Petitions.
Found in 254 Collections and/or Records:
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, titled, 'M.S.S. Jacobite I'., 1623-1744, undated.
Legal and related papers, including original documents, drafts and memoranda by Archibald Campbell, and notes of Lord Milton., 1682-1762, undated.
The principal subjects are the settlement of the 2nd Duke's estate; lists of charters to be signed; wadsets; compensation for the abolition of heritable jurisdictions; entail and will of the 3rd Duke; the succession to Archibald Campbell of Inverliver; petitions; and the funeral and biography of the 3rd Duke.
Legal documents concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1469-1818.
The legal documents comprise the following: (i) Acts, 1469-1815 (number 1), number 19 being a record of the head court of the barony of Castlemilk, 1717; (ii) Cases to lawyers, 1761-1812 (number 30); (iii) Opinions of lawyers and others, 1769-1807 (number 43); Queries to lawyers, 1675-1796 (number 47); (iv) Answers on legal questions, 1679-1815 (number 55); (v) Petitions, 1677-1818 (number 71).
Legal papers, addresses and petitions, and miscellaneous papers of and concerning Hugh Elliot., 1811-1813.
Legal papers of William Wilson and Son., 1782-1879.
The papers include the following:
Papers concerning the dispute in 1787 over the right of the country weavers to buy yarn at the Stirling market (folio 1);
Miscellaneous petitions, 1779-1836 (folio 62);
Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1783-1878 (folio 88);
A typescript history of the firm, 20th century (folio 110).
Legal prints many annotated by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, consisting chiefly of petitions to the Court of Session., 1747-1779.
Legal prints many annotated by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, consisting chiefly of petitions to the Court of Session., 1747-1749.
Legal prints many annotated by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, consisting chiefly of petitions to the Court of Session., 1751-1779, undated.
Letter of Thomas Carlyle to Henry Cole, enclosing an autograph draft of a petition in support of penny postage., [?1839.]
Letters and papers, 1814-1848, undated, concerning Monkrig, and papers, 1879-1881, concerning a petition by John Fletcher of Saltoun to restrict the provisions made by his father for his other children., 1814-1881, undated.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
These papers are in continuation of MS.535.
The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.
Letters and papers relating to taxation, salt-duty and fisheries., 1785-1820, undated.
Letters, chiefly of the first two Viscounts Melville and other Dundases.
Letters of Lord Charles Hay, chiefly dated 1743-1745, written to his brother, describing campaigns on the Continent., 1743-1745.
There are also two petitions to the King asking for promotion.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Barker, C to Barlow, W., 1812-1928.
Local affairs and election papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1695-1748.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause., 1761-1769, undated.
Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause., August 1761-October 1761.
Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause., November 1761-July 1763.
Memoranda, memorials, petitions and interlocutors, chiefly copies and drafts, concerning the Douglas Cause., August 1763-1769, undated.
Memorandum-book of Sir Daniel Dun., 1607-1617.
Contains copies of correspondence, complaints, petitions, treaties, and remits from the Privy Council of England, principally in connection with merchants, shipping, and trade; all relating to business which came before Sir Daniel Dun as a Judge of the Court of Admiralty and a Master of Requests.