Legal documents.
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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 1551 Collections and/or Records:
Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail., 1768.
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Identifier: MS.5359
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
MSS.5357-5359 contain a number of portions of drafts, all later than September 1768, written chiefly in the hands of clerks, but considerably revised by Andrew Stuart and others. Details of these drafts, and a statement of the probable relationships between them and the final printed version, will be found in a note at the beginning of MS.5357. The drafts show a continuous process of revision and contraction, leading up to the final printed version. MS.5360 contains portions extracted during...
Dates:
1768.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
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Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail., 1768.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5357-5360
Scope and Contents
MSS.5357-5359 contain a number of portions of drafts, all later than September 1768, written chiefly in the hands of clerks, but considerably revised by Andrew Stuart and others. Details of these drafts, and a statement of the probable relationships between them and the final printed version, will be found in a note at the beginning of MS.5357. The drafts show a continuous process of revision and contraction, leading up to the final printed version. MS.5360 contains portions extracted during...
Dates:
1768.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
Practicks and other legal papers, written by John Thomsone, 1657., 1592-1653.
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Identifier: MS.2712
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Practiques of the Lords of Session'. According to a note, “they appear to be President Spotswoods tho' in some things different”; see Hector McKechnie, 'Practicks, 1469-1700', in ‘An introductory survey of the sources and literature of Scots law’, ‘Stair Society’, volume i (1936). (Page 1.)(ii) A version of Haddington's Decisions, 1592-1593; see also MS.2707. (Page 155.)(iii) Copies of statements in the process begun by the...
Dates:
1592-1653.
Precognitions of witnesses in the trial of Katharine Nairn for the murder of her husband, Thomas Ogilvy of Eastmiln., 1765.
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Identifier: MS.3648, folios 58-105
Scope and Contents
The first eight pages are missing.
Dates:
1765.
Printed Books from the Riddell Collection., 1718-1850.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42
Scope and Contents
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Dates:
1718-1850.
Printed legal paper, titled, 'Letter from Lt.-Gen. Sir Thomas Hislop, Bart., G.C.B., to henry Warburton, Esq. M.P., on the Deccan Prize Case' (London, 1834)., 1834.
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Identifier: MS.13133
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates:
1834.
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 General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, (1764-1843), and of his wife, Emma, daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop concerning Indian affairs, especially the Deccan Prize.
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Printed legal papers concerning Sir Thomas Hislop.
Printed legal paper, titled, 'The proceedings in the Deccan Prize Case' (London, 1823), volume III., 1823.
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Identifier: MS.13128
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates:
1823.
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 General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, (1764-1843), and of his wife, Emma, daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop concerning Indian affairs, especially the Deccan Prize.
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Printed legal papers concerning Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Printed legal papers, titled, 'The proceedings in the Deccan Prize Case' (London, 1823), volumes I-III.
Printed legal papers, annotated by the 1st Earl of Minto, concerning proceedings against the Maharaja Nand Kumar., [1787-1788.]
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Identifier: MS.11202
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From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
[1787-1788.]
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, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Political correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto's management of the impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey, formerly chief Justice of Bengal, for his conduct of the trial of the Maharaja Nand Kumar.
Printed legal papers, being copies, corrected in manuscript, of the Act, of similar acts, and of session papers., 1828-1835.
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Identifier: MS.16805
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:
1828-1835.
Printed legal papers chiefly concerning the estate of Kinlochmoidart., 1761-1877.
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Identifier: MS.3987
Scope and Contents
The papers relate to: the forfeited estate of Kinlochmoidart, 1761-1762 (numbers 1-2); claims on the estate of Dugald Stewart of Appin, 1796, 1798 (numbers 3-8); various leases of Kinlochmoidart lands, 1799, 1807 (numbers 9-11); a claim against Sir John Campbell, Baronet, of Ardnamurchan, in respect of improvements made in Kinlochmoidart, 1818 (number 12); and the disentailment of the estate, 1877 (numbers 13-14).
Dates:
1761-1877.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Printed legal papers concerning Sir Thomas Hislop., 1823, 1833.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13126-13133
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates:
1823, 1833.
