Copies. Derivative objects.
Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘C’., 17th century-18th century.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘D’., 17th century-18th century.
The contents are as follows: (i) An abridgement of the General Council; (ii) A brief account of the Holy Land with a short description of the government of the Jews etc.; (iii) Notes on Scotch Bishops after the Reformation, down to about 1700; (iv) ‘Excerpta quædam de magus registro prioratus St. Andreæ’, referring to the register by its folios, a copy from Sir R Sibbald’s excerpts by “Iain Semple”; (v) A brief account of the heresies in the primitive church, etc.
Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families., 1807-1852.
Late 17th or early 18th-century copy of the manuscript of `Ane Account of The Ancient and present state of Orkney written about the Year of God, 1684`, by James Wallace, minister of Kirkwall.
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary.
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary., 1685-1716.
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary, 1716-1740.
Plan of the Estate of Finhaven, lying in the parish of Oathlaw, and County of Forfar. 1818. 33 x 19.5 inches. 12 Scotch chains to an inch. Robertson, George (1818), Walker, David (1840). (Folio 5.)
The other folios have not been described.
Late seventeenth century copy of 'Compend of Decisions of Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, Baronet, Lord President of the Court of Session, by Sir George Lockhart, Lord President of the Court of Session'., 17th century.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Ledger containing a numbered series of copies of commissariat accounts with German merchants., 1761-1762.
Legal and antiquarian notes, and extracts from manuscripts and printed books, all apparently in John Riddell`s hand., Circa 1820-1860, and undated.
Most of the papers are undated and on unidentified subjects, many being brief or incomplete.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Legal documents of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1569-1814.
The documents comprise the following:
(i) Resignations, 1643-1709 (number 1);
(ii) Copies of charters, 1656-1697 (number 5);
(iii) Sasines, 1569-1776 (number 16);
(iv) Marriage contracts, 1634-1781 (number 21);
(v) Other contracts and agreements, 1617-1814 (number 60);
(vi) Wills (number 77).
Legal, financial and other papers concerning James Augustus Grant., 1827-1913, undated.
Legal notes on various matters of Civil and Scots law, including some by Lord Milton., 17th century-18th century.
The more substantial items are: suggestions for amending the law, 1752 (folio 12), proposals for publishing the Civil Law (folio 15), notes on actions (folio 57; cf. MS.17820), a summary of Stair's ‘Institutions’ (folio 69), a copy of 'De jure praelationis Nobilium Scotiae ... 1606' (see Adv.MS.33.7.5) with various lists of peers down to 1707 and of representative peers down to 1739 (folio 86), and an alphabetical list of tailzies from 1685 to 1754 (folio 131).
Legal papers and copies of miscellaneous letters of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto and copies of the 'Prince of Wales Island Gazette'., 1808-1811.
Legal papers concerning Hannagalla Coffee Plantation, Ceylon., 1844-1865.
Legal papers concerning the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate., 1694-1785.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1655-1832.
The papers comprise formal documents, correspondence, memorials, etc. (including many private papers), concerning legal actions raised by or against family members or their trustees. Most processes, unless described otherwise, relate mainly to disputes with tenants about debts, the terms of tacks, and other complications of tenancy.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1798-1812.
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.
Letter, 1743, of Colonel James Gardiner to the Reverend Philip Doddridge, on personal matters., 1743, 1745.
The text of the letter has in several places been altered as if for publication, in a hand which is apparently not Philip Doddridge's, but may be that of the Reverend Thomas Stedma, in whose ‘Letters to and from ... Doddridge’, page 230, the letter was first printed, with these alterations.
Also present are modern copies of two letters, 1745, of Lord Grange (one to a Wesley), on the Jacobite campaign, particularly the battle of Prestonpans.
Letter, 1792, of the Reverend Robert Grant, Cullen, with copy of a translation of a charter of James II, 1455, confirming previous grants to St Mary`s Church, Cullen, and making a new grant to the Burgh of its privileges., 1455, 1792.
The charter is summarised in `The annals of Cullen`.