Legislative acts. Legislative records.
Found in 166 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of English Acts of Parliament and proceedings in the House of Commons concerning Sir Thomas Cooke., 1694.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Copies of the Act of Separation of the Free Church., 1843.
Copies of William Aikman of Cairnie, chronological lists of Lord Chancellors, Lord Presidents, Lord Clerks Register, Lord Advocates, and Lords of Session, and other documents concerning the College of Justice.
Copy, 8 February 1749, of Act of Parliament, 1748, concerning Bishop Burnet`s trust., 1748.
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Copy, 1766, of ‘The laws and acts of the Chapmen of Perthshire’, 1713, and minutes of the society, 1748-1805.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Copy of Sir Andrew Gilmour’s selection of Acts of Parliament.
Index to the acts of parliament collected by the famous Jurisconsult Sir Andrew Gilmour, Advocate. At the end of the volume the date of death of some of the noted persons of the day are recorded.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (N.7.2.6).
Copy, printed by Robert Young, Edinburgh, 1638, of the King`s Covenant, which consisted of the Confession of 1580-1581 and the general band of 1589.
The acts of council authorising the Covenant have been added. The signatures are inserted between the two sections. This copy was circulated in Angus and it has over 913 signatures, including that of the Earl of Southesk, from Arbroath, Kirriemuir, Forfar, Alythm, and other parishes in the shire.
Correspondence, 1779, 1794-1832, relating to militia in Stirlingshire, and printed acts of Parliament, 1804-1815, relating to militia in Scotland., 1779, 1794-1832.
Correspondence and papers concerning bridges., 1822, 1831-1834.
The contents are as follows. (i) Broomielaw, Glasgow, correspondence and accounts, 1833-1834 (folio 1); (ii) Over Bridge, Gloucester, letters, 1832, 1834, and draft reports (folio 73); (iii) Tongland Bridge, Kirkcudbright, letters, 1833 (folio 86); (iv) Printed Act of Parliament relating to the waterworks at London Bridge, 1822, with a letter, 1831, concerning drawings of London Bridges (folio 91).
Correspondence and papers of the 3rd Earl of Minto concerning the Forbes Mackenzie Act., 1857-1878.
Correspondence and papers of the 3rd Earl of Minto concerning various political issues., 1858-1889.
The correspondence and papers concern the resignation of Sir James Hudson as Minister to Turin and his replacement by Sir Henry George Elliot, 1863-1868 (folio 1), the Tweed Fisheries Act, 1858-1889, with press cuttings concerning poaching, etc., 1882-1885 (folio 56), the Contagious Diseases Act, 1870-1871 (folio 162), Local Government reform, 1888-1889 (folio 192), and cattle plague, 1865-1866 (folio 202).
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the Copyright Acts and Bill.
The papers consist of legal opinions on the Copyright Acts 1860-1861; Copyright Commission 1876-1880; Copyright Bill 1898.
Double of an act made in favour of the heirs of those killed at Pinkie., 1548.
Draft of Act maintaining the Protestant Religion and discriminating against the Papists., Late 17th century.
Most of the documents are drafts and cancelled charters which concern the 1st Marquess.
Drafts and copies of the Act of Parliament annexing certain estates, and notes by various judges on them., 1749-1755.
The majority of the papers relate to the Commissioners for Annexed Estates appointed in 1755, of whom Lord Milton was one.
Drafts of Acts of Parliament, 1701, and ‘Notes on the Institutions of the law of Scotland', undated., 1701, undated.
The 'Notes on the Institutions of the Law of Scotland' are probably a fair copy of a student’s notes of Alexander Bayne’s lectures on ‘Institutions of the laws of Scotland’ by George Mackenzie’s (cf. Adv.MS.22.7.34). A sheet (numbered 31) is missing between folios 209 and 210. Folios 174-175 are an unrelated insertion concerning a dispute with the Earl of Lauderdale.
Early copies of an address, 29 January 1689, of the Provost, Bailies, and Council of Glasgow to William, Prince of Orange, and of an Act, 1690, of the same body., 1689-1690.
The address (folio 8) calls upon William of Orange to establish a free Parliament and the Protestant religion, and points out that Glasgow was the first city to publish his declaration. The Act (folio 9) lays down that no tavern-keeper shall hold municipal office.
Extract act approving George, Earl Marischal`s embassy to Denmark., 5 June 1592.
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Extract act of council of Dundee, disponing to John Fletcher the stone walls of the Blackfriars` Kirk., 17 November 1560.
The family acquired various properties in Angus which were consolidated into the baronies of Innerpeffer and Turin; after Sir Andrew`s purchase of Saltoun the Angus property was sold, some to Col Sir Francis Ruthven in 1648, some to George, Lord Spynie in 1650, and some to George, Earl of Panmure in 1663; current titles will have passed to the purchasers.
Extract of Act of Parliament ratifying charter by Charles I to Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer, of Saltoun and Glencorse., 27 March 1647.
Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.