Depositions. Testimonies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Testimonies of witnesses, under oath or affirmation, before a person empowered to administer oaths.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Depositions, 1689, by ministers of Logie, Stirlingshire, concerning their persecution by soldiery.
File
Identifier: Acc.7593
Scope and Contents
With records, 1715, of formal denials in a bastardy accusation at Burntisland, and other unconnected papers.
Dates:
1689-1715.
Depositions of witnesses concerning the lighting of beacons in Roxburghshire, 1804, by which a false alarm of a French invasion reached Jedburgh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.23
Scope and Contents
An article from the ‘Jedburgh Gazette’, 7 July 1906, based on this material, is included (folio i).
Dates:
1804.
Material in the process brought by Matthew Sharp of Hoddam, reviving one started by John Sharp of Hoddam in 1712, with a view to dividing the common lands of Ecclefechan and Hoddam.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3084-3085
Dates:
1712-1743.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.