Commissions. Permissions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Includes authorizations granting the power to perform a task or duty and documents appointing or hiring someone to perform a task.
Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.103- is now Acc.4496.
Dates:
1837-1925.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates:
1554-1720.
Commission by John Campbell, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, authorising Patrick Campbell of Monzie, Advocate, to apply to the King and Parliament for redress of the losses sustained in the 1715 rebellion.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.231
Dates:
1716.
Commission by Sir Walter Scott to Alexander Christie to act as Interim Sheriff Depute of Berwickshire.
Item
Identifier: Dep.376
Dates:
1813.
Commission, `by the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, etc. to Captain Henry Smith, C.B., hereby appointed Captain Superintendent of the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, and of the Royal Naval Hosiptal at Haslar.
Item
Identifier: Ch.901
Dates:
14 December 1854.
Commission by William Earl of Morton, Treasurer of Scotland, and John Lord Stewart of Traquair (later Earl of Traquair), his Depute, to James Kinninmonth, Chamberlain Depute of Fife, to make a list of all owners of firearms in Fife and Kinross.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.221
Dates:
1630.
Commission from the Highland Society of London to establish branches in the Peninsula.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12518
Dates:
1813.
Commissions, warrants, and certificates in favour of members of the Rose family.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2595-2629
Dates:
1824-1893.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.18
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A treatise on heraldry in 28 chapters, with particular reference to the Court of the Lord Lyon, 1661 (page 1). The last chapter is a copy of the proclamation, 1447, of Arthur, Constable of France and later Duke of Brittany. See Adv.MSS.31.5.2, folio 1, and 31.3.20, folio 1.(ii) `Kinges of armes and heraulds in Ingland 1628` (pages 75, 79). This has been numbered Cap.29 in continuation of (i). The work has been printed,...
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copies, 1636-1637, of documents and notes of Sir James Balfour on ecclesiastical history.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.32
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.4.16.The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies of commissions, 1626, passing under the great seal (page 1);
(ii) Several proclamations, 1626 (page 13);
(iii) Names of the Sheriffs, Stewards, and Bailies of Scotland, 1606 (page 24);
(iv) Articles and other documents concerning the commission anent tiends (page 28);
(v) Documents connected with the introduction of the Service Book, 1637,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1552-1615.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.4
Scope and Contents
Also included is a copy of a memoir of Henri IV by Pierre Jeannin, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1), a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material, and a table of contents (folio 264).
Dates:
1552-1615.
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1606-1613.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.9
Scope and Contents
Also included are a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material.
There is a table of contents (folio 1).
Dates:
1606-1613.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Henry Lindsay Bethune.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8959
Scope and Contents
Concerning Bethune`s military career in Persia.
Including instructions, firmans (royal mandate or decree), commissions and bills.
Dates:
1813-1851.
Diary of Sir John Hill, RN, detailing his mission to Scotland in 1837 to relieve distress caused by the famine.
File
Identifier: Acc.12738
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of commission from the Government and other associated papers and correspondence; with a volume of typed transcripts.
Dates:
1837.
Diplomas of learned bodies, 1814-1846, burgess-ticket of Edinburgh, 1815, and commission as Inspector of Factories, 1833, bestowed on Leonard Horner.
File
Identifier: Ch.934-942
Scope and Contents
Included is a copy of a deed of sale of pictures, executed by Sir Thomas Hanmer, Baronet, of Hanmer and Mildenhall, Speaker of the House of Commons, endorsed, apparently, in Hanmer`s hand, 1718 (Ch.942).
Dates:
1718, 1814-1833.
Douglas of Springwood Park Charters.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7637-7676
Scope and Contents
Formal documents from the papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park. They consist mostly of marriage-contracts, certificates and military commissions of members of the family, but also include a few documents relating to the family estates.
Dates:
1649-1888.
Formal documents from the Hunter of Glencarse papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15397-15431
Dates:
1685-1842.
Formal documents from the papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8896-8907
Dates:
1805-circa 1852.
Formal documents from the papers of John Hill Burton.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8493-8496
Dates:
1807-1831.
Formal documents from the papers of Sir Herbert Grierson.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8482-8485
Dates:
1894-1938.
Formal documents from the papers of the Setons of Touch.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15241-15247
Dates:
1808-1831.
Formal documents from the papers of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8908-8912
Dates:
6 January 1858-4 July 1872.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents
These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.