Declarations.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents conveying formal statements intended to create, preserve, assert, or testify to a right.
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
Declaration of a committee of the Town Council appointed to examine the Council Books regarding the extent to which magistrates, etc, had in the past taken the oaths of allegiance, assurance, and abjuration., 1717.
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Identifier: Ch.2022
Declaration of deacons of trades regarding the uprightness of their conduct in the election of magistrates., 1717.
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Identifier: Ch.2021
Declaration of George Henderson, Thurso, in a theft case., 1839.
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Identifier: Acc.3591/22
Dates:
1839.
Declaration of Joseph Rae and Robert Reid, and, surgeon's report, on the death in a chimney of John Thomson, a nine year old chimney sweep., ?19th century.
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Identifier: Acc.3591/21
Dates:
?19th century.
Declaration of Lachlan Mackintosh of Torcastle regarding the lands of Killquhinich (in Culloden), from which Mackintosh of Connage is trying to evict Forbes., 1669.
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Identifier: Ch.1758
"Declaration of the Million Children of Scotland" by Save the Children.
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Identifier: Acc.12069
Dates:
2000.
Declaration of trust by Helen Ellice to William Ellice and Edward Kerrison., 10 March 1812.
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Identifier: Ch.12723
Declaration of trust concerning estates in Canada to be conveyed by Edward Ellice to Andrew Colvile, Russell Ellice and John Abel Smith., 30 November 1841.
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Identifier: Ch.12732
Declaration of truth by James Phyn, John Inglis and James Forsyth with George Morison., 20 December 1799.
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Identifier: Ch.12683
Declaration of two trusts from the will of Captain William Home., 1818.
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Identifier: Ch.8961
Declaration of William Hogg, Newbyres, concerning stolen guns., 1816.
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Identifier: Acc.3591/20
Dates:
1816.
Declaration on behalf of Elizabeth Cant, wife of John Falconer of Newton, passing from arrestment all monies belonging to Falconer in the hands of Sir Robert Fletcher of Innerpeffer., 16 December 1653.
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Identifier: Ch.14505
Declarations, 1717, regarding the conduct of the townspeople in the rising of 1715., 1717.
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Identifier: Ch.2023
Decree appointing Cesare Brancadoro as a cardinal, signed by Cardinal York as Vice-Chancellor of the Catholic Church.
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Identifier: Acc.9802
Dates:
1801.
Disposition and assignation by Sir Walter Scott to his mother, Ann Rutherford, of the part of his brother Daniel`s estate left to himself, with a statement of his mother rejecting the deed., 1806.
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Identifier: Ch.2138
Instrument of declaration by the brewers of Edinburgh to Sir William Binning of Wallyford, tacksman of excise, and his reply., 13 October 1680.
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Identifier: Ch.15172
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Legal documents concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1664-1829.
File
Identifier: MS.5327
Scope and Contents
The legal documents comprise the following:
(i) Condescendences, 1766-1822 (number 1);
(ii) Submissions, 1703-1812 (number 7);
(iii) Summonses, 1654-1818 (number 12);
(iv) Executions, 1664-1804 (number 23);
(v) Protests, 1724-1779 (number 43);
(vi) Suspensions, 1672-1772 (number 82);
(vii) Declarations, 1674-1824 (number 97);
(viii) Instructions, 1672-1822 (number 113);
(ix) Intimations, 1793-1820 (number 132);
(x) Minutes, 1676-1825 (number 139);
(xi) Instruments, 1678-1680 (number...
Dates:
1664-1829.
Legal documents relating to properties in the West Indies belonging to Alexander Ellice and his descendants., 1768-1862.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12633-12707
Dates:
1768-1862.
Letter, 8 January 1805, of Mungo Park to his wife; contemporary copy of a declaration of trust, 1816, concerning the sale of the copyright of Park's journal; and letters, 1818-1822, of Park's son Mungo to his uncle, Thomas Anderson, and to his mother., 1805-1822.
File
Identifier: MS.20311, folios 1-42
Letter and declaration of the Reverend James Fraser of Brea, Minister of Culross, regarding his refusal to take the Oath of Allegiance to William III, inserted at the beginning of his ‘Memoirs’ (Edinburgh, 1738).
Item
Identifier: MS.2565
Dates:
1695.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates:
1231-1641.
Letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., [Circa 1808]-1811.
File
Identifier: MS.11714
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Draft by the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the British occupation of Goa, circa 1808 (folio 1); (ii) Copy of a letter of Robert Nelson, Navy Office, 1809, concerning hemp (folio 7); (iii) Papers, 1809, concerning a memorial of the merchants of Calcutta relating to convoy protection (folio 9); (iv) Letters, 1810-1811, concerning naval prizes in the Far East (folio 44).
Dates:
[Circa 1808]-1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
Letters and papers on various subjects., 1575-1824, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3135
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Discharge of Andro Hart, printer, to Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, 1592 (folio 1);(ii) Discharge of Robert Brysone, printer and bookseller, and Evan Tyler, printer, to Mr George Halyburton for liturgies delivered to the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, 1637 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of the Earl of Mar to Thomas Kennedy, Lord Advocate of Scotland, demanding an immediate report on the presence of a French ship near Inverkeithing, 1714...
Dates:
1575-1824, undated.