Charters.
Subject
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Scope Note: Documents, usually sealed, granting specific rights, setting forth aims and principles of a newly established entity, and often embodying formal agreements and authorizing special privileges or exemptions. (AAT) This term was not used in the NLS published catalogues. Lists or calendars of charters were indexed under the more general term 'Writs'. (NLS) .
Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of James Maidment concerning the peerage of Ruthven., 1618-1863.
File
Identifier: MS.5269
Scope and Contents
The volume contains: charters, 1618, 1663 and 1671 (folio 59 verso); printed documents, 1722-1731 (folio 63); correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1839-1863 (folios 1-59, 76-81).
Dates:
1618-1863.
Documents, mostly discharges, mainly relating to Sir James and Sir James Skene of Curriehill and John, of Halyards., 1630-1657.
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Identifier: Acc.12092/8
Scope and Contents
Contains:228. Extract registered discharge Robert Richartsoun of Pencaitland to Sir John Skene of Curriehill for 1000 merks due as tocher for Eupham Skene his daughter due by marriage contract dated 14 December 1609. Written by William Young servitor to Alexander Dunlope, writer. At Edinburgh, 23 November 1610. Witnesses: James Curle, merchant burgess of Edinburgh, James Skene, and Laurence Skene servitor to the said Sir John. Registered Edinburgh, 26 November 1610.
229. Double...
Dates:
1630-1657.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Incomplete translation, late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, of Adam Blackwood's ‘Martyre de Marie Stuart’, being the manuscript edited for the Maitland Club as ‘History of Mary, Queen of Scots’, by Alexander Macdonald., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3148
Scope and Contents
At the end are copies of an instrument of sasine following on a charter of Queen Mary to William Livingstone of Kilsyth, 1564 (folio 66), and of papers relating to Susanna Bruce and Barbara Livingstone, sister-in-law and daughter of William Livingstone of Easter Greenyards, 1629 (folios 67-67 verso), besides another fragmentary legal note, 1629 (folio 68 verso).
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Inventory of the Seals of Cause, with charters ratifying them, and of the acts and ordinances relative to the rights and privileges of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh., 1517-1695.
File
Identifier: MS.216
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of the Seal of Cause, 5 September 1517; ratification by James VI, 4 May 1597; ratification by William III, 17 July 1695.
Dates:
1517-1695.
‘Inventory of the writts of the lands and baronies of Gleneagles & Haldane’ containing in a late eighteenth-century hand transcripts and summaries of charters and other formal documents, and notes of others concerning the Haldane claim to the earldom of Lennox., [?1724, or earlier.]
Item
Identifier: MS.20002
Scope and Contents
The title is given on folio i.The manuscript appears to be a copy, presumably incomplete, for the text breaks off at the top of folio 81 verso, of an ‘Inventar of the writes and evidents of the baronies of Gleneagles and Haldane’ compiled by 1724 ('The Haldanes of Gleneagles’ by J Aylmer L Haldane, page 343). The documents copied are arranged chiefly in chronological order, the first being a charter of King William (which has suffered falsification: see ‘Regesta Regum Scottorum’,...
Dates:
[?1724, or earlier.]
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of papers on ecclesiastical history, originally marked ‘C’., 17th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents include the following:
(i) The history of the Episcopal See of St. Andrews till 1689, written after 1704;
(ii) A transcript of Balcarras’ memoirs;
(iii) A collection of papers chiefly concerning the troubles of the Church in the middle of the 17th century;
(iv) Copies of sew charters & other writs of subjects in Anstruther;
(v) Several papers regarding the death and character of Mr James Melville;
(vi) Devotional poetry;
(vii) Notes for sermons or lectures;
(viii) Religious...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Lathallan family charters, sasines, retours and related papers., Circa 1420-1681.
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Identifier: Acc.12092/2
Scope and Contents
Contains:13. Charter by William de Strachine and John Yhung son of Richard, baillies of Perth and the community of the same granting to John de Spensa son & heir of William de Spensa, senior a tenement, belonging to the deceased John son of Malcolm, burgess of Perth who was owing £4 to the royal custumar, on the South side of South Street between the land of William of Qwhitsum on the east and the land of Robert Broun on the west for payment of the said sum, the accustomed...
Dates:
Circa 1420-1681.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Legal documents of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1569-1814.
File
Identifier: MS.5320
Scope and Contents
The documents comprise the following:
(i) Resignations, 1643-1709 (number 1);
(ii) Copies of charters, 1656-1697 (number 5);
(iii) Sasines, 1569-1776 (number 16);
(iv) Marriage contracts, 1634-1781 (number 21);
(v) Other contracts and agreements, 1617-1814 (number 60);
(vi) Wills (number 77).
Dates:
1569-1814.
Legal papers and charters of the family of Gordon of Halmyre and Gordonstoun., 1630, 1793-1804, 1826-1828.
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Identifier: Acc.4642/12
Scope and Contents
Contains the following:(i) Charter of William Johnston, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, and his wife Margaret, concerning lands of Hallmyre, 1630.(ii) Sasine in favour of John Brand of Laurieston, 1793.(iii) Heritable bond by George Lyell of Kinneff in favour of John Brand, 1795.(iv) Sasine in favour of John Brand, 1795.(v) Fragment of document admitting an anonymous person to special membership of the Society of Natural Studies,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1630, 1793-1804, 1826-1828.
