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Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.7
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages; (ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).

Dates: 17th century.

Copy, 17th century, of “Lord Chancellor’s Practicks” (possibly by Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.4
Scope and Contents

A volume with ‘General Index’ on the fly leaf, then: (i) Lord Chancellor’s Practiques (pages 1-72); (ii) Sinclair’s Practiques (pages 72-235); (iii) Maitland’s Practiques (page 237). (iv) Colvill's Practiques (page 635); (v) Haddington's Practiques.

A descriptive note of the contents of the book, written in a later hand, is fixed on the first fly leaf.

Dates: [Circa 1606.]

Copy, late 17th century to 18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.3A
Scope and Contents

A collection of decisions and law notes.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.20).

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Copy, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck, Lord Balmanno, ‘Practicks’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.9
Scope and Contents

Imperfect at the end.

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Copy of Sir Thomas Hope's 'Minor practicks', and decisions of the Court of Session.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.9
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows.

(i) Sir Thomas Hope’s 'Minor practicks'; (ii) Practiques observed before the Lords of Session collected from 1660-1666 by Sir George Lockhart; (iii) Newbyth’s decisions.

Dates: 1660-1666.

Copy of the decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1681-1688, collected, late 17th century, by Sir Patrick Home of Renton.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.3.6-24.3.6a
Scope and Contents

This is an older copy of Adv.MS.24.3.4 containing volumes I and II.

Dates: Late 17th century.

Decisions of the Court of Session, collected, late seventeenth century ‘of the English judges during the usurpation 1655-1661’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.1
Scope and Contents

This volume contains two series of reports for the period of the Commonwealth in Scotland. The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.4.24).

Dates: 1655-1661.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.4
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Sinclair, Maitland, Culroes, decisions MS’, to which Thomas Ruddiman has prefixed a note which informs us that it was a copy from the originals in the library of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, who has himself explained the collection;(ii) Subjoined to it is ‘a compend of decisions by an uncertain author’;(iii) Transcript of the manuscript inventory of pious donations from James I’s reign to that of James VI....
Dates: 1540-1549, 1570-1593.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.5
Scope and Contents

‘Sinclair’s practiques’. The volume consists of the same collection as in Adv.MS.24.1.4 in part. From the beginning to page 314 of this volume corresponding with the Pitmedden manuscript (Adv.MS.24.1.4(iii)), and from the beginning to page 272 of the third series of paging. After which the collection continues down to 1591.

Imperfect at the beginning.

Dates: 1540-1549, 1570-1593.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1621-1630, collected, 1st half of 17th century, by Sir Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.4.12
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.3.1).

The decisions are in different hands.

Dates: 1621-1630.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1621-1642, collected, 1st half of 17th century, by Sir Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.4.11
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.5.6.34).

Dates: 1621-1642.