Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents having legal relevance in general. For documents that give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, use ""legal instruments"".
Found in 2019 Collections and/or Records:
Three formal documents relating to the burgh of Montrose.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.5767-5769
Dates:
1506-1676.
Titledeeds of the lands of Touch in Dunfermline., 1566-1652.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12948-12955
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.
Dates:
1566-1652.
Transcript, circa 1982, by Arthur H C Hope, of Adv.MS.25.1.10 (Stair`s Institutions).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11481
Dates:
circa 1982.
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.1.1-37.1.4
Dates:
[Circa 1626.]
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [1626.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.1
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [1626.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.2
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [Circa 1626.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.3
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [Circa 1626.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.4
Transcript of the proceedings at James Stuart's court-martial, 12 December 1780, on a charge of having 'joined in Mutiny in . . . causing to be imprisoned by Military Force . . . The Person of George Lord Pigot, then President and Governor of Fort St. George...’., 1780.
Item
Identifier: MS.8421
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The transcript was attested a true copy by R J Sulivan, Judge Advocate.
Dates:
1780.
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 and papers of Major-General James Stuart, younger brother of Andrew Stuart.
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Papers of James Stuart concerning the Pigot Affair.
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Transcripts of the proceedings at James Stuart's court-martial, 12 December 1780, on a charge of having 'joined in Mutiny in . . . causing to be imprisoned by Military Force . . . The Person of George Lord Pigot, then President and Governor of Fort St. George...’.
Transcripts, 18th century, of papers concerning the proceedings at York and Westminster, 1568-1569, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots, and the "casket letters".
File
Identifier: Acc.5872
Dates:
1568-1799.
Transcripts from Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, notes on session papers.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.5.10-24.5.13
Dates:
1740-1749.
Transcripts from Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, notes on session papers., 1742-1749
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.10
Transcripts from Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, notes on session papers., 1742-1749.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.11
Transcripts from Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, notes on session papers., 1740-1742
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.12
Transcripts from Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, notes on session papers., 1741-1749.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.13
Transcripts of the proceedings at James Stuart's court-martial, 12 December 1780, on a charge of having 'joined in Mutiny in . . . causing to be imprisoned by Military Force . . . The Person of George Lord Pigot, then President and Governor of Fort St. George...’., 1780.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8421-8423
Scope and Contents
The transcript was attested a true copy by R J Sulivan, Judge Advocate.
Dates:
1780.
Trial of Christian Ross Malcolmson, Agnes Roy (folio 25 verso) and Gredoch Malcolmson (folio 27 verso) alleged co-conspirators with Katherine Ross, Lady Foullis (wife of Robert Mor Munro, 15th Baron Foullis) against Robert Munro, appearand of Foullis and Marjorie Campbell, young Lady Balnagowan., 1577.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.7(ii), folios 20-29
Scope and Contents
The trial was held in the Cathedral church of Ross in Fortrose on 27th November 1577, by Walter Urquhart sheriff of Cromarty and Robert Munro of Foullis. The document appears to be the earliest surviving example of a local witchcraft trial held under a royal commission.Katherine Ross was later tried and acquitted in 1590 for her part in the attempted murder of the young lady and laird and the actual murder of the nurse who accidentally tasted the poison. Her trial is printed in...
Dates:
1577.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection.
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Small miscellany of legal papers, arranged as far as possible in a single chronological sequence.
‘True present state of the principality of Scotland with the means how the same may be … augmented’, in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.31.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Tutor record book of Sir John Lockhart, Lord Castlehill, as tutor to George Lockhart of Carnwath. With extracts from Alexander Penicuik`s `Description of Tweeddale, 1715.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13659
Dates:
1690-1693, 1715.
Tweeddale court, relating to property at the Netherbow, Edinburgh., 1598-1670.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11441-11497
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1598-1670.
Two Books of Hours, one English, 15th century, and one French, 15th to 16th century; with three volumes, 17th century, concerning law and heraldry.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9281/1-5
Dates:
15th century-17th century.
Two contiguous vellum fragments of what appears to be an English legal document, possibly an inventory, to which several corrections have been made., ?Late 16th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.37
Scope and Contents
Together the fragments form a fragment of approximately 3 x 7 inches. They had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark DD.2/1.11) of ‘S.P.N. Eustathii … in Hexahemeron commentarius (etc.)’ (Lugduni, 1629), by Saint Eustathius, Bishop of Antioch.
Dates:
?Late 16th century.
Two documents concerning members of the family of Wright of Loss.
File
Identifier: Acc.4561
Dates:
1755, 1804.
Two documents recording matrimonial and baptismal dates concerning the Wilson family, Alford.
File
Identifier: Acc.7759
Dates:
1781.