Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Mar and Kellie, Volum 1

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The report, prepared by H. Paton, deals mainly with historical letters and papers of the Erskines, earls of Mar, dating from 1522-1743.
 

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Pàgina 505 - Captain and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from time to time receive from...
Pàgina 604 - Commissioners may extend to title-deeds or other documents of present legal value, positive instructions are given to every person who inspects MSS. on their behalf that nothing relating to the titles of existing owners is to be divulged, and IM that if in the course of his work...
Pàgina 605 - ENGLAND. House of Lords ; Westminster Abbey ; Cambridge and Oxford Colleges ; Cinque Ports, Hythe, and other Corporations ; Marquis of Bath, Earl of Denbigh, &c.
Pàgina 603 - The Commissioners think it probable that you may feel an interest in this object, and be willing to assist in the attainment of it ; and with that view they desire to lay before you an outline of the course which they usually follow. If any nobleman or gentleman express his willingness to submit...
Pàgina 606 - I. Contents: — List of collections examined, 1869-1880. ENGLAND. House of Lords ; Duke of Marlborough; Magdalen College, Oxford ; Royal College of Physicians; Queen Anne's Bounty Office; Corporations of Chester, Leicester, &c. IRELAND. Marquis of Ormonde, Lord Emly, The O'Conor Don, Trinity College, Dublin, &c. DITTO. PART II.
Pàgina 536 - Faith, the National Covenant of Scotland, and the Solemn League and Covenant of the three nations...
Pàgina 604 - The costs of inspections, reports, and calendars, and the conveyance of documents, will be defrayed at the public expense, without any charge to the owners.
Pàgina 604 - Commissioners will direct their attention to that object exclusively. In practice it has been found more satisfactory, when the collection of manuscripts is a large one, for the inspector to make a selection therefrom at the place of deposit and to obtain the owner's consent to remove the selected papers to the Public Record Office in London or in Dublin, or to the General Register House in Edinburgh, where they can be more fully dealt with, and where they will be preserved with the same care as...
Pàgina 605 - Contents : — ENGLAND. House of Lords; Cambridge Colleges ; Oxford Colleges ; Monastery of Dominican Friars at Woodchester, Duke of Bedford, Earl Spencer, &c.
Pàgina 603 - Majesty, appointing certain Commissioners to ascertain what unpublished MSS. are extant in the collections of private persons and in institutions, which are calculated to throw light upon subjects connected with the Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary, or Scientific History of this country; and to appoint certain additional Commissioners for the same purposes.