Letters patent. Executive records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written communications, usually signed and sealed from a government or sovereign of a nation, conferring upon a designated person a grant (as a right, title, status, property, authority, privilege, monopoly, franchise, immunity, or exemption) that could not otherwise be enjoyed.
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vols. I-II
Scope and Contents
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Dates:
1793-1794.
Commissions, 1812, of the 2nd Earl of Minto as Deputy Lieutenant of Roxburghshire, and patent as Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1846., 1812, 1846.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10411-10412
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates:
1812, 1846.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.
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Marriage-contracts and associated papers, wills, general retours, commissions, burgess-tickets, and other papers concerned with persons rather than lands.
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Commissions, etc.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.18
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A treatise on heraldry in 28 chapters, with particular reference to the Court of the Lord Lyon, 1661 (page 1). The last chapter is a copy of the proclamation, 1447, of Arthur, Constable of France and later Duke of Brittany. See Adv.MSS.31.5.2, folio 1, and 31.3.20, folio 1.(ii) `Kinges of armes and heraulds in Ingland 1628` (pages 75, 79). This has been numbered Cap.29 in continuation of (i). The work has been printed,...
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copies, 1706 or after, of the `Commission for a Treatie of Union Betwixt Scotland and England`, 1702; of the `Letters Patent for Reviving the Order of the Thistle`, 1687; and of patents of the titles of various Scottish peers, 1631-1706 (these have been fully indexed)., 1631-1706
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2(xvi), folios 276-288
Scope and Contents
Interposed is the style for a `Signature of Resignation of ward lands changed from simple to taxtwards with a Novodamus and ane Erection of a burgh of barony`, folio 286. At least 7 folios are missing after folio 288.
Dates:
1631-1706
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Volume containing inter alia translations or copies, 1706 or after, of treatises on maritime law, chancery styles, and Crown patrimony, an index to Stair’s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, and copies of Scottish patents, 16th and 17th century.
Copies made for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, 1752, of the royal patents to the Commissioners of Excise in Scotland, 9 September 1743; to the Auditor of Excise, 4 January 1738; and to the Comptroller of the Excise, 10 November 1744.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.6
Dates:
1738-1744.
Copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury. Volume I., 1793-1794.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vol. I
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Dates:
1793-1794.
Copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury. Volume II., 1794.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vol. II
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Dates:
1794.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.
Letters patent appointing John Lamont of Inveryne as attorney for Robert Lamont, his son., 28 August 1536.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7381
Dates:
28 August 1536.
Letters patent appointing John Lawmound as attorney for John Lawmound of Innerin., 2 July 1537.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7382
Dates:
2 July 1537.
Letters patent by Charles I for transuming a grant by Queen Elizabeth in favour of Cuthbert Heron, of lands in Northumberland., 1635.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.41
Dates:
1635.
Letters patent by James VI in favour of the attorneys of Archibald, 7th Earl of Argyll., 1590.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.37
Dates:
1590.
Letters patent by Mary, Queen of Scots, appointing John Lamont of Knokdowe as attorney for John Lamont of Inneryn., 8 April 1557.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7394
Dates:
8 April 1557.
Letters patent granting to Donald Napier the escheated goods, etc, of John McGowan and John Lockhart in Bowland in Rusky., 1558.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.3
Dates:
1558.
Letters patent, of Francoys and Marie, King and Queen of Scots, ordering Archibald Napier of Merchiston to receive Walter Buchanan as tenant., 1559.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.4
Dates:
1559.
Letters patent of Mary Queen of Scots, as Queen Dowager of France, etc, in favour of Martial Vezier, appointing him `verdier` of rivers and forests in the chastellerie of Montmorillon., 1570.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.7
Scope and Contents
Subscribed and signed: `Par la Royne descosse douairiere de France a la Relation de son Conseil. Lentant`.
Dates:
1570.
Lists of the Lords of Session, and of remissions, exchequer grants, and patents of peerages and baronetcies; inventories of registers in the Laigh Parliament House and in the Chancellory Chamber (Inv. XVIII, Mac. 63)., 1st half of 18th century, or before.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.9
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in the autograph of Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
Dates:
1st half of 18th century, or before.
Microfilm of papers, 1624-?1625, early 18th century, concerning the erection of baronetcies in Nova Scotia; and concerning the Dukes of Atholl.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.436
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1624-?1625, early 18th century, concerning the erection of baronetcies in Nova Scotia (Adv.MS.16.2.3);
Papers concerning the Dukes of Atholl (Adv.MS.16.2.4).
Dates:
1624-?1625, early 18th century.
Miscellaneous law tracts.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows.(i) Copies of various Royal patents, gifts, and commissions, 1642-1669 (the majority from the early 1660s). Most are in a 17th-century hand; an early 18th-century hand has added two, on pages 125 and 532. A detailed list is given on pages 536-540, and they have been fully indexed. (Page 1.)(ii)-(xiii) are copies, in an 18th-century hand, of sections of Adv.MS.6.2.2.(ii) = Adv. MS. 6.2.2(xii): `The Retour ... of the...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Notarial instrument, 31 March 1482, concerning the lands of Muroch (Monreith), and a patent of baronetcy, 1681, with a later extracted copy of the latter.
File
Identifier: Dep.270
Dates:
1482, 1681.
Papers concerning the erection of baronetcies in Nova Scotia.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.3
Scope and Contents
The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They had become separated from the rest of the collection, but can be identified from the original inventory.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of a letter of James VI to the Privy Council, 1624 (folio 1). The letter is printed in `The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland`, 1st series, volume xiii, page 616.(ii) Copy of undertakings by the newly-created baronets, of payments to Sir...
Dates:
1624-?1625, early 18th century.
Patent of nobility and grant of arms by the Emperor Ferdinand III to Johann Geull, his sisters Agnes and Elizabeth, and their heirs, with a coloured armorial (folio 5).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.3.12
Dates:
1643.