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Codicils.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Addenda to wills, which explain, revoke, modify, or add to their provisions.

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Estate and business correspondence and related papers., 1761-1931, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15106-15112
Scope and Contents

The papers include balance sheets and business correspondence of the various firms in which the Ellices held an interest and papers concerned with the purchase and development of the Ellices Highland estates.

Dates: 1761-1931, undated.

Minto family wills and settlements., 1829-1858.

 File
Identifier: MS.11940
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Two autograph copies of the Countess of Minto's will, February 1829 (folio 1); (ii) Copies of the 2nd Earl of Minto's will and codicils, with related papers and memoranda, 1852, 1858, largely in his own hand (folio 8); (iii) Autograph will of Lady Harriet Elliot, sister of the 2nd Earl, and other papers relating to the settlement of her estate, 1825 (folio 43); (iv) Correspondence and papers, 1825, relating to the marriage settlement of Lady Catherine Elliot...
Dates: 1829-1858.

Miscellaneous papers which belonged to Sir William Fraser, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

 File
Identifier: MS.90
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i-iv) Four printed proclamations, etc., 1708, 1710, 1714 (folio 1);(v) Obligation by Patrick Hamilton and other inhabitants of Arran to provide levies, etc., for the defence of the religion, laws, and liberties of the Kirk and Kingdom whenever desired by the Earl of Argyll, 1639 (folio 6);(vi) Extract registered bond by Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum to the Committee of Estates to observe the National Covenant, 1641 (folio 8);...
Dates: 1590-1838.

Papers concerning Matthew Gregory Lewis., 1792-circa 1834.

 File
Identifier: MS.42419
Scope and Contents

(1) Anonymous letter, 1834, to John Murray II offering to let him see some letters of Matthew Lewis to Frances Lewis, and the codicil to

Lewis` will;

(2) manuscript copies, circa 1834, of letters, 1792-1816, of Matthew Lewis to Frances Lewis;

(3) manuscript copy of a letter of Matthew Lewis to I. Ingall; and,

(3) manuscript copy, ?1834, of the codicil, 1816, to the will of Matthew Lewis.

Dates: 1792-circa 1834.