Royal precepts. Legal instruments
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Precept of sasine by George III to General John Fletcher of Saltoun, of Saltoun., 29 June 1803.
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.
Precept of sasine by George III to Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 3 November 1779.
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.
Precept of sasine by James VI to David, Earl of Crawford, of farms in Saltoun, Abraham Crichton having no legitimate heirs and John Crichton being forfeited., 25 November 1583.
The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.
Precept of sasine by James VI to Mr James Crichton, nephew of Mariot Crichton, Lady Clunie, of husbandlands in Saltoun., 22 November 1611.
The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.
Precept of sasine by James VI to Sir Walter Lyndsay of Balgayis., 23 March 1603.
Their lands were acquired by Sir Andrew Fletcher in 1631.
Precept of sasine of James VI and I in favour or George, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1581), of Dunnottar and Garvoch with a new grant of patronage of the kirks of Dunnotter and Fetteresso., 6 May 1586.
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.
Precept of sasine under the Great Seal of six bovates of Skeoch resigned by Thomas Craigingelt of Craigingelt, who formerly owned them, to James Gardner, burgess of Stirling, and his wife Joneta Forrester., 12 June 1607.
A collection of five formal documents, 1544-1607, relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire (Ch.8486-8490), together with an extract, 1711, of an acknowledgement of payment, 1710, by Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (Ch.8491), and a burgess ticket of Campbeltown, 1764, granted to John Walker, botanist (Ch.8492). An inventory is available.
Royal precept addressed to the Sheriff of Peebles concerning the making up of the Sheriff`s accounts., 1544.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.