| Description | Mixed bundle, containing many printed papers, including: Rental, Lord Fife [1770]; 'The Contrast': printed document with copy of engraving promoting benefits of British liberty over French liberty, 1793 (MS 3175/304/2); Survey, plan and report of road, Macduff cross to join Macduff-Banff road, 1804; Inventory, valuation of Melrose, 1807; Letter from Lord Findlater concerning marches Cummerton - Auchlin, 1812; Letters to Lord Fife and George Wilson about excavation of old Macduff Harbour after disaster to new, from Alexander Grant, James Taylor, Jane and Isabel Grant; Jane McLean - Walter Jamieson, poor; William Bain, smuggler, concerning powerful shipping company at Aberdeen, 1819-1821; Accounts, Francis Gordon, advocate of Aberdeen for rents, removing and about leases, 1823-1824; Dispute with Andrew Mitchell over removal from Newmill, 1824; Inquiries for New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1832; Accounts, 1824-1837, including for porterage, vermin destroyed on Duff House plantations, insurance, pelling, road assessment for Macduff; Tables showing difference and prices between Aberdeenshire old measures for oats and barley and imperial measures, and comparative weights of boll and bushel; Militia Act, 1816; Act to amend acts to erect and maintain court house for Aberdeen and additional gaol, and place for custody and preservation of public records of city and county, 1825; Bills, Notes, Memoranda, Reports concerning legislation on beer and licensing, herring fishery, salt, parochial stipends, entail, Wesleyan Missions, municipal bill, 1824-1837. |