Charters
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 754 Collections and/or Records:
Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6275/1-133
Dates:
1618-1941, undated.
Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4290
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family
2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family
3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling
4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.
Dates:
19th century.
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12591
Scope and Contents
Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.
Dates:
1529-1925.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.196
Dates:
1641-20th century.
Papers of the Christies of Stenton.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10628
Scope and Contents
Includes charters, correspondence, legal papers and accounts.
Dates:
1597-1878.
Papers of the family of Cathcart of Cathcart, Lords and Earls Cathcart and Lords Greenock, including the papers of Major-General the Honourable Sir George Cathcart.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12686
Dates:
Late 14th century-circa 1905.
Papers of the family of Forbes and Stuart Forbes of Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.137- is now Acc.4796.
Dates:
1447-20th century.
Papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes of Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4796
Dates:
1447-1969
Papers of the Sutherland Estates relating to the management of the Estates and the personal and business affairs of the Sutherland family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.313
Dates:
13th century-1861.
Parishes of Stobo, Glenholm, Drumelzier and Tweedsmuir., 1426-1679.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.12210-12356
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1426-1679.
Photocopy of inventory of the charters of the Maxwells of Monreith, compiled by Robert C Reid.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5597
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Photograph of a charter of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester.
File
Identifier: Acc.4256
Scope and Contents
Granting lands in East Lothian.
With notes of Grant G Simpson, on the charter.
Dates:
circa 1210.
Pitcorthie: charters, etc., 1500-1596.
Series
Identifier: Ch.1060-1066
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The deeds are arranged under country, county, and smaller unit, the smaller unit being either the subject of the conveyance or a covering unit mentioned in the document. They are indexed under the names of the smaller units and also, in the case of Scotland, under the names of the parties.
Dates:
1500-1596.
Quarter [rectius, charter] by Anne, Queen of Scotland, with the King’s consent, to David Phyn of Quhytehill of the half of the lands of Lymekills., 3 July 1598.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6379
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).
Dates:
3 July 1598.
Royal transumpt by James II of seven charters, 1449.
Item
Identifier: Ch.951
Scope and Contents
(i) Charter, 1366, of David II, to Thomas Fleming, Earl of Wigtown, of the Earldom of Wigtown.(ii) Charter, 1372, of Robert II, confirming the grant of the earldom by Thomas Fleming to Archibald [Earl of] Douglas.(iii) Charter, 1372, of Robert II, confirming the contracts between Thomas Fleming and Archibald Douglas.(iv) Charter, 1368, of David II, to Archibald Douglas, of lands in Galloway.(v) Charter, 1358, of David II, to Sir Thomas Moray,...
Dates:
1449.
Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.13
Scope and Contents
The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library. Only those documents not known from other sources are indexed in detail. The contents are as follows:(i) `Registra Coenobiorum de Melrose et Balmerino Impensis Walteri McFarlan de eodem Transcripta Anno MDCCXLII`, copied from Adv.MSS.34.4.11, late 13th century (folio 1), and 34.5.3, 14th century (folio 67), with extracts from Richard Augustine Hay on Melrose, 1700-1707, or after (folio 54; from...
Dates:
Late 13th century-1707, or after.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.3.1-37.3.15
Scope and Contents
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
1153-1249, ?1905, or after.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’: Volume I: Royal charters: Malcolm IV., 1153-1165.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.3.1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
1153-1165.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’: Volume II: Royal charters: William the Lion., 1165-1214.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.3.2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
1165-1214.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’: Volume III: Royal charters: Alexander II, 1214-1222., 1214-1222.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.3.3
Scope and Contents
The printed title page wrongly gives the initial date as 1204.
Dates:
1214-1222.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’: Volume IV: Royal charters: Alexander II, 1223-1230., 1223-1230.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.3.4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
1223-1230.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’: Volume IX: Religious houses: Melrose (folio 1), Dryburgh (folio 194), Jedburgh and Rostinoth (folio 278)., ?1905, or after.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.3.9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
?1905, or after.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’: Volume V: Royal charters: Alexander II, 1231-1237., 1231-1237.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.3.5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
1231-1237.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’: Volume VI: Royal charters: Alexander II, 1238-1243., 1238-1243.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.3.6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The arrangement is as follows:Volumes I-VII: Royal charters and others of the same period; these have been used by the editors of the ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’, volumes 1-3.Volumes VIII-XIII: Religious houses; there is no discernible order.Volume XIV: Bishoprics; alphabetical.Volume XV: Burghs and miscellanies.Each volume has an identical printed title page, on whose verso is given biographical information on Lawrie.The...
Dates:
1238-1243.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
‘Scottish Historical documents’, being transcripts and notes, in manuscript and typescript, by and for Sir Archibald C Lawrie in preparation for continuations (never published) to his ‘Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D.1153’.