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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 490 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook of General Sir George Murray containing copies of general orders from the adjutant-general`s office on the expedition to Copenhagen., 1807.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.1.13
Scope and Contents

The orders for the period 19 June-8 July start at folio 171 and end at folio 160; those for 22 July-9 August start at folio 4 and end at folio 49 verso; those for 9 August-30 September start at folio 157 verso and end at folio 50.

Dates: 1807.

Official and private papers of Alexander Walker during his period as governor of St Helena, 1823-1828, and until his death in retirement in 1831., 1734-1830, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.13741-13774
Scope and Contents

Whilst at St Helena, Alexander Walker busied himself in promoting the agricultural potential of the island and in tackling the question of slavery.

Dates: 1734-1830, undated.

'Order Book, Newfoundland', containing orders for house-hold articles, clothing, and other items, from the time when Sir Thomas John Cochrane was Governor of Newfoundland., 1829-1832.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2498
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: 1829-1832.

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.

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.

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.

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.