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:
Microfilm of documents concerning the Highlands of Scotland, including a history of the Macdonalds.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.861
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’, early 18th century (Adv.MS.16.1.14);‘State of Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, its extent, causes, and proposed remedy.’ An apparently unpublished treatise, dated ‘London March 21st 1803’ (Adv.MS.35.6.18);Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald, [1829, or after] (Adv.MS.73.1.12);...
Dates:
Early 18th century-[1827, or after].
Microfilm of transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.289
Dates:
1678-1708.
Miscellaneous documents of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 17th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17871
Scope and Contents
The documents include William Adam's estimate for the building of George Watson's Hospital, 1738 (folio 17), a manuscript of Mrs Catherine Gore (folio 65), and a few photographs (folio 100).
Dates:
17th century-early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Miscellaneous documents of the Hays of Yester including copies and typescripts., Early 17th century-[mid 20th century], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14826
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Ane soverane and precious balm for the healing of all the distempers of all the reformed churches in Christen[dom] especially in thir nationes both in spiritualls & temporalles', early 17th century (folio 1);(ii) Notes, 1659, for the funeral sermon of Mr. Justice John Puleston (folio 3);(iii) A history of Drummond in Strathearn, 17th century (folio 39);(iv) ‘An advice for the educating of youth’, 17th...
Dates:
Early 17th century-[mid 20th century], undated.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: sederunts and other papers of Dundas trustees and tutors., 1774-1795.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1774-1795.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: sederunts and other papers of Dundas trustees and tutors., 1774-1812.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.4.8-80.4.10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1774-1812.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: sederunts and other papers of Dundas trustees and tutors: minute book., 1795-1809.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1795-1809.
Miscellaneous formal documents., 1800-1858.
File
Identifier: MS.7513
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates:
1800-1858.
Miscellaneous letters and papers, letters of Gregor Farquharson, Captain (H.P.), 84th Foot, and letters relating to the Poor Law, 1834, the Scots Poor Law Commission, 1843, and Scots Poor Law Bill, 1845., 1782-1850.
File
Identifier: MS.642
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1782-1850. The writers and subjects dealt with include Ebenezer McCulloh, on ash-burning for bleaching salts, etc., 1782, 1784; memorial of the fishermen of Holy Island complaining of oppression, 1790; state of the population of Edinburgh, 1791, made for Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Statistical Account’; necessity for a free importation of coal into the Western Isles and coasts of Scotland, 1792; observations for...
Dates:
1782-1850.
Miscellaneous letters and papers of the Bengal Government., 1808-1813.
File
Identifier: MS.11600
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Copies of depositions from victims of dacoits, 1808-1809, taken before William Coates Blaquiere, Acting Magistrate of Nadia (folio 1);
(ii) Letter of Thomas Henry Ernst, Third Judge of the Provincial Court of Appeal at Benares (Varanasi), 1810, with an enclosed memorandum concerning police administration in the Benares district (folio 12). See also MS.11597.
(iii) Papers, 1810, concerning the enquiry into the conduct of William Brodie, Bengal Civil Service,...
Dates:
1808-1813.
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 papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers of the Bengal Government relating to the Judicial Department and the administration of law and law enforcement.
Miscellaneous papers and books of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1543-1924.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.7.1-80.7.14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1543-1924.
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
File
Identifier: MS.19989
Dates:
1815-1907.
Miscellaneous papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1799-1811.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11713-11714
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.
Dates:
1799-1811.
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.
Miscellaneous papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir: containing D-Day 50th anniversary press reports, 1994; two issues of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment 'Journal', 1993-1994; Information book of Prince Edward Island, 1971. Also included a memorial to Lord Thurlow, Seaforth Highlanders, 29th May 1971., 1971, 1993-1994.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/197
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1971, 1993-1994.
Miscellaneous papers of Sir Thomas Hislop., [Circa 1813]-1841.
File
Identifier: MS.13125
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates:
[Circa 1813]-1841.
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 General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, (1764-1843), and of his wife, Emma, daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop concerning Indian affairs, especially the Deccan Prize.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates., 1649-1719.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/23(i)
Dates:
1649-1719.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates., 1722-1771.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/23(ii)
Dates:
1722-1771.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates., 1776-1793.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/23(iii)
Dates:
1776-1793.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/54
Scope and Contents
The papers include: Minutes, Reports, Complaints 1739-1867. including those of J Hill Burtin, 1844 and 1867.
Dates:
1739-1867.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 17th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.7.2
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Vtrum Episcopus Romanus sit Antichristus necne? Problema Theologicum de quo ... M. Thomas Londius publice respondebit in Scholis Theologicis Academiae Andreanae, 29 July 1602.` A version (with some additional matter) of the text printed by R Waldegrave (folio 1).(ii) Catalogue of books belonging to Laurence Dundas, Professor of Humanity, Edinburgh, with places and dates of publication, 1735 (folio 7).(iii)...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous papers, relating chiefly to lands and families of Angus, several accompanied by modern transcripts.
File
Identifier: MS.3044
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1626-1686, undated, relating to the lands of Ardoch and Craigo in the Parish of Logie-Montrose (numbers 1-42);(ii) Papers, 1550, 1591, relating to Fullartoun of Ardoch (numbers 43-45);(iii) Correspondence, 1668-1759, of David Carnegy of Craigo and his descendants (numbers 46-53);(iv) Letters and papers, 1612-1726, of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Earls of Kellie (numbers 54-63), including 'En acouent of Lady...
Dates:
1550-1855, undated.
Miscellaneous petitions and memorials, chiefly addressed to Lord Milton., 1658-1764, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17604
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The majority of the papers grouped here are Lord Milton's political papers, reflecting his manifold interests and involvements. There are however some of earlier and later date, generated or collected by other members of the Fletcher family.
Dates:
1658-1764, undated.
Miscellaneous Scottish manuscripts., [Circa 1670-1798, or after], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2202
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Memorial concerning who is the Chief of the Clan Macdonald', a copy (watermark 1813) of a memorial, circa 1670, maintaining the claim of Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet of Sleat. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'A Godly Dream, compyled by Elizabeth Melvill, Lady Culross, Younger [i.e., Elizabeth Colville, of Culross], at the request of a friend ... 1686', a copy probably made in the eighteenth century, with modernization of old Scots words. For a list...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [Circa 1670-1798, or after], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.10335
Dates:
1651-1907, undated.