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Sederunts. Administrative records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Minutes of deliberative bodies, commonly trustees.

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3435
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. two minute books, 1923-1949

2. sederunt book, 1932-1949

3. lists, 1924-1949, of officer bearers.

Dates: 1923-1950.

Sederunt-book of the Anstruther Whale-Fishing Company, a small and short-lived Fife whaling company liquidated in 1766.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9316
Scope and Contents

The minutes contain accounts of the fitting-out, provisioning, and voyages of the company's single whaling vessel to Greenland waters, 1757 to 1762. There is considerable detail of the general financial fortunes of the company, especially with regard to insurance of the ship, the government bounty, and marketing of whaling products. There are also occasional references to other contemporary Scottish whaling companies.

Dates: 1757-1766.

'Sederunt Book of the Knights Companions of the Cape': number 1, 1764-July 1787., 1764-1787.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2004
Scope and Contents

Contains the minutes of meetings, preceded by an introduction relating the history of the club, the statutes of the club, and a roll of Knights, giving their real names and club titles. Inside the front cover is a list of Knights alive in 1841.

Dates: 1764-1787.

'Sederunt Book of the late Wa: Scott, Esqr., W.S. 1799', containing minutes, of various dates, signed by Walter (afterwards Sir Walter) Scott., 1799.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.111A-B
Scope and Contents

The minutes of various dates are signed by Walter (afterwards Sir Walter) Scott.

MS.111B contains the leaves which were found loose in MS.111A.

Dates: 1799.