Legal documents.
Found in 468 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Microfilm of papers of the Barony Court of Faskally concerning the Robertsons of Faskally, clients of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
Microfilm of papers of William and James Chisholme concerning the Trout Hall and other sugar plantations in Jamaica, consisting chiefly of accounts for provisions sent to Jamaica and for sugar from the plantation sold in England.
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1747-1798 (MS.5464);
Papers, 1799-1804 (MS.5465);
Papers, [?1747-?1812] (MS.5466).
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie (MS.16497);
Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).
Microfilms of the business, financial and legal correspondence and papers of Daniel Campbell of Shawfield, merchant in Glasgow.
Minutes, reports and financial papers of Theatre Workshop Edinburgh.
Miscellaneous charters relating to the Chalmers of Auldbar.
As well as charters relating to the Chalmers family itself, there are other items which are apparently unrelated but which came with the bulk of the papers. Only one document (Ch.12806) is of 15th century date, and only one (Ch.12776) is of the 16th century. The rest of the collection dates largely from the 17th and 18th centuries. A detailed list is available.
Miscellaneous deeds from a collection of papers relating chiefly to Angus.
Miscellaneous documents and letters.
Miscellaneous documents concerning Montrose and Angus, the Covenanters and other matters.
Miscellaneous documents from the Lauriston Castle Collection.
Miscellaneous formal documents, and blueprints of engineering drawings of, and concerning, J S Haldane.
Miscellaneous formal documents from the papers of the Crawfurd families of Kilbirnie and Jordanhill.
They include (Ch.17332) copies of two deeds in favour of Paisley Abbey, which may be a leaf from a lost 15th-century chartulary of the Abbey.