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Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
‘Excerpts from an "Inventary of Writs in the Charter house of Hamilton” Vol 2ᵈ. ...` in the hand of James Chalmers.
The excerpts were probably made for the benefit of James Chalmers` uncle, George Chalmers, in preparation for the third volume of the latter`s ‘Caledonia’.
The date of the manuscript has been suggested by the watermark of the sheets, 1812.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Fire insurance inventory and valuations of books belonging to Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Newhailes, compiled by Alexander Dowell, Edinburgh.
Formal documents from the Hunter of Glencarse papers.
Formal documents from the MacLeod of Geanies papers.
Formal documents relating to Major-General John Brown and General Sir George Brown.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Inventories and other legal papers concerning the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.
Inventories of lands and revenues of the sees of Skálholt and Hólar.
Inventory, 17th century, of charters, 1424-1546, in the ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli, books 3-22 by Sir James Balfour.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.2.22.
‘Inventory of charters’, 1456-1552, in the ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli’, in the hand of Sir John Scott of Scotstarvit.
At the end is a list of charters, 1587-1630, ‘The taxed lands’.
Inventory of farming stock, implements and furniture of Peter Stewart.
'Inventory of Fixtures on the Premises, York House, Twickenham, Middlesex, to be taken by the Purchaser of the Estate', probably 19th century.
Inventory of furniture and other plenishings at Abbotsford in 1848; a copy made at a later date.
Inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
Inventory of the library of John Campbell, Marquess of Breadalbane, at Taymouth Castle and London.
Inventory of the means and estate of Francis Charteris, afterwards (1787) de jure Earl of Wemyss, given up by his Tutors (Helen Charteris, nee Swinton, his matemal grandmother, and others), perhaps on the death of his grandfather, Colonel Francis Charteris, in 1732.
The inventory includes lands, chiefly in East Lothian, bonds, and the plenishings of houses in Edinburgh and at Stonyhill and Amisfield (Newmill) in East Lothian. Among these are guns and pistols at Edinburgh and paintings at Edinburgh and Stonyhill.