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Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘C’., 17th century-18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.10
Scope and Contents The contents include the following: (i) The history of the Episcopal See of St. Andrews till 1689, written after 1704; (ii) A transcript of Balcarras’ memoirs; (iii) A collection of papers chiefly concerning the troubles of the Church in the middle of the 17th century; (iv) Copies of sew charters & other writs of subjects in Anstruther; (v) Several papers regarding the death and character of Mr James Melville; (vi) Devotional poetry; (vii) Notes for sermons or lectures; (viii) Religious...
Dates: 17th century-18th century.

‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘D’., 17th century-18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.11
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copies of Records of the High Court of Justiciary, 1716-1740.

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Identifier: MS.3723
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1716-1740.

Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.

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Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates: 1682-1683.

Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.

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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 of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1569-1814.

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Identifier: MS.5320
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1569-1814.

Legal, financial and other papers concerning James Augustus Grant., 1827-1913, undated.

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Identifier: MS.17933
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers concerning James Augustus Grant's service in India, 1853-1884, undated, supplementary to MS.17908, folios 50-108, including a list of property lost during the Mutiny and general statements of his service (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning Africa, undated, supplementary to MS.17922, including a list of the contents of John Hanning Speke's cases at Zanzibar and a copy of an agreement between Alexander Low Bruce and James Augustus Grant junior concerning...
Dates: 1827-1913, undated.

Legal notes on various matters of Civil and Scots law, including some by Lord Milton., 17th century-18th century.

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Identifier: MS.17813
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Legal papers concerning Hannagalla Coffee Plantation, Ceylon., 1844-1865.

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Identifier: MS.19227
Scope and Contents In 1844 Bruce Bremner, his brother Dugald, and Alexander Geddes, an Aberdeenshire farmer, entered into partnership to purchase and cultivate this plantation, Geddes being the resident partner. Included here are copies of the 1844 agreement (folios 1,6), and of the case between Bruce and Dugald Bremner v Mrs Bathurst Geddes, widow of Alexander, in 1854 (folio 9), there are also plans of the Hannagalla estate, 1854, 1856 (folios 6-19), and insurance policies for Hannagalla coffee shipped from...
Dates: 1844-1865.

Legal papers concerning the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate., 1694-1785.

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Identifier: MS.1960
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: notarial copy, dated 1736, of a 'Decreit of Mutuall Declarator of Reductione In Favours of the Trades of the Canongate', 1694 (folio ii); copy of a decree, 1767, of the Sheriff Depute of Edinburgh in favour of the Incorporations of Tailors of Canongate and of Potterrow regarding wages and breakfast-hours (folio iv); copy of a decision, 1767, of the Bailies of the Canongate confirming the latter in favour of the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate (folio 5)....
Dates: 1694-1785.

Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1655-1832.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.5.1-80.5.6
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1655-1832.

Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1798-1812.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.5
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process of George Mathie, as factor for Dundas trustees, against Andrew Paul, flesher in Edinburgh, 1798-1801 (folio 1).(ii) Process of James Robert, builder in South Queensferry, against the proprietors of the water-passage, concerning repairs to the piers at South Queensferry, 1799-1800 (folio 12).(iii) Writs (mostly copies), 17th and 18th centuries, produced in the process of John Dundas, Writer to the...
Dates: 1798-1812.

Letter, 1743, of Colonel James Gardiner to the Reverend Philip Doddridge, on personal matters., 1743, 1745.

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Identifier: MS.3648, folios 43-46
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1743, 1745.