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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 278 Collections and/or Records:

Discharges of bonds of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1618-1853.

 File
Identifier: MS.16821
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 1618-1853.

Documents concerning the Earls and Dukes of Argyll and their estates., 1549-1756.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.14911-14941
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

More detailed lists of contents are available on request.

Dates: 1549-1756.

Documents, including bonds and discharges, mainly relating to John Skeyne of Halyards., 1636-1704.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12092/9
Scope and Contents Contains:256. Exchequer receipt to Mr John Skene for the fueduty of the lands and barony of Halzairdis, July 1636, 257. Contract of wodset at Bowdoun 20 December 1639 between Robert Ker called of Mersingtoune, portioner of Bowdoun and Archibald Ruther notary public whereby for £40 Scots Robert Ker wadsets certain lands in Bowdoun to the said Archibald. Witnesses: Adam Hoge servitor to James Wallace, smith in Bowdoun and Nicoll Rem[ield]sone, eldest son to William Rem[ield]sone,...
Dates: 1636-1704.

Executry papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Agnes., 1776-1806.

 File
Identifier: MS.11173
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1776-1806.

Expenses for travel and residence in England., 1643-1694, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14628
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Inn, dinner and horse bills, Scotland and England, 1643-1694, undated (folio 1);(ii) Accounts of expenses of journeys: 'To London from Yester to Durham', October 1667; to Morpeth and return of Yester, October 1669; of William Sangster, from York to Yester, 1670; of Thomas Duncan, to 'Durntown' and return to Yester, October 1671; of Thomas Manner, to Chillingham and return to Edinburgh, October 1671; to Dunse and return to Yester,...
Dates: 1643-1694, undated.

Extract bond, 1781, of George Traill of Hobbister, physician, to Lucia Traill, wife of Thomas Traill, Minister of Kirkwall, formerly Spence, 1793., 1781.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15374
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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: 1781.

Extract of bond, 5 September 1613, by Alexander Fotheringham in Wester Monikie to David Fuld in Dryden for 230 merks. Registered, 22 March 1616., 5 September 1613.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15118
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.

Dates: 5 September 1613.