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21 documents relating to the lands of Curriehill near Edinburgh.
Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.
These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
“Blair’s Collections”: Session papers of Robert Blair of Avonton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Collection of papers consisting mostly of briefs for various peers in support of their voting as Scottish Representative Peers in the election of 1790.
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.
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`.
Copies, 18th century, of records of Parliament and of the Privy Council.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Copies of legal documents, 2nd half of 17th century, and copies, 1657 and early 18th century, of valuations, 16th century, of places in Scotland.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Copies of Stair`s "Institutions of the Law of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1681 and 1693).
Includes manuscript additions, late 17th century.
Copy, late 17th century to 18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie.
A collection of decisions and law notes.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.20).
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in an unidentified hand apparently in or about 1666.
Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Anderson`s personal affairs, his business interests (as lawyer, factor, and Postmaster-General), and his historical researches (which culminated in the posthumous publication of ‘Diplomata Scotiae’) are all represented.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
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.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
Extracts, late 17th century, from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1689.
Fragment of a copy, being pages 19-124 (containing Title I to Title VII of Book 1) of the first edition of ‘An Institute of the Law of Scotland’ by John Erskine, containing numerous additions throughout in an unidentified contemporary hand.
Many of the additions in the outer margins are merely chapter headings, whilst most of those in the upper and lower margins are notes of legal cases heard after the publication of the book, as far as 1821 (folio 175). The longest additions are written on fragments or entire sheets of paper tipped in throughout. There are also a few later additions written in pencil in another hand.
Genealogical notes of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot.
Includes loosely inserted family and estate papers.