Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

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Also included are accounts, 1771-1785 (folio 72, inverted), and the first three pages of the second minute book, 1793-1794, 1824.

This is one of several facsimile copies made in 1893 to the order of the Society, for distribution to members.

Scope and Contents ‘Instructions set forth by Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms and his brethrene heralds at speall comand of my Lords Regent and Lords of secret counsall to be observit be ye officiare of armes within this realme in all tymes cumy for dew service to our soverane Lord and his Leidgis at Ed[r], the secund day of Jannuar 1577’. The five first pages are written in the same hand.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...

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The contents are as follows: Minute book, 3 April 1882-1884, 1862, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders of Edinburgh (Acc.4395, number 1);

Scrapbook, 1822-1874, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders, containing correspondence, rulebooks, etc. (Acc.4395, number 26).

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The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

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The volumes cover the entire period of the Killearn Golf Club's existence from its foundation in 1896 to its dissolution in 1914.

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...

Scope and Contents The Scottish National Library Endowment Trust was established at the Instigation of Hugh P Macmillan King’s Counsel, later Lord Macmillan, its Honorary Secretary, to receive gifts from private individuals towards the establishment of a National Library on the basis of the non-legal collections of the Advocates’ Library. Its most notable receipt, £100,000 from Alexander (later Sir Alexander) Grant in June 1923, made possible the establishment of the Library in 1925.The volume...

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The antiburgher congregation was disjoined from that of Craigmailen in 1762. It proved less successful than its Burgher rival founded twenty years later, and was in decline by 1800. In 1820 it was formally wound up. The final entry relates to the use of the Congregation's meeting house.

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The minute-book is apparently of operative house-carpenters and joiners (see folio 9), with a list of members and letters to divisions at Glasgow, London, Leith, and Dunfermline.

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The minute-book commences with the original constitution of the 'maisteris, skipperis, marineris, and haill useris of the art of navigatioun within the burgh of Air', laid down on 28 August 1581, with tariffs of 'guidage'. The minutes deal chiefly with the provision of benefits to seamen's widows, etc. Later the society is called the Society of Merchant Adventurers, the Sailors’ Society, and other names.

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The minute book also contains a list of members' names, with the numbers of the books issued to them each month. Three book-seller's accounts, giving the titles of religious works purchased for the library, are inserted.

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The committee met weekly, but the minutes for the period 22 June 1891-24 October 1893 are missing.