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Miscellaneous papers, relating chiefly to lands and families of Angus, several accompanied by modern transcripts.
File
Identifier: MS.3044
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1626-1686, undated, relating to the lands of Ardoch and Craigo in the Parish of Logie-Montrose (numbers 1-42);(ii) Papers, 1550, 1591, relating to Fullartoun of Ardoch (numbers 43-45);(iii) Correspondence, 1668-1759, of David Carnegy of Craigo and his descendants (numbers 46-53);(iv) Letters and papers, 1612-1726, of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Earls of Kellie (numbers 54-63), including 'En acouent of Lady...
Dates:
1550-1855, undated.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.10335
Dates:
1651-1907, undated.
Papers concerning Widows Fund, Annuitants, Poor relief, and other financial papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/9
Dates:
1703-1856.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning exemptions from Jury Service.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/17
Dates:
1793-1814.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, undated.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.
File
Identifier: MS.68
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notarial copy of the proceedings in the case of the magistrates of Elgin v the Procurator of the Church of Scotland, 1713. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Memorial concerning the opposition offered by the Bank of England to the draught of a warrant for a charter to incorporate the proprietors of the Scots Equivalent Debentures', 1719. (Folio 12.)(iii) Correspondence, 1719, of the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, on the prosecution of the...
Dates:
1713-1790.