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Burgess Ticket of Edinburgh of George B. Dallas of Saintmartine, writer to his majesty's signet, by act of court of 13 Oct. 1686, for service done in settling a difference between Edinburgh and Sir William Davidsone's children regarding a debt due by the town to them.

Scope and Contents This collection contains the early modern European documents (dating from the 16th to 18th centuries) owned by the Hesburgh Library which are not part of a discrete archival collection. That is to say, this is an artificial collection of early modern European documents, grouped not by provenance, but by origin (early modern European) and genre (diplomatics). As such, it is composed of a wide variety of diplomatic genres, including: papal bulls, lease and releases, leases, surrenders,...