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:
Partial draft of MS.13844: Copies of general orders, official correspondence etc. of Alexander Walker, concerning the course and the handling of the Vellore Mutiny in 1806., 1806.
Item
Identifier: MS.13845
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1806.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Copies of general orders, official correspondence etc. of Alexander Walker, concerning the course and the handling of the Vellore Mutiny in 1806, and a partial draft thereof.
Printed copy of the standing orders for the Annandale and Eskdale Regiment of Local Militia, with a manuscript diary of a voyage to Canada.
File
Identifier: Acc.8426
Dates:
1816.
Privy Council order addressed to the 3rd Lord Hay of Yester as Sheriff of Peebles., 14 June 1530.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10717
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
14 June 1530.
Receipts for ammunition, notes of scores, notes of rifles issued, and other papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion concerning equipment, 1861-1865, and undated (folio 1), together with various printed papers, mainly Company and Battalion Orders, 1859-1866, 1870, and undated (folio 225)., 1859-1870.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.24
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Dates:
1859-1870.
`Record of the Writs, Orders and Proceedings of the Admirall Court in the office of Messrs. Gibson and Pringle’, bound into an album.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.12
Scope and Contents
The court was composed of the copiators (writers, and, presumably, apprentices) in the office, who elected an Admiral and other office-holders, the youngest in the office being the Macer of Court, and so on. Fines were imposed for untidiness, fighting, and similar disturbances, and were spent, when a sufficient sum had accumulated, upon a dinner for the members of the court. The court was held in Durie`s office.
Dates:
1751-1776.
Regimental standing orders, 1796, for the 37th Regiment at Gibraltar.
File
Identifier: Acc.7127
Scope and Contents
Including:
diary, 1868, of John Maxwell of Baillieston, mostly meteorological
burgess ticket, 1766, of Rutherglen, in favour of Steven Maxwell.
Dates:
1766, 1796 and 1868.
`Registre de la campagne d`Espagne` of General (afterwards Count) Étienne Heudelet de Bierre from 17 December 1808 to 27 September 1809, when it was probably captured at Busaco., 1808-1809.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.5.20-46.5.21
Scope and Contents
This is in six parts and consists of copies of orders to the troops under his command (the third division of the eighth corps under Junot, and from 2 January 1809, the fifth division of the second corps under Soult), and of letters, many of which are addressed to Soult.
Dates:
1808-1809.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
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Intercepted letter- and order-books of French generals.
`Registre de la campagne d`Espagne` of General Étienne Heudelet de Bierre: 5 separate gatherings of leaves amongst some of which a few letters addressed to Heudelet have been inserted., 1808-1809.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.5.21
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This is in six parts and consists of copies of orders to the troops under his command (the third division of the eighth corps under Junot, and from 2 January 1809, the fifth division of the second corps under Soult), and of letters, many of which are addressed to Soult.
Dates:
1808-1809.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
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Intercepted letter- and order-books of French generals.
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`Registre de la campagne d`Espagne` of General (afterwards Count) Étienne Heudelet de Bierre from 17 December 1808 to 27 September 1809, when it was probably captured at Busaco.
`Registre de la campagne d`Espagne` of General Étienne Heudelet de Bierre: volume bound in a fragment of a bifolium from what appears to be a French legal document of 17th-century provenance., 1808-1809.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.5.20
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This is in six parts and consists of copies of orders to the troops under his command (the third division of the eighth corps under Junot, and from 2 January 1809, the fifth division of the second corps under Soult), and of letters, many of which are addressed to Soult.
Dates:
1808-1809.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
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Intercepted letter- and order-books of French generals.
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`Registre de la campagne d`Espagne` of General (afterwards Count) Étienne Heudelet de Bierre from 17 December 1808 to 27 September 1809, when it was probably captured at Busaco.
Representation, 1810, by the Clerks of Session, signed by Sir Walter Scott amongst others.
