Inventories.
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Found in 392 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs., 1437-1912, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14750-14777
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1437-1912, undated.
Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs., 1570-1764.
File
Identifier: MS.14750
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Inventories and notes, [circa 1580]-1688, of writs and legal papers (folio 1);(ii) Papers, 1570-1669, concerning the Hays of Linplum and Bara and their lands, (folio 54);(iii) Papers, 1620-1638, concerning the Newtons of that Ilk and their lands (folio 99);(iv) 'Report from William Yoole Anent the toun of Zester 1655' (folio 112);(v) Papers, 1743-1764, concerning Sir Robert Hay of Linplum:...
Dates:
1570-1764.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning estate and local affairs.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs.
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General and East Lothian papers.
Papers of the Murrays of Dollerie., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21173
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Typed transcripts of letters to Anthony Murray of Dollerie (died 1838) while a student at the Scots College, Douai, and later at Utrecht, 1789-90. The writers are chiefly his father and sisters, his cousins, the Murrays of Ochtertyre and the Oliphants of Condie. There are a few letters to his father, Anthony Murray (died 1790), notably from Abbé John Farquharson, Principal of the Scots College, Douai. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Typed transcript of a journal of Anthony...
Dates:
18th century.
Papers of transactions and lawsuits between the Tweeddale and Lauderdale families, deriving chiefly from the marriage between the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale and Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of the Duke of Lauderdale., 1632-early 18th century, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14546-14550
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1632-early 18th century, undated.
Papers relating to Castletown in the parish of Fordoun, Kincardineshire., 1792-1796.
File
Identifier: MS.2790
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Account of the stocking on the farm of Castletown, 14 May, 1792' (folio 1);(ii) Diary of farm work and management, 16 May 1792-17 October 1793 (folio 2 verso);(iii) Inventory of household furniture, farm utensils, books, 1792 (folio 1 inverted);(iv) 'Accompt of money paid out by Professor John Stuart of Marischal College Aberdeen as Trustee & Executor of the Will of his Father Dr. John Stuart of Inchbreck...
Dates:
1792-1796.
Papers relating to lawsuits and copies of correspondence., 1752-1802.
File
Identifier: MS.2905
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Papers relating to lawsuits of David Nairn of Drumkilbo against James Mercer of Aldie, 1752-1756 (folio 3) and of Alexander Nairn of Drumkilbo, David's son, against Colonel William Mercer of Aldie, brother of James, 1783-1788 (folio 32). An inventory of the latter process, 1788, enumerating many of the papers in both, has been placed at folio 1. These papers are perhaps connected with the legal affairs of Baroness Nairne (Flahaut de la...
Dates:
1752-1802.
Papers relating to the executry of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Buccleuch, the marriage and executry of Mary, Countess of Buccleuch, and transactions and lawsuits between the Tweeddale family and the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth., 1457-1708, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14542-14545
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1457-1708, undated.
Particular accounts., 1644-1692.
File
Identifier: MS.14626
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Account, 1644, of James Murray, merchant, Edinburgh, for his brother, Robert (folio 1);(ii) Account, 1646, of marriage expenses of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 2);(iii) Receipt, 13 July 1650, by Major Robert Scott 'to have received from Jon Lord Hay of Yester two horsemen' (folio 4);(iv) Accounts and related papers, 1650-1686, concerning the Tweeddale fortune, being inventories and notes of debts of the...
Dates:
1644-1692.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts and related papers of, to or concerning the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, or Jean, Countess of Tweeddale.
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Particular and classified accounts.
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Particular accounts.
Personal and miscellaneous papers of Andrew Stuart., 1746-1791.
File
Identifier: MS.8325
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1746-1759, concerning Andrew Stuart's legal training, including his contract of apprenticeship, and his admission to the Society of Writers to the Signet (folio 1);(ii) Inventories, 1767-1787, of personal and household possessions (folio 12).(iii) Catalogues and lists of books, 1771-1783 (folio 54).(iv) Accounts of household expenses, 1775-1777 (folio 92).(v) Accounts of horse and carriage...
Dates:
1746-1791.
Personal papers, including correspondence, of Robert Blair Wilkie and his family., 1932-2001.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12765/29-42
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates:
1932-2001.
Personal papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 17th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5112-5126
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Photocopies of documents formerly at Yester House., 1673-1739.
