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Three formal documents relating to the burgh of Montrose.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.5767-5769
Dates:
1506-1676.
Three legal documents, 1687-1760, relating to St Monance, Fife; and one, 1739, to Aberdeen.
Series
Identifier: Dep.334
Dates:
1687-1760.
Three sets of alphabetical practiques, one entitled "Ane Epitome of Durie`s Practiqs...by Sir John Nisbet..."
Item
Identifier: Acc.7215
Scope and Contents
All cover the 1620s and 1630s and are apparently unrecorded.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Title-deeds of the lands of Langlarg, called the fifty-shilling land of Nether Larg or Larglanglee, in the parish of Urr, with other documents, all relating to those lands.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2544-2584
Scope and Contents
Ch.2544-2553 are accompanied by modern summaries.
Dates:
1440-1813.
‘Transactions of Scotts army in Ireland from 1643 to Junii 1648’, a collection in a contemporary hand of copies of letters, instructions and commencing with the treaty ‘concerning the Reducing of the Kingdom of Ireland’ and ending with a minute dated Carrickfergus 27 June 1648.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.8
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.1.8.
Dates:
1643-1648.
Transcript, circa 1982, by Arthur H C Hope, of Adv.MS.25.1.10 (Stair`s Institutions).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11481
Dates:
circa 1982.
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.1.1-37.1.4
Dates:
[Circa 1626.]
Transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
File
Identifier: MS.821
Scope and Contents
With an original letter from the Society for the Reformation of Manners, London, to the similarly named society in Edinburgh, 1708. The writers include the chief leaders of the movements in question.
Dates:
1678-1708.
Transcripts, 18th century, of papers concerning the proceedings at York and Westminster, 1568-1569, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots, and the "casket letters".
File
Identifier: Acc.5872
Dates:
1568-1799.
Transcripts by Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton of several of the muniments of the family of Arbuthnott of Arbuthnott (later Viscounts of Arbuthnott), together with a few from other sources.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.7
Scope and Contents
The documents transcribed are dated between 1438 and 1681: most are of the 16th century. They relate to ecclesiastical antiquities and in particular to the Carmelites and their convent at "Innerbervie", i.e. Bervie, Kincardineshire. The transcripts are written on paper watermarked 1813: possibly it was the making of these transcripts that prompted the compilation of the inventory by the family about 1820 (cf. ‘Scots Peerage’, volume i, page 272).
Dates:
1438-1681.
Transcripts from Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, notes on session papers.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.5.10-24.5.13
Dates:
1740-1749.
‘True present state of the principality of Scotland with the means how the same may be … augmented’, in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.31.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Tutor record book of Sir John Lockhart, Lord Castlehill, as tutor to George Lockhart of Carnwath. With extracts from Alexander Penicuik`s `Description of Tweeddale, 1715.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13659
Dates:
1690-1693, 1715.
Two Books of Hours, one English, 15th century, and one French, 15th to 16th century; with three volumes, 17th century, concerning law and heraldry.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9281/1-5
Dates:
15th century-17th century.
Two cases under the Copyright Act submitted to Mr Tidd for opinion.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/22
Dates:
1823.
Two discharge certificates of seamen.
File
Identifier: Acc.4817
Scope and Contents
Concerning voyages made by Dundee ships.
Dates:
1860-1861.
Two documents concerning members of the family of Wright of Loss.
File
Identifier: Acc.4561
Dates:
1755, 1804.
Two documents recording matrimonial and baptismal dates concerning the Wilson family, Alford.
File
Identifier: Acc.7759
Dates:
1781.
Two documents relating to persons who have taken part in the battles of Foldden and Pinkie.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2042-2043
Dates:
1514, 1548.
Two incomplete manuscript copies, both in the same hand, of the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.7.8-9
Dates:
18th century.
Two leases, signed by Douglas, Earl Haig, pertaining to his tenancy of Eastcott, Kingston Hill, Surrey.
File
Identifier: Acc.10405
Dates:
1917-1923.
Two ledgers, 1872-1928, of the Marriage Contract Trustees of Thomas A Gibson Thomson and Jean Margaret Alan Stevenson, later Denton.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11063
Scope and Contents
Includes six unrelated ledgers concerning trusts and executries.
Dates:
late 19th century to early 20th century.
Two legal manuscripts formerly in the collection of Robert Riddle of Glenriddle.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.13 (1-2)
Dates:
1621-1630.