| Description | Accounts and other papers mainly concerning Major Burnett od Balfour, 17th century. Including:
Declaration in name of the Privy Council that sentence in favour of the earl ofSouthesk anent a dsk and loft in kirk of Fettercairne shall noways prejudge William Burnet of Balfour of a visatation for having a seat in said kirk, 12th July 1687.
Account for glasswork wrought for the Laird to Elvlick in the land in Leith, by James Clark, 8th December 1681.
Account for medicines due by Madam Burnett to William Smyth, appothecary in Salop, 1693/94.Articles supplied include frogwater, a pot of preserved walnuts, and carriage of two barrels of oysters from London, and several things for the horse.
Note of money resting dragoons in Lord Jedburgh's regiment, 7th January 1697.
Copy royal letters granting James, Earl of Airlie, freedom from captions etc. for 2 years, 17th December 1686.
Account of money due by Jedburgh's dragoons to town of Duns, not dated.
Account of payment of Major Burnett's troop of drgoons, February- April 1697.
Copy receipt of Robert Sibbald, doctor of medicine, on behalf of dame Rachel Kirkwiid, Lady Evlick, and Margaret and Jean Douglass, her daughters, for various papers relating to the history of Scotland: general description of Scotland, 76 leaves in loose sheets with 20 leaves of first transcription of the same, the history of English 135 leaves sen to be a translation of Buchanan with 106 leaves of the same history with from the king of Scotland and downward, of particular description in English 17 leaves with 14 leaves in Latin, description of latin85 leaves in a paper book with 111 leaves of first transcription of same in latin loose sheets, of history in Scots 100 papers with 51 leaves of description in 2 leaves stitched and 7 leaves of description origin in lation,- leave of the governmentin latin in quarto. Prmises to return the lot before lamas next. Edinburgh, 20th February, 20th February 1685. |