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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:

Sederunt book of the tutors and curators of Sir James Wemyss, 3rd Baronet, of Bogie, concerning the estate of the late Sir John Wemyss.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5723
Scope and Contents The book chiefly contains records of the tutors' transactions relating to the Bogie coal mines and salt pans, and to the debts of the estate; throughout them is scattered information concerning the education of Sir James Wemyss (folio 16). The transactions are preceded by lists of estate expenses (folio 2 verso), inventories of the estate (folio 3 verso), and reports on the Bogie coal mines (folio 12 verso); and are followed by the curators' advice to Sir James Wemyss concerning the...
Dates: 1719-1733.

Sederunt books and volumes of accounts of the trustees of James Rannie, merchant in Leith (died 1803)., 1803-1840

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5011-5016
Scope and Contents

James Rannie married Catherine, daughter of Baron Mure. On Rannie's death, a trust fund was set up with William Mure of Caldwell, the Baron’s son, as one of the trustees.

Dates: 1803-1840

Sederunt books of the Trustees of James Ballantyne and Company, Edinburgh., 1828-1841.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.112-114
Scope and Contents

As Sir Walter Scott was a partner, the books also contain minutes of the meetings of his trustees and of his creditors, statements regarding the progress, printing, sales, etc., of the Waverley Novels and other works of Scott, and copies of Sir Walter’s letters connected therewith.

Dates: 1828-1841.

Sederunt lists, 6 February 1915 - 7 November 1953., 1915 - 1953

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13695/9
Scope and Contents

Lists of signatures of committee members present at meetings of the Executive Council, 6 February 1915-7 November 1953.

Dates: 1915 - 1953

Various literary papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 18th century-19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5113
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Addresses, 1835, undated, of an unidentified R D Murray to a St Stephen's Society, on such subjects as the advantages of public education, poetry, phrenology, etc. (folio 1);(ii) Class cards, lecture notes (mostly on legal subjects), and copies of the regulations for Dollar Academy, with excerpts from the sederunt books of the trustees, 1826 (folio 97);(iii) Various short prose pieces, chiefly nineteenth century, including...
Dates: 18th century-19th century.

Volume containing the Cockairnie estate cash-book, 1732-1754 and the sederunt book, 1722-1725, of the tutors of Mary Dudgeon, only child of James Dudgeon, bailie in Inverkeithing, and of his wife Elizabeth Moubray., 1722-1754.

 Item
Identifier: MS.16436
Scope and Contents

A note, 1771, concerning money due for work and sums paid is written on folio 20. Leaves are cut or torn out between folios 2 and 3, and after folios 35.

Dates: 1722-1754.