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Memorandums.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents recording information used for internal communication.

Found in 993 Collections and/or Records:

Memoranda of a son, probably Andrew, of Andrew Massie, Regent of Philosophy at Edinburgh University and Advocate, recording important events in his own life and those of his family from 1672 to 1712, including all births and deaths.

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Identifier: MS.3077
Scope and Contents

The writer’s mother was Margaret, daughter of James Cheape, 1st of Rossie, and he married his cousin Isabella, daughter of Henry Cheape, 2nd of Rossie.

At folio 2 is an account of the last words, mainly biographical, of a dying lady, following a leaf inscribed 'Memoria D. Annae Lesleae'. There is a list of ladies' garments at folio 17. At the end the writer speaks of his conduct in the matter of private religion (inverted folio 1).

Dates: 1672-1712.

Memoranda on relations with Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, with copies of correspondence and orders., 1604-1660, undated.

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Identifier: MS.149
Scope and Contents Bound with printed copies of the Spanish treaties of 1604 and 1630 (London, 1605, 1630). Included are copies of the correspondence and orders of Don John of Austria, as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, relating to English (Royalist) shipping, etc., 1656-1659, undated, (passim), and of secret articles in treaties, 1604, 1656 (pages 94, 57-63) in English, Spanish and French. According to a pencilled note in a modern hand, the notes are of one of the Earls of Bristol, but some at least...
Dates: 1604-1660, undated.

Memoranda on the Revolution Settlement in Scotland., 1690, undated.

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Identifier: MS.573, folios 12-30
Scope and Contents The memoranda include: ‘Reasons for establishing of Presbyterie in Scotland’ (folio 12); Memorandum on Bishops and the Church of Scotland, with modern transcript (folio 14); ‘Reasons for passing of the act restoring presbyterian government’ (folio 19); ‘Reasons for passing a General Act for reducing the forfaultures’ (folio 21); Memorandum on the state of affairs in the Scottish Parliament especially the activities of the ‘Club’, 1690 (folio 25); Memorandum on the Act for Personal Liberty...
Dates: 1690, undated.