Scrolls. Information artefacts
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous papers, mostly concerning ecclesiastical, legal and genealogical subjects., 16th century, 1743, 1773, 1776, 1844, 1855.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Inventory of writs, `Anent ye baronie of Tyllebulalb and redemptione thairof be James Strathay of Carmyle and lairdes of Skene`, 16th century (folio 1).(ii) 4 letters of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres, to his sister, Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, 1743, and undated (folio 4).(iii) `Scroll of a Speech on an Overture transmitted by the [General] Assembly [of the Church of Scotland to the Presbyteries] anent...
Dates:
16th century, 1743, 1773, 1776, 1844, 1855.
Scroll charter of confirmation by Alexander Falconar, in favour of David Stewart, Commissary of Moray, of unspecified feu duties., Circa 1680.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.94
Scroll of contract, 1675; articles of agreement, 11 September 1676; and contract, 12 September 1676, between Sir Charles Halket and Peter Brawis, for building a pier at Limekilns., 1675-1676.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6635
Two decorated scrolls of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Portobello Branch.
File
Identifier: Acc.4597
Dates:
1890, 1919.
Two decorated scrolls of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Portobello Branch.
Series
Identifier: Dep.113- is now Acc.4597.
Dates:
1890, 1919.