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Charters and other formal documents from the papers of the Spottiswoodes of Spottiswoode.
Ch.1492-1539 relate to a family of Spottiswood (most often spelt Spottiswod; also other variants) in Edinburgh.
Charters and other formal documents in the claim by Arthur Forbes 9th of Culloden (1841-1843) to the baronetcy of Foveran.
An inventory of the collection is available for consultation.
Charters and other formal documents of and concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Charters and other formal documents of the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.
Charters and other papers of the family of Forbes of Culloden.
Charters concerning the lands of Fawside near Tranent.
Includes papers concerning the family of Grant of Monymusk and Grant-Suthie of Balgonie.
With a letter, 1750, of Thomas Reid.
Charters, instruments and other formal and legal documents concerning the lands of Foulshields, in the parish of Livingston, the Wardrop family, and other related families.
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Charters, other formal documents, and plans, from the Richards and Ashburner papers.
These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.
Charters, writs and formal papers mainly concerning the Halketts of Pitfirrane and the Wedderburns of Gosford.
Chartulary of the bishopric of Moray, 16th century.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
‘Collectanea Juridica’, containing a collection of styles of deeds, writs, and forms of proceeding in various Courts of England.
Collection of Icelandic laws and legal material.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
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 concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
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`.