Powers of attorney. Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Legal instruments authorising one to act as the attorney or agent of the grantor, either generally for the management of a specified enterprise or, specifically, for the accomplishment of a particular transaction.
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Charters relating to members of the Ellice family., 1804-1873, undated.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12711-12751
Dates:
1804-1873, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Steuart, Cashier and Paymaster, American Board of Customs.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6404-6405
Dates:
1769-1780.
Duncan Forbes, factory of Ferintosh and tack of Alcaig mill to Donald Simsone., 1687, 1692.
File
Identifier: Ch.1790-1791
Extract of factory, 1 May 1640, registered, 4 November 1641, by Walter Stewart, gentleman of the Privy Chamber and Alexander, Lord Saltoun to William Gray of Pittindrum., 1 May 1640.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13262
Dates:
1 May 1640.
Factory by James Ouchterlony, son of William Ouchterlony of that ilk to Alexander Ouchterlony in Auchinleck and Patrick Ouchterlony his brother., 6 April 1603.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14117
Dates:
6 April 1603.
Factory by Sir John Forrester, major in Duke of Berwick`s Regiment, to Mr John Macleod of Muiravonside, advocate, to uplift debts of his deceased sister Mrs Katharine Forrester., 12 April 1733.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14602
Factory by the council of Edinburgh to resign two husbandlands of Saltoun in favour of Sir William Forbes of Craigievar., 8 February 1637.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13600
Factory by William, Earl Marschal, curator to Alexander, Lord Saltoun, to Mr David Borthwick, John Abernethy, Alexander Abernethy, and William Abernethy concerning lands in Saltoun., 17 October 1556.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13066
Dates:
17 October 1556.
Factory, Mr George Halkheid, conservator, to his cousin George Halkheid of Pitfirrane., 1 April 1585.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6755
Factory of Ferintosh given to Alexander and Roderick Mackenzie and Alexander Fraser, and other dealings with them., 1709-1742.
File
Identifier: Ch.1803-1807
Factory, Sir Robert Halkheid, leaving the kingdom, to Patrick Stewart of Baith and Patrick Halkheid, his brother., 15 September 1609.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6788
Grant of attorney by Alexander Cumming to Robert Anderson to procure a brieve for James Grant., 1759.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.85
John Forbes, factory of Ferintosh and tack of Alcaig to Donald and Alexander Simsone., 1705.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1802
Legal and financial papers of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers., 1825-1893.
File
Identifier: MS.10328
Legal documents relating to properties in the West Indies belonging to Alexander Ellice and his descendants., 1768-1862.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12633-12707
Dates:
1768-1862.
Letter of attorney by Sir George Colquhoun in favour of John Spottiswoode., 1783.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15(xx), folios 85-86
Dates:
1783.
Letter of attorney of Sir Edward Kerrison, Mary Martha Ellice, Helen Ann Ellice, the Honorable John Finch and Katherine Ellice., 19 October 1838.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12731
Letter of attorney of Sir William Forbes, Baronet, and James Hunter to Charles Herries., 21 July 1775.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12646
Letters of attorney from local collectors of customs in America appointing agents to receive any fees due to them by Her Majesty’s Paymaster of Customs., 1767-1777.
File
Identifier: MS.6405
Letters of attorney of Samuel Williamson to William Dunlop., 1689.
Item
Identifier: Ch.8458
Dates:
1689.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Cooper, J. to Copeman., 1808-1926.
File
Identifier: MS.40274
Scope and Contents
MS.40274All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Cooper, James Davis.Letters, 1865, 1877, 1892, 1894-1895 and 1900, of James Davis Cooper to John Murray III and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios 1-16.Cooper, James Fenimore.Letters, 1822-1823, of James Fenimore Cooper to Benjamin Underhill Coles and John Murray II. Folios 17-22.Folio 22. Power of Attorney, 1823, of James...
Dates:
1808-1926.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Miscellaneous manuscripts.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript has been compiled from various sources. See the particular descriptions. Letters of presentation by or on behalf of the donors are included.
Dates:
1629-1921.