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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 154 Collections and/or Records:

Local affairs and election papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1695-1748.

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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 / Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House. / Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester. / Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale. / 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.

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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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Lauriston Castle collection.

Material concerning the College of Glasgow and the Parish of Govan., 1792.

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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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).

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.

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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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Miscellaneous documents and correspondence.

'Memoir respecting the office of Auditor of Excise in Scotland', by John Philp Wood, 1827., 1797-1827, undated.

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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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and memoranda of John Philp Wood regarding his appointment, competence, pay, etc., as Auditor of the Excise.

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 / Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance. / Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet. / 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.

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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 / Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance. / Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet. / Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause. / 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.

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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 / Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance. / Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet. / Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause. / 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.

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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 / Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance. / Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet. / Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause. / 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.

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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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Memorial and Claim for the Trustees of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, on the estate of Hugh Seton of Touch., [Circa 1805.]

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Identifier: MS.19206
Dates: [Circa 1805.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and legal papers of Hugh Seton of Touch, formally Smith, Archibald Seton, 13th of Touch, and Barbara Seton, 14th of Touch.

Memorial and queries, for James Wilson and James Bain., 1747.

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Identifier: Acc.12384/252
Dates: 1747.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers. / 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. / 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.

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Identifier: Acc.12384/281
Dates: 1798.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers. / 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. / Legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.

'Memorial concerning the Linen Manufacture towards improving of the same in Scotland', undated., ?18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17575
Scope and Contents

The author, a cloth merchant and linen manufacturer, is not named.

Dates: ?18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun. / Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs. / Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.

“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.

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Identifier: MS.1067
Scope and Contents

With copies of correspondence, 1771, 1789-1796.

Dates: 1771, 1789-1796.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount. / Papers relating to India and the East received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.

Memorial for Duke of Argyll., 1739.

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Identifier: Acc.11137/8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1739.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and legal and business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern. / Legal papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern.

Memorial for Ewen Cameron, Tacksman in Camiskean., 1730.

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Identifier: Acc.11137/2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1730.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and legal and business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern. / Legal papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern.

Memorial for George and John Wade for the opinion of counsel as to the most advisable method for them to complete their title to certain debts due to General George Wade by the York Buildings Company secured on the Forfeited Estates in Scotland., 1761.

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Identifier: Ch.B.18
Dates: 1761.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Miscellaneous legal documents and legal instruments.

Memorial, for James Wilson and James Bain, as trustees for the associate Congregation of Edinburgh., Undated.

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Identifier: Acc.12384/280
Dates: Undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers. / 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. / Legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.

Memorial for James Wilson, James Bain and others., 1749.

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Identifier: Acc.12384/272
Dates: 1749.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers. / 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. / Legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.

Memorial for James Wilson, James Bayne and others, on action of mails and duties for property in Bristo., 1749.

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Identifier: Acc.12384/270
Dates: 1749.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers. / 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. / Legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.

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.

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Identifier: MS.19989, folios 64-122
Dates: 1842.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.

Memorial of Sir John Stuart against Archibald Ferguson, a tenant at Craigniston and Coldstream., 1803-1804.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/837
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1803-1804.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo. / Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families. / Estate Management Papers. / Other Estate Papers.

Memorial of the Lowland Congregation of Campbeltown to Archibald, Duke of Argyll., 22 September 1749.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14935
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

More detailed lists of contents are available on request.

Dates: 22 September 1749.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers. / Fletcher of Saltoun documents. / Documents concerning the Earls and Dukes of Argyll and their estates.

Memorial on estate of Ardgour., 1741.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11137/9
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1741.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and legal and business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern. / Legal papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern.

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