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'Book containing minutes of what passed in the Convention of Estates, 1648.'
Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.
Books of Fife trade incorporations: the Weavers of Dunfermline and the Wrights of Culross.
Books of the Incorporation of Kelso Glovers and Skinners.
‘Calendar of the journals of the House of Lords’.
Coal accounts of Niddrie Mill, including accounts of money advanced by Lord Niddrie to erect the mill, production figures, expenses and profits.
At the back of the volume there are minutes and accounts of tacksmen of customs, 1686-1692.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
Copy, 1766, of ‘The laws and acts of the Chapmen of Perthshire’, 1713, and minutes of the society, 1748-1805.
Correspondence and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library buildings.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Stuart, then a member of the Bengal Council, and later a professor of Oriental Languages at the East India College, Haileybury.
The papers consist of private letters from Charles Stuart to Henry Dundas, lst Viscount Melville, and to his friend William Dundas, the latter's nephew, with extensive enclosures, largely minutes and reports by Stuart, and copies of official correspondence and dispatches. The private correspondence contains particular detail on fiscal policies and the internal politics of the Bengal administration.
Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Charles Roberts and the Scottish Historical Library.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning donations and purchases.
Includes the inventory of John Campbell of Islay collection.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the extension of building shelving in the library.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
Correspondence and papers sent by William Ross, a former Madras civil servant, Sir George Ramsay, Baronet, of Bamff, and Lieutenant (later Major-General) William Blackburne, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
The correspondence, which includes extensive memoranda and minutes, deals in considerable detail with the policies of the East India Company's Madras government towards the Raja of Tanjore, the question of the Tanjore and Arcot debts, and dynastic disputes in the royal house.
An original letter, with translation, of the Raja of Tanjore to Dundas (folios 123-137), is included in the Blackburne correspondence.
Diary of John Ballantyne, printer, containing entries covering the period December 1814 to July 1818.
Also included are:
(i) Three of John Ballantynes' letters, 1820-1821 (tipped-in at folios 1, 16 and 19);
(ii) Minutes of a meeting, in June 1821, of Ballantynes' trustees (tipped-in at folio 22);
(iii) A letter, 1821, of Ballantynes' brother, James (tipped-in at folio 26).
On the flyleaf is a note concerning the provenance and identity of the volume.
Manuscript containing minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804) and letter book, 1816-January 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet, and father-in-law of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy).
Memorials, minutes, &c., of the sheriffs substitute of Scotland, relating to increases in the scale of their salaries.
Includes printed material.
Microfilm of assorted catalogues, minutes and other papers.
Microfilm of books of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross.
The contents are as follows:
Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross, 1612-1793 (MS.3577);
Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross, 1793-1845 (MS.3578).