Legal documents.
Subject
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Scope Note: Documents having legal relevance in general. For documents that give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, use ""legal instruments"".
Found in 2020 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.928
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Legal, financial and other papers, [?1827-?1913], concerning James Augustus Grant (MS.17933);'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant, [1880, or after] (MS.17940);Pedigrees of James Augustus Grant's family and others (Chisholm, Cuthbert, Fraser, Mackintosh, etc.) connected to it by marriage, written in an unidentified hand, with notes by Grant himself, ?19th century (MS.17941);...
Dates:
19th century-[?1913].
Microfilm of papers of the Barony Court of Faskally concerning the Robertsons of Faskally, clients of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1089
Dates:
[1662-1743.]
Microfilm of papers of William and James Chisholme concerning the Trout Hall and other sugar plantations in Jamaica, consisting chiefly of accounts for provisions sent to Jamaica and for sugar from the plantation sold in England.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.907
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1747-1798 (MS.5464);
Papers, 1799-1804 (MS.5465);
Papers, [?1747-?1812] (MS.5466).
Dates:
[?1747-?1812].
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1743-1760
Dates:
1694-1709.
Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.512
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie (MS.16497);
Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Microfilm ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’. Reel 10., [?1694-?1709.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1752
Microfilm ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’. Reel 11., [?1694-?1709.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1753
Microfilms of the business, financial and legal correspondence and papers of Daniel Campbell of Shawfield, merchant in Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15525-15526 [Mf.MSS.49-50]
Dates:
1694-1722.
Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair., 1746-1748.
File
Identifier: MS.25696
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Official military letters and papers, 1746, at Quimperlay Road (folio 1); (ii) Papers, 1746, concerning the Courts Martial on soldiers in Major Frampton and Brigadier Richbell's regiments (folio 19); (iii) Military returns and papers, 1746-1748, of and concerning the War of the Austrian Succession (folio 112).
Dates:
1746-1748.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
Minor estates., 1541-1715.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.12446-12539
Minto estate papers., 1658-1913, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13187-13202
Minto family wills and settlements., 1829-1858.
File
Identifier: MS.11940
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Two autograph copies of the Countess of Minto's will, February 1829 (folio 1);
(ii) Copies of the 2nd Earl of Minto's will and codicils, with related papers and memoranda, 1852, 1858, largely in his own hand (folio 8);
(iii) Autograph will of Lady Harriet Elliot, sister of the 2nd Earl, and other papers relating to the settlement of her estate, 1825 (folio 43);
(iv) Correspondence and papers, 1825, relating to the marriage settlement of Lady Catherine Elliot...
Dates:
1829-1858.
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, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Papers on family trusts and marriage settlements of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
Minutes of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh., 10 July 1853-23 April 1884.
File
Identifier: MS.225
Scope and Contents
With legal papers, 1851-1852 (page 1), and others of a later date, and modern material regarding the incorporation and its records (pages 152, 159).
Dates:
10 July 1853-23 April 1884.
Minutes, reports and financial papers of Theatre Workshop Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13521
Dates:
c. 1970-1999.
Miscellaneous affairs, chiefly of the Forbes family., 1587-1788, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.1642-1843
Dates:
1587-1788, undated.
Miscellaneous bonds, accounts and legal papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1776-1782.
File
Identifier: MS.11178
Dates:
1776-1782.
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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Financial and legal correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and family.
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Papers of the 1st Earl of Minto.
Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Ashburner family, particularly of Walter Ashburner, professor of jurisprudence at Oxford., 1773-1933.
File
Identifier: MS.20394
Dates:
1773-1933.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
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Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards and Ashburner families.
Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards and Ashburner families., 1773-1933.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20392-20394
Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards family., 1774-1909.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20392-20393
Dates:
1774-1909.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
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Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards and Ashburner families.
Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards family., 1774-1875.
File
Identifier: MS.20392
Dates:
1774-1875.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
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Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards and Ashburner families.
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Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards family.
Miscellaneous charters relating to the Chalmers of Auldbar.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12774-12818E
Scope and Contents
As well as charters relating to the Chalmers family itself, there are other items which are apparently unrelated but which came with the bulk of the papers. Only one document (Ch.12806) is of 15th century date, and only one (Ch.12776) is of the 16th century. The rest of the collection dates largely from the 17th and 18th centuries. A detailed list is available.
Dates:
1147, 1425-1840.
Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers.., 1816-1827.
File
Identifier: MS.683
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Correspondence of and concerning Sir Walter Scott, 1816-1827 (folios 1-83);
(ii) Articles, memoranda, etc., of literary, historical, and topical interest (folios 84-120);
(iii) Circular letters regarding Edinburgh institutions (folios 121-128), prospectuses of books, etc., (folios 129-135), and legal papers, ancient and recent, etc., (folios 136-143).
Dates:
1816-1827.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence of Archibald Constable, publisher, Edinburgh, his firm and his family; with one volume of the manuscript of a work published in "Constable's miscellany".
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Correspondence of Archibald Constable, publisher, Edinburgh, his firm and his family.
Miscellaneous deeds and other legal papers of the Elliot family of Minto., 1628, 1684-1777.
File
Identifier: MS.11029