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Found in 2019 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ made in 1673 for John Smith of Brousterland, apparently from a text written in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.9
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is rather shorter, many of the decisions quoted are earlier, and the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. It is followed by an index of subjects discussed (page 409), and a contents list of each Title (page 413), both written apparently in different hands, neither being that of the text. The volume lacks apparently one leaf at the end.
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ made in 1677 from a text written probably in or shortly after 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.3
Scope and Contents
Although the general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order), the text is considerably shorter, for most of the Titles have fewer chapters (some have only half as many), and fewer references to case-decisions.At folio iv is an inscription (repeated at folio v verso) stating that the copying of the book was completed on 19 October 1677; it is presumably in the hand of James Hay, whose note of...
Dates:
1666 or after.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in a number of hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.17
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681, except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order, but the text of each title is rather shorter and illustrated with fewer references to case-decisions. There are blank leaves between Titles 11 and 12 (folios 69-76), between sections 8 and 9 of Title 16 (folios 115-126) and following Title 31 (folios 229-241). The writing on folio 174 (but not folio 174 verso) is upside down. The chapter-headings in Titles...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.8
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681, except that the contents list of Title 9 (followed by a blank leaf) has been written into the text of Title 7, doubtless due to a miscalculation by the copyist; the contents list of Title 30 has been written in on the leaf following the end of the work, and Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order; also, the text is rather shorter, and the titles, most of which are divided into fewer paragraphs, are illustrated...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in or about 1662.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.10
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and the titles are usually divided into fewer paragraphs.The name W Primerose, possibly the signature of Sir William Primrose of Elphinstoun, is written several times at folios i, ii and iii, together with a variety of Latin tags, pen-flourishes, arithmetical calculations, and (at folio ii) a version of the...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.11
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and is illustrated by references to earlier case-decisions, and the titles are usually divided into fewer paragraphs.An inaccurate pagination (which has been ignored) has been added almost throughout, but no running titles or paragraph numbers. The contents lists of Titles 25 to 31 have not been entered in the...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written apparently in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.12
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text in general appears to be rather shorter and is illustrated by references to earlier case-decisions, and the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. The text is preceded (folio ii verso) by an index (more correctly by a list of Titles and their contents), in the same hand, which has also been responsible for the pagination, and is followed...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written apparently in or shortly after 1666.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.2
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the titles are mostly shorter, containing fewer chapters and references to case-decisions. A few textual corrections and marginal additions have been made in a contemporary hand, mostly in Titles 1-6; most of Titles 8-31 are followed by blank leaves presumably intended for additions and corrections. Chapters 7-18 of Title 6 have been written in...
Dates:
1666 or after.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in an unidentified hand apparently in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.5
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order), but the text of each title is shorter, contains fewer chapters, and is illustrated with fewer references to case decisions. An alphabetical index of subjects has been added in the same hand (folio 509). At page 307 is a signature of J or T Skene dated April 4 1678, and at folio i is an undated signature probably of John Swinton, Lord Swinton. Inside the...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.14
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and illustrated with references to earlier case-decisions, and most of the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. According to a note inside the front cover, dated Perth, 4th August 1731, this copy was written by Sir Alexander Falconer, Lord Halkerton, in his own hand.The lists of paragraphs have been omitted...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1666.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.13
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and is illustrated by references to earlier case-decisions and most of the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs.At folio i are a variety of jottings in a contemporary hand, or hands, and at folio i verso the style of an obligation. The name William Hay in an early 18th-century hand appears also at folio i...
Dates:
Circa 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Laws of Scotland’, written apparently in a number of hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.10
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text of each title is shorter, generally divided into fewer chapters, and illustrated with fewer references to case-decisions. The chapter-headings appear to have been written in after the copying of the text, and in Title 7 most of them have been omitted. Blank leaves at folios 17, 25, 31 and 35 verso. At the end (folios 195-204) are accounts of...
Dates:
Circa 1662.
