Burgess tickets.
Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:
Burgess ticket of Stirling in favour of Sir Patrick Murray, 6th Baronet, of Ochtertyre., 3 February 1804.
More detailed lists are available on request.
Burgess ticket of Stirling to Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun., 7 May 1708.
Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.
Burgess-ticket of the Canongate granted to Robert Richardson, flesher in the Canongate.
Burgess-tickets., 1693-1791.
Burgess tickets., 1708-1773.
Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.
Burgess-tickets, 1764-1791, of various burghs given to Charles Hay, advocate, afterwards Lord Newton. Includes an act of admission, 1781, to the Royal Company of Archers, and his letter and warrant of appointment, 1806, as an Ordinary Lord of Session., 1764-1806.
The act of admission, 1781, to the Royal Company of Archers is at Ch.2106 and the letter and warrant of appointment, 1806, as an Ordinary Lord of Session is at Ch.2114.
Burgess-tickets granted to George Brown, Provost of Elgin, by Inverurie, 1780, Elgin, 1780, Aberdeen, 1783, Dingwall, 1790, Banff, 1796, and Fortrose, 1798, with one (Ch.931) given by Cullen to his son John, 1796., 1780-1798.
Burgess tickets of Col George Graeme (d 1840)., 1790-1795.
Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.
Burgess-tickets of Dunfermline, 1747, and Edinburgh, 1760, in favour of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet., 1747, 1760.
Burgess-tickets of Edinburgh, 1693, Dumfries, 1709, and Jedburgh, 1709, in favour of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronett., 1693, 1709.
Burgess-tickets of Edinburgh, 1727, and Annan, 1736, in favour of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet., 1727, 1736.
Burgess tickets of Edinburgh given to Charles Lumsden, Minister of Duddingston, primus., 1614-1615.
Burgess tickets of Glasgow, Elgin, Banff, Aberdeen, Dundee and St Andrews, granted to John Henry Petty, Viscount Fitzmaurice [subsequently 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne].
Burgess tickets of Lochmaben and Dumfries given to John Forrest, merchant and provost of Annan., 1806.
Burgess Tickets of Sir William Forbes., 1813,1819.
Charters and formal documents of the Graemes of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven, Perthshire.
Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.
Correspondence and other papers of David Herd., 1757-1799, undated.
The contents are as follows: letters, 1757-1768, addressed to David Herd by his father and others, chiefly about property in Jamaica, with draft replies, etc. (folio 3); David Herd's burgess-ticket as freeman of the Canongate, 1799 (folio 84); literary and historical notes, undated (folio 85).
Correspondence, diary, verse and other papers of and relating to John Wilson ‘Christopher North’, author and journalist [1785-1854].
The bulk and principal interest of the papers lie in the letters written by John Wilson to his mother, sister Jane and his wife Jane. Many of the letters relate to Wilson’s early life and shed light on his relations with his family, his life as a student in Glasgow and later in Oxford, and also at Elleray in the Lake District.
Design for a burgess and guild-ticket for Edinburgh executed by order of Thomas Cleghorn, Lord Dean of Guild, and presented to him by Archibald McDowall, Old Dean of Guild, and members of the Guild Court.
Diploma, 1803, of the Dialectical Society and burgess ticket, 1810, of Selkirk given to John Thomson, Minister of Maxton., 1803, 1810.
Diplomas of learned bodies, 1814-1846, burgess-ticket of Edinburgh, 1815, and commission as Inspector of Factories, 1833, bestowed on Leonard Horner.
Included is a copy of a deed of sale of pictures, executed by Sir Thomas Hanmer, Baronet, of Hanmer and Mildenhall, Speaker of the House of Commons, endorsed, apparently, in Hanmer`s hand, 1718 (Ch.942).