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28 letters of Richard Holden, merchant, Bristol, to his father, Richard Holden, of Baldovie, Dundee, and his brothers, John and Abraham.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10765-is now MS.50266
Scope and Contents

Some letters concern the slave trade.

With two legal documents of the Holden family, Baldovie.

Dates: 1747-1771.

64 charters and documents, 1513-1773, of the Flemings of Wigtown.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10539
Scope and Contents

With, 16 charters, 1592-1693, of the Earls Marischal

petition, 1746, of David Carmichael of Maudsley to sell entailed lands

four deeds, 1813-1860, concerning property in Sierra Leone.

Dates: 1513-1860.

A collection of deeds concerning members of the family of Buchanan of Auchentoshan [subsequently Cross-Buchanan].

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Identifier: Ch.5911-5945
Scope and Contents

Ch.5911 is a charter, 1484, of William, 3rd Lord Graham [subsequently 1st Earl of Montrose] to Thomas Buchanan of Drummikill.

Dates: 1484, 1627-1834.

A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.12871-13000
Scope and Contents

Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.

Dates: 1436-1820.

A collection of formal papers, relating to the surgeon, Robert Liston.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.5832-5846
Scope and Contents

Comprises: instruments of sasine, 1626-1756, mostly relating to properties in Culross (Ch.5832-5838), papers, mostly passports, 1794-1818, of his uncle, Sir Robert Liston (Ch.5839-5842), and four formal documents of his own, 1814, 1818 (Ch.5943-5946). An inventory has been placed with the collection.

Dates: 1626-1818.

A miscellaneous collection of documents.

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Identifier: Ch.5901-5910
Scope and Contents

Ch.5902-5903 and Ch.5905 refer to members of the Pitcairn family of Forthar; the remainder concern transactions between John Mowat and James Fullarton, burgesses in Edinburgh. Ch.5901 is an abstract of the documents.

Dates: 1653-1661.

`A Perfect Inventor of all the Pious Donations Given to the Kirks and Hospitals in Scotland since the days of K. Iames 1 To the Regne of King Iames the vi. With Additions. Edenburgh Writen 12 novr i702 by R:M:` (i.e. Robert Mylne).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.7
Scope and Contents The title is recorded on folio 1.The volume consists of a copy of a list of summaries of formal or legal documents relating to bequests of money and property to various religious institutions from the early fifteenth century (undated, but before 1425) to 1592, followed by summaries of bequests made at various times between 1613 and 1652 (folio 51) and `Additions` (folio 59 verso) consisting of further summaries of bequests made both before and after the Reformation, down to...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1703.

`A perfyte inventar of all the pious donations gevin to kirks and hospitalls since the dayes of king James the first to the reigne of king James the sixt`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.25
Scope and Contents The title is taken from folio 1.The volume consists of a copy in a late seventeenth-century hand of a list of summaries of formal or legal documents relating to bequests of money and property to various religious institutions, from the early fifteenth century (undated, but before 1425) to 1592, followed by summaries of bequests made at various times between 1613 and 1652 (folio 60). The entries do not appear to have been written in any order, although a roughly...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1652.

Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents

Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.

Dates: 16th century-19th century.

Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates: 1518-1965, undated.

Agreement between Domenico Ronca and Thomas Carlyle and receipt of Ronca to Carlyle.

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Identifier: Acc.10582
Scope and Contents

Agreement and receipt concern the keeping of fowl at 6 Cheyne Row.

With letter of Jane W Carlyle to John A Carlyle concerning the building of a client room by Thomas Carlyle.

Dates: 1853.

Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

Balcarres Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates: 1231-1686, and undated.

`Book of Opinions`, volumes 2 and 3, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.1(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

The volumes were copied in July 1751 for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, from other copies belonging to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1727-1746.

Borthwick of Crookston legal papers, and other documents of Scottish provenance, 1513-1822.

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Identifier: Acc.13043
Scope and Contents A collection of legal documents, 1452-1943, concerning the family of Borthwick of Crookston and some of their lands in the Scottish Borders, together with seven miscellaneous Scottish documents, 1513-1933, partly issued by the Scottish court. 1-16 Borthwick of Crookston papers1 Charter, 1 Feb. 1452, of King James II, freeing John Borthwick, son of William Borthwick of Crookston, from ward. With seal of James II attached.2 Letter of reversion, 1458, of...
Dates: 1452-1933.

Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12184
Scope and Contents

Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.

Dates: 1838-1893.

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Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 7
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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, 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
Gower, George Granville William Sutherland Leveson, 3rd Duke of Sutherland , 1828-1892 1
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