Catalogue of Archives and Manuscripts Collections | National Library of Scotland | NLSMSS | Papers of the Douglas family used by the Hamilton lawyers in the Douglas Cause lawsuit, apparently to establish the principle of the Douglas succession.

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Arrangement

178 folios.
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows.
(i) Inventories, 1712, 1761, of Douglas papers in the Douglas charter chest and elsewhere. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Copies and extracts, 1761-1762, of Douglas charters, 1321-1633. Many of these were printed from the originals by Sir William Fraser in ‘The Douglas book’, volume iii; only those charters not printed in this work have been indexed. (Folio 44.)
(iii) Copies and extracts, 1761-1762, of Douglas deeds and writs, 1588-1707. (Folio 105.)
Bibliography
Fraser, William, Sir. ‘The Douglas book' (Edinburgh, 1885).

Papers of the Douglas family used by the Hamilton lawyers in the Douglas Cause lawsuit, apparently to establish the principle of the Douglas succession. Edit