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A table is included with Alexander Mackenzie’s answers.

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With circa 21000 signatures.

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Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.

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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.

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The petitioner, who is heir at law of William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, petitions the House to order to be laid before it an account of Paterson’s share in the Equivalent, and to cause the large amount of it which is believed to remain unappropriated to be devoted to the spread of botanical knowledge in Scotland by means of university scholarships, etc.

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These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.

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223 signatures.

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The petitioners claim exemption from the payment of Road Money, a tax levied for the repair of roads, etc., in lieu of Highway Duty, in virtue of an Act exempting ex-soldiers from the latter. The document, which bears 86 signatures, is accompanied by a letter to the 2nd Viscount Melville, 1823.

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The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.

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Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.

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Concerning the repair of a tenement in the High Street, Edinburgh.

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Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Titles, policy papers, leases, rentals, registers of demands, specifications for building works and other papers, largely 1772-1923, of the Sutherland Estates.The papers described here form the second deposit of Sutherland Estates papers for the years 1861-1921, although there is some later material. The main series of estates papers for these years have been deposited as Acc.10225. Included here are the Rentals for the Dunrobin Management previously thought to have been lost....

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The contents include: directions, 1583, for the education of Ludovick, 2nd Duke of Lennox (folio 1); papers, 1728-1756, on the coal, linen and woollen trades in Scotland (folios 39-106, passim); papers, 1747-1760, on the state of the Highlands after the 'Forty-Five, mostly advocating the raising of volunteer companies under the command of the factors on the Forfeited Estates to help keep the Highlands quiet in case of an invasion from France (folios 61-140, passim).

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The majority of the papers are addressed to the Lord Justice Clerk, some to other officials and soldiers.

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Containing approximately seventeen items.