Letters and other documents concerning Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great., 1690-1723, 1895, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5163
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-44 are printed in full in 'Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, 1677-1720', edited by Robert Paul, in 'Miscellany of the Scottish History Society', volume ii, pages 371-430 (see MS.5162). Documents of Russian origin quoted by Paul, such as a passport and a charter signed by the Czar are not present.The remainder of the volume (folios 45-65) consists of further documents concerning Robert Erskine, mainly dealing...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1690-1723, 1895, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Correspondence and papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Assorted papers of and concerning the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Papers of and concerning Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great.
Manuscripts, 18th century, concerning the principality and peerage of Scotland., 18th century.
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Identifier: MS.204
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Memoriall concerning the Principality of Scotland’, by George Chalmers, 1752. Printed by J Carmichael in ‘Various tracts concerning the peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1791), pages 105-124. See J H Stevenson, ‘The Prince of Scotland’ in 'Scottish Historical Review', volume xxii (1925), page 91.(ii) Calendar of Scottish Charters relating to the titles of the Scottish nobility from Robert I to 25 April 1707. From the Public Records of...
Dates:
18th century.
Microfilm of transcript, 1812, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1812, of charters and other formal documents, 1488-1609, relating to officials and other secular clergy of, and regular clergy in religious houses in the medieval diocese of Glasgow., 1844-1609.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.154
Dates:
1844-1609.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
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Microfilm of transcript, 1812, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of charters and other formal documents, 1243-1609, relating to officials and other secular clergy of, and regular clergy in religious houses in the medieval diocese of Glasgow.
Microfilm of transcript, 1812, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of charters and other formal documents, 1243-1488, relating to officials and other secular clergy of, and regular clergy in religious houses in the medieval diocese of Glasgow., 1243-1488.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.153
Dates:
1243-1488.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
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Microfilm of transcript, 1812, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of charters and other formal documents, 1243-1609, relating to officials and other secular clergy of, and regular clergy in religious houses in the medieval diocese of Glasgow.
Microfilm of transcript, 1812, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of charters and other formal documents, 1243-1609, relating to officials and other secular clergy of, and regular clergy in religious houses in the medieval diocese of Glasgow., 1243-1609.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.153-154
Dates:
1243-1609.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Microfilm of transcript, 1813, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton "by EEH" of the transcript then in possession of John Dillon, of one of the notarial copies, mid-16th century, of the foundation and other charters of the Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Anne, Glasgow., Mid 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.156
Dates:
Mid 16th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Microfilm of transcripts and translations (some abridged), 1778, of charters and other documents, 1241-1559, belonging to the Blackfriars, Carmelites and Carthusians at Perth, made by the Reverend James Scott., 1241-1559.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.187
Microfilm of transcripts, circa 1778, of charters, 1241-1405, relating to the Order Of Preachers (Blackfriars) at Perth, including translations and historical notes, made by the Reverend James Scott., 1241-1405.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.186
Miscellaneous letters and papers, copies of charters, unsigned poems, etc., 1320-1840.
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Identifier: MS.1507
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...
Dates:
1320-1840.
Miscellaneous papers concerning Saltoun estate., [Circa 1240]-1806, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17258
Scope and Contents
The papers concern: the Commissioners of Supply for East Lothian, 1728-1761, undated (folio 1); Saltoun Church and Manse, including transcripts of charters giving the kirklands of Saltoun to the Hospital of Soutra, circa 1240-1805, undated (folio 20); the mortification to Saltoun by Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, 1730-1806, undated (folio 70; see also Ch.14747-14748); and the poor, in general and in Saltoun, 1692-1773, undated (folio 188).
Dates:
[Circa 1240]-1806, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Estate papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning Saltoun estate.
Miscellaneous papers, including charters and sasines, some concerning the Hope family., 1558-1665.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/4
Scope and Contents
Contains:67. Charter by Robert Stewart of Rossyth in favour of Agnes Scrymgeour spouse of Peter Bruce apparent of Erlishall and their heirs failing which the heirs of Peter Bruce of the middle third of the lands of Cragy in the barony of Rossyth to by held in fee. Baillie for sesine William Barklay. At Edinburgh, 6 August 1558. Witnesses: William Galt, David Grege and Finlay Martin.68. Instrument of sasine dated 16 June 1576 in favour of David Seitoun son of Alexander...
Dates:
1558-1665.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1683-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8222-8249
Miscellaneous papers relating to Orkney., 1433-1898, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19395
Scope and Contents
The papers being chiefly correspondence, including letters of Lady Margaret St Clair and Andrew Dishington, Minister of Stronsay, with some biographical details concerning him of 1898. Also a petition of Christiana Crawford or Moodie for justice against her husband's murderers, 1725, notes on grain exported from Orkney in 1834, and copies of charters and legal documents relating to Orkney 1433-1708.
Dates:
1433-1898, undated.
Notebook, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing copies and excerpts, of charters and other historical documents, 13th-16th centuries., [1747]-[circa 1760.]
Item
Identifier: MS.24543
Scope and Contents
The documents include a rental of lands in Scotland, 1628-1629 (page 11). The volume is referred to by Lord Monboddo as ‘Folio MS. 9’.
Dates:
[1747]-[circa 1760.]
Notes and letters on the genealogy of the Douglas family of Springwood Park including transcripts of charters and notes on other families related by marriage to the Douglases., 1739-1875, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8107
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Most of these notes and letters were collected by Sir George H Scott-Douglas in preparation for the printing of the family's pedigree (MS.8109).
Dates:
1739-1875, undated.
Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart in Scotland., 4th quarter of 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8298-8300
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Correspondence, notes, drafts and memoranda concerning the genealogical researches of Andrew Stuart for his ‘Genealogical history of the Stewarts’, and other works.
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart.