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:
Papers concerning the trade and administration of Gibraltar., 1724-1752.
File
Identifier: MS.15404
Scope and Contents
There are merchants’ accounts; material concerning the supply and victualling of the fleet; legal papers; and papers relating to the duties of William Chalmers, later 1st of Auldbar (died1765), as Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, and those of the same Chalmers, and later of his brother Samuel, as Deputy Paymaster of the Garrison and Deputy Commissary of the Stores.
Dates:
1724-1752.
Papers concerning the trial and murder of John Porteous., 1736-1737.
File
Identifier: MS.17509
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: precognitions on the riot and other papers relating to the trial (folio 1); papers concerning what was published in the ‘Caledonian Mercury’ (folio 44); papers concerning the murder (folio 62); notes on the trial, especially the objections of English lawyers to the proceedings (folio 82); copies of precedents (folio 83), and notes on the proceedings in the House of Lords (folio 241).
Dates:
1736-1737.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the trial and murder of John Porteous, Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard. Lord Milton, as Lord Justice Clerk, presided at the trial.
Papers concerning the trial and murder of John Porteous, Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard. Lord Milton, as Lord Justice Clerk, presided at the trial., 1736-1737.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17509-17513
Papers concerning the trial of Lord Charles Hay., 1757-1760.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7088-7089
Dates:
1757-1760.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale; and papers of Lord Charles Hay.
Papers concerning the trust of Henry, Lord Cockburn.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3521
Scope and Contents
Including legal and financial papers.
Dates:
19th century.
Papers concerning the Tweeddale and Lauderdale families., 1632-1683, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14547
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Relatione of the wrongs done to Ladie Yester’, 1683, being the original of MS.14546 (folio 1);(ii) Discharge of writs, 1652, by the 1st Earl of Lauderdale to the 1st Earl of Tweeddale (folio 9);(iii) Papers, 1644-1674, undated, relating to the executry of Mary, Countess of Home, including material concerning her property in Highgate and Aldersgate, London (folio 11);(iv) Contract, 1648, between the Duke of...
Dates:
1632-1683, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects.
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Papers of transactions and lawsuits between the Tweeddale and Lauderdale families, deriving chiefly from the marriage between the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale and Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of the Duke of Lauderdale.
Papers concerning the Tweedies of Drumelzier., 1601-1658, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14765-14766
Dates:
1601-1658, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning estate and local affairs.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs.
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Papers concerning Peeblesshire estates.
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Papers, chiefly of lawsuits and legal transactions and including some accounts, concerning various Peeblesshire families.
Papers concerning the Tweedies of Drumelzier., 1601-1651.
File
Identifier: MS.14765
Dates:
1601-1651.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning estate and local affairs.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs.
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Papers concerning Peeblesshire estates.
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Papers, chiefly of lawsuits and legal transactions and including some accounts, concerning various Peeblesshire families.
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Papers concerning the Tweedies of Drumelzier.
Papers concerning the Tweedies of Drumelzier., 1632-1656, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14766
Dates:
1632-1656, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning estate and local affairs.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs.
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Papers concerning Peeblesshire estates.
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Papers, chiefly of lawsuits and legal transactions and including some accounts, concerning various Peeblesshire families.
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Papers concerning the Tweedies of Drumelzier.
Papers concerning various persons and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun., 1616-1771, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17606-17609
Dates:
1616-1771, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
Papers concerning various persons associated with Lord Milton., 1702-1754, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17742
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Papers of and concerning William Roupell, inspector-general of customs, 1724-1733. (Folio 1.)(ii) Legal papers concerning Caroline, Countess of Dalkeith (daughter of the 2nd Duke of Argyll, later Baroness Greenwich), her husband, and her eldest son, 1744-1754, undated. (Folio 26.)(iii) Papers concerning the trust of Charles, Earl of Moray, 1734-1744. Lord Milton was one of the trustees. (Folio 90.)(iv) Financial...
