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Orders. Records (documents).

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: An authoritative command or direction: a verbal or written request for something to be made, supplied or served. Source: Concise Oxford English dictionary. 11th ed. Oxford 2004.

Found in 526 Collections and/or Records:

Order book, number 3, of the Home Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland containing authorisations of payments., 1861-1869.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19171
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1861-1869.

Order book, number 4, of the Home Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland containing authorisations of payments., 1869-1874.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19172
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1869-1874.

Order book, number 5, of the Home Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland containing authorisations of payments., 1874-1880.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19173
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1874-1880.

Order book, number 6, of the Home Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland containing authorisations of payments., 1880-1887.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19174
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1880-1887.

Order book, number 8, of the Home Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland containing authorisations of payments., 1892-1898.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19175
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1892-1898.

Order books of the Home Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland containing authorisations of payments., 1861-1898.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19171-19175
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1861-1898.

Order by Mary Queen of Scots to the sheriff of Forfar to pay to the Abbot and convent of Jedburgh a teindpenny of all duties in his sheriffdom., 2 November 1549.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14323
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir George Fletcher, advocate, a younger son of Robert of Innerpeffer, was one of his commissioners and acquired the lands of Restennet in 1627. The first two documents, the earliest in the collection, are the foundation charter of the Priory by Malcolm IV and its confirmation by the Bishop of St Andrews.

Dates: 2 November 1549.

Order by the Lands Improvement Company to Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun for annual payment., 15 September 1868.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14712
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 15 September 1868.

Order by the Lands Improvement Company to Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun for partial repayment of loan., 17 April 1867.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14710
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 17 April 1867.

Order of, and copies of correspondence of, the Earl of Mar., 1715-1725.

 File
Identifier: MS.3140
Scope and Contents

Order of the Earl of Mar, giving protection to all Episcopal and Presbyterian Ministers, 1715 (folio 2), and copies of correspondence of Mar and his Counters with Prince James Edward and Princess Clementina, 1715-1725 (folio 4).

Dates: 1715-1725.

Orders and rules of procedure in the Court of Exchequer.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.4
Scope and Contents

‘Orders and Rules of proceedings in the office of His Majesties Remembrancer of his Court of Exchequer at Westminster, by authority of the Barons, 1696 etc.’

Dates: 1696.

Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.3.26-23.3.30
Scope and Contents The Eaglescarnie estate was held by a younger branch of the Haliburtons until the middle of the 18th century, when it was acquired by Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War, by his marriage with Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Haliburton. There are some 17th-century papers of the Haliburtons, but the majority relate to Patrick Lindsay and to his father, Patrick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament for the City (see ‘The Scots Peerage’, pages 409-410). Several of the papers...
Dates: 1639-1789.

Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian: volume 1: Various letters and papers., 1639-1747.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.26
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Letters to Patrick Lindsay, Member of Parliament, 1736-1737, concerning the Porteous Riots (folio 1).(ii) Letters to Patrick Lindsay, Member of Parliament, 1735, 1739, chiefly concerning the licensing of a theatre in Edinburgh (folio 19).(iii) Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745-1746, including a printed military pass of Prince Charles Edward to Patrick Lindsay, Lord George Murray`s releasement of...
Dates: 1639-1747.

Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian: volume 4: Notebook of Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War., 1746.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.29
Scope and Contents

Notebook of Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War, March-April 1746, containing notes of orders given to Government troops on their march north.

Dates: 1746.