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:
`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.
/
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.
'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 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.
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 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.
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.
Warrand by Queen Mary to the Treasurer to desist from craving certain silver plates from Mr George Hacket., 19 September 1568.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6821
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).
Dates:
19 September 1568.