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Includes 'The Acts of the Fife Chapman Society', Cupar, 25 October 1797, records of election of officials, various lists and minutes of meetings.

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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.

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Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.

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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.

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);...

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Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

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More detailed lists of contents are available on request.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

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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).

Scope and Contents From the Series: William Hugh Elliot Murray Kynynmound was the eldest surviving son of the 2nd Earl of Minto, who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1814 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1859. He was Member of Parliament for Hythe, 1837-1841, for Greenock, 1847-1852, and for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1857-1859; served as chairman of the Lunacy Commission, Scotland, 1857. As an active back-bench MP and peer, who was closely related to some of the leading political figures of his time - he was, for example, the...

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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).

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Most of the documents are drafts and cancelled charters which concern the 1st Marquess.

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The majority of the papers relate to the Commissioners for Annexed Estates appointed in 1755, of whom Lord Milton was one.

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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.

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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.

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More detailed lists are available on request.

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...

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Several documents are accompanied by a transcript or a summary by Alexander Macdonald.