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‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents
The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates:
1661-1681.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.14
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and illustrated with references to earlier case-decisions, and most of the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. According to a note inside the front cover, dated Perth, 4th August 1731, this copy was written by Sir Alexander Falconer, Lord Halkerton, in his own hand.The lists of paragraphs have been omitted...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th century.
Manuscript, 18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Auchinleck, Ld. Balmanno’s Practicks’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.1
Scope and Contents
Auchinleck was admitted an Ordinary Lord in 1626, and retained the position until his death in 1639. His practicks, arranged alphabetically, are unpublished.
Dates:
?1626-?1639.
Manuscript, ?1645-?1652, of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno’s Practicks, ?1626-?1639, entitled `Practickes and Decisions of the Lords of Sessione Observed and Collected be Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno, Knight, One of the ordinarie Lords of the Colledge of Justice`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.13
Scope and Contents
On folio 224 is written: `Jo: Wr[quhart] scripsit Apud Strathloch 8. octob. anno 1645`; and on folio 2: `Ex Libris Jacobi Gordon P.R. Anno 1652 Novris 13. J.B.R. D.D.` (James Gordon, Minister of Rothiemay, was a son of Robert Gordon of Straloch, the Geographer.)
Auchinleck was admitted an Ordinary Lord in 1626, and retained the position until his death in 1639. His practicks, arranged alphabetically, are unpublished.
Dates:
?1626-?1639.
Manuscript of 3 legal works, written in a late 17th-century hand.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows: (i) `Extract of the practiques of the Commissioners for valuatione of teinds and plantation of Kirks`, 1629-1643. Those from 1631 to 1643 are also in Adv.MSS.31.2.11, page 126, and 33.2.40, last item. (Page 1.)(ii) `Admiralitie. The fforme and manner of holding of courts of Admiraltie and proces led before them`. This text appears elsewhere (Adv.MS.28.4.7; and, in an abbreviated form, MS.1948) as an appendix to...
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript of ‘Decisions of the Court of Session MDCCLXXXI-MDCCCXXII, in the Form of a Dictionary’, collected by David Hume when he was Professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh, arranged and prepared for publication when he was Baron of the Exchequer, and finally published posthumously in 1839.
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Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.7.1-81.7.19
Scope and Contents
The only difference from the published work is that the cases are not numbered continuously, but internally within each heading, and that there are no indexes (except for a fragment, Adv.MS.81.7.19, folio 207).
In the individual descriptions, the numbers of the cases (as in the published work), the headings, and the pages of the published work are given in that order.
Dates:
1781-1822.
Manuscripts of early laws, statutes, and practicks, written from the 15th to the early 17th centuries, and combined probably in the early 17th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of Acts of Parliament of circa 1606-1609 and from the reign of James I to that of James VI and I, early 17th century (folio 1 verso).(ii) A collection of laws in six books, taking its material from the ‘Regiam Maiestatem, the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, the early statutes, the burgh and forest laws, etc., 15th-16th century (folio 10). An index is bound in at folio 102.(iii) `Assise et statuta Regis David...
Dates:
15th century-early 17th century.
Miscellaneous papers.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates:
?1595-18th century.
’Practiques observed befor the Lords of Session from 1626 till 1638. Collected Alphabetically By S[ir] G[eorge] Au[chinleck, Lord Balmanno] With ane perfect index wher in what page each practique is to be found. Written in anno 1661 By A.G.`
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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.19
Scope and Contents
The writer was possibly Archibald Gibson, admitted Writer to the Signet in 1661. For this work and the manuscripts of it see the catalogue entry for Adv.MS.6.1.7.
Dates:
1626-1638.
Volume of practicks.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.8
Scope and Contents
(i) `Practiques Observed By the Judicatories of the Kingdome of Scotland, According to the Municipal Lawes Sett ffurth By Sir Thomas Hope of Carse, Knight Advocat for his Majesty. Written by Charles Tais yor Writter in Perth. 20 December 1701`, i.e. ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall. In the title ‘Carse` is scored through and ‘Craig Hall’ added in pencil. The confusion of father and son appears also in MS.5898(vii) (a volume which was compiled in 1682-1683 by James Blair of...
Dates:
1626-1639, 1701.