Dates:
1702-1754, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
Papers concerning William Alston's factory for Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton when he was no longer capable of conducting his affairs (1765-1766) and for his executors (1766-1773)., 1765-1773.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17055-17060
Papers concerning William Campbell of Stobs; his lands of Stobs and his wife's of Harvieston were mortgaged to Lord Milton., 1722-1765, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17697-17699
Dates:
1722-1765, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
Papers connected with Sir Walter Scott’s legal profession., 1794-1815.
File
Identifier: MS.1567
Scope and Contents
The papers concern: a law-suit resulting from a riot in the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 1794-1795 (folio 1); a Commission of Inquiry into the administration of Justice in Scotland, 1808-1809 (folio 46); cases in the Sheriff Court of Selkirkshire, 1812, 1815 (folio 145).
Dates:
1794-1815.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
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Writings of Sir Walter Scott and papers closely associated with him.
Papers connected with the sequestration of the the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh., 1875-1884, 1913, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.277
Scope and Contents
Includes an inventory of documents, dated 1882 (folios 309-310).
Dates:
1875-1884, 1913, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Lauriston Castle collection.
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Records of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh, including deeds and other legal documents, boxmasters' accounts, extracts from the minutes, memoranda and reports.
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Vouchers to the auditors' reports concerning the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers, written in many different 18th-century hands, are very mixed and are quite brief. The largest groups are:(i) part (pages 17-32) of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of one of Walter Macfarlane`s assistants, of documents relating to members of the family of Stirling of Keir (folios 23-30); (ii) part of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of another of Macfarlane`s assistants, of royal and other letters to members of the family of Mure of...
Dates:
?17th century-18th century.
Papers extracted from a volume of miscellaneous documents formerly belonging to James Maidment.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2050-2054
Scope and Contents
Some of the documents in the volume bear a note by Maidment to the effect that they come from the papers of James Anderson, W.S., the genealogist.
Dates:
1590, 1650-1670, 1722.
Papers from Nisbet House, Berwickshire.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5410-5508
Scope and Contents
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Dates:
1575-early19th century.
Papers from Pitfirrane House, Fife.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6406-6511
Scope and Contents
The papers derive from four main sources: material relating to the Halketts of Pitfirrane, to the Wedderburns of Gosford, to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, and to John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709). The last male heir in the direct line of the Halkett family, Sir James (succeeded 1697), died in 1705, ending the baronetcy created in 1671. On his death his eldest sister, Janet, succeeded to Pitfirrane. She had married Sir Peter Wedderburn, 1st Baronet of Gosford, who now...
Dates:
1517-1897.
Papers in action of multiple poinding, raised to determine the ownership of papers discovered at Fettercairn House, 1931.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6189
Dates:
1938.
Papers in lawsuits of the Menzies family., 1824-1832.
File
Identifier: MS.9963
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of: (i) Papers in a lawsuit against Alexander Robertson of Struan, concerning fishing rights on Loch Rannoch, 1792-9 (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning the Rannoch marches, 1793-1794 (folio 28); (iii) Papers in a lawsuit against Lord Breadalbane concerning the embankment of the Tay Road, 1824-1834 (folio 73); (iv) Papers in a lawsuit against Charles McDiarmid of Bohallie, 1830-1832 (folio 121).
Dates:
1824-1832.
Papers in the case of George Elliott, horse-dealer at Hawick, for whom Sir Walter Scott acted as advocate., 1801.
File
Identifier: MS.1628
Scope and Contents
With manuscript notes of Sir Walter Scott and drawings (at the end).
Dates:
1801.
Papers in the case of Sir John Menzies of Menzies versus Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks., 1792-1796.
File
Identifier: MS.9962
Scope and Contents
The dispute concerned the rights of Bolfracks's tenants to have a ferry across the Tay and to pass through the Menzies estate.
Dates:
1792-1796.
Papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale made by Sir George Frederic Johnstone, of Westerhall, 7th Baronet, and by John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale., 1825-1844, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.1.3-26.1.5
Dates:
1825-1844, and undated.