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 General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, (1764-1843), and of his wife, Emma, daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop concerning Indian affairs, especially the Deccan Prize.
Printed legal papers of the Hays of Yester., 1721-1800.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14778-14781
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1721-1800.
Printed legal papers, titled, 'The proceedings in the Deccan Prize Case' (London, 1823), volume I., 1823.
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Identifier: MS.13126
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates:
1823.
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 General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, (1764-1843), and of his wife, Emma, daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop concerning Indian affairs, especially the Deccan Prize.
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Printed legal papers concerning Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Printed legal papers, titled, 'The proceedings in the Deccan Prize Case' (London, 1823), volumes I-III.
Printed legal papers, titled, 'The proceedings in the Deccan Prize Case' (London, 1823), volume II., 1823.
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Identifier: MS.13127
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates:
1823.
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 General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, (1764-1843), and of his wife, Emma, daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop concerning Indian affairs, especially the Deccan Prize.
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Printed legal papers concerning Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Printed legal papers, titled, 'The proceedings in the Deccan Prize Case' (London, 1823), volumes I-III.
Printed legal papers, titled, 'The proceedings in the Deccan Prize Case' (London, 1823), volumes I-III., 1823.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13126-13128
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates:
1823.
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 General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, (1764-1843), and of his wife, Emma, daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop concerning Indian affairs, especially the Deccan Prize.
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Printed legal papers concerning Sir Thomas Hislop.
Printed material of the family of Mure of Caldwell concerning public affairs., 1799-1907.
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Identifier: MS.5007
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Political papers, including copies of bills and Acts of Parliament (folio 1);
(ii) Papers concerning local affairs in Scotland (folio 63);
(iii) Speeches of William Mure (succeeded 1860) (folio 162);
(iv) Papers on literary and cultural subjects (folio 183);
(v) Legal paper, Officers of State for Scotland against the Chancellor of Glasgow University’ (folio 214).
Dates:
1799-1907.
Printed papers chiefly relating to the legal and financial affairs of the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate., 1809-1854.
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Identifier: MS.1989
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1809-1854.
Printed papers concerning lawsuits, chiefly of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1721-1756.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14778-14779
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1721-1756.
Printed papers concerning lawsuits, chiefly of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1721-1748.
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Identifier: MS.14778
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1721-1748.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Hays of Yester.
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Printed legal papers of the Hays of Yester.
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Printed papers concerning lawsuits, chiefly of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale.
Printed papers concerning lawsuits, chiefly of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1749-1756.
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Identifier: MS.14779
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1749-1756.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Hays of Yester.
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Printed legal papers of the Hays of Yester.
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Printed papers concerning lawsuits, chiefly of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale.
Printed papers in legal cases with which Sir Walter Scott was apparently associated, with a few autograph notes of Scott and others and two slight drawings of buildings., 1782-1801.
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Identifier: MS.1627
Scope and Contents
At the end of the papers in the case of the Reverend John McNaught, Minister of Girthon, for whom Sir Walter Scott pleaded (see J G Lockhart’s ‘Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott’, chapter vii), are manuscript copies of offending songs by McNaught.
Dates:
1782-1801.
Printed papers in the case Tennant versus Fyfe., 1874.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.38.6.2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Each volume has a contents list. Inglis was Lord Advocate in 1852 and 1858, Lord Justice Clerk from 1858 to 1867, and Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from 1867 to 1891.
Dates:
1874.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks of John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session, containing full notes of the cases in which he participated both as advocate (criminal cases only, 1841-1858) and judge (civil and criminal cases, 1858-1889).
Printed proceedings of a General Court Martial on the trials of Lieutenant-Colonel John Bell, Major Joseph Storey and Lieutenant-Colonel John Doveton., 1810.
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Identifier: MS.11672
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1810.
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, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government with and concerning the Madras Government and Army.
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Proceedings of a General Court Martial on the trials of Lieutenant-Colonel John Bell, Major Joseph Storey and Lieutenant-Colonel John Doveton.
Printed session papers with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair., 1796-1800.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.7.1.12-7.1.17