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Statements.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Formal accounts of facts or events, especially as given to the police or in court. Source: Concise Oxford English dictionary. 11th ed. (Oxford, 2004).

Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:

Practicks and other legal papers, written by John Thomsone, 1657., 1592-1653.

 File
Identifier: MS.2712
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'Practiques of the Lords of Session'. According to a note, “they appear to be President Spotswoods tho' in some things different”; see Hector McKechnie, 'Practicks, 1469-1700', in ‘An introductory survey of the sources and literature of Scots law’, ‘Stair Society’, volume i (1936). (Page 1.)(ii) A version of Haddington's Decisions, 1592-1593; see also MS.2707. (Page 155.)(iii) Copies of statements in the process begun by the...
Dates: 1592-1653.

'Proceedings [of the] Home Department [of the] Government of India: Legislation for the purposes of assuming some degree of control over the newspaper press in India' ([Simla], 1907), with correspondence and other papers., 1907.

 File
Identifier: MS.12632
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to sedition and to the control of the press, 1907-1911 (folio 1); (ii) Papers relating to the resignation of Sir Bampfylde Fuller as Lietenant-Governor of East Bengal and Assam, 1906 (folio 149); (iii) Transcripts of letters and a petition against the partition of Bengal, 1906 (folio 190).

Dates: 1907.

Records of the service of the Home Guard (formerly Local Defence Volunteers).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3816-3822
Scope and Contents

The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.

Dates: 1940-1945.

'Rentall of my Lord Semple his whole estait both of stok and teynd as the lands now presentlie payeis as follows', 1644.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3934
Scope and Contents

The statement, which may have been drawn up on the succession of Francis, 6th Lord Sempill, to his father Hugh, gives the rentals of the Barony of Glassford in Lanarkshire and lands in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, with the names of the tenants.

On folio 8 verso is an authority given by the Earl of Winton and other friends of the house to William ?Houie to uplift the rents, 7 March, 1645.

Dates: 1644-1645.

Signed statements by George Leslie, Burgess of Edinburgh, that he has subscribed the National Covenant (1638), Solemn League and Covenant (1643), and renewed Solemn League and Covenant (1648).

 Item
Identifier: MS.1656
Scope and Contents

The signed statements are written at the end of the printed Covenants, which are bound in one volume bearing the initials G L on the binding.

Dates: 1638-1648.

Small collections and single letters.

 File
Identifier: MS.3813
Scope and Contents The contents include:letters signed by the Earl of Arran as Regent in favour of John Mure of Rowallan, 1551;orders to the authorities of Ayrshire to keep order, with special reference to the rescue of the Covenanter David Houston, 1688;a statement regarding the conduct of the Earl Marischal on the death of Queen Anne at Sheriffmuir, 1768;letters of Sir James Hall, chiefly to Dr Alexander Marcet, 1804-1813;papers relating to Gretna...
Dates: 1551-1923.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 7: letters and papers, 1615-1616, 1622 (chiefly 1616)., 1615-1616, 1622.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [vii]
Scope and Contents The volume is entitled ‘Staite Bussines for the yeir 1616. Reg. Jacobo 6’, and is marked ‘A.2.44’ and ’39 Denmilne’.Many letters are to John Murray, and a number concern James Haig of Bemersyde`s indictment of his brother.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Oliphant to John Murray of Lochmaben on the private business of the former. Dated Edinburgh, 6 January 1616.(ii) Holograph letter of Sir Gideon Murray to John Murray of Lochmaben...
Dates: 1615-1616, 1622.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 30: letters and papers on Italian affairs., 1548-1624, undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.13 [xxx]
Scope and Contents

The letters and papers concern the diplomatic missions of Michael Balfour, Lord Balfour of Burleigh; Sir Anthony Shirley; and a treaty between Savoy and Spain in 1615. A small group is addressed to Mary of Guise, 1548-1549.

Dates: 1548-1624, undated.