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Legal papers, 1901-1912, relating to the Trust of Mr Alexander Low Bruce and his African Estates.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13503
Scope and Contents

Legal agreements, 1901-1912, relating to the Alexander Low Bruce Trust, and disposal and legal status of his African Estates.

Dates: 1901-1912

Legal papers concerning the property of Silvermills, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11723
Scope and Contents

Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Law, Riddell, Vere and other families, and the sequestration of Henry Raeburn and Co, Leith.

Dates: circa 1850-1915.

Legal papers of the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9323
Scope and Contents

Concerning Leith Links.

Dates: 1803-1805.

Legal stylebook.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.1

Letter, 1790, and memorial, undated, signed by James Bruce of Kinnaird.

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Identifier: MS.2917
Scope and Contents

James Bruce requests a reward for his services in giving advice on the possibility of an attack on Ferrol or Gascony and in exploring Barbary and the Nile, and describes his interviews with the authorities in London.

From the handwriting of the endorsement, the letter appears to have been addressed to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

Dates: 1790, undated.

Letter book of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10683
Scope and Contents

The topics include the militia, suppression of riots in Glasgow, estate affairs, appointments in the Excise service and advice on points of law. The inverted pages contain opinions on legal cases.

Dates: 1812-1813.

Letter-book of John Ewing, Writer to the Signet, legal agent for the Earls of Morton, concerning the Earls` affairs in Orkney and Shetland.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.9
Scope and Contents

The correspondence is mostly legal and financial in nature, dealing with the running of the estate, the tenants` accounts, and the supply of butter, beer and malt, but there are some references to contemporary events such as the South Sea Bubble and the threat of a Spanish invasion. There is a break in the correspondence from 1721 to 1730, and some of the later letters are signed R E.

Dates: 1715-1736.

Letter-book of John Russell of Braidshaw, Writer to the Signet (adrnitted 1711), started in 1700 and continued until 1712, with an almost complete gap between December 1704 and January 1707, and another between November 1707 and May 1709.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.9
Scope and Contents

The volume contains copies, drafts and summaries of his outgoing letters, and copies of legal and financial documents concerning himself and his sisters. Several letters are addressed to merchants and officials in Rotterdam (where his father had been a merchant) and in other parts of Holland.

Dates: 1700-1712.

Letter of William Fullarton.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4086
Scope and Contents

Concerning his claim to the title of Lord Spynie, with notes of Lord Hailes on the case, and a printed "Additional Appendix to the Case...".

Dates: 1785.

Letters and legal and business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern.

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Identifier: Acc.11137/1-51
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.

The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.

Dates: 1700-20th century, undated.

Letters and legal documents of the Napier family of Merchiston.

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Identifier: Acc.14371
Content Description

A collection of 55 documents bound into a large volume, ca. 1900, where they are mostly mounted onto the pages. Items 1-29 are legal documents; 30-40 concern early 17th-century family matters; 41-50 concern domestic Scottish affairs during the reign of Charles I, and 51-55 relate to events in the reign of Charles II.

A list of the documents is kept with the volume.

Dates: 1465-1689.

Letters and memoranda, 1785-1794, written by the descendants of peers attainted in the 1715 Jacobite rising in an attempt to recover their titles and estates.

 File
Identifier: MS.5209
Scope and Contents

Most of the letters and memorandums, 1785-1794 are from the Earl of Mar, addressed apparently to the Earl of Seaforth (folios 13-67).

Also included are notes and copies of opinions, 1761-1820, on the succession to five peerages attainted in the 1715 and 1745 risings (folios 68-137), and miscellaneous notes, undated, on peerages (folios 1-12).

Dates: 1761-1820, undated.

Letters and papers, chiefly of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.4
Scope and Contents

Much of the correspondence is personal or concerns Anderson`s historical work, but some is of a legal or financial nature. Folios 154-158 consist of invitations to funerals.

Dates: 1684-1731, and undated.

