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A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.
A collection of formal documents relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire.
A collection of five formal documents, 1544-1607, relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire (Ch.8486-8490), together with an extract, 1711, of an acknowledgement of payment, 1710, by Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (Ch.8491), and a burgess ticket of Campbeltown, 1764, granted to John Walker, botanist (Ch.8492). An inventory is available.
Burgess ticket and membership certificate, 1817, 1848, of the Merchants` House, Glasgow, in favour of James Muirhead. Also a blank burgess ticket of Peebles, undated.
Burgess ticket of Edinburgh in favour of Hugo Arnot, of Balcormo, Advocate.
Burgess ticket of Glasgow granted to Robert McDermeit, Fergushill.
It is preceded by a printed copy of the oath administered to burgesses.
Burgess ticket of Linlithgow granted to James Jeffray, wigmaker, Edinburgh.
Burgess-ticket of Linlithgow in favour of Alexander Blair, Dean of Guild of Lanark.
Burgess ticket of Renfrew granted to Patrick Caldwell, subsequently Minister of Norriestown.
Burgess ticket of South Queensferry granted to Lieutenant Richard Douglas, R N.
Burgess-ticket of the Canongate granted to Robert Richardson, flesher in the Canongate.
Burgess tickets of Glasgow, Elgin, Banff, Aberdeen, Dundee and St Andrews, granted to John Henry Petty, Viscount Fitzmaurice [subsequently 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne].
Charters and formal documents of the Graemes of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven, Perthshire.
Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.
Correspondence, diary, verse and other papers of and relating to John Wilson ‘Christopher North’, author and journalist [1785-1854].
The bulk and principal interest of the papers lie in the letters written by John Wilson to his mother, sister Jane and his wife Jane. Many of the letters relate to Wilson’s early life and shed light on his relations with his family, his life as a student in Glasgow and later in Oxford, and also at Elleray in the Lake District.
Design for a burgess and guild-ticket for Edinburgh executed by order of Thomas Cleghorn, Lord Dean of Guild, and presented to him by Archibald McDowall, Old Dean of Guild, and members of the Guild Court.
Diplomas of learned bodies, 1814-1846, burgess-ticket of Edinburgh, 1815, and commission as Inspector of Factories, 1833, bestowed on Leonard Horner.
Included is a copy of a deed of sale of pictures, executed by Sir Thomas Hanmer, Baronet, of Hanmer and Mildenhall, Speaker of the House of Commons, endorsed, apparently, in Hanmer`s hand, 1718 (Ch.942).