Memorials. Legal documents.
Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and miscellaneous papers concerning the ‘Royal Charlotte’., 1797-1826.
Accounts and vouchers of the Faculty of Advocates., 1695-1865.
Accounts of Andrew Stuart with the Hamilton Trustees, chiefly concerning the Douglas Cause., 1762-1769.
“Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee nation, who died in 1775.
Answers to memorial and queries, for managers (tacksmen) of the Meeting House and to their subjects belonging to the Associate Burgher Congregation of Bristo, near Edinburgh., 1798.
Articles, memorials and reviews of the life and work of Ivor Armstrong Richards, containing seven photographs dated 1950, 1971 and 1979 of Ivor and Dorothea Richards., 1950, 1971, 1979.
Photographs contain 6 black and white photographs and 1 colour photograph in 3 sleeves.
`Book of Opinions 1`, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury., 1708-1730.
The volume is prefaced by a contents list.
`Book of Opinions`, volume 2, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury., 1727-1738.
The volumes were copied in July 1751 for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, from other copies belonging to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh.
`Book of Opinions`, volume 3, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury., 1739-1746.
The volumes were copied in July 1751 for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, from other copies belonging to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh.
`Book of Opinions`, volumes 2 and 3, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury.
The volumes were copied in July 1751 for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, from other copies belonging to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
Collection of papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume first'., 1748-1753.
At page 135 is the Scotch civil list establishment, 1728.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume second'., 1748-1753.
Commonplace book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1753-1765, undated.
Included in the volume are 'Memorials concerning myself, my friends and native country, 1759' (folio 32), a copy of Lieutenant Colonel James Dalrymple's account of the capture of Quebec, a list of Lord Hailes' publications up to 1766 and notes on his literary activities, Horatio Walpole, and James MacPherson (folio 140), and 'Hints for the Public Good', undated, being suggestions for amending the legal, military, and religious establishments in Scotland (folio 169).
Copies of memorials, 1786-1788, addressed by the Carron Company to Sir Thomas Dundas as arbiter, claiming repayment of water lost to them through the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Copies of reports of the Carron Company's inspectors, 1772, ?1775, and of George Whitworth, for the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, 1785, 1788, are included.
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1785-1799.
George Fergusson was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, and a distant relative of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran. He was admitted advocate in 1765 and elevated to the bench as Lord Hermand in 1799. He died in 1827.
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1785-1788.
George Fergusson was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, and a distant relative of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran. He was admitted advocate in 1765 and elevated to the bench as Lord Hermand in 1799. He died in 1827.
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1788-1789.
George Fergusson was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, and a distant relative of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran. He was admitted advocate in 1765 and elevated to the bench as Lord Hermand in 1799. He died in 1827.
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1789-1792.
George Fergusson was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, and a distant relative of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran. He was admitted advocate in 1765 and elevated to the bench as Lord Hermand in 1799. He died in 1827.
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1792-1794.
George Fergusson was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, and a distant relative of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran. He was admitted advocate in 1765 and elevated to the bench as Lord Hermand in 1799. He died in 1827.
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1794-1797.
George Fergusson was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, and a distant relative of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran. He was admitted advocate in 1765 and elevated to the bench as Lord Hermand in 1799. He died in 1827.
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1797-1799.
George Fergusson was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, and a distant relative of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran. He was admitted advocate in 1765 and elevated to the bench as Lord Hermand in 1799. He died in 1827.