Letters patent. Executive records.
Found in 12 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.
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.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
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.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Microfilm of papers, 1624-?1625, early 18th century, concerning the erection of baronetcies in Nova Scotia; and concerning the Dukes of Atholl.
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).
Miscellaneous law tracts.
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.
Papers concerning the erection of baronetcies in Nova Scotia.
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).
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.
The manuscript is in the hand of Robert Mylne, and his initials are recorded on the inside front cover. The latest document is dated 1706, and the manuscript was probably written soon after that date. On the flyleaf a contemporary hand has written `This Book Considering the Valuable Miscellanies therein cannot be sold under ten dollars at least [[ … ]] I.V.G.`