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Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.

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Identifier: MS.3411
Scope and Contents According to a note on folio 2, the book was purchased by the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith in 1669, and it contains records of transactions from the Acts and Statutes, 1525 to 1754. These records, which are not continuous, are chiefly of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They include: a note of entry-fees to be paid by freemen and their sons, with the Oath of Admission (folio 22 verso); minutes of the admission of freemen from 1601 to 1754, with their marks...
Dates: 1525-1754.

Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.

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Identifier: MS.21246
Scope and Contents The manuscript was written by two hands in the second half of the fourteenth century, with one slighly later addition (section (i)) and fifteenth-century additions (sections (ii), (x) etc.). In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the volume had East Fife connections.The contents are as follows. (i) Styles of writs, brieves, etc., in 107 chapters. The majority belong to the reign of Robert II. (Folio 2.) (ii) An alphabetical index to the volume, 15th century. (Folio 17...
Dates: 2nd half of 14th century-15th century.

Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI, by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.

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Identifier: MS.990
Scope and Contents

Contains three of the printed, interleaved copies which Lord Hailes issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks, with autograph notes by Lord Auchinleck, James Gordon, Advocate, and Hailes himself.

Dates: [?1768.]

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