Legislative acts. Legislative records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Laws or statutes passed by a legislature.
Found in 166 Collections and/or Records:
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.6.2-21.6.6
Dates:
1631-1770.
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome I., 1631-1669.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.2
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome II., 1670-1700.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.3
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome III., 1701-1730.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.4
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome IV., 1731-1749.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.5
Acts of the Althing of Iceland, partly manuscript and partly printed: Tome V., 1750-1770.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.6
Acts of the Bailiery Court of Inchaffray, 1532-1537 (folio 1); of the Baron Court of Gask, 1627-1649 (folio 9); of the Baron Court of Aberdalgie, 1611-1624 (folio 32); and of an unknown court, undated (folio 44)., 1532-1649, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.2.8
Dates:
1532-1649, and undated.
Acts of the Fife Chapman Society, Cupar., 1764-1858.
Item
Identifier: MS.200
Scope and Contents
Includes 'The Acts of the Fife Chapman Society', Cupar, 25 October 1797, records of election of officials, various lists and minutes of meetings.
Dates:
1764-1858.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
"Anno Regni Georgii II ... Vicesimo Nono. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster ... An Act for the speedy and effectual Recruiting of his Majesty's Land Forces and Marines" (Edinburgh, 1756)., [1756, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.17507
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The majority of the papers concern recruitment, especially by press, the raising of Highland companies in the 1750s, and the affairs of the regiments (35th and 32nd Foot) commanded by Generals Henry and John Fletcher. Also covered are the military establishment in Scotland, Leith Barracks, the military road from Dumbarton to Inverary, proposals for a Scots militia, and promotions.
Dates:
[1756, or before.]
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 of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the army and military affairs.
‘Anno vicesimo nono Georgii II. Regis. An Act for granting a Bounty upon certain Species of British and Irish Linen exported; and taking off the Duties on the Importation of Foreign Raw Linen Yarns made of Flax’ (Edinburgh, 1756)., 1756.
Item
Identifier: MS.17573
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.
Dates:
1756.
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 of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
Annotated printed reports on the proposed scheme to provide for the widows of members of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.395
Dates:
1826-1830.
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.
'Book belonging to the chapmen in Fif for the East Nevck'., 1706-1764.
Item
Identifier: MS.198
Scope and Contents
Contains ‘The Acts to the Chapman Cowrt of Fife’, 1706-1751 (folio 23-32), i.e., the rules of the Incorporation, records of election of officials, admission of new members, and occasional payments.
Dates:
1706-1764.
"Book of the Glovers and Skinners in Kelso, containing their Acts, Freemen's entrys, Prentices' and young men's booking, etc.", 1640-1851.
File
Identifier: MS.3081
Scope and Contents
The book was started about 1747, and all entries of earlier date are noted as being taken from an 'old book', which is the 'booke of the actis, statutis, and ordinances of the glovers of Kelso, anno 1631'-1746, presented to the National Library in 1927 (MS.70).The book contains the following:(i) Acts, 1679-1703 (page 3);(ii) Regulations for searching the butcher-market for skins and hides, 1776 (page 17);(iii) Elections, 1659-1738 (page 41);...
Dates:
1640-1851.
‘Booke of the actis, statutis and ordinances of the Glovers of Kelso anno 1631’ -1746.
Item
Identifier: MS.70
Scope and Contents
The volume contains the statutes of the Incorporation, 1631-1660 (pages 3-9), which are thrice repeated (pages 39, 45, 59), and records the admission of freemen up to September 1746.
Dates:
1631-1746.
Books of the Incorporation of Kelso Glovers and Skinners.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3081-3083
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents
The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates:
1661-1681.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Collection of papers relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.18
Dates:
16th century-early 20th century.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Contemporary copy of a list of proposed acts presented by the Earl of Arran to the Parliament of May 1584., 1584.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13(vii), folios 31-32
Copies, 1688, by J M (possibly James Man) of documents, 1398-1677, concerning Aberdeen.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.6
Dates:
1398-1577.
Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently collected by James Anderson.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.19
Scope and Contents
Although not published in the work, James Anderson appears to have collected the material comprising this manuscript for his ‘Collections Relating to the History of Mary Queen of Scotland’ (Edinburgh and London, 1727-1728). A draft of articles of co-partnery between Anderson, his son-in-law John Leitch, and his son Patrick, to publish the Collections is at folio 21. Among the papers copied are:the marriage articles of Mary and François II, 1558 (folio 13 verso);...
Dates:
1558-1620.
Copies of Acts and minutes of sederunt of the second session of the first parliament of King William and Queen Marie, in a contemporary hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.12
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.6.8.
Dates:
15 April 1690.