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Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.

Scope and Contents Contains:13. Charter by William de Strachine and John Yhung son of Richard, baillies of Perth and the community of the same granting to John de Spensa son & heir of William de Spensa, senior a tenement, belonging to the deceased John son of Malcolm, burgess of Perth who was owing £4 to the royal custumar, on the South side of South Street between the land of William of Qwhitsum on the east and the land of Robert Broun on the west for payment of the said sum, the accustomed...

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The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1921-1931, to Louis Liebenthal from members of his family (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning Liebenthal's grain business in Leith, including his Edinburgh burgess ticket, 1889, legal papers, 1893, concerning his dispute with the firm of Frederick Huth and Co., grain merchant, London, and material, 1920, connected with the conversion of his firm into a public company, and its eventual sale (folio 95).

Scope and Contents The contents include:(i) Letters and drafts of letters of Henry Mackenzie to William Carmichael, USA, Minister to Spain, 1781, referring to the New Town of Edinburgh, Principal Robertson, Professor Adam Ferguson, Dr Blair, Adam Smith, his own literary work, and the founding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in the hand of an amanuensis with corrections by Mackenzie (folio 1); to Pitt, 1792, thanking him for his ‘valuable additions’ to Mackenzie’s ‘Review of the Principal...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...

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Includes: burgess ticket of Haddington, 1823; his passports, 1827, 1845; and will of John Laurie, 1861.

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Scope and Contents Order of John Lambert, parliamentary solider and politician concerning David, 2nd Lord Cardross 1651; three letters of Joseph Gordon to his father, Sir Ludovick Gordon of Gordonston, 1679; letter of Patrick Murray, Lord Elibank to John Johnstone, 1768; three letters of and to John Anstruther and Sir Robert Ainslie, 1802-1805; letter of M Hoey to Sir Robert Ainslie, 1803; letter of Lady Minto to Colonel John Drinkwater, 1808; verse and drawing relating to John Sobieski Stuart, undated;...

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Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

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File includes a notebook, burgess ticket, bookplates, and a printed pamphlet ‘A tribute to the memory of Charles de Pollier’, for Dr [James] Beattie.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...

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Includes: commissions to Grant as ensign, lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel,1846-1869; warrants to him as Companion of the Bath and Companion of the Star of India, 1866, 1869; commission to him as Deputy Lieutenant of Nairnshire, 1876; his passport, 1863; his burgess tickets of Nairn and Dingwall, 1863; and minute of his freedom of the Turners` Company, 1878.

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Included are: burgess tickets; an election return, 1722; a patent, 1854, concerning the manufacture of cannon; and, a public testimonial, ?1865, to George Dundas, later Lieutenant-Governor of St Vincent, from the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.

Scope and Contents The photocopied papers consist of:(i) Title page of ‘An introduction to arithmetic’ by James Gray, 22nd edition (Edinburgh, 1825), with the signatures of David (dated 1825) and Charles Livingstone;(ii) Livingstone's class-cards at the Andersonian University, Glasgow, 1836-1839, and the Aldersgate Dispensary, London, 1840;(iii) Livingstone's marriage record, 1845;(iv) Livingstone's burgess-ticket of Hamilton, 1857;(v) Extract minute...