804.
Receipts and warrants for cash by members of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1730-1885.
File
Identifier: MS.16833
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise receipts and warrants for cash by Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton with the Royal Bank of Scotland, 1730-1765 (folio 1), by General John Fletcher with the Royal Bank of Scotland, 1792-1800 (folio 230), and with the Bank of Scotland, 1802-1809 (folio 347), and of Andrew and Lady Charlotte Fletcher with various banks, 1828, 1847-1850 (folio 352), and cheque stubs, 1878, 1883-1885 (folio 369).
Dates:
1730-1885.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 8: letters and papers, 1599-1622 (chiefly 1617-1618), undated., 1599-1622, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [viii]
Scope and Contents
The volume is entitled ‘Staite Bussines for ye yeires 1617 and 1618. Reg. Jacobo 6’, and is marked ‘A.2.45’ and ’Denmilne 47’.The letters are chiefly addressed to James VI. Included is material on the royal visit to Scotland.The contents are as follows.(i) Memoranda of Privy Council of Scotland proceedings concerning Lord Sanquhar and William Crichton, the Laird of Smeaton Hepburn’s appointment to be Sherriff of Haddington, and various preparations for...
Dates:
1599-1622, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1560-1641, undated.