ELGIN - MANUSCRIPTS Group of deeds and manuscripts pertaining to Elgin dating from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century,ELGIN – MANUSCRIPTSGroup of deeds and manuscripts pertaining to Elgin dating from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, comprising: record of transactions between the town of Elgin and Patrick Balfour ("maister of the grammar school" and later minister of Alves and Urquhart), one page, folio (380 x 295mm.), 1566; Carta feodifirma issued by provost Robert Tulloch of Tannachie of the burgh of Forres, in favour of William [Scot] burgess of Forres, son of Thomas Scot commendator, signed by Tulloch and several others, vellum, red wax seal of the burgh of Forres depicting St. Lawrence with his griddle encased in white wax attached by vellum tag, folio (c.475 x 530mm.), 30 August 1592; document issued by Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie (lord president of his Majesty's College of Justice and provost of the burgh of Elgin), and Mr. Alexander Douglas, minister, appointing John Mow, son of John Mow burgess of Elgin, to the office of master of music and singing at the kirk of Elgin, and granting him possession of the preceptory of ?Messinden next to the burgh of Elgin, with responsibility for the maintenance of a hospital for the poor, signed by Fyvie and others, one page, 200 x 310mm., Elgin, 1603; with a pocket book containing accounts of Colin Dunbar of Moy (mentioning names of John and Donald Campbell), notes on his family (beginning "My faither John Dunbar was cabsman at the milny of Fores the zeir of God [...] 1656"), mentioning Robert Dunbar, sheriff of Elgin and Forress and his brother Patrick of Balnaferry, other notes on religion and business, c.30 leaves, some loose, dust-stained and creased, original vellum with remains of leather thong, 8vo (165 x 105mm.), seventeenth century/early eighteenth century; with two others including grant of admission as a freeman, burgess and Guild Brother of James Dick, formerly of Jamaica, signed by William Dunbar, 8 October 1783 (6)Among the signatories to these documents is Alexander Seton, first earl of Dunfermline (1556-1622), created Lord Fyvie by James VI in 1598, who became president of the court of session in 1593 and lord chancellor of Scotland in 1604. James Dick (1743-1828), here admitted as freeman burgess of Forres, a wealthy merchant lately returned from Jamaica, became a great benefactor, setting up a fund to benefit schoolteachers and schools in Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray, known as the Dick Bequest.