Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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233
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Repository
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National Library of Scotland
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Reference
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GB233/Adv.MS.81.1.1
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Title
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Stair's Decisions
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Dates
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17th century
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Access Status
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Open
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Description
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'A breviary of the decisions of the Lords of Session? & of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1 1661, to July 1661, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair'. The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-81 as printed in the Decisions, Edinburgh, 1683, 1687, are followed by a summary of the Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. Apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.
At the end inverted is a copy of 'Instructions and Rules ? to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiaticall jurisdiction' forwarded under cover of a royal letter dated Oxford, 21 January 1666.
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Level
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Item
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Extent
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ii + 255 + 5 ff inverted
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Archival History
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The manuscripts is believed to come from the library at Kildalton Castle, Islay
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Associated Persons
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ED386 | Sir James Dalrymple 1st Viscount Stair |
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