File
Identifier: Acc.6137
Scope and Contents
With:
1. commission, 1814, appointing John Elder a Depute Clerk of Session, signed by Sir Walter Scott amongst others
2. printed regimental order, 1808, of the 1st Regiment Royal Edinburgh Volunteers.
Dates:
1808, 1810, 1814.
'Rough Journal' of Sir Thomas John Cochrane during his service at the East India Station, containing a daily log of heads of orders and letters written and received., 1844-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2392-2401
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1844-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
Sailing papers of George Seton as Commander of the ‘Lowgee Family’., 1814-1816.
File
Identifier: MS.19218
Scope and Contents
Save for the Deposition of 1814 concerning a loss of cargo off St Helena (folio 1), these are chiefly shipping orders from Forbes and Company of Bombay.
Dates:
1814-1816.
Single letters and documents., 1510-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2208
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, attributed to circa 1590, of John Gordoun to Patrick Bruce, Leith, with a modem transcript. ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume v, page 11. (Folio 1.)(ii) Eighteenth-century copy of Sir Thomas Wortley's inscription at Wharncliffe, 1510. (Folio 4.)(iii) Letter, 31 August 1582, signed by several of the Ruthven Raiders, to John Erskine of Dun, summoning him to Stirling. Smellie, William,...
Dates:
1510-19th century.
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.
Small collections and single letters.
File
Identifier: MS.3813
Scope and Contents
The contents include:letters signed by the Earl of Arran as Regent in favour of John Mure of Rowallan, 1551;orders to the authorities of Ayrshire to keep order, with special reference to the rescue of the Covenanter David Houston, 1688;a statement regarding the conduct of the Earl Marischal on the death of Queen Anne at Sheriffmuir, 1768;letters of Sir James Hall, chiefly to Dr Alexander Marcet, 1804-1813;papers relating to Gretna...
Dates:
1551-1923.
Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2207
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1647-1781, consisting chiefly of letters and orders addressed to William Farquharson of Inverey by Middleton and others, in connection with the Royalist campaign in Scotland, 1647-1656. 'Archaeologia Scotia', volume v, appendix, page 57. (Folio 1.)(ii) Orders of General Monck relating to Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy and the McNabs, 1654-1655, with modern transcripts, and a chaplain's commission given to...
Dates:
1647-1862, 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.
Standing order for the British and Hanoverian troops in Germany, September to October 1743.
File
Identifier: Acc.9628
Scope and Contents
With copy of the speech to the King by John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl Stair, made at the Council of War at Worms, 23 August 1744.
Dates:
1743-1744.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 13: papers., ?1639-1641, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [xiii]
Scope and Contents
Documents concerning political events, especially the Scots army at Newcastle and affairs in the English Parliament. Some printed ballads and letters to Sir James Balfour are included.
Dates:
?1639-1641, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1560-1641, undated.
'Statutes and Orders of the most Ancient and most Noble Order of the Thistle': eighteenth-century copies of statutes of 1703-1721., 1703-1721.
File
Identifier: MS.5832
Scope and Contents
The 2nd Marquess of Lothian was invested with the order in 1705.
Dates:
1703-1721.
“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.
Two commissions, September-October 1745, signed by John Murray of Broughton to the Earl of Kellie and Robert Douglas, son of Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, for the collection of the land tax in Fife, with an unaddressed order, 3 January 1746, signed by the Earl of Cromartie “ordering you to remain with the party under Captain Farquharson's command in Fife, who is hereby ordered to be aiding and assisting to you in bringing in the revenues of the shire”., 1745, 1746.
File
Identifier: MS.14835, folios 12-15
Dates:
1745, 1746.
Two letters of the 3rd Duke of Hamilton to James Cornwall of Bonhard, giving orders for the militia., 1685.
File
Identifier: MS.3278, folios 7-10
Dates:
1685.
Typescript of "Regimental and General Order Book of the Queen`s County Militia (Archibald Hamilton Col Commandant)".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6725
Dates:
1779-1780.
Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane., 1796-1847.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2443-2485
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1796-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.