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Pardons. Legal documents

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Letters and papers of Alexander Robertson of Strowan, the Jacobite.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.1.8
Scope and Contents

Strowan`s own letters mostly concern his financial and legal affairs, but among those addressed to him are some from the Earl of Mar, written during and after the Rising of 1715, and from John Hay, Duke of Inverness. The papers also concern Strowan`s part in the Rising, and the pardon granted to him in 1731.

Dates: 1689-1745.

Miscellaneous commissions, remissions, and gifts in favour of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet., 1687-1703.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10400-10405
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: 1687-1703.

Precept of remission to John Spottiswood, burgess of Edinburgh, of charges of treason and participation in the murder of the Earl of Lennox., 1573.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.1551
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Ch.1492-1539 relate to a family of Spottiswood (most often spelt Spottiswod; also other variants) in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1573.