Commissions. Permissions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Includes authorizations granting the power to perform a task or duty and documents appointing or hiring someone to perform a task.
Found in 221 Collections and/or Records:
Commissions of Sir George H Scott-Douglas., 1860-1868.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7666-7669
Dates:
1860-1868.
Commissions, superscribed by George II and George III, in favour of John Gillon, Advocate, as Sheriff Depute of Linlithgow and Bathgate., 1748, 1761.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15(vii), folios 26-29
Dates:
1748, 1761.
Commissions to the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale: Lord Lieutenancy of East Lothian., 1823, 1837.
File
Identifier: Ch.10972-10973
Commissions to the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale: Deputy Lieutenancy of East Lothian and Berwickshire., 1879-1880.
File
Identifier: Ch.11011-11012
Commissions to the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale: Lord High Commissionership., 1890-1892.
File
Identifier: Ch.11017-11019
Commissions, warrants, and certificates in favour of members of the Rose family.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2595-2629
Dates:
1824-1893.
Consent by Walter Stewart, son of Walter, Lord Blantyre with agreement of Alexander, Lord Saltoun to Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer to negotiate with William Gray, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, John Carstairs of Newgrange, and others, concerning Saltoun., 4 November 1639.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13259
Dates:
4 November 1639.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.18
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A treatise on heraldry in 28 chapters, with particular reference to the Court of the Lord Lyon, 1661 (page 1). The last chapter is a copy of the proclamation, 1447, of Arthur, Constable of France and later Duke of Brittany. See Adv.MSS.31.5.2, folio 1, and 31.3.20, folio 1.(ii) `Kinges of armes and heraulds in Ingland 1628` (pages 75, 79). This has been numbered Cap.29 in continuation of (i). The work has been printed,...
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copies, 1636-1637, of documents and notes of Sir James Balfour on ecclesiastical history.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.32
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.4.16.The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies of commissions, 1626, passing under the great seal (page 1);
(ii) Several proclamations, 1626 (page 13);
(iii) Names of the Sheriffs, Stewards, and Bailies of Scotland, 1606 (page 24);
(iv) Articles and other documents concerning the commission anent tiends (page 28);
(v) Documents connected with the introduction of the Service Book, 1637,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copies, 1706 or after, of the `Commission for a Treatie of Union Betwixt Scotland and England`, 1702; of the `Letters Patent for Reviving the Order of the Thistle`, 1687; and of patents of the titles of various Scottish peers, 1631-1706 (these have been fully indexed)., 1631-1706
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.2(xvi), folios 276-288
Scope and Contents
Interposed is the style for a `Signature of Resignation of ward lands changed from simple to taxtwards with a Novodamus and ane Erection of a burgh of barony`, folio 286. At least 7 folios are missing after folio 288.
Dates:
1631-1706
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Volume containing inter alia translations or copies, 1706 or after, of treatises on maritime law, chancery styles, and Crown patrimony, an index to Stair’s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, and copies of Scottish patents, 16th and 17th century.
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1552-1615.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.4
Scope and Contents
Also included is a copy of a memoir of Henri IV by Pierre Jeannin, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1), a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material, and a table of contents (folio 264).
Dates:
1552-1615.
Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1606-1613.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.9
Scope and Contents
Also included are a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material.
There is a table of contents (folio 1).
Dates:
1606-1613.
Copy, 31 July 1799, of commission, 31 July 1799, in favour of Sir Patrick Murray, 6th Baronet, of Ochtertyre, to be King`s Remembrancer in the Exchequer Court, Scotland., 31 July 1799.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17056
Dates:
31 July 1799.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.22
Scope and Contents
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Dates:
1385-1661.
Copy of appointment by Anne McGillivray of John Auldjo in place of George Wallace as trustee of the late Simon McGillivray., 28 September 1850.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12762
Copy of commission from Charles I to James Lamont of Inveryne., 24 March 1643.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7464
Dates:
24 March 1643.
Copy of commission from Charles I to James Lamont of Inveryne., 24 March 1643.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7465
Dates:
24 March 1643.
Copy of the commission of the Marquess of Hamilton concerning the management of his affairs in Scotland., 1620.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10776
Copy, undated, of commission, 1589, to George, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1581), as Ambassador to James VI to treat with the King of Denmark concerning his marriage with Princess Anne., June, August 1589.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17308
Dates:
June, August 1589.
Correspondence, 1703-1736, 1809, undated, and papers, 1627-1724 of the Dukes of Hamilton., 1627-1809, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1032
Dates:
1627-1809, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Henry Lindsay Bethune.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8959
Scope and Contents
Concerning Bethune`s military career in Persia.
Including instructions, firmans (royal mandate or decree), commissions and bills.
Dates:
1813-1851.
Diary of Sir John Hill, RN, detailing his mission to Scotland in 1837 to relieve distress caused by the famine.
File
Identifier: Acc.12738
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of commission from the Government and other associated papers and correspondence; with a volume of typed transcripts.
Dates:
1837.
Diplomas of learned bodies, 1814-1846, burgess-ticket of Edinburgh, 1815, and commission as Inspector of Factories, 1833, bestowed on Leonard Horner.
File
Identifier: Ch.934-942
Scope and Contents
Included is a copy of a deed of sale of pictures, executed by Sir Thomas Hanmer, Baronet, of Hanmer and Mildenhall, Speaker of the House of Commons, endorsed, apparently, in Hanmer`s hand, 1718 (Ch.942).
Dates:
1718, 1814-1833.
Documents, originals and copies, concerning the administration of Scotland., 1628-1764, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17503-17504
Scope and Contents
The seventeenth-century papers mostly concern Sir George Fletcher and the military contributions of the parish of Saltoun in the Civil War, the eighteenth-century ones are largely copies of commissions and warrants of office in the royal gift, apparently collected to act as models for renewal; but there are also papers concerning Holyroodhouse, local government, the disarming of the Highlands, Leith Harbour, the price of meat, trade with the American colonies, the censorship of newspapers,...
Dates:
1628-1764, undated.