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Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates: 1561, 17th century-late 19th century.

Scottish chartularies transcribed, 1738-1744, for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.2.5-35.3.9
Scope and Contents

The wording and ornament of the title pages suggest a division into three groups:

(i) Adv.MSS.35.2.5, 35.3.6, 35.3.7, 35.39: 1738-1739.

(ii) Adv.MSS.35.3.2, 35.3.4: 1740.

(iii) Adv.MSS.35.3.3, 35.3.5, 35.3.8: 1740-1744.

The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library, with notes taken from Richard Augustine Hay`s works. Only those documents the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.

Dates: 13th century-1707, or after.