Memorials. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: In a legal context the term can denote either an abstract of the essential parts of a deed made for the purposes of official registration, or else a brief prepared by a solictor for counsel, summarizing the facts of the case and setting out the questions on which counsel's opinion is requested. Also, a term used in the early modern period as an alternative to memorandum, meaning a note recording something to be remembered. For the latter use use 'Memorandums'. Source: Beal, Peter. 'Dictionary of English manuscript terminology, 1450-2000' (2008). In Scots law a memorial is also a statement of facts submitted to the Lord Ordinary as a preliminary to a hearing. Source: Concise Scots Dictionary (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987).
Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1786-1800.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process of Margaret Forbes, Queensferry, and Isobel Forbes, as heirs of John Forbes, Quartermaster of the East Indiaman ‘Stormont’, against Andrew Burt in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and against the tutors and curators of James Dundas of Dundas in the Court of Session, 1786-1797 (folio 1).(ii) Process of Dundas trustees against George Ponton in Overton, 1788-1790 (folio 118).(iii) Process of Dundas...
Dates:
1786-1800.
Legal papers of the Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh., 1594, 1672-1834, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7332/Box 1(1-8)
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1594, 1672-1834, undated.
Letter, 1790, and memorial, undated, signed by James Bruce of Kinnaird.
File
Identifier: MS.2917
Scope and Contents
James Bruce requests a reward for his services in giving advice on the possibility of an attack on Ferrol or Gascony and in exploring Barbary and the Nile, and describes his interviews with the authorities in London.
From the handwriting of the endorsement, the letter appears to have been addressed to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Dates:
1790, undated.
Letters and cards of Janet Adam Smith to David Alan Robertson on family matters, the Alpine Club and mountaineering, 1936-1980. Containing a copy of the Memorial Service and Address for Michael Roberts, 22 January 1949, also containing Hillary’s ascent of Everest, 1953, and 2 black and white mounted photographs in sleeve., 1936-1999.
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Identifier: Acc.13861/123
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
1936-1999.
Letters and papers chiefly relating to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, and to police and prisons in Scotland., 1779-1848, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.354A
Scope and Contents
(i) Letters and papers (manuscript and printed) relating chiefly to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, 1791-1796, 1801-1812, 1847, undated. The subjects include considerations on the best mode of encouraging the White Herring Fishing, 1791; British Society for Fisheries and the road from Dingwall to Ullapool, 1792; memorial of the Adventurers in the British White Herring Fisheries, 1794; reports, etc., of the Highland Society of Scotland on the proposed British White Fishery Bill [?1801];...
Dates:
1779-1848, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
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Letters and papers relating chiefly to the Herring Fisheries in Scotland, and to police and prisons in Scotland, with a few maps and plans of prisons.
Letters and papers concerning Scottish affairs., 1810-1830.
File
Identifier: MS.13
Scope and Contents
The contents include:Letters, etc., 1813, on the proposed Bill for the Better Preservation of Game in Scotland; Lettters, etc., 1815, on the Bill for Trial by Jury in Civil Causes; Report, 1819, by the Barons of the Exchequer of Scotland to the parliamentary commissioners appointed to inquire into the Courts of Justice in Scotland;Memorial, 1826, of the Judges of the Supreme Consistorial Court of Scotland to the Treasury regarding their...
Dates:
1810-1830.
Letters and papers, including many copies, concerning the arrest of Sir George Pigot, Governor of Madras, in 1776, and the subsequent court-martial of James Stuart., 1776-1780.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8413-8419
Scope and Contents
The papers include memorials concerning the cases of both Sir George Pigot and James Stuart.
Dates:
1776-1780.
Letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., [Circa 1808]-1811.
File
Identifier: MS.11714
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Draft by the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the British occupation of Goa, circa 1808 (folio 1); (ii) Copy of a letter of Robert Nelson, Navy Office, 1809, concerning hemp (folio 7); (iii) Papers, 1809, concerning a memorial of the merchants of Calcutta relating to convoy protection (folio 9); (iv) Letters, 1810-1811, concerning naval prizes in the Far East (folio 44).
Dates:
[Circa 1808]-1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
Letters and papers relating to the Corn Laws and the state of harvest, and letters of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, Baronet., 1786-1826, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.641
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters and papers relating to the Corn Laws and state of the harvest, 1786-1826. The correspondents and subjects dealt with include price of wheat at Windsor market from 1595 to 1782, and of barley and meal at Edinburgh and Glasgow from 1720 to 1789 (folio 9); fiars’ prices of meal and grain in Scotland from 1756 to 1776 (folios 15-18); abstract of letters from the Corn Inspectors in England and from the Sheriffs in Scotland respecting the...
Dates:
1786-1826, undated.
Letters of condolence on death of Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan (née Thomson), Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, containing obituary and memorial service., 1978.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/49
Dates:
1978.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
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Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, and the Buchan family.
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Letters of condolence on death of Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan (née Thomson), Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie.
Letters of Scottish officials concerning Scottish affairs., 1808-1816.
File
Identifier: MS.9
Scope and Contents
The contents include:Copy of a letter of Henry Dundas to Lord Chancellor Eldon on the subject of Dr Duigenan being made a Privy Councillor in Ireland, 1808; Copies of correspondence between the Earl of Lauderdale and Lord Chancellor Eldon on the Roxburghe Peerage case, 1809; Four autograph letters of Henry Dundas and other correspondence relating to the appointment of a successor to Lord Blair as President of the Court of Session, 1811;Memorial...
