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Charters and legal instruments concerning Forbes of Pitsligo and lands in Rosehearty.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.98-108
Dates:
1684-1685, 1728-1794.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents
On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows:
(i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3);
(ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4);
(iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11);
(iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates:
1546-Late 16th century.
Copy of the contract by Sir William Alexander for the first settlement of Nova Scotia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11716
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of a letter signed by James VI and I granting Alexander funds for the colony.
Dates:
1622.
Correspondence and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library buildings.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/46
Dates:
1824, 1832, 1846, 1896-1900.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents
Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates:
1567-1596, and undated.
Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.
Item
Identifier: MS.1812
Scope and Contents
From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.
Dates:
1819-1821.