Letters. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A writ or warrant issued by the court and under the signet. Source: Gibb (A D). 'Students' glossary of Scottish legal terms.' (Edinburgh: W Green and Son Ltd, 1946.).
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Letters and other documents produced as the results of the examination of witnesses in Britain, 1765, and used as evidence by the Hamilton lawyers in the Douglas Cause lawsuit., 1765.
File
Identifier: MS.5351
Scope and Contents
The letters and documents were formerly contained in a parchment folder, of which a portion has been retained.
Dates:
1765.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
Letters of Francis and Mary, giving orders to the burgh regarding the appointment of magistrates and their conduct., 1560.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2009
Letters of James VI, maintaining the privileges of the burgesses against unfree merchants., 1601.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2010
Letters of John Casimir, King of Poland, etc., granting faculty of trading in his dominions to Daniel Maklauchlan and George Drumond., 1655.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1488
Letters of tack given by the Commendator of Cambuskenneth to David Pollok, of the teinds of the lands of Powis, Stirlingshire., 1589.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1553
Letters under the signet charging George Keith to deliver up Akergill., 21 December 1591.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17182A
Dates:
21 December 1591.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre and Keith, Earl Marischal papers.
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Charters and formal documents from the Keith, Earl Marischal papers.
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Titles of the Keiths, Earls Marischal for their property in Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire and elsewhere in Scotland.
Scrapbooks of Lord MacGregor Mitchell.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13603
Scope and Contents
Eleven scrapbooks, 1899-1935, concerning Lord Robert MacGregor Mitchell (1875-1938), Scottish lawyer and judge, Liberal MP for Perth and University Rector.
The scrapbooks contain newspaper cuttings, letters, photographs and miscellaneous ephemera mostly documenting Lord Mitchell’s legal and political career, as well as his personal interests in golf and cricket.
Dates:
1899-1935
Two documents relating to persons who have taken part in the battles of Foldden and Pinkie.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2042-2043
Dates:
1514, 1548.