Dumfries Burgh

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Date:	1395-1990
Places:	Dumfries, Dumfriesshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government, Scotland (local) > Burghs
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C25952 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O41256 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	15th-19th cent: deeds, processes, burgh papers, military documents, misc corresp, misc papers	Dumfries and Galloway Archives	NRA(S)0241	NRA 10799 Ewart Library
2	1654-1655: conistory court proceedings	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 35086
3	17th-18th cent: misc accounts & papers of town clerk, John Maxwell	Dumfries and Galloway Archives	EGD1	NRA 10437 Maxwell
4	1680: minutes of justiciary court with assize coll	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD123	NRA 8400 Erskine
5	1506-1975: court records	Dumfries and Galloway Archives	BA1-5, BC1-5, BD1-5, BE1-5, BF1-3, GF3, GF4, GF5	NRA 31757 Dumfries
6	1777-1975: dean of guild minutes, registers, applications, plans and warrants	Dumfries and Galloway Archives	CB821/4
7	1634-1975: financial records incl accounts, cash books	Dumfries and Galloway Archives	CB821/3
8	1395-1990: records incl town council minutes, police commissioner minutes, letter books	Dumfries and Galloway Archives	WA2-WC3, BF3/6-BF5/9, BG1-BG4, GF5/1-15, GG2/8, GG2/12, RB