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Admirall decisions.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.1
Scope and Contents

The manuscript comprises:

(i) `Decisions of the Lords of Session in Maritime cases ordine Alphabetico. [1662-1684].` (folios 4-19);

(ii) `Ane abbreviat of the Registers of the High Court of Admirality [of Scotland], 1613[-1673].` (folios 20-104)

Dates: 1613-1684.

Book of sederunt of the administrators of the charitable Contributions for the relief of the indigent Episcopal clergy and their widows.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.1
Scope and Contents

The volume contains minutes of meetings, which were held at the Exchange Coffee House, Edinburgh, and the decisions of the administrators about requests for assistance, and lists (in three categories) the names of those to be assisted. The entries as far as 17 March 1758 (folio 16) are in the hand of William Gordon, bookseller, Edinburgh, who appears to have presented the volume to the Charity (folio 1).

Dates: 1754-1788.

‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates: 1661-1681.

Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates: 1537-1606.

Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.7
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages; (ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).

Dates: 17th century.

Copy, 17th century, of “Lord Chancellor’s Practicks” (possibly by Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.4
Scope and Contents

A volume with ‘General Index’ on the fly leaf, then: (i) Lord Chancellor’s Practiques (pages 1-72); (ii) Sinclair’s Practiques (pages 72-235); (iii) Maitland’s Practiques (page 237). (iv) Colvill's Practiques (page 635); (v) Haddington's Practiques.

A descriptive note of the contents of the book, written in a later hand, is fixed on the first fly leaf.

Dates: [Circa 1606.]

Copy, late 17th century to 18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.3A
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Copy, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck, Lord Balmanno, ‘Practicks’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.9
Scope and Contents

Imperfect at the end.

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Copy of Sir Thomas Hope's 'Minor practicks', and decisions of the Court of Session.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.9
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows.

(i) Sir Thomas Hope’s 'Minor practicks'; (ii) Practiques observed before the Lords of Session collected from 1660-1666 by Sir George Lockhart; (iii) Newbyth’s decisions.

Dates: 1660-1666.

Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.14
Scope and Contents The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and illustrated with references to earlier case-decisions, and most of the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. According to a note inside the front cover, dated Perth, 4th August 1731, this copy was written by Sir Alexander Falconer, Lord Halkerton, in his own hand.The lists of paragraphs have been omitted...
Dates: Circa 1662.

Copy of the decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1681-1688, collected, late 17th century, by Sir Patrick Home of Renton.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.3.6-24.3.6a
Scope and Contents

This is an older copy of Adv.MS.24.3.4 containing volumes I and II.

Dates: Late 17th century.

Decisions of the Court of Session, collected, late seventeenth century ‘of the English judges during the usurpation 1655-1661’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.1
Scope and Contents

This volume contains two series of reports for the period of the Commonwealth in Scotland. The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.4.24).

Dates: 1655-1661.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.4
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Sinclair, Maitland, Culroes, decisions MS’, to which Thomas Ruddiman has prefixed a note which informs us that it was a copy from the originals in the library of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, who has himself explained the collection;(ii) Subjoined to it is ‘a compend of decisions by an uncertain author’;(iii) Transcript of the manuscript inventory of pious donations from James I’s reign to that of James VI....
Dates: 1540-1549, 1570-1593.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.5
Scope and Contents

‘Sinclair’s practiques’. The volume consists of the same collection as in Adv.MS.24.1.4 in part. From the beginning to page 314 of this volume corresponding with the Pitmedden manuscript (Adv.MS.24.1.4(iii)), and from the beginning to page 272 of the third series of paging. After which the collection continues down to 1591.

Imperfect at the beginning.

Dates: 1540-1549, 1570-1593.