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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Papers and accounts concerning the University of Saint Andrews., 1438-1630.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.7
Scope and Contents Most of the papers relate to, or resulted from the various Royal Commissions to Saint Andrews University in the late 16th century. Copy of the statutes of the Faculty of Theology, 1438; in Latin (folios 1-8). - This has been printed from other manuscripts in Hannay, page 112.Transcript, 1570, of the statutes of the Faculty of Arts, signed by John Rutherford; in Latin (folios 9-15). - This has been printed from another manuscript in Hannay, page...
Dates: 1438-1630.

Papers and an inventory of title-deeds of the family of Stuart of Torrance concerning the feuars of Glassford on the Torrance estate., 1813-1912.

 File
Identifier: MS.8203
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Papers, 1813-1912, concerning the feuars of Glassford on the Torrance estate (folio 1);

(ii) Inventory, 1844, of title-deeds concerning the feuars of Glassford, with some nineteenth-century copies of early title-deeds, but not those inventoried (folio 172).

Dates: 1813-1912.

Papers and copies of correspondence concerning the Royal Navy., 1791-1829, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1044
Scope and Contents

Includes the following:

(i) Papers on various subjects, 1791-1829, undated, including administration, the Transport Board, the post of Checquer Clerk to the Greenwich Chest, inventions, and personnel (recruiting, impressment, pay, health, prizes);

(ii) 'Correspondence relating to the state of the Navy' between the Admiralty and the Navy Board, 1815-1818 (copies).

Dates: 1791-1829, undated.

Papers and letters of George Wade.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6666/1-3
Scope and Contents

Including:

circa 50 letters and other documents, 1736-1737, concerning the Porteous Riots and subsequent events, compiled by Wade

circa 200 letters to and copies of letters, 1745-1746, of Wade, concerning the Jacobite Rising.

Dates: 1736-1737, 1745-1746.

Papers and letters used by George Chalmers in the compilation of ‘Caledonia’ and the ‘Topographical Dictionary’., 1789-1816.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.1.1-21.1.10
Scope and Contents

The papers are arranged by counties alphabetically, and within each county in the order: lists of place-names, copies of documents, other notes, letters (mostly from parish ministers, giving information about their localities; similar letters are in Adv.MS.81.9.3 and MS.15989)

Dates: 1789-1816.

Papers and notes of John Pinkerton relating to Scottish history and other subjects., 1342-1796, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1710
Scope and Contents Materials and notes relating to Scottish prehistory, history, and genealogy (folios 1, 208), portraits (folio 143), and coins and medals (folio 185). They include some historical documents (originals and contemporary or later copies)—deeds relating to the College Kirk of Dunbar, 1342, and the Swintons of that Ilk, 1401; a sheet, apparently torn from a letter-book, being contemporary copies of letters of James VI, [1594-?1595/1596]; a copy of a letter of Charles I, appointing Sir Lewis...
Dates: 1342-1796, undated.

Papers associated with Thomas de Quincey., 1800, 1837.

 File
Identifier: MS.1006, folios 138-141
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of: copies of a translation of Horace, 'Odes', i. 22, made by Thomas de Quincy at the age of fifteen and his headmaster's attestation regarding it, 1800; and a letter complaining of his treatment of William Roscoe in the 'Edinburgh Magazine', 1837.

Dates: 1800, 1837.

Papers chiefly concerning the lands of the barony of Hassandean, Buccleuch lands and the executry of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Buccleuch., 1457-1678, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14542
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers concerning the lands of the barony of Hassandean, being copies of deeds, 1457, 1560, 1562; letters, 1628, to the 1st Earl of Tweeddale and Andrew Hay, Writer to the Signet, concerning the rental; rentals, 1648-1678; memorandum, 1658, concerning the joining of Hassandean church to that of Robertson; papers, 1666-1667, concerning the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale’s claim to the lands of Hassandean; inventory of writs, [?circa 1586]; and...
Dates: 1457-1678, undated.