Decrees
Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:
Deeds of the Murrays of Woodend., 1541-1710.
Duncan Forbes, 3rd of Culloden, decreet against James Dunbar of Dalcross., 1701.
Extract of decreet in favour of the presbytery of Glasgow against William Houston., 1692.
The documents are mostly marriage-contracts, burgess-tickets, and similar documents concerning members of the Dunlop family in the 17th and 18th centuries. Three items concern William Dunlop`s affairs in South Carolina, 1688-1689 (Ch.8456-8458). An inventory is available.
Glasgow: instruments of sasine, 1581-1801; decreet, 1666; charter of confirmation, 1821., 1581-1821.
Latin, except Ch.1087, Ch.1092-1096.
Govan: decreet., 1728.
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.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1758-1785.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
Miscellaneous decreets of apprising, relating to the financial affairs of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount Kingston., 1644-1680.
Miscellaneous deeds relating to the Lords Oliphant and to the Oliphants of Gask., 1548-1798.
Papers, 1818, in the claim of the Marquess of Abercorn to certain dignities and honours of the House of Hamilton, consisting of statements and opinions thereanent, and copies of a decreet of the Duchess of Hamilton against the Earl of Abercorn, 1658, and of a reported case of the Duke of Hamilton, 1747., 1658, 1747, 1818.
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1741-1751.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1751-1753.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1753-1755.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1756-1762.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1763-1774.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1775-1803, and undated.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask, including claims on it after the forfeiture, decreets of the Court of Session on these claims, its purchase by Laurence Oliphant of Condie, the sale of Williamston and Cowgask, a pension for Lady Gask, the transfer of the estate back to the family, the affairs of Alexander MacGregor of Balhaldie, and some discharges., 1741-1803.
Recognition in Edinburgh bailie court that Lauchlan Robert Mackintosh is the nearest lawful heir of Robert Mackintosh, his uncle., 8 December 1809.
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.
An inventory is available.
Recognition in Edinburgh bailie court that Mary Horsburgh, née Bowie, and Catherine Harper, née Robertson, are the nearest lawful heirs of deceased Patrick Bowie., 28 March 1810.
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.
An inventory is available.
Transferal by Mr Robert Farquhar, merchant, burgess of Aberdeen to John Carstairs of his decreet etc against Alexander, Lord Saltoun., 14 September 1636.
William Forbes of Many, afterwards of Craigievar, and his son Sir William, succeeded in acquiring all rights to Saltoun, which was ultimately sold, after being held briefly by Sir William Gray of Pittendrum and various relations of Forbes, to Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer.