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Papers concerning the Freefield estate and the Leith family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8075
Dates:
1766-1848.
Papers concerning the Roxburghshire Estate of the Minto family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10912
Scope and Contents
Includes title deeds, 1492-1956, to lands which came into the possession of the Minto family in Roxburgshire and one deed, 1781, concerning land in Fife. With other papers, 1751-1975, on the administration of the family`s estates, family trust and settlement papers, bonds, inventories, valuations, probate records and plans.
Dates:
1492-1975.
Papers connected with the parish of St Ninians, Stirlingshire, and the family of William Wilson, clothmaker, Bannockburn.
Record Group
Identifier: MSS.9823-9826
Dates:
1778-[circa 1850].
Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6275/1-133
Dates:
1618-1941, undated.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of and concerning the firm of William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn; and concerning the parish of St Ninians, Stirlingshire.
Record Group
Identifier: MSS.9662-9684
Dates:
1709-1886, undated.
Papers of Charles Baxter, Writer to the Signet, relating to his role as executor of members of the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9977/1-63
Scope and Contents
Concerning Baxter's work as executor of Thomas Stevenson, his wife Margaret, and their son, Robert Louis Stevenson, with additional material relating to the literary estate of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dates:
1830-1983.
Papers of Culloden House.
File
Identifier: Acc.14543
Scope and Contents
Includes inventories of furniture, lists of portraits, and inventories of plate and silver contained in the house.
Dates:
1787-1838.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary, comprising drafts and notes for `The History of the Life and Reign of James the Third, the King of Scots, 1460-1488`; and, ‘An Historical Account of Printing in Scotland from 1507 to 1707.`
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.16.2.20-16.2.22
Dates:
?1st quarter of 19th century.
Papers of Messrs Morton, Smart, Macdonald and Prosser WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.369
Dates:
1914-1953.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning exemptions from Jury Service.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/17
Dates:
1793-1814.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case of Messrs Tait against James A Maconochie.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/19
Dates:
1823, undated.
Papers of the family of Carnegie of Craigo, 15th-20th century, of Joseph Cauvin, Writer to the Signet, 1795-1817, and of John Craigie Halket of Cramond, 1861-1910.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.267
Dates:
15th century-20th century.
Papers of the Skene family of Hallyards in Midlothian.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the documents belonged to John Skene (died 1644), the second son of Lord Curriehill, and to his son John, 2nd of Hallyards (died before 1699).The subjects include estate matters (in particular, the teinds of Hallyards) and political matters such as the sequestration of goods in the second half of the 17th century, and the raising and quartering of troops. The elder Skene was a Clerk of Session, and a number of legal papers are included in the volume, one of which (folio...
Dates:
1563-1710.
Papers relating to the death from disease of Staff Surgeon David Anderson, at Scutari, during the Crimean War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12538
Dates:
1854-1855.
'Perfyt inventar of all the pious donationes gevin to kirks and hospitalls since the dayes of King James the first to the reigne of King James the Sixt, begune to be writtin at Edinburgh the threteint day December, 1670.’
Item
Identifier: MS.3857
Dates:
1670.
Photocopy of an inventory of correspondence of John Buchan, 1909-1929, in the Thomas Nelson and Sons papers in Edinburgh University Library.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6423
Dates:
1975.
Photocopy of household inventory of Dame Lilias Drummond, Countess of Perth.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10629
Dates:
1676.
Photocopy of inventory of the charters of the Maxwells of Monreith, compiled by Robert C Reid.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5597
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5843-5896
Scope and Contents
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Dates:
19th century-mid 20th century.
Ruddiman collection, consisting of manuscript-books and notes of Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library from 1730 to 1752, chiefly in Ruddiman’s autograph.
Series
Identifier: MSS.762-781
Dates:
1712-[circa 1754].
Sederunt book of the tutors and curators of Sir James Wemyss, 3rd Baronet, of Bogie, concerning the estate of the late Sir John Wemyss.
Item
Identifier: MS.5723
Scope and Contents
The book chiefly contains records of the tutors' transactions relating to the Bogie coal mines and salt pans, and to the debts of the estate; throughout them is scattered information concerning the education of Sir James Wemyss (folio 16). The transactions are preceded by lists of estate expenses (folio 2 verso), inventories of the estate (folio 3 verso), and reports on the Bogie coal mines (folio 12 verso); and are followed by the curators' advice to Sir James Wemyss concerning the...
Dates:
1719-1733.
Shopping inventory for Andrew Wylie of Prinlaws with James Dickson and Co, glass manufacturer, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12548
Dates:
1885.
Three small groups of private letters and related material.
Series
Identifier: MS.6294
Dates:
1795-1855, undated.