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:
Political and administrative papers, 1701-1720, undated, of Sir David Dalrymple, with undated miscellaneous verses., 1701-1720, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25280
Scope and Contents
The political and administrative papers particularly concerning Sir David Dalrymple's offices as Solicitor-General for Scotland and Lord Advocate. Included are drafts for memorials on the economy and Scottish politics following the Act of Union (folio 1). The miscellaneous verses begin on folio 70.
Dates:
1701-1720, undated.
Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1719-1760, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14521
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the following:(i) 'Instructions for preparing a case for the Duke of Hamilton touching his peerage as Duke of Brandon & c. and proceedings in the House of Lords on the Duke of Queensberry petition’ 1719 (folio 1);(ii) Printed recommendations to the King by the commissioners for securing the peace of the Highlands concerning the provisions of schools in the Highlands, 1716, with a manuscript, 1733, 'Memorial concerning the provisions made by...
Dates:
1719-1760, undated.
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.
Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, including material concerning Lord James Hay and Lord Charles Hay of Linplum., 1717-1760, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14503-14523
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1717-1760, undated.
Political papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, being largely Scottish Privy Council and Parliamentary papers., 1660-[circa 1697], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14488
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1660-[circa 1697], undated.
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 1st Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale concerning public affairs.
Political papers of the 4th Earl of Minto., 1873-1892.
File
Identifier: MS.12548
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and papers on parliamentary business, namely the 4th Earl of Minto's possible candidature for North Lincolnshire, 1873 (folio 1); his candidature for Hexham, 1886 (folio 29); and the Parliamentary Committee on field voles, of which Lord Minto was a member, 1892 (folio 126).
Dates:
1873-1892.
Reports, memorials, opinions and other papers relating to roads, turnpikes, railways and other county business., 1825-1841.
File
Identifier: MS.19587
Dates:
1825-1841.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers chiefly relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus, in which Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar (died 1854) played an important part.
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Papers, chiefly correspondence, relating to the building, financing, maintenance and repair of the turnpike roads of Angus.
Small miscellany of letters (probably a remnant from a large collection), mostly by John Farquharson, formerly President of the Scots College, Douai, to the Scottish antiquary and historian, George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.16
Scope and Contents
There are also three copies, all in Farquharson`s hand, of a memorial concerning the college. The items do not appear to have been arranged in any obvious order.
Dates:
1793-1809.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of Scottish historical documents, for the most part copies from the Cotton Library, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts B’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.19
Scope and Contents
A collection copied by various hands without sufficient accuracy, possibly for Matthew Crawford.The contents are as follows:
(i) Letter, 3 May 1582, of Sir John Foster to Secretary Walsingham.
(ii) Advertisement out of Scotland, 22 June 1582.
(iii) Letter, 20 August 1582, of the Queen of England to the King of Scotland.
(iv) Depositions of George Douglas sent the 14 September from Stirling, and received the 20 September at Windsor. ‘Septr. 28 1582’.
(v) The heads whereof George...
Dates:
17th century.
Taylor Collection: papers relating to Scottish affairs.
File
Identifier: MS.68
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notarial copy of the proceedings in the case of the magistrates of Elgin v the Procurator of the Church of Scotland, 1713. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Memorial concerning the opposition offered by the Bank of England to the draught of a warrant for a charter to incorporate the proprietors of the Scots Equivalent Debentures', 1719. (Folio 12.)(iii) Correspondence, 1719, of the Lord Advocate, Sir David Dalrymple, on the prosecution of the...
Dates:
1713-1790.
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.
File
Identifier: MS.821
Scope and Contents
With an original letter from the Society for the Reformation of Manners, London, to the similarly named society in Edinburgh, 1708. The writers include the chief leaders of the movements in question.
Dates:
1678-1708.
Transcripts and notes, I, early 20th century, partly typewritten, concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
File
Identifier: MS.298
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Memorandum in the handwriting of Murray of Dollerie regarding the fate of his son Anthony, present at the battle of Culloden, 1746. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorial for the Lord Braco to the Lord Advocate’, 1747. (Folio 4.)(iii) Correspondence of Lord Lewis Gordon and others with Mr Harry Milne, factor to Duff, the Laird of Drummuir, and other documents relating to the payment of levy-money to Prince Charles Edward, 1745-1746....
Dates:
1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
Various political papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto, [1783-1784]-1791.
File
Identifier: MS.11203
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Notes and drafts of speeches and motions on Indian affairs, [1783-1784] (folio 1);
(ii) Printed copy of the exchange of letters, December 1788-January 1789, between William Pitt and the Prince of Wales, with drafts of letters, memorials and addresses on the Regency bill, 1788-1789, and drafts for the memorial of the Prince of Wales to the King, February 1789 (folio 17);
(iii) Letters and memorial, 1791, chiefly concerning the memorial of the General Assembly...
Dates:
[1783-1784]-1791.
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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Political correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.