Memorials. Legal documents.
Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:
Memorial, circa 1745, concerning the state of the Highlands.
The memorial is preceded by a note, dated 1838, by W F Skene, relating to the manuscript.
An endorsement (folio 12 verso), written by the original donor, Thomas Stewart, ascribes the memorial to Lord President Forbes.
'Memorial concerning the Linen Manufacture towards improving of the same in Scotland', undated., ?18th century.
The author, a cloth merchant and linen manufacturer, is not named.
“Memorial, containing a plan for the naval defence of the British possessions in the East Indies by ships of India construction, to be built out of the revenues and supported by the commerce of Asia", by J Prinsep [?John Prinsep, Indian merchant], 1796., 1771, 1789-1796.
With copies of correspondence, 1771, 1789-1796.
Memorial for Duke of Argyll., 1739.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.
The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.
Memorial for Ewen Cameron, Tacksman in Camiskean., 1730.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.
The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.
Memorial, for James Wilson and James Bain, as trustees for the associate Congregation of Edinburgh., Undated.
Memorial for James Wilson, James Bain and others., 1749.
Memorial for James Wilson, James Bayne and others, on action of mails and duties for property in Bristo., 1749.
Memorial for John Gibb and Sons, engineers, against the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, relating to the construction of the Almond Valley viaduct and embankments., 1842.
Memorial of Sir John Stuart against Archibald Ferguson, a tenant at Craigniston and Coldstream., 1803-1804.
Memorial of the Lowland Congregation of Campbeltown to Archibald, Duke of Argyll., 22 September 1749.
More detailed lists of contents are available on request.
Memorial on estate of Ardgour., 1741.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.
The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.
Memorial relative to the succession to Duncan, last Earl of Lennox., 1772.
Almost all of these papers were used in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up [but not brought to the House of Lords] by George Cockburn, Haldane of Gleneagles. An inventory of these documents and papers is available.
Memorial relative to the succession to Duncan, last Earl of Levenax, with opinion of Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Al Forrester, and Sir David Rae, Lord Eskgrove, 1st Baronet., 16 April 1772.
Almost all of these papers were used in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up [but not brought to the House of Lords] by George Cockburn, Haldane of Gleneagles. An inventory of these documents and papers is available.
Memorial services for Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan (née Thomson), Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, London and Aberdeen, 1978.
'Memoriall with respect to the Process of Division, Matthew Sharp of Hoddam against Charles, Duke of Queensberry and Dover, and others having interest in the Commonity of Ecclefechan'., 1712-1743.
This document covers the case up to the depositions of 1743 copied in MS.3085. At the beginning is a brief modern history of the case.
Memorials and associated papers 1754-1755, 1766, 1768, and letters and associated papers of George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow, 1817-1818, 1834, and undated, concerning the title of Ross, extinct or dormant following the death of William Ross, 14th Lord Ross, in 1754., 1754-1768, 1817-1834, and undated.
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).
Memorials and queries for Mrs J Cameron., 1736.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.
The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.
Memorials, depositions, lists of witnesses, and other papers concerning the collection of evidence for, and the prosecution of, the criminal case of the Douglas Cause in France., 1762-1765.
The memorials, depositions, lists of witnesses, and other papers begin on folio 1.
The volume also contains (folio 117) memoranda giving details of French precedents for the criminal process, which show signs of having been prepared for publication.
Memorials in case of United Incorporations of Mary's Chapel against John Reid and others., 1788.
Containing approximately two items.
Memorials, minutes, &c., of the sheriffs substitute of Scotland, relating to increases in the scale of their salaries.
Includes printed material.
Memorials received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
The contents are as follows:
(i) ‘Memorial representing ... the necessity of continuing the present duties on foreign linen and the bounties ... by the committee of the ... dealers in linen in the shire of Forfar’, etc., 1788; with a letter of George Dempster of Dunnichen, MP, supporting the memorial, 1788 (folio 1);
(ii) Memorial respecting the necessity of signing the oath of allegiance in Scotland, 1791 (folio 12).
Memorials to T S Eliot., 1965-1990.
Containing:
Order of Service, Westminster Abbey, 4 February 1965, after his death on 4 January 1965.
Unveiling and dedication of a memorial to T S Eliot in Westminster Abbey, 4 January 1967.
Programmes for other memorial services and arts productions put
on in his honour.