| Administrative History | William Alexander MacNaughton was a medical graduate of Edinburgh University (1878) and sometime Medical Officer of Health for Kincardineshire. He was editor of Caledonian Medical Journal from 1897 - 1932 and author of The medical heroes of the 'Forty-five (Glasgow: MacDougall, 1897), Caledonian medical journal (1897-1900). Though he is not recorded as a graduate of Aberdeen University, he contributed antiquarian articles to the Aberdeen University Review, and gifted or bequeathed several manuscripts to the University. |
| Description | Collection of legal papers relating to persons and places in Kincardineshire, in particular Stonehaven, including: inventory of writs of the barony of Morphy, 16th century; commission for the collection of customs in Stonehaven, 1681; notarial copy of precept of clare constat, undated; letter declaring tax increase for burgh of Stonehaven, 1708; three discharges, 1708 - 1711; certificate of requisition to the burgh court of Stonehaven, 1722; disposition, 1744; disposition, 1761; disposition, 1783; inventory of writs, 1795 - 1817; portion of chronological list of hornings, inhibitions or suspensions in actions for debt, 1687 - 1709; note for Patrick Campbell of Corries in cause against Jean Macduff, 1807; memorandum, 1807; disposition, 1809. |