Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: 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. For documents having legal relevance in general, use ""legal documents"" .
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
(1) Receipt, 1809, for a payment made by John Murray II to Thomas Campbell in respect of Campbell`s "Gertrude of Wyoming"; and,(2) indenture, 1819, between Thomas Campbell and John Murray II for the absolute purchase of the copyright of Campbell`s "Specimens of the British Poets"., 1809-1819.
File
Identifier: MS.42054
Scope and Contents
The indenture was witnessed by Basil Steuart.
Dates:
1809-1819.
Agreement between John Murray II and John Gibson Lockhart appointing Lockhart to assist Murray in the publication both of a daily morning and of a daily evening newspaper., 1825.
Item
Identifier: MS.42626
Scope and Contents
The agreement has been amended and subsequently witnessed by Benjamin Disraeli and William Wright.
Dates:
1825.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers concerning the establishment, publication and demise of "The Representative" newspaper.
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Legal and financial papers relating to the publication of "The Representative" newspaper.
Assorted formal documents from the Murray of Stanhope Collection.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.132-142
Dates:
1686-1733.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Charters and formal documents from the papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.1353-2335
Dates:
12th century-1798.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Charters and legal instruments concerning Forbes of Pitsligo and lands in Rosehearty.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.98-108
Dates:
1684-1685, 1728-1794.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Copy, 1621, of instrument, 18 December 1621, concerning John Rynd of Carss, the Earl of Crawford, and the lands of Parkyet, Craighead and Wardmyln [Forrest of Platton]., 18 December 1621.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14028
Dates:
18 December 1621.
Correspondence, papers, legal deeds, and newspaper cuttings regarding partnerships in John Murray, publishers, including Lord Gorell’s partnership., 1928-1951
File
Identifier: Acc.13328/1552
Scope and Contents
File contains a large number of original letters from T.O. Williams & Davies chartered accountants; from Raymond-Barker, Nix & Co. solicitors; and from Lord Gorrell, alongside copy responses from John Murray, publishers. Original partnership deeds are also present, alongside orignal news cuttings on Gorrell's appointment as partner.
Dates:
1928-1951
Deed of assumption of William Jamieson., 1848.
Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 62-67
Scope and Contents
Concerning the estate of the late Robert Scollay.
Dates:
1848.
Deed of provision by George, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, to Julia Stewart-Mackenzie, Viscountess Walden.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12371
Dates:
1873.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Deeds relating to tenure: Ross., 1560, 1673, 1758.
Series
Identifier: Ch.1175-1178
Dates:
1560, 1673, 1758.
Deeds relating to tenure: West Lothian., 1538-1806.
Series
Identifier: Ch.1210-1234
Dates:
1538-1806.
Disposition by John Gairdine to his son William, of a tenement in the West Bow, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3908
Dates:
1591.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Disposition in form of instrument by John Malloch in favour of David Murray, 4th of Ochtertyre, of the great tiends of Monzievaird., 14 April 1537.
Item
Identifier: Ch.16854
Dates:
14 April 1537.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre and Keith, Earl Marischal papers.
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Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre papers.
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Titles of the Murrays of Ochtertyre for the Baronies of Ochtertyre, Monzievaird and Fowlis Easter.
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Barony of Ochtertyre.
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Ochtertyre and Carroglen.
Documents, accounts, memorials and other estate papers, mostly 18th-19th century, relating to the lands of Monreith and the Maxwell family; also some papers relating to property in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1643-circa 1700.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.299
Dates:
1643-19th century.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Douglas of Springwood Park Charters.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7637-7676
Scope and Contents
Formal documents from the papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park. They consist mostly of marriage-contracts, certificates and military commissions of members of the family, but also include a few documents relating to the family estates.
Dates:
1649-1888.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Draft agreement outlining the conditions under which John Murray III would undertake the publication of the periodical "The Academy"., ? 1869.
Item
Identifier: MS.42606
Scope and Contents
The watermark of the paper of the document is "1869".
Dates:
? 1869.
Financial and legal documents concerning Herman Melville., 1845-1850.
File
Identifier: MS.42479
Scope and Contents
Includes an affidavit sworn in respect of the publication "Mahomet and his successors" by Washington Irving.
Dates:
1845-1850.
Financial and legal papers concerning Austen Henry Layard and the publication of the narratives of his travels and excavations., 1839-1881.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42412-42413