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Certificate of admission, with royal warrant, of Alexander MacLachlan, writer in Edinburgh, as a Notary Public.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.2344-2345
Dates:
1776.
Certificates and formal documents from the papers of Sir Hugh McPherson.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15378-15391
Scope and Contents
Consisting of: academic and masonic certificates, and warrants relating to his career in the Indian civil service.
Dates:
1886-1925.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.368
Dates:
1543-19th century.
Commissions, warrants, and certificates in favour of members of the Rose family.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2595-2629
Dates:
1824-1893.
Copies of warrants and orders by the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.22
Scope and Contents
The documents are from 1665, when Henry Lord Carbury was Lord Chamberlain, to 1683, when the post was held by Louis, Earl of Feversham.
Dates:
1665-1683.
Formal documents from the papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15208-15240
Dates:
1823-1887.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Member`s ticket, dividend warrant and post card of the Kingskettle Co-operative Society Ltd, Kingskettle, Fife.
File
Identifier: Acc.9347
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.
Miscellaneous papers which belonged to Sir William Fraser, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
File
Identifier: MS.90
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i-iv) Four printed proclamations, etc., 1708, 1710, 1714 (folio 1);(v) Obligation by Patrick Hamilton and other inhabitants of Arran to provide levies, etc., for the defence of the religion, laws, and liberties of the Kirk and Kingdom whenever desired by the Earl of Argyll, 1639 (folio 6);(vi) Extract registered bond by Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum to the Committee of Estates to observe the National Covenant, 1641 (folio 8);...
Dates:
1590-1838.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.3.26-23.3.30
Scope and Contents
The Eaglescarnie estate was held by a younger branch of the Haliburtons until the middle of the 18th century, when it was acquired by Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War, by his marriage with Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Haliburton. There are some 17th-century papers of the Haliburtons, but the majority relate to Patrick Lindsay and to his father, Patrick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament for the City (see ‘The Scots Peerage’, pages 409-410). Several of the papers...
Dates:
1639-1789.
Papers relating to Henry Dundas and also to the Trotter family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14535
Scope and Contents
Papers contain:Copy of marriage contract, 1669, between Issobell [sic] Paterson and Robert Bruce. cover note "1669 given me by Alice[?] Trotter" - possibly in the hand of Louisa Kathleen Haldane (née Trotter).Copy of a tack, 1750, between Alexander Young and Mrs Jean Stewart for a property on Potterrow.Royal Warrant, 1784, authorising Henry Dundas, as Treasurer of the Navy, to pursue orders of the Navy Board in sending Money to distant parts of Great...
Dates:
1669-1836.
Photostat, early 20th century, of warrant, 1676, signed by Charles II, granting a pension to Lady Anne Murray, daughter of William, Earl of Dysart, in reward of her care of royalist officers and soldiers after the battle of Worcester.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2521
Dates:
1676.
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.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.
Warrant, 1641, to Sir David Cunningham (possibly 1st Baronet, of Auchinhervie), signed by the 1st Duke of Hamilton and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.8958
Scope and Contents
With:
two letters, 1653, of Robert Lilburne
four letters, 1659, of General George Monck.
Dates:
1641-1659.
Warrant appointing George Handasyde Pattison as Sheriff of Roxburgh and Selkirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6115
Dates:
1868.
Warrant by Barbara Porterfield, daughter of the late Walter Porterfield of Comiston, Advocate, to Patrick Scott, Writer in Edinburgh, to receive the 35/- Sterling granted her by the Faculty of Advocates.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.232
Dates:
1728.
Warrant for collecting of Salt Tax in favour of Robert Anderson
Item
Identifier: Acc.13343
Dates:
1791
Warrant, signed by Queen Victoria.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5922
Scope and Contents
Granting Civil List pension to James Browne.
Dates:
1840.
Warrant subscribed by the Duke of Rothes, the Marquess of Atholl, the Earl of Argyll, and the Earl of Queensberry to Sir William Sharp, cash-keeper, to pay to Captain John Gray £10 Sterling as his pension.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.226
Dates:
1681.