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| GD248 | Papers of the Ogilvy family, Earls of Seafield (Seafield Papers) | c1205-1971 |
| GD248/44 | Legal and Miscellaneous Papers | 1609-1893 |
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Country code |
GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
GD248/44/5 |
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Title |
Miscellaneous papers |
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Dates |
1562-1800 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Access conditions |
Some restrictions on access: consult NRS staff |
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Location |
On site |
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Description |
Including:
1. n.d.
Estimate of a bridge proposed to be built in Urquhart according to dimensions as in the plan, by John Scott.
2. n.d.
Sketch for a lime house to be built in Urquhart.
3. n.d.
Estimate for building a lime kiln at the wester ?post same height and breadth as that at Milten.
4. n.d.
Sketch of proposed alteration to plan of garden at Castle Grant, altering communication with the kitchen garden.
5. n.d.
French - Italian vocabulary with note on Italian grammar [in Italian].
7. n.d.
Petition of innkeepers upon the highland road to MPs for the northern districts of Scotland, complaining of the difficulty of getting horses and post chaises at the different stages; they propose to keep these for the accommodation of travellers but as the road is generally impassable for four months in the year because of storms, the petitioners can only expect business for six months in the year and cannot afford to pay the duty; asking for leave to keep post chaises and horses free of duty.
Signed by John Mcgregor, vintner at Aviemore, and by James Falconer, vintner at Grantown.
12. 1765-6.
List of tools (gavelocks, spades, picks, axes and hammers) delivered, Castle Grant, to John Haston, gardener.
22. n.d.
Memo of 24 tin or white iron boxes to be made to match those already got, painted green outside and inside, with a lock to each box and one key to each six locks; gives dimensions and notes shape of lid, which is to bulge up like the cover of a trunk, with an iron handle on the top and another at each end; each box to be numbered.
23. 1614 [or 1617] may 7
Account due by the young laird of Grant for tailoring.
25. 1639, 1643
Accounts [2] of bere and oats of the Mains of Ballachastell, crops and years 1638 and 1642.
28. 1662
Compt of the oats and bere of the Mains of Ballachastell, crop and year 1660.
29. n.d.
Copie d'une lettre que j'ecrivis a mon frere lors qu'il etoit en France et moi a Jersey.
30. n.d.
Letter from ?Nelly Grant, Charlotte Square, to Mr Grant, Argyle Square.
Asks recipient to tell their father that they think their mother's jewels should never be separated from the family necklace.
32, 34. n.d.
Two papers relative to claim of damages, Robertson and Co, merchants in Glasgow,. v. Sir Ludovick Grant, over the loss of the ship Recovery.
35. n.d.
Plan, Jo. More, saw miller.
41-2. n.y [1745]., October 8.
Printed broadsheet giving an express from Mr Blyth, Aberdeen, master of an apple sloop, narrating arrival at Montrose of a large French vessel of 16 carriage guns, arrived 7 October with the Master of Strathallan [William Drummond of Machany] and 20 [jacobite] officers, and four chests of gold.
With ms. copy.
45. n.d.
Scheme for this winter's farming at Moy.
47. n.d.
Plan of farming the Mains of the Castle Grant Moy and Coathall jointly.
50. n.d.
Note addressed to Lady Margaret Grant giving recipe for walnut ketchup.
55. 1792 February 18.
Printed circular addressed, Thirsk, to Sir James Grant, soliciting an order for an Essay on Gardening by Richard Steele of Thirsk, co. York.
2 pieces.
56. 1768
Account of livestock at Castle Grant and Moy.
57. 1691
Incomplete, pp.21-68, of a work on ethics written out by James Wilson.
58. n.d.
Note [very badly damaged] of heirship received by John Grant of Fruquhie on decease of his goodshire.
59. 1800 January 1
Illustrations of shells [wanting one] no. 39, published by Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand.
60. 1774 January 26
[Printed] the Votes of the House of Commons, no. 10.
2 pieces and cover addressed to Colonel Grant, Moy.
61. n.d. [post 1618]
Incomplete letter to writer's mother [Lilias Murray, lady Grant].
Glad to learn she is still alive even if infirm; what the physicians think she should do about her bleeding, which must be weakening her; writer himself also troubled as was Lady Glamis, recipient's sister, [Anne Murray, daughter of John, earl of Tullibardine, and relict of Patrick, 9th lord Glamis] until she died; sends two pairs of sweet gloves and two pairs of `sheffrons' which are soft and warm; is still trying to get her a busk `for I think it needless a woman of your yeers should have haire about her face'.
62-3. 1792
Printed appeal for the hospitals for the small pox and for inoculation, London, addressed to LA Grant, MP.
64. 1769
Memorandum book of expenses of board in Urquhart
66. n.d.
Verse, Take your old cloak about you, and other verse, written out [apparently] by Alexander Taylor.
72. 1792 march 27
Printed card addressed by Messrs. Boulton and Watt to Sir James Grant, asking him to attend in the House of Commons on friday next, on the second reading of Mr Hornblower's bill, against which Boulton and Watt's counsel will then be heard.
With a short statement on part of Boulton and Watt in opposition to Jonathan Hornblower's application to parliament for an act to prolong the term of his patent.
3 pieces.
73. n.d.
Architectural plan of a farmhouse [said in handlist to be at Balmakaan, tho nothing on sketch to confirm this]. To RHP |
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