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15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
21 documents relating to the lands of Curriehill near Edinburgh.
Accounts, 1719-1786, concerning Culross.
With dictates, 1677, taken down as the University of Edinburgh by James Blaw.
Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.
These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.
Accounts of or relating to the family of Dun of Tarty in Aberdeenshire.
The accounts refer mostly to loans, rents, and bonds, but give a few instances of prices. Some appear to be the accounts of a factor or agent.
They start at both ends of a vellum-bound volume. Several leaves after folio 20 have been torn out. A modern note on the family is pasted on folio 21.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
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.
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Correspondence and papers of Mark Sprot of Garnkirk and his family.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan, afterwards Baron Lynedoch, and of the Honourable Mary Cathcart, afterwards Mrs Graham, his wife.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Diary, 1745-1746, of a clerk in the leadmines at Leadhills, with unconnected papers.
Includes:
notes, 18th century, on optics
farm accounts, 1822-1830 and 1843-1859, of Glenholm, Lockerbie
farm accounts, 1818-1829
Estate accounts written on the blank leaves, now separated, of the protocol books, late 16th century, of George Abernethy and James Drummond, notaries in Edinburgh.
Four documents, 1711, 1724, 1741, concerning Islay.
Including a rental, 1741.
With notes on the family of Campbell of Otter, 19th century.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Literary correspondence and personal papers of Hubert Peter Morrison, with some related correspondence and editorial papers of Thomas Nelson and Sons, publishers.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Minute books and accounts of various political associations.
Minute books of: (1) Cardross Unionist Association, 1938-1961; (2) Cunninghame District Conservative Local Government Advisory Committee, 1979-1983.
Notes and accounts of Bridge of Weir Liberal Association, 1919-1964.
Accounts of Galloway Liberal Association, 1930-1933.
Minutes of Strathclyde Liberal Regional Association, circa 1974.
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.