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 14 Collections and/or Records:
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, 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 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.
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.