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:
Douglas of Springwood Park Charters.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7637-7676
Scope and Contents
Formal documents from the papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park. They consist mostly of marriage-contracts, certificates and military commissions of members of the family, but also include a few documents relating to the family estates.
Dates:
1649-1888.
Examples of the Great Seal in Scotland., 1839.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11182/36-38
Extract of commission, 10 June 1624, by Thomas, Earl of Kellie to Mr George Fletcher, advocate, to receive duties from Restennet while he is out of Scotland. Registered, 12 July 1624., 10 June 1624.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14349
Dates:
10 June 1624.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
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Early Fletcher documents.
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Documents relating to the Priory of Restennet and its temporalities, which were granted to Thomas, Viscount of Fentoun (later Earl of Kellie) in 1606.
Extract of commission, 24 May 1624, by Thomas, Earl of Kellie to Sir George Erskin of Innerheill S.C.J. and Alexander, Lord Fenton to act for him with regard to Dirleton and Fenton. Registered, 15 July 1625., 24 May 1624.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14346
Dates:
24 May 1624.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
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Early Fletcher documents.
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Documents relating to the Priory of Restennet and its temporalities, which were granted to Thomas, Viscount of Fentoun (later Earl of Kellie) in 1606.
Family papers, including correspondence, genealogies and inventories of documents, some concerning business of George Skene in Danzig, Poland., 1597-1709.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/5
Scope and Contents
Contains:
85. Summons at the instance of James Murray of Halzardis against his tenants of Halkernis and Toddis hauch for nonpayment of rent - Joseph Dowglas in Halkernis and Elizabeth Thomesoun his spouse, Alexander Mathy there, John Wilsoun there, James Sammell there, John Bell in Halbernis, Marioun Dicksoun, Thomas Tait in Halbernis, James Zoung in Toddishauch and Margaret Polwarth, James Wast her son and James Zoung her spouse. Edinburgh, 24 March 1597.[On an attached sheet is...
Dates:
1597-1709.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Family papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale., 1643-1697, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14481
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1643-1666, of transactions between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and his mother, the Countess of Glencairn (folio 1);(ii) Papers, 1648-1659, undated, concerning the executry of the 1st Earl of Tweeddale’s will by William Hay of Aberlady (see also Ch.10858-10864) (folio 90);(iii) Commission, 1654, of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale to his wife, Jean, Countess of Tweeddale (folio 125);(iv) Papers, 1654-1697,...
Dates:
1643-1697, undated.
Formal documents from the Hunter of Glencarse papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15397-15431
Dates:
1685-1842.
Formal documents from the papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8896-8907
Dates:
1805-circa 1852.
Formal documents from the papers of John Hill Burton.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8493-8496
Dates:
1807-1831.
Formal documents from the papers of Sir Herbert Grierson.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8482-8485
Dates:
1894-1938.
Formal documents from the papers of the Setons of Touch.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15241-15247
Dates:
1808-1831.
Formal documents from the papers of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8908-8912
Dates:
6 January 1858-4 July 1872.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents
These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.
Formal documents relating to Major-General John Brown and General Sir George Brown.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.1441-1449
Dates:
1790-1854.
Formal documents relating to persons associated with members of the Ellice family., 1794-1858.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12752-12763
Dates:
1794-1858.
Fragment of a presentation in favour of Sir Thomas Burnet, physician, as tenant of James Johnston of Sciennes, on the forfeiture of the estate of Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston., 1663.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2587
Dates:
1663.
Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13290
Scope and Contents
The papers include titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.Family papers include Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland’s Scottish sketchbooks and a series of Game Books recording the activities of the many shooting and fishing parties organised for the Sutherland family and their guests. The manuscript of Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh’s ‘Continuation of the Genealogy of the Family of Sutherland’, 1651, is of...
Dates:
1651-1960
Genealogies and other papers of Sir James Balfour.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.40
Scope and Contents
A volume titled ‘Balfour’s Genealogies’, containing:
1. A copy of ‘Genealogies of the Scottish nobility’ (Adv.MS.33.2.39).
2. Commission for the valuation of teinds, and proceedings of the commissioners, 1627-1643.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (A.4.25).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
General and East Lothian papers., 1541-1891, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14750-14756
Dates:
1541-1891, undated.
Incomplete collection (lacking original pages 1-2) of fair copies, with frequent calligraphic embellishments, of royal decreets and other formal documents relating to the administration of teinds (tithes) in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.21
Scope and Contents
The documents are copies of originals mostly from the period 1626 to 1643, but they include a commission, January 1678, granted by Charles II, and the copyist`s hand is characteristic of the late 17th century.
Dates:
1626-1643, 1678
Incomplete paper on the number of Justices of the Peace, copy of a letter appointing the Clerk to the Peace in Argyll, 1707, and copies, made in 1747 by the various clerks, of the commissions for twenty-five of the Scottish counties, 1728-1744., 1707-1747.
File
Identifier: MS.17535
Dates:
1707-1747.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning Justices of the Peace, chiefly in connection with a revision of the lists in 1747, but with a few papers of 1760-1761.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart., 1715-1850, 1926, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1694
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1715-1850, 1926, undated.