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Index to seventeenth century and eighteenth century decisions.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.11
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.37).
Dates:
1758.
Index to the decisions of the Court of Session collected by Sir Patrick Home.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.5
Scope and Contents
The index applies to the first volume on the series (Adv.MS.24.3.4) only. The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.4.292).
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Index to the Faculty of Advocates minute-book: volumes IX and X.
Series
Identifier: F.R.12-F.R.13
Dates:
1861-1933
Index to the lists of books received at the Faculty of Advocates Library from Stationers' Hall, London.
Item
Identifier: F.R.322h
Dates:
1822-1823.
Index to the manuscripts presented to the Faculty of Advocates by John Swinton of Swinton.
Item
Identifier: F.R.200
Dates:
1783.
Index to the Register of the Great Seal to Book 59, compiled for Walter Macfarlane.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.1.8(I)-(V)
Scope and Contents
The index is of beneficiaries only, and each roll and book is indexed separately.
Dates:
1757-1763.
Index to the Wodrow manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.206(i)-(ii)
Dates:
?19th century.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents
Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Indexes to receipt books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.287-F.R.303a/2
Dates:
1765-1902.
Indexes to the chartularies of various Scottish religious houses, etc., by George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.15
Scope and Contents
Aberdeen (contents-list, folios 13-24; index, folios 25-28); Moray (contents-list, folios 29-44; index, folios 45-48);‘my MS. Monasticon Scotiae’ (folios 49-72);Coldingham (folios 73-76);Kelso (folios 77-84);Melrose (folios 85-88); Soutra (folios 89-90); Newbattle (folios 91-96); Dryburgh (folios 97-100);Paisley (folios 101-108); Cambuskenneth (folios 109-112); ...
Dates:
1801, or after.
Indexes to the minutes of rescinded Acts of Parliament, to the rescinded Acts and to ‘Memoirs’ by Bishop Henry Guthrie; in the hand of Robert Mylne, with titles in the hand of Walter Macfarlane.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.2
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Indexes to the receipt books in the Faculty of Advocates.
Series
Identifier: F.R.303b/1-F.R.303b/11
Dates:
July 1907-May 1925.
‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.6
Scope and Contents
Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.
Dates:
1713.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3722-3723
Dates:
1685-1740.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
Ledger of Sanderson and Paterson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4006
Scope and Contents
With index.
Dates:
1806-1835.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Letter book of Mackenzie and Paterson, writers and bankers in Inverness, recording financial and legal affairs of the firm and its clients.
File
Identifier: MS.10325
Dates:
1819-1823.
Letters addressed mostly to Dr Robert Anderson, editor of ‘The Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain’, ‘The Edinburgh Magazine’, etc. (there are a few to Bishop Thomas Percy and the Earl of Buchan).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.4.10-22.4.17
Scope and Contents
Anderson`s correspondents include many of the prominent men of his time, especially in the literary and antiquarian worlds; and the main topic is literature. The arrangement of the letters is due to Anderson’s son-in-law, Dr David Irving (Keeper of the Advocates’ Library): it is first of all by size, quarto letters in Adv.MSS.22.4.10-22.4.16, octavo in Adv.MS.22.4.17 (for the folio letters, see Adv.MS.22.3.11), then the writers are roughly grouped according to their origin or occupation, and...
Dates:
1760-1830.
Lindsay Armorial: the armorial register of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms from 1542 to 1555.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.3
Scope and Contents
In 1630 the armorial was formally recognised by the Privy Council as an official register and a note to that effect, signed by Sir James Balfour, Lord Lyon, and Thomas Drysdale, Islay Herald, is on folio 110 verso.The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 663).The contents are as follows:(i) Latin verses on and a painting of the royal arms (folio 1 verso).(ii) Arms of mythical...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, with an index (Adv.MS.32.6.26) by Sir Henry Stewart of Allanton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.32.6.16-32.6.26
Dates:
1746-1775.
Manuscript, 18th century, containing lists of peers and barons taken from the Rolls of Parliament and lists and copies of charters taken from the records of the Great Seal (both sources being then unpublished).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.14
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) List of peers mentioned in the Rolls of Parliament, 1424-1707 (folio 1).(ii) List of charters, etc., granting peerages, down to 1707 (folio 10).(iii) Index to sections (i) and (ii) (folio 23).(iv) Observations on section (i) (folio 36).(v) Observations on section (ii), generally quoting part of the deed (folio 59).(vi) Copy of declarations of Parliament on the succession...
Dates:
1371, 1373, 1615-1707, 18th century.
Manuscript concerning crown patrimony and south-west Scotland, written by two hands, the first, of the first half of the 18th century, being responsible for section (i), the second, circa 1760, for the remainder.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `An Accompt of His Majestys Proper Rent...`, by Sir William Purves. This is a copy of MS.201. See the catalogue record for Adv.MS.31.1.16. (Folio 1.)(ii) `State of the Stipends, Glebes, Grass andc. of the parishes within the presbitrys following [Dumfries, Penpont, Lochmaben, Annan]. Made out by Mr Andrew Chalmer from the Attested Copies of the Reports of the particular Ministers 10 Decr. 1750.` (Folio 47 verso.)...
Dates:
First half of 18th century-circa 1760.
Manuscript containing: (i) copies of correspondence, with related papers, between the `Catholic Remainder of the British Church` (the non-juring Bishops) and the Orthodox Church, concerning a scheme for union between these bodies, 1716-1725; (ii) copies of letters of Thomas Brett to Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Aberdeen, 1722-1725.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.17
Scope and Contents
(i) The negotiations between the non-juring Bishops and the Orthodox Church were initiated during the stay in London of Archbishop Arsenius of Thebais, and conducted largely through the Russian Court; they end on the death of Peter the Great. See ‘A History of the Non-Jurors’, pages 309-361, and ‘The Orthodox Church of the East in the Eighteenth Century’.The original letters and papers from the Orthodox side in these negotiations (with English or Latin translations when these are...
Dates:
1716-1725.