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A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.12871-13000
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.
Dates:
1436-1820.
Account of charge and discharge between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate.
File
Identifier: MS.988
Scope and Contents
With account of final balance signed in 1780.
Dates:
1769-1777, 1780.
Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.
File
Identifier: MS.19986
Scope and Contents
These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.
Dates:
1825-1838.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.3.1.The contents are as follows:
(i) An abridgement of part of the valuation, 1551 (page 5);
(ii) The rent paid to the King out of the surplus of the thirds of benefices (page 48);
(iii) Various taxt rolls of Benefices and church property - temporality as well as spirituality, chiefly early 17th century (page 51);
(iv) List of Religious houses (page 185);
(v) Copy of a retour,...
Dates:
16th century-early 17th century.
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Charters and formal documents from the papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.1353-2335
Dates:
12th century-1798.
Charters and formal documents of the Graemes of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven, Perthshire.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.15439-15440
Scope and Contents
Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.
Dates:
1680-1871.
"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Item
Identifier: MS.25240
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a variety of calligraphic hands and is decorated throughout with paintings of flowers, birds and insects. The pages containing Octonaires XVII, XXXI and XXXVIII are missing.The original title page and the dedication to the Earl of Shrewsbury have been cut out and pasted onto the verso of folio i and the inside of the front cover respectively.There are a number of later drawings and notes, including records of births of members...
Dates:
[1586, or before]-19th century.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of the lesser Aberdeen Cartulary, 1st half of 16th century, made from Adv.MS.34.4.4 (folio 1).(ii) Copy of charters concerning Banffshire (folio 69).(iii) Copy of the tax-rolls of Aberdeenshire for 1554 and 1613, the latter made from Adv.MS.49.7.19, folios 32-35 (folio 81).(iv) Copy of the rentals of Aberdeenshire for 1674 and 1740, made from Adv.MS.49.7.18 (folio 88).(v) Copy...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century-1740.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.16
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: a.1.22.Some of the items in this manuscript may have been copied from Adv.MS.34.2.17: Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rent.The contents are as follows:
1. Rentals of benefices, 1561;
2. Kings Rents & Casualties, 1628;
3. The contributions to the Lords of Session;
4. Compt of taxation of £100,000, 1593;
5. The rent paid to the king out of the...
Dates:
16th century-1628.
Copies, chiefly from printed books, of documents concerning Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.19
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.
File
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.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Retours in Kirkcudbrightshire, extracted from the Chancery records, 1542-1682; in two series (folios 1, 15).(ii) Copy of an extract (certified by Thomas Gibson, Principal Clerk of Session) of the tax-roll of Kirkcudbrightshire in 1613 (folio 44).(iii) Copy, from the Exchequer records, of the rental of the Bishopric of Galloway in 1685 (folio 46).(iv) Copy of the tax-roll of the Lordship of Galloway,...
Dates:
1542-1685, 1741.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written apparently in or shortly after 1666.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.2
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 titles are mostly shorter, containing fewer chapters and references to case-decisions. A few textual corrections and marginal additions have been made in a contemporary hand, mostly in Titles 1-6; most of Titles 8-31 are followed by blank leaves presumably intended for additions and corrections. Chapters 7-18 of Title 6 have been written in...
Dates:
1666 or after.
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.
Documents, accounts, memorials and other estate papers, mostly 18th-19th century, relating to the lands of Monreith and the Maxwell family; also some papers relating to property in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1643-circa 1700.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.299
Dates:
1643-19th century.
Draft contract and agreement between the College of Justice, the Shire of Midlothian and the Town of Edinburgh, concerning the taxation on ale and beer.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.19a
Dates:
1670.
Extract, 1557, from the Protocol Book of Henry Strachan, of a cognition and sasine, 1515, in favour of Andrew Allan, in a tenement on the south side of the High Street, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.214
Dates:
1515.
Formal documents from the papers of George Combe, lawyer, phrenologist and educationist.
Series
Identifier: Ch.7595-7610
Dates:
1741-1841.
Formal documents from the papers of the Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, politican.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15393-15396
Dates:
1884-1888.
Formal documents from the papers of the Setons of Touch.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15241-15247
Dates:
1808-1831.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents
These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.
Formal documents from the Seton and Bremner papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15248-15257
Dates:
1764-1877.