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Judicial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records of a tribunal established for the administration of justice.

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Court book of the Barony of Calder Comitis., 1584-1601.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3724
Scope and Contents Pages 1-15 are occupied by the records of the 'curia prima productionum infeofamentorum terrarum baronie ... XIX Aprilis 1586' and of the 'curia tertia ... quinto Octobris 1586'. Pages 16-22 are blank. On page 23 begin the records of the court held on 10 February 1584. Thereafter the entries run in chronological order to that for the court held on 24 November 1601 (page 189). There is clearly a gap between the entry for 2 May 1592 and that for 26 November 1594, which begins a section of...
Dates: 1584-1601.

Judicial papers of Sir James Stansfield concerning the debts of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount Kingston., 1665-1698.

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Identifier: MS.25733
Scope and Contents

The papers concern the following: (i) Sir James Stansfield, 1665-1698 (number 1); (ii) James Allan, of Dewar, Writer to the Signet, 1680-1687, undated (number 14); (iii) Sir Robert Barclay of Pearston, 1670, 1680 (number 49); (iv) Thomas Bryson, Slater, Dunbar, 1669-1677 (number 51).

Dates: 1665-1698.

Judicial papers of Sir James Stansfield concerning the debts of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount Kingston., 1653-1682.

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Identifier: MS.25734
Scope and Contents

The papers concern the following: (i) Sir William Clarke, Secretary at War, 1653-1682 (number 1); (ii) Harie Cockburn, Merchant, Haddington, 1670-1678 (number 10); (iii) John Dougall, of Nunlands, 1670-1672 (number 17); (iv) Sir John Falconer, of Balnakellie, 1681 (number 27); (v) James Fleming, Merchant, Edinburgh, 1681 (number 28).

Dates: 1653-1682.

Judicial papers of Sir James Stansfield concerning the debts of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount Kingston., 1668-1678.

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Identifier: MS.25736
Scope and Contents

The papers concern the following: (i) Katharine Gilbert, widow of John Johnstone, Chamberlain of New College, St Andrews, 1668-1677 (number 1); (ii) George Gordon, Son of George, Kintyre Pursuivant, 1670-1678 (number 9); (iii) Catherine Gray, Daughter of George, Town Clerk of Haddington, 1670-1678 (number 15); (iv) Thomas Haliburton in Eaglescairnie, 1670-1678 (number 25).

Dates: 1668-1678.

Judicial papers of Sir James Stansfield concerning the debts of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount Kingston., 1655-1692.

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Identifier: MS.25740
Scope and Contents

The papers concern the following: (i) Lords of Session, 1668-1692 (number 1); (ii) William Scott, Baillie, Dalkeith, 1670 (number 10); (iii) Sinclair of Longformacus, 1675, 1688 (number 17); (iv) John Sleich, Burgess, Haddington, 1655-1678 (number 19); (v) Colonel David Thomson, 1668-1677 (number 32); (vi) William Veitch, 1669-1678 (number 36).

Dates: 1655-1692.

Judicial papers of Sir James Stansfield concerning the debts of James and William Melville., 1651-1685.

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Identifier: MS.25731
Scope and Contents

The papers concern the following: (i) George Fearing, Merchant, Dundee, 1651-1661 (number 1); (ii) Arthur Temple, Surgeon, Edinburgh, 1664 (number 3); (iii) James Williamson in Balhalvie, 1662 (number 6); (iv) Andrew Crawford, Clerk to the Justices of the Peace of Linlithgow, 1662-1663 (number 11); (v) Henry loch, Merchant, Edinburgh, 1665-1670 (number 14); (vi) John Lawson, Stabler, Canongate, 1685 (number 15); (vii) Miscellaneous, 1663-1685 (number 19).

Dates: 1651-1685.

Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Legal and judicial papers and records concerning the Airth estate., 1688-1883.

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Identifier: MS.10857
Scope and Contents The papers consist of:(i) Miscellaneous baron court records of Airth, 1728-1773 (folio 1);(ii) Papers, 1809-1823, in the case of John Stein, distiller at Kennetpans, against Thomas Graham Stirling of Airth concerning the stopping up of the Pow of Airth (folio 49);(iii) Papers, 1823-1824, in the action of Lieutenant Thomas Stirling, Royal Navy, to discover his right to part of a sum of money in consols belonging to Sir Thomas Stirling of Strowan (folio...
Dates: 1688-1883.