Memorials. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: In a legal context the term can denote either an abstract of the essential parts of a deed made for the purposes of official registration, or else a brief prepared by a solictor for counsel, summarizing the facts of the case and setting out the questions on which counsel's opinion is requested. Also, a term used in the early modern period as an alternative to memorandum, meaning a note recording something to be remembered. For the latter use use 'Memorandums'. Source: Beal, Peter. 'Dictionary of English manuscript terminology, 1450-2000' (2008). In Scots law a memorial is also a statement of facts submitted to the Lord Ordinary as a preliminary to a hearing. Source: Concise Scots Dictionary (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987).
Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:
Memorial, circa 1745, concerning the state of the Highlands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.5
Scope and Contents
The memorial is preceded by a note, dated 1838, by W F Skene, relating to the manuscript.
An endorsement (folio 12 verso), written by the original donor, Thomas Stewart, ascribes the memorial to Lord President Forbes.
Dates:
Circa 1745.
'Memorial concerning the Linen Manufacture towards improving of the same in Scotland', undated., ?18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17575
Scope and Contents
The author, a cloth merchant and linen manufacturer, is not named.
Dates:
?18th century.
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 Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
“Memorial, containing a plan for the naval defence of the British possessions in the East Indies by ships of India construction, to be built out of the revenues and supported by the commerce of Asia", by J Prinsep [?John Prinsep, Indian merchant], 1796., 1771, 1789-1796.
Item
Identifier: MS.1067
Scope and Contents
With copies of correspondence, 1771, 1789-1796.
Dates:
1771, 1789-1796.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
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Papers relating to India and the East received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Memorial for Duke of Argyll., 1739.
File
Identifier: Acc.11137/8
Memorial for Ewen Cameron, Tacksman in Camiskean., 1730.
File
Identifier: Acc.11137/2
Memorial, for James Wilson and James Bain, as trustees for the associate Congregation of Edinburgh., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/280
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Minutes, membership list, accounts, notes and legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
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Legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
Memorial for James Wilson, James Bain and others., 1749.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/272
Dates:
1749.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Minutes, membership list, accounts, notes and legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
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Legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
Memorial for James Wilson, James Bayne and others, on action of mails and duties for property in Bristo., 1749.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/270
Dates:
1749.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Minutes, membership list, accounts, notes and legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
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Legal papers of the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib, Antiburgher minister.
Memorial for John Gibb and Sons, engineers, against the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, relating to the construction of the Almond Valley viaduct and embankments., 1842.
File
Identifier: MS.19989, folios 64-122
Memorial of Sir John Stuart against Archibald Ferguson, a tenant at Craigniston and Coldstream., 1803-1804.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/837
Dates:
1803-1804.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Other Estate Papers.
Memorial of the Lowland Congregation of Campbeltown to Archibald, Duke of Argyll., 22 September 1749.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14935
Memorial on estate of Ardgour., 1741.
File
Identifier: Acc.11137/9
Memorial relative to the succession to Duncan, last Earl of Lennox., 1772.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15457
Memorial services for Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan (née Thomson), Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, London and Aberdeen, 1978.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/22
'Memoriall with respect to the Process of Division, Matthew Sharp of Hoddam against Charles, Duke of Queensberry and Dover, and others having interest in the Commonity of Ecclefechan'., 1712-1743.
Item
Identifier: MS.3084
Scope and Contents
This document covers the case up to the depositions of 1743 copied in MS.3085. At the beginning is a brief modern history of the case.
Dates:
1712-1743.
Memorials and associated papers 1754-1755, 1766, 1768, and letters and associated papers of George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow, 1817-1818, 1834, and undated, concerning the title of Ross, extinct or dormant following the death of William Ross, 14th Lord Ross, in 1754., 1754-1768, 1817-1834, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.21
Dates:
1754-1768, 1817-1834, and undated.
Memorials and queries for Mrs J Cameron., 1736.
File
Identifier: Acc,11137/6
Memorials, depositions, lists of witnesses, and other papers concerning the collection of evidence for, and the prosecution of, the criminal case of the Douglas Cause in France., 1762-1765.
File
Identifier: MS.5354
Scope and Contents
The memorials, depositions, lists of witnesses, and other papers begin on folio 1.
The volume also contains (folio 117) memoranda giving details of French precedents for the criminal process, which show signs of having been prepared for publication.
Dates:
1762-1765.
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.
Memorials in case of United Incorporations of Mary's Chapel against John Reid and others., 1788.
File
Identifier: Acc.7332/Box 1(6)
Scope and Contents
Containing approximately two items.
Dates:
1788.
Memorials, minutes, &c., of the sheriffs substitute of Scotland, relating to increases in the scale of their salaries.
File
Identifier: MS.136
Scope and Contents
Includes printed material.
Dates:
1801-1844.
Memorials received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
File
Identifier: MS.653
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) ‘Memorial representing ... the necessity of continuing the present duties on foreign linen and the bounties ... by the committee of the ... dealers in linen in the shire of Forfar’, etc., 1788; with a letter of George Dempster of Dunnichen, MP, supporting the memorial, 1788 (folio 1);
(ii) Memorial respecting the necessity of signing the oath of allegiance in Scotland, 1791 (folio 12).
Dates:
1788, 1791.
Memorials to T S Eliot., 1965-1990.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/92
Scope and Contents
Containing:
Order of Service, Westminster Abbey, 4 February 1965, after his death on 4 January 1965.
Unveiling and dedication of a memorial to T S Eliot in Westminster Abbey, 4 January 1967.
Programmes for other memorial services and arts productions put
on in his honour.
Dates:
1965-1990.