Copy of ‘The institutions of the law of Scotland’ by Sir James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair., [1671, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5434
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is that of the first printed edition of 1681, but the text is in places shorter and slightly different.
The book is signed 'Jedburgh, Nov. 1671'. There are legal notes, some in the hand of Robert Ker, 4th Lord Jedburgh, on folios 1 verso-2 and 170-181.
Dates:
[1671, or before.]
Copy of the will, 1792, with codicils, 1808, of Admiral John Elliot of Essenside, grand-uncle of the 2nd Earl of Minto, with correspondence and papers concerning his executry, 1808-1811., 1792, 1808-1811.
File
Identifier: MS.11973A
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
1792, 1808-1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Executries and related papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
Correspondence, 1754-1765, and legal documents, 1723-1765, concerning William Campbell of Stobs., 1723-1765.
File
Identifier: MS.17697
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1723-1765.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning William Campbell of Stobs; his lands of Stobs and his wife's of Harvieston were mortgaged to Lord Milton.
Correspondence, accounts and legal papers of the Grahams of Airth concerning Jamaica and the estate of Ardoch Penn., 1775-1834, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10924-10925
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:
1775-1834, undated.
Correspondence and documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith, Professor of Evangelistic Theology at New College, Edinburgh, and John Smith, tenant in Libberton, Lanarkshire.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7185-7186
Scope and Contents
The families of Thomas and John Smith were related by marriage and an outline genealogy is provided (MS.7185, folio i.).
Dates:
1790-1914.
Correspondence and legal and official papers of Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats., 1611-1612, 1654-1720, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6488
Scope and Contents
This volume has been divided into the following sections: correspondence (folios 1-26), family legal papers (folios 27-70), official legal papers (folios 71-80), official accounts (folios 81-154). The official papers concern Sir Patrick Murray in his capacity as General Receiver of Crown Rents and Foreign Excise.
Dates:
1611-1612, 1654-1720, undated.
Correspondence and legal documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith and John Smith., 1790-1914.
File
Identifier: MS.7185
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence, 1799-1914, chiefly from Thomas Smith, when a missionary in Calcutta, to his sister, Catherine, wife of Thomas Smith, tenant in Libberton. Smith's letters deal mainly with family affairs but include some comments on life in India, the disruption of 1843, the effect of the Corn Laws, and the Indian Mutiny. The miscellaneous correspondence includes a letter to Smith from Alexander Duff, the missionary. (Folio 1.)(ii) Legal...
Dates:
1790-1914.
Correspondence and legal documents relating to a law case between Walter Oswald and Elizabeth Henderson Oswald, parents of Henry Robert Oswald, senior, and John Henderson, brother of Elizabeth Henderson Oswald, over the property of their father, Robert Henderson, and of their two brothers., 1807-1841.
File
Identifier: MS.9041
Dates:
1807-1841.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Oswald family.
Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9250-9307
Scope and Contents
Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates:
1605-1952.
Correspondence and legal papers concerning the Crinan Canal.
File
Identifier: MS.9500
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers concern the Canal proprietors' negotiations with the local landowners, at first to acquire land to build the Canal, and later in disputes about rights and ownership. There are also records of tolls paid, and accounts for damages to property.
Dates:
1795-1873.
Correspondence and legal papers of Hugh Seton of Touch, formally Smith, Archibald Seton, 13th of Touch, and Barbara Seton, 14th of Touch.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19204-19209
Dates:
1775-1831.
Correspondence and legal papers of the Library of the Kirk of Saltoun., 1898-1899, 1920-1941.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9270/32-34
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes:
18 volumes of sermons
three volumes of library catalogue
papers concerning the management of the Library and of the affairs of the parish.
Dates:
1898-1899, 1920-1941.
Correspondence and legal papers to and concerning John and William Smith and Patrick Wilson, writers, Kelso.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8764
Dates:
1747-1846.