File
Identifier: MS.14810
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Poem in the hand of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale: ‘On the death of Lady Sophia Hay who dyed at Yester the 29th of April 1678 and of her age the 13th yeare’ (folio 1);(ii) Extract of the blazoning of the coat of arms borne by Sir James Hay, 1st Baronet of Linplum, 10 February 1673 (folio 4);(iii) Newsheet, Edinburgh 1715, concerning fighting between the Jacobites and the forces commanded by the Duke of Argyll (folio 5);...
Dates:
1673-1739.
Photocopy of a detailed inventory of the papers and documents of the family of Fleming of Cumbernauld and Biggar, Lords Fleming, and Earls of Wigtown presented to the National Library of Scotland in 1960; compiled at the time, with some corrections and additions, and the current references added., 1960.
Item
Identifier: MS.20770
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The family estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie in East Dunbartonshire extended into the neighbouring parishes of Monkland in Lanarkshire and Dunipace in Stirlingshire. That of Biggar in Lanarkshire included also some lands in Peeblesshire, where the Flemings were in conflict with the Tweedies of Drumelzier. Members of the family were prominent in public affairs in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the later Earls took little part in them. The male line failed in 1747, and the estates passed to...
Dates:
1960.
Photostat copy of the inventory, compiled by the staff of the Scottish Record Office, of the section of the Torrance Papers originally deposited there., 1950.
Item
Identifier: MS.8208
Scope and Contents
The papers have now been placed within the framework of the larger collection, and the present references of items have been entered on this copy of the inventory.
Dates:
1950.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Estate papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Photostats of 'An Inventary of missive letters and others underwritten, gifted to the Faculty of Advocates by ... Coline, Earl of Balcarres', receipted by Thomas Ruddiman, and of an extract from the minutes acknowledging the gift., 1712.
File
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 6-8
Dates:
1712.
Production files of 'The Albannach' by John McGrath, from the novel by Fionn MacColla., 1985-1986, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/168-175
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
1985-1986, undated.
Purchase of Ferintosh: inventory of writs delivered by Simon Fraser, 3rd of Inverallochie, to John Forbes, 2nd of Culloden., 1669.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2035
Registered inventory of the Kinninmonth estate., 1702.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10486
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates:
1702.
Registered inventory of writs of properties, including the Cross House, drawn up by Robert Meiklejohn for William Cochrane, Treasurer of Heriot`s Hospital. (32)., 31 January 1634.
Item
Identifier: Ch.5972
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Comprised of:
Ch.5946-5975: a group of thirty deeds and notarial extracts formerly part of a larger collection of documents, numbered between 1 and at least 33 (but originally not chronologically arranged), relating to properties in the High Street, Edinburgh;
Ch.5976-5990: a group of mostly unrelated documents of a miscellaneous nature arranged in a separate chronological sequence.
An inventory is available.
Dates:
31 January 1634.
Registrum de Pitsligo., 1419-1662
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/188
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1419-1662
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Charters, legal papers and pedigrees.
Sederunt book of the curators of William Graham of Airth (died 1790), 1746-1749, 1751, including a detailed inventory of plenishing, 1746., 1746-1749, 1751.
Item
Identifier: MS.10849
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
1746-1749, 1751.
Slips containing the material from which Patrick Rose made his inventory of William Rose`s Manuscripts (Adv.MS.49.7.7)., 1819.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.20
Scope and Contents
Collected here are the slips for items XVI-XXI, XXIII-XXIV, XXVI-XXVII, XXIX-XXXII, XXXIV-XLIII, XLV-XLVII, L-LXXIV, LXXVI-LXXIX, LXXXI, LXXXIV; others are bound into Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.7.
Dates:
1819.
Stock accounts kept on the farms at Fettercairn House., 1804-1805.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/859
Scope and Contents
Contains an inventory of cattle and sheep.
Dates:
1804-1805.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Fettercairn crop and stock books.
Testament and inventory of John Scott in Seasyd., 1681.
File
Identifier: Acc.9843/44
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Dates:
1681.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters, instruments and other formal and legal documents concerning the lands of Foulshields, in the parish of Livingston, the Wardrop family, and other related families.
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Formal and legal documents and papers relating to the Scott family.
Testament and inventory of Thomas Millar, Milne of Rossie., 1685.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15397