| Description | Papers of Major William Burnet 17th century.including:
Petition to Lords of Treasury of officers of Lord Forbes regiment, disbanded 19th december 1697, for payment for being sent to Inverness to apprehend Simon Fraser of Beaufort, undated.
Letter from William Young to Rachel Kirkwood. undated.
Difficulties over spout at back of Laurence Caddell's house, between recipient's land and that of Francis Wilkie; has to acquaint her that some of the latter's family abuse the spout by using it as a privy, asks her to send the mason down to mend the shop where the lime lies before it is made worse for the door cheeks are like to fall.
Receipt by Margaret Douglas, lady Alexander, to the Countess of Angus, her sister-in-law, for various pieces of furniture including a feather bed and bolster and a suit of green cloth curtains. Canongate, 22nd November 1655.
Endorsed, presumably by the Countess,"My lady Alexander Ticket of reciet of several things she received from me, being a parte of the airshipe goods only the green cloath bed within specified was of the plenishing that my father leant mee, and was better then the blew cloath courtains inventured amongst the airshipe".
Account of items given to William Douglas, including razors and combs, ribbons for his perukes, his pension at the schoolmasters for a month at 18 francs a month, materials for a suit and cloak(specified) of camelot de Niemes, money paid at Havre and Rouen, and postage of letters in France, disbursed by James Mouat, 17th April 1652. Account starts 24th September 1648.
Copy letter, William Douglas, advocate, to the earl of perth. February 1670.
Financial implications of late Earl of Lothian's covenant against malignant creditors, in which the writer was employed, as little to his credit as to profit, as clerk, collector, treasurer and agent.
Copy letter, William Douglas, advocate, to the Marquess of Douglas. Edinburgh, 15th October 1671.
A deathbed letter reciting his services to family of Douglas.
Scroll, unsigned, unaddressed, undated letter.
Wishes to disabuse recipient of mistakes made in his last letter; affairs of lord Angus's regiment in France and Mr de Sancerre, a rank papist; promise of a pension for recipient given to him by Lord Angus in 1647, 100 crowns, payable at Paris out of the colonel's appointments, during his life and the standing of the regiment. |