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Bonds. Legal instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Moveable bonds for the repayment of borrowed money where the borrower, his heirs, executors and successors are bound to repay the debt to the lender, his executors or assignees at a definite period with interest and, in case of failure, with additional payment.

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents

These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.

Dates: 1645-1897, undated.

Letter of Walter Scott, ? 1811.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12194
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns Scott`s memoir of John Leyden for the "Edinburgh Annual Register", includes a cover in Scott`s hand and a bond by Leyden, 1802.

Dates: 1802, ? 1811.

Letters and papers of the Fothringhams of Powrie, the 4th Earl of Perth, and the Blairs of Balthayock.

 File
Identifier: MS.3288
Scope and Contents The Blairs and Fothringhams were connected by marriage, and the Earl of Perth had dealings with the Blairs. Many of the letters are addressed to David Drummond, Advocate and Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland, who looked after the Earl of Perth's affairs and may be the David Drummond as whose servant the Earl disguised himself when trying to escape in 1688.The contents are as follows.(i) Letters written by Sir Alexander Fothringham of Powrie to his mother, Lady Blair...
Dates: 1632-1786, undated.

Miscellaneous charters.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.A.1-46

Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Urquhart family of Burdsyards.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.8437-8442
Scope and Contents

An inventory is available.

Dates: 1666-1827.

Miscellaneous papers which belonged to Sir William Fraser, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

 File
Identifier: MS.90
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i-iv) Four printed proclamations, etc., 1708, 1710, 1714 (folio 1);(v) Obligation by Patrick Hamilton and other inhabitants of Arran to provide levies, etc., for the defence of the religion, laws, and liberties of the Kirk and Kingdom whenever desired by the Earl of Argyll, 1639 (folio 6);(vi) Extract registered bond by Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum to the Committee of Estates to observe the National Covenant, 1641 (folio 8);...
Dates: 1590-1838.

Notebook of James Home of Greenlawdean, brother of John Home of Blackadder.

 Item
Identifier: MS.118
Scope and Contents

The notebook consists chiefly of notes of bonds and their repayment.

Dates: 1664-1676.

Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).

 File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates: 17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.

Papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and his literary property.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13422
Scope and Contents

Agreements, memoranda, letters, notes and drafts of Sir Walter Scott with his publishers Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, and his printers, James Ballantyne, concerning Scott`s literary property. Included are a draft of the deed of 1819 selling the copyright of Scott`s novels and poems to Constable, and a letter of John Gibson Lockhart to Archibald Constable concerning his proposal for a Scott edition of Shakespeare, 1823.

Dates: 1817-1826

Photocopies of two documents concerning the 1715 Jacobite rising.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7789
Scope and Contents

Bond signed by the lairds of Argyll promising to support the Government

letter acknowledging the name of the Duke of Argyll.

Dates: 1715.

Style book, possibly of David Wilson.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.11
Scope and Contents

The style book contains the 'formes of all bonds, assignations, etc'.

Dates: 17th century.