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Proceedings. Reports.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records of meetings of a conference, society or other organization, usually published, and frequently accompanied by abstracts or reports of papers presented.

Found in 360 Collections and/or Records:

Antiquarian and genealogical papers and correspondence of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 18th century-19th century.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15471-15481
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 18th century-19th century.

Antiquarian papers of Patrick Chalmers (died 1854)., 1st quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.15472
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 19th century.

Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1638-1642.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.2687
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.

Dates: 1638-1642.

Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1639-1642.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.2688
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.

Dates: 1639-1642.

Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1640-1642.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.2687-2688
Scope and Contents

The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.

Dates: 1640-1642.

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.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

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: 1548-1641.

Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.16
Scope and Contents The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: a.1.22.Some of the items in this manuscript may have been copied from Adv.MS.34.2.17: Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rent.The contents are as follows: 1. Rentals of benefices, 1561; 2. Kings Rents & Casualties, 1628; 3. The contributions to the Lords of Session; 4. Compt of taxation of £100,000, 1593; 5. The rent paid to the king out of the...
Dates: 16th century-1628.

Copies of official papers, January 1809, etc., concerning affairs in Kutch, including Captain Greenwood's account, September-October 1809, of a journey into Kutch., 1809.

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Identifier: MS.13708
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: 1809.

Copy of 'Proceedings of a General Court Martial, held at Bangalore on the trial of Lieutenant Colonel John Bell, of the Madras Artillery' (Madras,1810)., 1810.

 Item
Identifier: MS.11671
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1810.

Correspondence and papers concerning church affairs in various parishes, chiefly in Roxburghshire., 1720-1894, undated.

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Identifier: MS.13328
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates: 1720-1894, undated.