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Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 4
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 3
Dalrymple, James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619-1695 3
Gordon, family, of Halmyre and Gordonstoun 3
Sutherland Estates 3
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United and Incorporated Trades of St Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh 3
Christie, family, of Stenton 2
Douglas, family, of Cavers 2
Galbraith, family, of Blackhouse 2
Hamilton, George Nigel Douglas-, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 1906-1994 2
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 2
Lockhart, family, of Lee and Carnwath 2
Minto, family, Earls of Minto 2
Rutherfurd, family, of Edgerston 2
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 1
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, 1871-1913 1
Anderson, Andrew, surgeon, fl 1804-1853 1
Anderson, David, Staff Surgeon, ? 1821-1854 1
Anderson, Henry, Minister of Tillicoultry Free Church, 1779-1845 1
Anderson, Thomas, surgeon, fl 1804-1853 1
Argyll Publishing (Glendaruel) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Queen's Own Regiment of Dragoons 1
Baird, James, of Little Fiddes and Byth, Advocate, d 1655 1
Baird, Wynne, brother of Sir David, 1st Baronet of Newbyth, d c 1835 1
Balfour, James, Surinam, planter, d c 1841 1
Ballantyne (family, of Holylee ) 1
Ballingall, G N, kinsman of Thomas Patrick, Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps, fl 1915 1
Ballingall, Thomas Patrick, Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps, fl 1917-1920 1
Barnett, David, Curator of Lady Stair's House Museum, Edinburgh, fl 1918-1936 1
Baron Court of Delgaty 1
Barron, John, collator, fl 1832 1
Baxter, Charles, Writer to the Signet, 1848-1919 1
Black, William, novelist, 1841-1898 1
Bloxham, family, Banbury 1
Blythe, Charles, farmer, d 1949 1
Borthwick, family, of Crookston 1
Boswell, John, clerk, fl 1774-1779 1
Brander, Michael (writer) 1
Bruce, Alexander Low, Deputy-Chairman of William Younger and Company, brewers, 1839-1893 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Burt, Edward, author and rent collector, d 1755 1
Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849 1
Caithness Flagstone Co 1
Cameron, John, of Fassifern, c 1699-1785 1
Campbell, Archibald, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1682-1761 1
Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, folklorist, ? 1821-1885: collector 1
Campbell, John, of Kilpunt, fl 1798 1
Campbell, family, of Craignish 1
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 1
Carlyle, John Aitken, physician, 1801-1879 1
Carnegie, family, of Craigo 1
Cauvin, Joseph, Writer to the Signet, d 1815 1
Charles II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1630-1685 1
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 1
Cooper, Thomas Mackay, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge, 1892-1955 1
Cope, Sir John, Knight, Lieutenant-General, 1690-1760 1
Crawford, family 1
Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1599-1658 1
Dallas, George, trade unionist and politician, 1878-1961 1
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 1
Dawson, Thomas, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, fl 1971-1974 1
Denton, Jean Margaret Alan, daughter of Alan Stevenson, civil engineer, née Stevenson, then Thomson, 1846-1900 1
Douglas, Archibald James Edward, 1st Baron Douglas, formerly Stewart, 1748-1827 1
Douglas, Sir John James Scott-, 3rd Baronet, of Springwood Park, 1792-1836 1
Douglas, Sylvester, Baron Glenbervie, politician and diarist, 1743-1823 1
Douglas, family 1
Douglas, family, of Fechil 1
Dunbar, family, of Mochrum 1
Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, 1742-1811 1
Dundas, family, of Ochtertyre 1
Edger, William, brother of James, of Greenhead, fl 1619 1
Edward, Sir David Alexander Ogilvy, Knight, Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, b 1934 1
Elliot, Arthur Ralph Douglas, Hon (politician and journalist) 1
Elliot, William, of Thorlishope, d 1744 1
Elphinstone, John, 4th Lord Balmerino and 3rd Lord Coupar, 1652-1736 1
Erskine, James, Cardross, fl 1798 1
Evanson, Marion, Edinburgh, fl 1733-1800 1
Fleming, family, of Wigtown 1
Forward, Glasgow, newspaper 1
Foulis, James, 5th baronet of Colinton, 1714-1791 1
Foulis, family, of Ratho 1
Fraser of Inchcoulter, Alexander (enslaver) 1
Fraser, Alexander Campbell (philosopher) 1
Fraser, Thomas Alexander, 12th Lord Lovat, 1802-1875 1
Fraser, family, of Belladrum 1
Fraser, family, of Lovat 1
Fraser, family, of Strichen 1
Galt, John (novelist) 1
Gardiner, family, Banffshire 1
Gentleman, James, merchant, Edinburgh, d 1854 1
Gerry, James, Thurso, fl 1855-1918 1
Gerry, William, Thurso, fl 1855-1918 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Gordon, family, of Fechil 1
Gower, Cromartie Sutherland Leveson, 4th Duke of Sutherland, 1851-1913 1
Gower, Elizabeth Leveson, Duchess of Sutherland, nee Sutherland, 1765-1839 1
Gower, George Granville Leveson, 1st Duke of Sutherland, 1758-1833 1
Gower, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-, 2nd Duke of Sutherland 1
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