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NRS Reference
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Description
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Dates
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Notes
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PC1
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Registers of acts
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1545-1707
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The business of the council was recorded in two registers: those dealing with the public or state business - acta (acts) and those dealing with private litigation - decreta (decreets).
Printed Register of the Privy Council (to 1691). The acta are generally printed in full while the decreta are only calendared.
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PC2
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Registers of decreets
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1610-1705
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with gaps
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PC3
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Sederunt books
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1598-1643
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Record of councillors present at each sederunt (sitting), with occasional minutes of proceedings, including admission of new councillors. PC6/1 includes sederunts for 1576/8. Printed Register of the Privy Council (matter not in PC1 and PC2)
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PC4
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Minute books
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1604-1631, 1696-1707
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The first volume contains monthly lists of processes before the council, 1604-31, and an inventory of council registers, 1667.
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PC5
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Registers of royal and other letters
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1553-1633 with gaps
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Two volumes covering 1553-72 (PC5/1-2) are not council records and belong properly to the state paper series (SP1). The council's own register commences in 1604, shortly after, and probably in consequence of, James VI's removal to England. Printed Register of the Privy Council.
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PC6
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Register of acts of caution
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1576-1664 with gaps
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Parties were required to find caution (security) for various reasons, including compearance before the council and payment of fines. Until 1576 acts of caution were recorded in the 'acta' (PC1). Original bonds are preserved with the privy council papers (PC10-12). Calendared Register of the Privy Council (from 1591).
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PC7
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Register of Commissions
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1607-1630
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Commissions, in particular special commissions of justiciary; also licences to go abroad and for other purposes. The register for 1630-42 is in the National Library of Scotland (Adv. MS. 31.2.10). Calendared Register of the Privy Council.
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PC8
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Miscellaneous volumes
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1587-1691
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These are mainly concerned with the enforcement of law and order, particularly in the Highlands, Islands and Borders and include the volumes listed below
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PC 8/1-3
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Acts relating to Highlands, Islands and Borders
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1587-1602, 1608-23
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Mainly Western and Northern Isles and acts of caution only for 1635-6
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PC 8/7
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Register of commissioners for pacification of Highlands
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1682-6
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PC 8/4
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Acts of privy council anent the Borders
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1602-43
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PC8/5
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Court book of commissioners for Middle Shire
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1622-3
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PC 8/6
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Register of committee of the West
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1678
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PC 8/8
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Register of commission for southern shires
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1684
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PC8/9-10
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Register of fines
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1603-31
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Fines for assault, bearing of firearms, breach of the peace, etc
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PC8/11
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Account book of fines for resetting the clan Gregor
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1612-24
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PC8/12
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Register of justices of the peace
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1611-39
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PC8/13
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Register of the commission for grievances
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1623-6
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Particularly relating to monopolies and grants of patents for industrial processes
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PC8/14
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Depositions anent accounts due by forces to presbytery of Garioch
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1691
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PC9
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Inventories
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1611-1703
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Four volumes including missive letters 1611-23; bonds 1685-96; royal letters, proclamations, bonds etc 1689-1701 and oaths of allegiance etc 1693-1703. Printed in RPC (1690-1 only).
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PC10-12
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Privy council papers
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1544 - 1708
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Warrants of the acts and decreets, royal letters, bonds and miscellaneous papers, arranged and bound (to 1689 only) in 3 series corresponding to the volumes in which they are printed or calendared. Papers omitted from the arrangement are in PC15. Printed or calendared Register of the Privy Council (to 1691).
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PC13
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Proclamations
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1661-1706
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The texts of proclamations were normally engrossed in the register (PC1). Calendared Register of the Privy Council (1690-1 only).
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PC14
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Oaths of allegiance
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1661-1707
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Oaths of allegiance, acknowledgements of royal prerogative, tests, assurances and associations are arranged according to a contemporary inventory (PC9/4). Calendared Register of the Privy Council (1690-1 only).
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PC15
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Supplementary Privy Council papers
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1545-1691
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Two boxes. Documents found after the main series of privy council papers (PC10-12) were arranged and some previously classified as state papers. A number relate to Adam Meldrum of Urquhart's proceedings under commissions to repress disorders and conventicles in southern Scotland, 1680-3 (PC15/16-18).
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