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Covenants.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Promises or undertakings of legal validity embodied in a contract under seal; also particular agreements contained in a deed or contract under seal which are incidental to the main purpose of the document.

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of seven National Covenants.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.6.13-20.6.19
Scope and Contents

Three of the covenants, Adv.MSS.20.6.14, 20.6.15, and 20.6.19, were probably signed in Edinburgh. The remaining four were all subscribed locally; in each case, the local signatures are preceded by the signatures, presumably written in beforehand in Edinburgh, of various noblemen, lairds, burgesses, and ministers of the Tables. Those dated 1638 lack the Glasgow Determination; those dated 1639 include it.

Dates: 1638-1639.

Copy, printed by Robert Young, Edinburgh, 1638, of the King`s Covenant, which consisted of the Confession of 1580-1581 and the general band of 1589.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.15
Scope and Contents

The acts of council authorising the Covenant have been added. The signatures are inserted between the two sections. This copy was circulated in Angus and it has over 913 signatures, including that of the Earl of Southesk, from Arbroath, Kirriemuir, Forfar, Alythm, and other parishes in the shire.

Dates: 1638.

Formal documents of J B S Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.15522-15524
Scope and Contents

Comprised of: a publishers` agreement, 1937, a draft deed of covenant with his first wife Charlotte, 1946, and a certificate of election to the National Institute of Sciences of India, 1953.

Dates: 1937-1953.

Microfilm of Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.456
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);

Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).

Dates: 1554-1707.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 File
Identifier: MS.819
Dates: 1643, 1661, 19th century.