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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Observations on Scots law, including notes on runrig lands.
`Opinions Excise Scotland`, a volume containing copies of cases and opinions of Crown counsel in excise matters relating to Scotland.
The volume is stated (folio i) to have been copied for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, February 1752, from a book in the Excise Office at Edinburgh. It is prefaced by an indexed table of contents.
Original deed of the King`s Confession, signed by, among others, James VI, Lennox, Morton, Ruthven, and John Craig, the minister who drew it up.
Papers concerning sea laws.
With manuscript and printed items.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
Papers mostly concerning the prosecution and imprisonment of John Cameron of Fassifern.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1767. A large part of the papers consist of his essays, drafts and notes, many of which were used in his books.
Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Papers of the Skene family of Hallyards in Midlothian.
Papers, printed and manuscript, relating to the claim of Colonel William Fullarton of Glenquich to the title and dignity of Lord Spynie.
Includes the remarks of Lord Hailes on the Spynie peerage case (folio 92), and copies of deeds relating to the lands of the Abbey of Lindores, 1592, 1736, 1738 and 1743 (folio 130).
‘Repertory’ of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, Lord Justice Clerk.
`Riettarbætur Noregs Kónga.`
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:
1. A copy of the `Bualög` (Leges Oeconomicorum);
2. Commentary on some obscure passages of that code;
3. Glossary of old words found in the Law Code of Iceland.
Scots law style-book, written by D Bonthrone.
The author’s signature appears on folio 69.
Scottish criminal cases, 1716-1760, written in a formal 18th-century hand.
The manuscript is inscribed `Baron Hume 1829` at folio 1, and may have been compiled or copied by him whilst a student. It is imperfect, lacking an estimated 84 leaves between folios 56 and 57 (corresponding to pages 111-278 of the original pagination), and possibly a flyleaf or leaves; and the upper board is detached from the binding. There appears to be an unidentified bookplate underneath the pastedown stuck to the upper board.
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.
Six unrelated Scottish historical documents.
Small miscellany of letters (probably a remnant from a large collection), mostly by John Farquharson, formerly President of the Scots College, Douai, to the Scottish antiquary and historian, George Chalmers.
There are also three copies, all in Farquharson`s hand, of a memorial concerning the college. The items do not appear to have been arranged in any obvious order.
Two incomplete manuscript copies, both in the same hand, of the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian.
Two manuscripts bound together, containing the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Volume, compiled 1752, of the ‘Attorney General`s Opinions` on English excise cases, 1672-1707.
The collection is said by John Maule of Inverkeilor, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, to have been `Copyed from a Book in the excise Office at Edinburgh and gifted to me by the Commissioners of Excise`. The case opinions are arranged chronologically and refer almost entirely to duties, allowances and other regulations on spirits, beer, cider, perry and vinegar. Entries from page 197 postdate the Union of 1707.
Volume containing copies of legal opinions (mostly of Robert Blair of Avontoun as Solicitor General), and of other legal letters and papers (some printed) on various topics.
A letter is tipped in at folio 20, copies of legal papers are tipped in at folios 76 and 114, and printed legal papers are tipped in and pasted in at folios 29 and 32 verso respectively; folios 85-113, 116-120 are blank.