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Retours. Legal instruments

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

Retour of Sir Robert Fletcher of Innerpeffer as heir to his father in Saltoun., 21 May 1650.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14494
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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.

Dates: 21 May 1650.

Retour of the general service of William Cockburn (afterwards 2nd Baronet) to his father, Sir James., 1700.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.2047
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Transcriptions and translations will be found in MS.2996(ff.14-37).

Dates: 1700.

Retour of William, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1623) as heir to Robert Keith., 29 May 1630.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.17233
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included are charters of Deer Abbey which passed to the family on the Reformation as the lordship of Altrie. Notes on these charters appear in Patrick Keith Murray`s `Inventory of Marischal Papers, 1905`, MS.21114.

Dates: 29 May 1630.

Retour of William, Lord Blantyre as heir to his brother Walter., 5 March 1753.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15199
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 March 1753.

Retours., 1435-1781.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10391-10399
Scope and Contents From the Series: The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates: 1435-1781.

Special retour, George Stewart of Rossyth to Robert Stewart, portioner of Over Grange of Kingorne Wester, brother’s son of the late David Stewart of Rossyth, great-grandfather of said George Stewart, in a fourth part of Over Grange of Kingorne Wester., 18 January 1580/1581.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6262
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: 18 January 1580/1581.

Special retour of Aeneas Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry., 7 November 1828.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12617
Scope and Contents From the Series:

These documents srelate to the ownership of the estate by the MacDonells and later by the Marquess of Huntly, and by William, Baron Ward (subsequently created Earl of Dudley), prior to the purchase by Edward Ellice.

Dates: 7 November 1828.

Special retour of Henry Halket to his father, William Halket of Pitfurane, in a third part of the lands of Pitfurane, and in another third part of said lands, in two-sixth parts of Pitconnochy, and in the lands of Cragtowne., 12 January 1500/1501.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6045
Scope and Contents

One-third of Petfurane is held of the laird of Craghall, the other of the laird of Balwery; one-sixth of Pitconnochy is held of the King, the other of the laird of Polmais; the lands of Cragtowne of the baron of Canbe.

William Halket died six weeks prior to the serivce.

Dates: 12 January 1500/1501.

Special retour of Patrick Haket to John Haket of Petfurane, his father, in the third part of Petfurane, with mansion house etc., 23 April 1555.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6128
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: 23 April 1555.