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:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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.
Charters and formal documents from the papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.1353-2335
Dates:
12th century-1798.
Charters and legal instruments concerning Forbes of Pitsligo and lands in Rosehearty.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.98-108
Dates:
1684-1685, 1728-1794.
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
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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and other documents concerning Scots and the West Indies.
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Letters and documents of, to and concerning Archibald Anderson, James Innes, and others, in Jamaica, and Robert Scollay and Thomas Bolt, in the Shetland Islands.
Deed of provision by George, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, to Julia Stewart-Mackenzie, Viscountess Walden.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12371
Dates:
1873.
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.
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:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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.
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