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ˈRegister House Sc.
The house appointed for the keeping of the registers, now a special building, called the General Register House (erected at various dates from 1774 onwards), at the east end of Princes Street, Edinburgh.
1542Inv. R. Wardrobes (1815) 71 The silver wark quhilk is in the register hous within the castell of Edinburgh. 1581Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 373 In his majesties Register Hous in the Castell of Edinburgh. 1740Acts Sederunt (1790) 348 Ten hogsheads more of the records..ly still unopened in the general register-house. 1794Inv. R. Wardrobes (1815) App. ii. 354 Within the Lord Clerk Register's Office in the General Register House at Edinburgh. 1844C. Innes Pref. Acts Parl. Scot. I. 18 note, These three rolls were brought to the General Register House by a person who could give no information where he had got them. 1877Encycl. Brit. VII. 663/2 The General Register House for Scotland..is an important adjunct to the Supreme Courts. |