Inventories.
Found in 392 Collections and/or Records:
Testament dative and inventar of John Fletcher of Aberlady., 30 July 1683.
There are also some documents relating to the lands of Butterdean and Wester Borthwick in Oldhamstocks which were held by the lairds of Aberlady.
Testament-dative and inventory, dated 21 January 1575/1576, confirmed 21 December 1576, of the goods, geir, sums of money, etc., of umquhile Patrick Halket of Pitfirrane (who died June 1573)., 21 January 1575/1576.
The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).
Testament dative and inventory of Jean Gray, daughter of Patrick Gray, of Ballegno., 15 January 1653.
Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.
Testament testamentar and inventar of John Mortimer of Flemington., 10 March 1608.
Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.
Testament testamentar and inventory of Alexander Home of Renton (d August 1619)., 3 December 1621.
His widow, Margaret Cockburne, later married Sir William Graham of Braco and then Sir Andrew Fletcher.
Testament testamentar and inventory of Mrs Catharine Forrester, daughter of Sir Andrew Forrester, deputy secretary for Scotland., 18 April 1733.
Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.
Transcript by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1824, of the late 15th-16th-century cartulary of the cathedral of Aberdeen known as ‘Registrum Capellanorum Chori’ (‘Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain’, number 1112), which is kept at Aberdeen University Library., Late 15th century-16th century.
Transcription, circa 1894, of the minute books of the Edinburgh Skating Club, 1784-1893., 1784-1893.
A copy of the membership list follows the transcription (folios 141-148), with later additions up to the elections of 1939 (folio 148), and Directions and Inventory copied from the Minute Book for 1784-1888. Miscellaneous verses are transcribed from both original books at folios 158-172.
Two copies, one manuscript and one typescript, of the inventory of the lantern slides made to accompany certain lectures by William Kirk Dickson on the history of manuscripts and early printed books; with a further list of the slides prepared by the National Library of Scotland., 1937.
Two letters of John Allen to John Clerk, 1806, and to James Gibson Craig, [?1827], on political changes; inventory of thirteen manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott, deposited in 1827 by J T Gibson-Craig, Writer to the Signet, on behalf of Archibald Constable, with Thomas Thomson, advocate, till their ownership be determined; and a letter from London, 1831, chiefly concerning the charters of the National and Commercial Banks, but also including a note of the sale of the above manuscripts., 1806-1831.
Typescripts of correspondence, 1782-1811, undated, of James Grahame; with other papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Grahame family., 16th century-19th century.
Various finding aids relating to the papers of General Sir George Murray, with a report on the collection., 1st half of 20th century.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
List of printed books in the collection which have been transferred to the Department of Printed Books (folio 1).
List of non-manuscript maps which have been transferred to the Map Room (folio 4).
Report on the collection by Robert Young, 1914 (folio 17).
Inventory of Murray’s private papers, 1907, including many not in the National Library of Scotland (folio 56).
Volume containing notes from the inventory of writs compiled about 1700 of lands belonging to the family of Fleming, Earls of Wigtown (folio 3) and to the family of Fleming of Bord (folio 18) made by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire, in order to illustrate the pedigree of the Flemings and their estates in the county., 1841.
Only a few leaves have been used: folios 15-17 and all after folio 18 are blank.
Volume I of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1830.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.