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Alphabetical list of commercial regulations in Old Slavonic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.5.4
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in black ink, with red for the title, numbers and initials, and in a Muscovite skoropis’ hand.Списокь стор ʼroвoro ӳcтaвaThe manuscript begins: ·ã·, Ha двинѣ ẏ̑ аханrecкoro ropo втамо, жнѣ Ϭытна на яман'кеThe manuscript ends: и о напрасноrо ẏ̑божестьа свойхъ, люде хранять..There is a colophon on folio 72: и̓ по ẏ̑ка великоrо rдря й по помѣте,боя̑рина а̇̑ѳонасъя лаврентьė̑вича, а̇̑рдина нащокина й по...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Books of the Incorporation of Kelso Glovers and Skinners.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3081-3083
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Copies of legal documents, 2nd half of 17th century, and copies, 1657 and early 18th century, of valuations, 16th century, of places in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.5
Scope and Contents
(i) 'Taxtio super integra ecclesia Scoticana tam super pralatiuris quam aliis beneficis numonluis ad valarem annuum £40 sel ad rationem £30,000' (page 1);
(ii) 'Libellus taxationum seu contrivutionum spiritualitatis conceparcum S.D.N. Regi per fraelator et Clericas Regni Scotiae' (page 16);
(iii) Extent rolls of the Shires of Scotland in some instances distinguishing the property of the Crown, kirklands, and temporal lands, all apparently of the 16th century but dated at the end Sept 10 1687...
Dates:
16th century, 2nd half of 17th century.
Copies of regulations, forms of process, etc., of the Court of Admiralty of England.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.6
Dates:
1639.
Letter, 1868, of William Wright to his mother in Ayrshire.
File
Identifier: Acc.5945
Scope and Contents
Concerning journey to West Indies.
With genealogical note, 19th century, and copy of the regulations of Ballantrae cemetary (Girvan, 1878).
Dates:
1868-circa 1899.
Mess book of the Edinburgh Squadron of the Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry.
Item
Identifier: MS.663
Scope and Contents
The mess book consists of the printed 'Mess Regulations' for each year, names of ‘Strangers’ and ‘Guests’ and by whom invited, and ‘names of troopers absent from Mess’.
Dates:
1846-1851, 1853-1856, 1858-1859.
Minute and account books relating to the Incorporation of Perth Wrights.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19288-19289
Scope and Contents
These records of the Wrights, bowyers, coopers, chirurgeons, parchment makers, masons, and glaziers, who formed the Wrights Incorporation, reveal their collective interest in the regulations of trading standards and the control of admission. There are also indications of the social function of the Incorporation and their involvement with the pre-Reformation Church.The haphazard nature of the entries in both volumes suggests that they may possibly be rough copies kept by the...
Dates:
1519-1670.
Papers, 1769, concerning the feu held by Robert Ord in Queen Street, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8548
Scope and Contents
With a plan of the site of Ord`s house and garden, and a copy, 1767, of building and feuing regulations for the New Town.
With unrelated burgess ticket, 1713.
Dates:
1713, 1767-1769.
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents
Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates:
1567-1596, and undated.
'Record of the Linnen Manufactory in Dunse, 1765’, i.e. Duns Linen Company.
File
Identifier: MS.3707
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Rules and regulations of Partnery (page 1);Minutes of meetings, 1765-1771, 1774 (page 14);A transfer of a share, 1766 (page 57);Invoices, 1767-1768 (page 60);Copies of out-going letters relating to dealings with William Tod & Company, London, 1768-1771 (page 66).Promoted in 1765 by neighbouring gentry and inhabitants of Duns with a view to the public benefit, the company was composed...
Dates:
1765-1774.