Protocol books. Legal documents
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Collection of notarial papers compiled by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1471-1547.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.23
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of (i) notarial entries 1471-1477 relating to Dumbartonshire (notary and place unidentified) (folio 1). The name John Kyd (?) is at folio 11 verso; folio 1 is stuck to folio 2 and folios 11-12 appear to be wrongly folded; (ii) copies by Walter Watson, notary, keeper of the protocol books, of documents dated Dunbarton 1449, 1507-1511, 1526 and 1547 (not in chronological order) (folio 20); (iii) an unidentified protocol book, possibly a fragment, apparently relating to...
Dates:
1471-1547.
Extract, 1557, from the Protocol Book of Henry Strachan, of a cognition and sasine, 1515, in favour of Andrew Allan, in a tenement on the south side of the High Street, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.214
Dates:
1515.
Microfilm of a fragment of a protocol-book of James Young, notary public in the Canongate, Edinburgh., 1519-1520.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
1519-1520.
Microfilm of a protocol-book, 1534-1541, of Robert Lausoun, notary public in Fife, containing two unrelated protocols, 1527, 1546, at the end., 1527-1546.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
1527-1546.
Microfilm of a volume of excerpts from two protocol-books of Cuthbert Simon, or Simonis, clerk to the chapter of Glasgow., 1511-1513, 1519-1547.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
1511-1513, 1519-1547.
Papers compiled and collected by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1825-?1842.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.24
Scope and Contents
The material was compiled over a number of years, probably between about 1825 and 1840, and consists of accounts of parishes and families, notes and extracts from printed sources and collections of formal documents, and some original documents and printed items. The complete title of the work was apparently intended to be `Dumbartonshire Illustrated with regard chiefly to its Territorial History and Family Antiquities`, but the work appears never to have been finished (for example, there are...
Dates:
1825-?1842.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.
Dates:
15th century-1814.