Legal documents.
Found in 2019 Collections and/or Records:
Berwickshire and Roxburghshire., 1631-1711.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
“Blair’s Collections”: Session papers of Robert Blair of Avonton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Bonds, deeds and other formal documents of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1750-1865.
Bonds, discharges and related material including judicial papers of the Campbells of Craignish., 1621-1825.
‘Booke of the lawe of Olerone: as also for the holding of the Courte of the Admyrallte’ by James Humfrey, with lists of English ships and of ships’ stores.
Boon, Corsbie and Carfrae (Legerwood)., 1632-1711.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Borthwick of Crookston legal papers, and other documents of Scottish provenance, 1513-1822.
Bound papers and pamphlets on the forfeited estates of Alexander Forbes., 1746-1749.
Bound volume of legal prints of Sir David Dalrymple., 1711-1712.
Briefs, memoranda, and other legal papers, concerning cases, many of them Jacobite, brought before Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald, and James Erskine, as sheriff of Perthshire., 1750-1799.
The papers include an abstract of precognitions of the Appin murder, with James Erskine`s notes on it (Ch.4453); royal commission appointing James Erskine a Baron of the Exchequer (Ch.4456); and documents concerned with the attempts of James Erskine, now Lord Barjarg, to settle his affairs after his son John`s death, leaving three young children (Ch.4481-4490).
Buccleuch affairs., 1543-1691.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Bundle of legal documents., Various dates.
Burgh Court Book of Kelso., 1647-1725.
Burgh Court Book of Kelso., 1647-1681.
Burgh Court Book of Kelso., 1709-1725.
Business and law papers, 1761-1804, undated, relating to various persons having dealings both with David Herd and with his employer, David Russell; with some inventories of writs, 1643, 1682, 1712., 1643-1804, undated.
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.
Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.
Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'., 1832-1972, undated.
'Cartulary. I. Family Papers’, in fact containing only copies of a deed of entail by Matthew Cleland of Springfield, 1826, and of related documents., 1826.
The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.
Case of Alexander Lennox Esq claiming the Honour, Title and Dignity of Earl of Lennox., May 1776.
This item is printed.
Case of Andrew Boyes against the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate., 1830-1836, undated.
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.
Case of John [Bligh, 4th] Earl of Darnley, claiming the Title of Duke of Lennox., 1830.
This item is printed.
Case papers for the prosecution case in the impeachment of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Case papers relating to the litigation in the Court of Session, 2nd Division, between Sir William Elliott and the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1819-1829.
Except for reports of speeches of the judges (MS.11933, folios 81, 142) and 'Answers for Lord Minto' to the notes of the accountant under remit (MS.11934, folio 139), these are printed Court of Session papers.