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Legal documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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:

Three formal documents relating to George Smith and the firm of Smith, Elder and Company.

 File
Identifier: Ch.17351-17353
Scope and Contents

The documents relate to copyrights. A detailed list is available.

Dates: 1858-1865.

Trial of Christian Ross Malcolmson, Agnes Roy (folio 25 verso) and Gredoch Malcolmson (folio 27 verso) alleged co-conspirators with Katherine Ross, Lady Foullis (wife of Robert Mor Munro, 15th Baron Foullis) against Robert Munro, appearand of Foullis and Marjorie Campbell, young Lady Balnagowan., 1577.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.7(ii), folios 20-29
Scope and Contents The trial was held in the Cathedral church of Ross in Fortrose on 27th November 1577, by Walter Urquhart sheriff of Cromarty and Robert Munro of Foullis. The document appears to be the earliest surviving example of a local witchcraft trial held under a royal commission.Katherine Ross was later tried and acquitted in 1590 for her part in the attempted murder of the young lady and laird and the actual murder of the nurse who accidentally tasted the poison. Her trial is printed in...
Dates: 1577.

‘True present state of the principality of Scotland with the means how the same may be … augmented’, in the hand of Sir James Balfour.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.13
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.31.

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Two contiguous vellum fragments of what appears to be an English legal document, possibly an inventory, to which several corrections have been made., ?Late 16th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.37
Scope and Contents

Together the fragments form a fragment of approximately 3 x 7 inches. They had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark DD.2/1.11) of ‘S.P.N. Eustathii … in Hexahemeron commentarius (etc.)’ (Lugduni, 1629), by Saint Eustathius, Bishop of Antioch.

Dates: ?Late 16th century.