Scope and Contents The papers include titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.Family papers include Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland’s Scottish sketchbooks and a series of Game Books recording the activities of the many shooting and fishing parties organised for the Sutherland family and their guests. The manuscript of Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh’s ‘Continuation of the Genealogy of the Family of Sutherland’, 1651, is of...

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A volume titled ‘Balfour’s Genealogies’, containing: 1. A copy of ‘Genealogies of the Scottish nobility’ (Adv.MS.33.2.39). 2. Commission for the valuation of teinds, and proceedings of the commissioners, 1627-1643.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (A.4.25).

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The documents are copies of originals mostly from the period 1626 to 1643, but they include a commission, January 1678, granted by Charles II, and the copyist`s hand is characteristic of the late 17th century.

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An inventory is available.

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(i) `De Constabulariis fet officio Constabularij Angliae`, 1628. A collection of material compiled by Sir James Balfour on the duties and powers of the Constables, including copies of charters and other documents, mostly from the Cotton Manuscripts. (Folio 1.)

(ii) Copy of royal commission to report on the office of High Constable of Scotland, 1627. (Folio 41.)

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Commissions issued to: John Lindsey, 17th Earl of Crawford, 1661, as Treasurer (Ch.5992); James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews, and others, 1674, as Commissioners of the Exchequer (Ch.5993); and James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, and others, 1685, as Commissioners of the Exchequer (Ch.5994).

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The manuscript has been compiled from various sources. See the particular descriptions. Letters of presentation by or on behalf of the donors are included.

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Includes correspondence, 1787-1884 and undated, of the Percy and other related families.

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The papers include commissions signed by the Jacobite Duke of Atholl (Marquess of Tullibardine) and Prince Charles Edward, with an account of the Rattrays of Kinvaid and Rannagulzon.

Scope and Contents Includes the following:1. Commission as honorary chaplain in the 13th Argyllshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1871.2. Letter, 26 April 1871, requesting payment of £1.5s for the above.3. Receipt, 6 May 1871, for the payment.4. Letter from the Bishop of Argyll, 26 February 1876, on the printing of the Episcopal Gaelic prayerbook, translated by Mackenzie.5. Two letters, with envelopes and one enclosure, from the Duke of Argyll, 9 May and 14...

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Includes three fragments of letters, a letter of his daughter, Anna Mary, his commission as Consul and a copy of his book, "Analysis of the Language of the Bechuanas".

Scope and Contents Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...

Scope and Contents Included are:(i) Commission by the Marquess of Montrose to Sir James Lamont, 14th of that Ilk, to raise the fencible men in the Sheriffdom of Argyll (contemporary copy), 1645 (folio 1);(ii) ‘Articles of Capitulatione aggreed upon betuixt James Campbell of Ardkinlas ... and Sir James Lamount of Inuerin, Knight, ... annent the surrender and overgiving of his garison at Toward. At Auchevullin, the 3 of Junii, 1646’ (contemporary copy); the document is printed from...

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Includes commissions of John Welsh and letters of Edward Fitzgerald and William Graham.