Inventories.
Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:
Papers connected with the parish of St Ninians, Stirlingshire, and the family of William Wilson, clothmaker, Bannockburn.
Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
Papers of and concerning the firm of William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn; and concerning the parish of St Ninians, Stirlingshire.
Papers of Culloden House.
Includes inventories of furniture, lists of portraits, and inventories of plate and silver contained in the house.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary, comprising drafts and notes for `The History of the Life and Reign of James the Third, the King of Scots, 1460-1488`; and, ‘An Historical Account of Printing in Scotland from 1507 to 1707.`
Papers of Messrs Morton, Smart, Macdonald and Prosser WS.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning exemptions from Jury Service.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case of Messrs Tait against James A Maconochie.
Papers of the family of Carnegie of Craigo, 15th-20th century, of Joseph Cauvin, Writer to the Signet, 1795-1817, and of John Craigie Halket of Cramond, 1861-1910.
Papers of the Skene family of Hallyards in Midlothian.
Papers relating to the death from disease of Staff Surgeon David Anderson, at Scutari, during the Crimean War.
'Perfyt inventar of all the pious donationes gevin to kirks and hospitalls since the dayes of King James the first to the reigne of King James the Sixt, begune to be writtin at Edinburgh the threteint day December, 1670.’
Photocopy of an inventory of correspondence of John Buchan, 1909-1929, in the Thomas Nelson and Sons papers in Edinburgh University Library.
Photocopy of household inventory of Dame Lilias Drummond, Countess of Perth.
Photocopy of inventory of the charters of the Maxwells of Monreith, compiled by Robert C Reid.
Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Ruddiman collection, consisting of manuscript-books and notes of Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library from 1730 to 1752, chiefly in Ruddiman’s autograph.
Sederunt book of the tutors and curators of Sir James Wemyss, 3rd Baronet, of Bogie, concerning the estate of the late Sir John Wemyss.
Shopping inventory for Andrew Wylie of Prinlaws with James Dickson and Co, glass manufacturer, Edinburgh.
Three small groups of private letters and related material.
Tour journals: two of Emily Jackson and Ina Jackson of their tour in the Eastern United States and Canada, 1884; and, two of John Jackson and Emily Jackson of their tour in Italy, 1891-1892.
Emily Jackson`s journal of her tour in Italy includes an account of a holiday in Kilmorack, Inverness-shire, Scotland, in 1887.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.