Writs. Judicial records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Orders in writing, issued under seal (in the name of the sovereign or a court or judicial officer) from the proper authority, commanding the person to whom it is directed to perform or refrain from performing an act specified therein.
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Charters, writs and formal papers mainly concerning the Halketts of Pitfirrane and the Wedderburns of Gosford.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.6001-7360
Dates:
1230-1878.
‘Collectanea Juridica’, containing a collection of styles of deeds, writs, and forms of proceeding in various Courts of England.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.1
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Drafts of deeds, apparently used as a style book for deeds and other writs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.5.14-24.5.16
Dates:
Mid-18th century.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.5.8-11
Scope and Contents
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
`Record of the Writs, Orders and Proceedings of the Admirall Court in the office of Messrs. Gibson and Pringle’, bound into an album.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.12
Scope and Contents
The court was composed of the copiators (writers, and, presumably, apprentices) in the office, who elected an Admiral and other office-holders, the youngest in the office being the Macer of Court, and so on. Fines were imposed for untidiness, fighting, and similar disturbances, and were spent, when a sufficient sum had accumulated, upon a dinner for the members of the court. The court was held in Durie`s office.
Dates:
1751-1776.
Typescript copy of the Inventory of Writs and Title-Deeds relating to the lands of Mount, Cupar, Fife, with genealogical and other notes and four pedigrees by Douglas Hamer, University of Sheffield, based on the original documents.
File
Identifier: MS.1678
Dates:
1714-1745.
Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) a chronological list of hereditary and other offices under the Great Seal, and the names of those to whom they were granted, from 1499 to 1650 (folio 1);(ii) an inventory of the writs of the lands and barony of Tulliallan arranged chronologically from 1402 to 1536 (folio 25 verso);(iii) notes from writs then in the possession of David Erskine concerning the Earls of Countesses of Buchan and some other peers...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Writ under the Privy Seal pardoning Robert Wright, Edinburgh, for his Jacobite activities.
Item
Identifier: Ch.8498
Dates:
1775.