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Papers of the Boswell family of Auchinleck and Balmuto, 1722-1823

Title: Papers of the Boswell family of Auchinleck and Balmuto 1722-1823

ArchivalResource: 1 bound volume, 1 boxed volume, miscellaneous manuscript letters and documents, notebooks and bundles.

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King, Alexander, fl. 1590. Tractatus legum navalium et de curia admiralli Scotiae, ca. 1590.

Title: Tractatus legum navalium et de curia admiralli Scotiae, ca. 1590.

A treatise of 10 titles, the last of which is absent. The author, Alexander King, is described as "advocatus et admirallus delegatus." Sources and literature of Scots law, Stair Society, vol. I, p. 331, mentions a manuscript "Tractatus legum et consuetudinum navalium" by Alexander King, Judge Admiral of Scotland, ca. 1587-1592, dealing with the general maritime law under 10 titles, but with an appendix. Dedicated to Francis Stewart ... earl of Bothwell.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Scotland. Court of Session. Practicks of the Court of Session : from 15 Iuli 1540 to Feb 1541 by St. Clair ; from 15 Iuli 1500 to pent Iuly 1565 by Sr. Richard Maitland of Lithingtoun ; from 20 March 1570 to Ap 1575 by Mr. Alex Colville of Culross ; and a list of mortifications in Scotland, [circa 1650].

Title: Practicks of the Court of Session : from 15 Iuli 1540 to Feb 1541 by St. Clair ; from 15 Iuli 1500 to pent Iuly 1565 by Sr. Richard Maitland of Lithingtoun ; from 20 March 1570 to Ap 1575 by Mr. Alex Colville of Culross ; and a list of mortifications in Scotland, [circa 1650].

Manuscript on paper, in several hands, containing three collections of Court of Session decisions and related legal material. The cases were originally gathered by three sixteenth-century Lords of Session as guides to precedent, and many have marginal annotations. These are followed by a "Prefect Inventar of all the pious donationes Since the dayes of King James the first to the raigne of King James the 6th." There is an alphabetical subject index to the law cases at the end of the volume.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

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Ramsay, John, of Auchtertyre. Copy of Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, from Scotland and Scotsmen from the Ochertyre, 1888 [manuscript], 19th century.

Title: Copy of Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, from Scotland and Scotsmen from the Ochertyre, 1888 [manuscript], 19th century.

Excerpts from J. Ramsay's Scotland and Scotsmen in the eighteenth century, edited by Alexander Allardyce, selected by Colonel Francis Grant, and in his autograph.

ArchivalResource: 7 leaves ; 33 x 21 cm.

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Thomson, Thomas, fl.1854-1876. Letter: 1854 Apr. 12, 1 Thistle Court, Edinburgh, to David Laing / Tho. Thomson.

Title: Letter: 1854 Apr. 12, 1 Thistle Court, Edinburgh, to David Laing / Tho. Thomson. 1854.

Mentions a volume on Ayrshire by Lord Auchinleck to which he has access.

ArchivalResource: [1] p.

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Collection of material relating to Professor Thomas Craufurd (d. 1662), 1652-1791

Title: Collection of material relating to Professor Thomas Craufurd (d. 1662) 1652-1791

ArchivalResource: 1 box-file containing seal, 4 volumes, 1 folder, 1 notebook case-bound.

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