Warrants. Permissions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents giving authority to do something; especially used in civil and criminal law for the arrest of persons or for their production in court as witnesses.
Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:
Warrant, issued by the Commissioners of the Treasury, confirming the award of a yearly pension of £100 to Anna Jameson, and naming William Makepeace Thackeray and John Murray III as trustees of the pension., 1851-1852.
Item
Identifier: MS.42319
Warrant of Commitment in favour of the Grange Coal Company against bound coal-hewers who have deserted., 1796.
Item
Identifier: MS.3651, folios 57-58
Dates:
1796.
Warrant of George II appointing Lord Charles Hay an aide-de-camp to the King., 1749.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7592
Warrant of Queen Victoria appointing the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale Field-Marshal., 1875.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7593
Warrant, signed by Queen Victoria.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5922
Scope and Contents
Granting Civil List pension to James Browne.
Dates:
1840.
Warrant subscribed by the Duke of Rothes, the Marquess of Atholl, the Earl of Argyll, and the Earl of Queensberry to Sir William Sharp, cash-keeper, to pay to Captain John Gray £10 Sterling as his pension.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.226
Dates:
1681.
Warrant subscribed by the Marquess of Atholl, the Earl of Strathmore, the Earl of Queensberry and Charles Maitland (later Earl of Lauderdale) to pay Captain John Gray £10 sterling as a pension.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.227
Dates:
1681.
Warrant summoning James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, to attend the trials for High Treason of Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie and Balmerino.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11958
Dates:
1746.
Warrants, military papers, letters and inventories of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, and of the family of Forbes of Callendar., 1613-1859, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9639
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Warrants, etc., 1627-1689, of the Privy Council, chiefly to George, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow; and act of the Committee of Excise and Militia in Nithsdale, 1680 (folio 1);(ii) Miscellaneous military papers, 1644-1677, chiefly concerning the 3rd Earl of Linlithgow; receipts for military supplies, 1647-1688; and miscellaneous papers, 1677-1680, undated, concerning covenanters and conventicles (folio 26);(iii) Letters, 1613-1711,...
Dates:
1613-1859, undated.