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Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.103- is now Acc.4496.
Dates:
1837-1925.
Commission by John Campbell, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, authorising Patrick Campbell of Monzie, Advocate, to apply to the King and Parliament for redress of the losses sustained in the 1715 rebellion.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.231
Dates:
1716.
Commission by Sir Walter Scott to Alexander Christie to act as Interim Sheriff Depute of Berwickshire.
Item
Identifier: Dep.376
Dates:
1813.
Commission, `by the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, etc. to Captain Henry Smith, C.B., hereby appointed Captain Superintendent of the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, and of the Royal Naval Hosiptal at Haslar.
Item
Identifier: Ch.901
Dates:
14 December 1854.
Commission by William Earl of Morton, Treasurer of Scotland, and John Lord Stewart of Traquair (later Earl of Traquair), his Depute, to James Kinninmonth, Chamberlain Depute of Fife, to make a list of all owners of firearms in Fife and Kinross.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.221
Dates:
1630.
Commission from the Highland Society of London to establish branches in the Peninsula.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12518
Dates:
1813.
Commissions, warrants, and certificates in favour of members of the Rose family.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2595-2629
Dates:
1824-1893.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.18
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A treatise on heraldry in 28 chapters, with particular reference to the Court of the Lord Lyon, 1661 (page 1). The last chapter is a copy of the proclamation, 1447, of Arthur, Constable of France and later Duke of Brittany. See Adv.MSS.31.5.2, folio 1, and 31.3.20, folio 1.(ii) `Kinges of armes and heraulds in Ingland 1628` (pages 75, 79). This has been numbered Cap.29 in continuation of (i). The work has been printed,...
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Henry Lindsay Bethune.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8959
Scope and Contents
Concerning Bethune`s military career in Persia.
Including instructions, firmans (royal mandate or decree), commissions and bills.
Dates:
1813-1851.
Diary of Sir John Hill, RN, detailing his mission to Scotland in 1837 to relieve distress caused by the famine.
File
Identifier: Acc.12738
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of commission from the Government and other associated papers and correspondence; with a volume of typed transcripts.
Dates:
1837.
Diplomas of learned bodies, 1814-1846, burgess-ticket of Edinburgh, 1815, and commission as Inspector of Factories, 1833, bestowed on Leonard Horner.
File
Identifier: Ch.934-942
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1718, 1814-1833.
Douglas of Springwood Park Charters.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7637-7676
Scope and Contents
Formal documents from the papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park. They consist mostly of marriage-contracts, certificates and military commissions of members of the family, but also include a few documents relating to the family estates.
Dates:
1649-1888.
Formal documents from the Hunter of Glencarse papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15397-15431
Dates:
1685-1842.
Formal documents from the papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8896-8907
Dates:
1805-circa 1852.
Formal documents from the papers of John Hill Burton.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8493-8496
Dates:
1807-1831.
Formal documents from the papers of Sir Herbert Grierson.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8482-8485
Dates:
1894-1938.
Formal documents from the papers of the Setons of Touch.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15241-15247
Dates:
1808-1831.
Formal documents from the papers of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8908-8912
Dates:
6 January 1858-4 July 1872.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents
These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.
Formal documents relating to Major-General John Brown and General Sir George Brown.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.1441-1449
Dates:
1790-1854.
Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13290
Scope and Contents
The papers include titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.Family papers include Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland’s Scottish sketchbooks and a series of Game Books recording the activities of the many shooting and fishing parties organised for the Sutherland family and their guests. The manuscript of Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh’s ‘Continuation of the Genealogy of the Family of Sutherland’, 1651, is of...
Dates:
1651-1960
Incomplete collection (lacking original pages 1-2) of fair copies, with frequent calligraphic embellishments, of royal decreets and other formal documents relating to the administration of teinds (tithes) in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.21
Scope and Contents
The documents are copies of originals mostly from the period 1626 to 1643, but they include a commission, January 1678, granted by Charles II, and the copyist`s hand is characteristic of the late 17th century.
Dates:
1626-1643, 1678