Description
Manuscript legal notebook, 18th century, approx. 186 pages, compiled by John Mein, writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, the notes cover a variety of topics from a treatise on bills to the law of contract, index of subjects at rear, signature of Henrici Home on front endpaper not confirmed but likely to be Henry Home, Lord Kames [Kames was introduced to John Mein, who was from Teviotdale, when they met Mein was a Whig and Kames had Jacobite principles, their discussions on their differences resulted in both mellowing their views], contemporary embossed boards, worn at edges, hinges splitting; Graves, Edward Manuscript legal notebook, 1778, ownership inscription of Edward Graves, contemporary vellum, heavily dust marked; and two other manuscript notebooks (4)