Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in black ink, with red for the title, numbers and initials, and in a Muscovite skoropis’ hand.Списокь стор ʼroвoro ӳcтaвaThe manuscript begins: ·ã·, Ha двинѣ ẏ̑ аханrecкoro ropo втамо, жнѣ Ϭытна на яман'кеThe manuscript ends: и о напрасноrо ẏ̑божестьа свойхъ, люде хранять..There is a colophon on folio 72: и̓ по ẏ̑ка великоrо rдря й по помѣте,боя̑рина а̇̑ѳонасъя лаврентьė̑вича, а̇̑рдина нащокина й по...

Scope and Contents The book was started about 1747, and all entries of earlier date are noted as being taken from an 'old book', which is the 'booke of the actis, statutis, and ordinances of the glovers of Kelso, anno 1631'-1746, presented to the National Library in 1927 (MS.70).The book contains the following:(i) Acts, 1679-1703 (page 3);(ii) Regulations for searching the butcher-market for skins and hides, 1776 (page 17);(iii) Elections, 1659-1738 (page 41);...

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Scope and Contents (i) 'Taxtio super integra ecclesia Scoticana tam super pralatiuris quam aliis beneficis numonluis ad valarem annuum £40 sel ad rationem £30,000' (page 1); (ii) 'Libellus taxationum seu contrivutionum spiritualitatis conceparcum S.D.N. Regi per fraelator et Clericas Regni Scotiae' (page 16); (iii) Extent rolls of the Shires of Scotland in some instances distinguishing the property of the Crown, kirklands, and temporal lands, all apparently of the 16th century but dated at the end Sept 10 1687...

Scope and Contents The reports include:(i) The cultivation of coffee, 1824 (folio 3);(ii) The Baroda revenue system, undated, but post 1821 (folio 21);(iii) Memorandum, 7 August 1820, on the revision of the judicial code of the Bombay presidency, 7 August 1820 (folio 32);(iv) Regulations, undated, but circa 1820, concerning the duties of a collector, revenue regulations concerning village representatives, and queries concerning land values, with a glossary of...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1924-1935, concerned with the purchase of Mary, Queen of Scots, manuscripts (1924), and with the business of the National Library Board of Trustees (folio 1); (ii-xi) 'Miscellaneous documents', 1922-1936, as follows. (ii) Copy of a letter, 1922, of Sir Frederick Kenyon, British Museum, to Dr W K Dickson on a Treasury grant to the Advocates' Library (folio 68); (iii) Correspondence with Sir John Lamb and Lord Novar (Secretary for Scotland) on the...

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The mess book consists of the printed 'Mess Regulations' for each year, names of ‘Strangers’ and ‘Guests’ and by whom invited, and ‘names of troopers absent from Mess’.

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The contents are as follows: (i) Detailed regulations, circa 1790, for drill and manoeuvre exercises with Sepoy infantry and extracts from regulations dealing with courts martial, military funerals, etc. (folio 1). (ii) Botanical and medical notes and musings upon 'heroic vertue', circa 1790 (folio 56). (iii) Battalion orders at Tellicherry and Bombay for the 7th Battalion of Sepoys, 1788-1790 (folio 65 verso).

Scope and Contents These records of the Wrights, bowyers, coopers, chirurgeons, parchment makers, masons, and glaziers, who formed the Wrights Incorporation, reveal their collective interest in the regulations of trading standards and the control of admission. There are also indications of the social function of the Incorporation and their involvement with the pre-Reformation Church.The haphazard nature of the entries in both volumes suggests that they may possibly be rough copies kept by the...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Copy of a private Act of Parliament for vesting the entailed estates of Melgund and Kynynmound in Trustees, 1792 (folio 1);(ii) A cutting from the ‘Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary’, 13 August 1807, reporting the investiture of Sir George Barlow as a Knight Companion of the Bath (folio 11);(iii) 'Regulations Proposed by the Court of Directors to the General Court for the most advantageous Management of the Company's Affairs...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Memorial for the ministers of the Church of Scotland on the window tax, 1757 (folio 1). See also MS.11017, folios 64-65. (ii) Notes and printed bill concerning the writ of Habeas Corpus, [1758] (folio 3); (iii) Drafts of speeches to be delivered in the House of Commons on the conduct of the war, with notes on bribery at elections and the swearing of oaths, [1759] (folio 11); (iv) Memorial for John Forbes of Culloden, 1762 (folio 22); (v) Notes relating...