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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 205 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts and miscellaneous papers concerning the ‘Royal Charlotte’., 1797-1826.

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Identifier: MS.9645
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Pay-bills, 1816, 1818-1820. Those for 1816 are for Thomas Robertson's salary only. (Folio 1.) (ii) Boatswain's, carpenter's, and gunner's demands and accounts, 1816-1820. (Folio 21.) (iii) Lists of defects to be made good, 1817-1819 (Folio 62.) (iv) Certificates of pilotage, 1817-1820. (Folio 74.) (v) Miscellaneous accounts and papers, 1804, 1815-1820, including a leaf from a log-book, a record of ships boarded, and abstracts of wages and beer-money. (Folio...
Dates: 1797-1826.

Accounts of Andrew Stuart with the Hamilton Trustees, chiefly concerning the Douglas Cause., 1762-1769.

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Identifier: MS.5363
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Account of expenditure abroad, July 1762, to January 1766 (folio 1), followed by drafts of this account giving more detail (folio 36);(ii) Accounts relative to the Douglas Cause, 1762-1769 (folio 122);(iii) 'General abstract of the whole expence in relation to the Douglas Cause in Scotland', 1769 (folio 134), with other abstracts and a memorial concerning the proportion to be paid by Sir Hew Dalrymple (folio 142);...
Dates: 1762-1769.

Accounts of concerning the regality of Dunfermline., 1647-1704, 1832-1833, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14729
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts and related papers, 1647-1695, concerning the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale's claims for teinds and feu duties out of the estate of George Durie of Craigluscar (folio 1);(ii) Notes and related papers, 1651-1697, undated, concerning arrears of teind and feu duties (folio 35);(iii) Accounts, 1683-1686, of the estate of Limekilns at the time of its sale (folio 66);(iv) Accounts and receipts, 1683-1686, of the...
Dates: 1647-1704, 1832-1833, undated.

Administrative and business papers of Basil Cochrane., 1780-1787.

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Identifier: MS.8459
Scope and Contents The main topics are the accusation of murder brought against Basil Cochrane through the death of his servant after flogging (folio 8) and Cochrane's contract with the East India Company for the monopoly of supplying the Company's troops in Madras with spiritous liquors (folio 115). There is a report, 1786, by a Company solicitor in reply to a petition presented by the Earl of Dundonald on behalf of Cochrane (folio 182), and an abstract, 1786, of Cochrane's case against the Company Directors...
Dates: 1780-1787.

Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.7
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) an engraved portrait of Boyd, 1596, by Thomas de Leu, or De Leeuw (folio 1), made probably when he was at Paris;(ii) an account of the family of Boyd (by Robert Boyd of Trochrig), undated, written to an unidentified correspondent (folio 1);(iii) heads of lectures on the Institutions of Justinian, entitled `In Instituta Imperatoris commenta, 1591` (folio 3), accompanied by marginalia, some lengthy, as far as folio 52 verso;...
Dates: 1590-1596, 1671, and undated.

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.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

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`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Commonplace book chiefly containing historical material., 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2095
Scope and Contents The contents include copies of speeches, letters, and various documents, abstracts, tables, and notes relating to history (chiefly Scottish, of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; also Highland and some English), foundations of religious houses at Restalrig and St Andrews, rents of Church benefices, coinage, Crown rents, Dutchmen fishing with busses in British waters, the Royal Navy, merchant adventures, etc., with notes from Scripture, epitaphs, etc. In various different...
Dates: 17th century.

Comparative material concerning the Aberdeen Railway., 1848-1850.

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Identifier: MS.15484
Scope and Contents

The volume contains abstracts of revenue and statements of traffic made for purposes of comparison with similar abstracts and statements concerning the Arbroath and Forfar line.

Dates: 1848-1850.

Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and miscellaneous law notes., Late 17th century-early 18th century.

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Identifier: MS.1943
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and containing abstracts, practiques, copies of decisions, and correspondence of the reign of Charles I, commencing with a list of the religious houses in Scotland, with their district, order, and founder (folio i);

(ii) Miscellaneous law-notes, citing decisions from 1666 to 1675 (page 295) with an index (page 551).

Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

Copies of dispatches and papers from Robert Townsend Farquhar to the Governor-General in Council sent to Thomas Stamford Raffles, secretary to the 1st Earl of Minto in Java, by Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, Bengal, in June 1811., 1811.

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Identifier: MS.11681
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1811.