Oaths. Testimonies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of attestation by which persons signify that they are bound in conscience to perform an act faithfully and truthfully; also affirmations of the truth of a statement given before testifying, as in a court of law.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Contemporary copy of oath sworn by 14 Covenanters adhering to the Rutherglen Testimony, 1680
Item
Identifier: Acc.5484
Dates:
circa 1680.
Documents of Walter Ferguson, candle-maker, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.4547-4548
Dates:
1772, 1783.
Formal documents from the papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8896-8907
Dates:
1805-circa 1852.
Formal documents from the papers of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8908-8912
Dates:
6 January 1858-4 July 1872.
Heraldic collection of Sir David Lindsay.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.20
Scope and Contents
Material copied in the late 16th and early 17th centuries apparently for Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1591 to 1620. It is closely related to John Scrymgeour`s manuscript (Adv.MS.31.5.2) in that some of its contents are apparently taken from Adam Loutfut`s manuscript (British [Museum] Library Harleian MS.6149), and the same order of arrangement is followed as by Scrymgeour; but there is also some additional material. Loutfut`s manuscript is described in ‘The...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Oath taken by William Daniel Satchwell, a labourer in Islington, that he purchased six dozen copies of the chap-book, `The Groans of the Gallows, or, a Sketch of the ... life of Wm Calcraft`, from Anne Ryle or Rial, printer, Seven Dials, in the Exchequer of Pleas, between Thomas Duggan, plaintiff, and Anne Ryle, defendant.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2049
Scope and Contents
One of the copies purchased is attached.
Dates:
1856.
Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Statutes of the Order of the Garter in English (folio 1). The Statutes are those of Edward VI, 17 March 1552/1553, and are followed by a list of knights present at that Chapter. For other Statutes in English, see Adv.MS.31.7.18.(ii) `Regula pauperum commilitonum Christi templique salomonici` by Joannes Michaelensis, written in two hands of the 12th century (folio 18). The order of chapters differs from that given in...
Dates:
12th century-17th century.
“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.