Dates:
1808-1816.
Local affairs and election papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1695-1748.
File
Identifier: MS.14522
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Extract of Haddington Presbytery minutes concerning Andrew Dunlop, 1722 (folio 1);(ii) Printed Act of the Justices of the Peace of East Lothian dividing the county into three districts, 1737 (folio 2);(iii) Printed Act of the Justices of the Peace of Roxburghshire for the maintenance of the poor, supressing vagarancy and repairing roads, bridges and ferries, 1737 (folio 3);(iv) Printed queries of the East Lothian...
Dates:
1695-1748.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, including material concerning Lord James Hay and Lord Charles Hay of Linplum.
Manuscripts, 18th century, concerning the principality and peerage of Scotland., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.204
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Memoriall concerning the Principality of Scotland’, by George Chalmers, 1752. Printed by J Carmichael in ‘Various tracts concerning the peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1791), pages 105-124. See J H Stevenson, ‘The Prince of Scotland’ in 'Scottish Historical Review', volume xxii (1925), page 91.(ii) Calendar of Scottish Charters relating to the titles of the Scottish nobility from Robert I to 25 April 1707. From the Public Records of...
Dates:
18th century.
Material concerning the College of Glasgow and the Parish of Govan., 1792.
File
Identifier: MS.2700
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:'Extracts from Records, Manuscripts, &c. respecting the College of Glasgow and their right to the teinds of the parish of Govan', 1792 (page 1); 'Memorial for the heritors of the parish of Govan', 1792 (page 107);'Note for the Heritors of Govan to their Counsel, 9 May, 1792' (page 132);'Note of Authorities concerning the jurisdiction of the Commissaries in Scotland to strike the annual fiars, 27 March, 1792'...
Dates:
1792.
Material deposited with George Hogarth, Writer to the Signet, relating to the dispute between Robert Cadell, publisher of the Waverley Novels, and Ballantyne and Company, printers, about the quality and price of the printing of ‘Guy Mannering’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1829-1830.
File
Identifier: MS.6290, folios 173-219
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies of correspondence between Robert Cadell and Ballantyne and Company (folio 173), and of a letter, 1829, of Ballantyne and Company, appealing to the proprietors of the Waverley Novels (folio 193);
A draft of a Memorial of Ballantyne and Company, presenting their case (folio 201), and the answer of Counsel, signed John Hope, 1830 (folio 213).
Dates:
1829-1830.
Material in the process brought by Matthew Sharp of Hoddam, reviving one started by John Sharp of Hoddam in 1712, with a view to dividing the common lands of Ecclefechan and Hoddam.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3084-3085
Dates:
1712-1743.
'Memoir respecting the office of Auditor of Excise in Scotland', by John Philp Wood, 1827., 1797-1827, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3106
Scope and Contents
Inserted at the end are: memorial of John Philp Wood, 1806 (page 177); copy of report of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland to H M Treasury on the office of Auditor of Excise, 1812 (page 179); account of the establishment of the Auditor's office in 1797, by Wood, 1821 (page 185); account of sums recovered and saved for the Revenue by Wood, undated (page 187); history of the office, by Wood, with copies of correspondence relating to previous auditors, undated (page 195); copy of patent...
Dates:
1797-1827, undated.
Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause., 1761-1769, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5347-5349
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers contain the lawsuit in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested on his behalf the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas, son of Lady Jane Douglas Stuart, to the lands of the Douglas family. Andrew Stuart acted as agent for the Hamilton claimant, and played an active part both in France and in Britain in the preparation and presentation of the Hamilton Case.
Dates:
1761-1769, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause., August 1761-October 1761.
File
Identifier: MS.5347
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers contain the lawsuit in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested on his behalf the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas, son of Lady Jane Douglas Stuart, to the lands of the Douglas family. Andrew Stuart acted as agent for the Hamilton claimant, and played an active part both in France and in Britain in the preparation and presentation of the Hamilton Case.
Dates:
August 1761-October 1761.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause.
Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause., November 1761-July 1763.
File
Identifier: MS.5348
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers contain the lawsuit in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested on his behalf the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas, son of Lady Jane Douglas Stuart, to the lands of the Douglas family. Andrew Stuart acted as agent for the Hamilton claimant, and played an active part both in France and in Britain in the preparation and presentation of the Hamilton Case.
Dates:
November 1761-July 1763.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause.
Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause., August 1763-1769, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5349
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers contain the lawsuit in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested on his behalf the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas, son of Lady Jane Douglas Stuart, to the lands of the Douglas family. Andrew Stuart acted as agent for the Hamilton claimant, and played an active part both in France and in Britain in the preparation and presentation of the Hamilton Case.
Dates:
August 1763-1769, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause.
Memorial, 1830, excerpts from charters under the Great Seal and memoranda, undated, in the claim of John F M Erskine, Earl of Mar (succeeded 1828) to the Earldom of Kellie (folios 1-68), and draft petition with answers, 1836, and various papers, undated, in the claim to titles and dignities of George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly (folios 69-153)., 1830, 1836, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
1830, 1836, and undated.
Memorial and Claim for the Trustees of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, on the estate of Hugh Seton of Touch., [Circa 1805.]
File
Identifier: MS.19206
Memorial and queries, for James Wilson and James Bain., 1747.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/252
Dates:
1747.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Minutes, membership list, accounts, notes and legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
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Legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
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.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/281
Dates:
1798.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Minutes, membership list, accounts, notes and legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
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Legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.