Petitions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Includes any written requests and lists of signatures submitted to an authority to appeal for the performance of specific action.
Found in 254 Collections and/or Records:
Volume, labelled 'Individuals', containing correspondence concerning requests for appointments in the Revenue services, petitions of members of those services, etc., 1788-1824.
File
Identifier: MS.1059
Dates:
1788-1824.
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 Scotland received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Volume of printed papers being for the most part petitions submitted to the Committee of Privileges in support of claims to various dormant or attainted Scottish peerages, 1812-1850., 1812-1850, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.27
Scope and Contents
The only manuscript is a set of undated notes by John Riddell bound in after the second paper, the claim of Archibald Borthwick to the title of Lord Borthwick.
Dates:
1812-1850, and undated.
Volume of printed papers being for the most part petitions submitted to the Committee of Privileges in support of claims to various English peerages., 1818-1838.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.28
Warrants, military papers, letters and inventories of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, and of the family of Forbes of Callendar., 1613-1859, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9639
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Warrants, etc., 1627-1689, of the Privy Council, chiefly to George, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow; and act of the Committee of Excise and Militia in Nithsdale, 1680 (folio 1);(ii) Miscellaneous military papers, 1644-1677, chiefly concerning the 3rd Earl of Linlithgow; receipts for military supplies, 1647-1688; and miscellaneous papers, 1677-1680, undated, concerning covenanters and conventicles (folio 26);(iii) Letters, 1613-1711,...
Dates:
1613-1859, undated.