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Proceedings. Reports.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records of meetings of a conference, society or other organization, usually published, and frequently accompanied by abstracts or reports of papers presented.

Found in 360 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.11001-13496
Scope and Contents The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates: 17th century-20th century.

Excerpts, in a nineteenth century hand, from the 'Appendix To the Memoirs of Dr Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk' ... 'Being the proceedings before the Church Courts against him for attending the representation of the Tragedy of Douglas [by John Home] in 1757'., 1757.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23930
Scope and Contents

The contents consists almost entirely of excerpts from the proceedings of the Presbytery of Dalkeith. The excerpts are written on the rectos of the leaves, with additions, and some headings, written in another nineteenth-century hand on some of the versos. A leaf containing an excerpt in a hand wrongly ascribed to Sir Walter Scott which was formerly loosely enclosed is tipped in after folio 108.

Dates: 1757.

Genealogies and other papers of Sir James Balfour.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.40
Scope and Contents

A volume titled ‘Balfour’s Genealogies’, containing: 1. A copy of ‘Genealogies of the Scottish nobility’ (Adv.MS.33.2.39). 2. Commission for the valuation of teinds, and proceedings of the commissioners, 1627-1643.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (A.4.25).

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Letters and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1806-1813.

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Identifier: MS.11340
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters of Charles Grant, Edward Parry and Jacob Bosanquet to the 1st Earl of Minto, 1808-1813 (folio 1); (ii) East India House papers, 1807-1811, being chiefly copies of proceedings at a Secret Court, July-August 1808, dissents to parts of a draft dispatch to the Bengal Government, 16 August 1808, correspondence between the Directors and the President of the Board of Control, 1808-1809, and dissents of Directors concerning the Madras Army, August 1811 (folio...
Dates: 1806-1813.

Microfilm of books of Assumption.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.482
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Book of Assumption of Beneficies (Adv.MS.31.3.12);

‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife, 16th century-early 17th century (Adv.MS.31.3.13);

Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals, 16th century-1628, of Church and Crown lands in Scotland (Adv.MS.31.3.16).

Dates: 16th century-17th century.

Microfilm of miscellaneous papers, 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century, concerning genealogy and religion; and, copy of part of the acts and proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, 1638.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.430
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Miscellaneous papers, 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century, concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary (Adv.MS.16.1.1);Copy of part of the acts and proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, 1638, including a summary of the proceedings up to the 7th of December, the acts deposing the bishops, and an index of the Assembly’s acts, apparently extracted by Archibald Johnston, clerk to the Assembly...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.