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15 letters of Douglas Young to R E Muirhead.
With a copy of a petition on behalf of Douglas Young.
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`.
Jacobite letters and papers assembled by Donald Louis Nicholas.
Letters, chiefly of the first two Viscounts Melville and other Dundases.
Miscellaneous documents and letters.
Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Miscellaneous letters and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Miscellaneous papers which belonged to Sir William Fraser, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
Orkney genealogies and anecdotes `collected by Robert Nicolson who served as Sheriff Substitute of Orkney from 1793 to 1814 inclusive`.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers concerning Widows Fund, Annuitants, Poor relief, and other financial papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
Papers of the Justiciary Court of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
Petition presented by pensioners and discharged soldiers of the County of Lanark to the House of Lords.
The petitioners claim exemption from the payment of Road Money, a tax levied for the repair of roads, etc., in lieu of Highway Duty, in virtue of an Act exempting ex-soldiers from the latter. The document, which bears 86 signatures, is accompanied by a letter to the 2nd Viscount Melville, 1823.
Petitions and Answers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the admission of Robert Forsyth, teacher of civil law in Edinburgh.
Single items and small collections of letters of a variety of nineteenth-century theological and legal figures.
The volume includes letters of Sir Archibald Alison, 1844-1846, Thomas Chalmers, 1814-1845, Lord Cockburn, 1850-1854. Sir William Jardine, 1829-1852, Francis Jeffrey, 1805-1849, Sydney Smith, 1810-1826, letters, 1812-1835, of and to Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, and letters, 1828-1835, to William Aird Thomson from other ministers with petitions, 1835, from some parishes on his proposed election as Moderator of the General Assembly.
Six letters of Robert Hamilton and three of Richard Wilson, managers of theatrical companies.
Concerning applications for licences to perform at Perth.
With two associated manuscript petitions, a printed proposal, and two playbills.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).