Informations. Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Charges lodged with a magistrates court. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Copy, early 18th century, of records, 1585-1723, of the High Court of Justiciary, including many printed Informations, etc., 1585-1723.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1945-1947
Informations chiefly concerned with the professional activities of Lord Innerpeffer., 1st half of 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.16670
Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745., 1745-1755, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17515-17517
Dates:
1745-1755, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745., 1745-June 1746.
File
Identifier: MS.17515
Dates:
1745-June 1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
/
Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
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Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745., July-December 1746.
File
Identifier: MS.17516
Scope and Contents
Some of the papers are without exact date.
Dates:
July-December 1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
/
Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
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Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.., 1747-1755, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17517
Dates:
1747-1755, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
/
Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
/
Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Legal documents and inventories of writs of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow., 1614-1696.
File
Identifier: MS.9638
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Inventories of writs of Haining and Ballenbreich, circa 1648, of Dunipace and Seabegs, circa 1648, 1654, and of various other properties, 1642-1696 (folio 1);
(ii) Miscellaneous papers and information, 1651-1683, in the lawsuit between the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and the 1st and 2nd Earls of Callendar (folio 29);
(iii) Informations and legal memoranda, 1614-1696, undated (folio 73).
Dates:
1614-1696.
Miscellaneous 'antique papers'., 1626-1810, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1915
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Modern list of some of the papers and part of a printed sale catalogue (folio 1);(ii) Contemporary copies of the charges brought by John Selden against the Duke of Buckingham, and of the King's explanation delivered by Buckingham, 1626 (folio 5);(iii) Memorandum, circa 1635, arguing the complicity of the Marquess of Huntly, James Gordon of Letterfourie, and Lady Rothiemay (Katherine Gordon) in the harrying of the lands of...
Dates:
1626-1810, undated.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, undated.