Charters
Found in 754 Collections and/or Records:
Documents concerning the lands of Mauchlinehole and the Commonty of Kilbride., 1634-1830.
Documents concerning the lands of Murray and Heidhouse, with the offices of sergeant and coroner of the barony of Kilbride., 1662-1797.
Documents concerning the lands of Newhouse [Newhouse was an alternative name for part of the Kirklands of Torrance]., 1699-1721.
Documents concerning the lands of Overmilton and Duncanrig., 1579-1797.
Documents concerning the lands of Platthorn., 1721-1826.
Documents concerning the lands of Pyetshaw, Rutherglen., 1576-1796.
Documents concerning the lands of Spittal in Carmunnock parish., 1658-1794.
Documents concerning the lands of Taitsthornton., 1692-1800.
Documents concerning the lands of Torrance., 1658-1797.
Documents concerning the lands of Warnock`s Thornton., 1720-1727.
Documents concerning the Mains of Kilbride., 1689-1797.
Documents concerning the Sempill family and James Stuart of Torrance., 1667-1699, undated.
Draft, before 11 December 1648, of charter, 11 December 1648, by Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer S.C.J. to Sir Robert Fletcher his son and Catherine Bruce his wife, of annualrent from Saltoun., Before 11 December 1648.
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.
Draft charter, undated, by Sir William Nisbet of Dean to Clement Wilson, smith in Dean, of a house there. Includes instrument of sasine, 12 March 1652., 12 March 1652, undated.
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.
Draft of charter to Alexander Home, 4th Earl of Home, of the land of Coldingham., 1670.
Most of the documents are drafts and cancelled charters which concern the 1st Marquess.
Drummacharragan and Coig., 1557-1618.
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Dry Isle and Clogie., 1611-1613.
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Dunfermline Regality: charter and instrument of sasine., 1796.
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.
Duplicate, 1543/1544, of charter, 12 February 1543/1544, by Robert Leis to Mr Abraham Crichton of two farms in Saltoun., 12 February 1543/1544.
The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.
Duplicate charter, 12, 20 June 1650, by Simon Fraser of Inverallochy, in favour of John Forbes, 2nd of Culloden, of the lands of Meikle and Little Leanach and Belvraid with confirmation, 10 July 1650, by Hugh Fraser 8th Lord Lovat., 12, 20 June, 10 July 1650.
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Duplicate, undated, of charter, 5 June 1669, by Simon Fraser of Inverallochy, to John Forbes, 2nd of Culloden for lands and barony of Kinkell Fraser., 5 June 1669.
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East Lothian Charters.
A miscellany of charters and other formal documents from the collection of John Smith, Edinburgh. Most of the documents are deeds relating to land tenure in East Lothian, particularly to lands and properties in Dunbar.
Edinbellie Napier Barony: charter and instrument of sasine., 1669, 1685.
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.
Edinburgh (High Street) charters, and miscellany.
Comprised of:
Ch.5946-5975: a group of thirty deeds and notarial extracts formerly part of a larger collection of documents, numbered between 1 and at least 33 (but originally not chronologically arranged), relating to properties in the High Street, Edinburgh;
Ch.5976-5990: a group of mostly unrelated documents of a miscellaneous nature arranged in a separate chronological sequence.
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Ellem Barony: charter., 1608.
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.