Decrees of reduction. Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Copy, 24 February 1627, of decreet of reduction, 24 February 1627, at instance of John, Earl of Kinghorne of a tack of the teinds of Rescobie., 24 February 1627.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15138
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:
24 February 1627.
Decreet of reduction in the case James Earl of Hyndford against Colonel Francis Charteris., 1725.
File
Identifier: MS.17707
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1725.
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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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Colonel Francis Charteris of Amisfield (a cousin of Lady Milton) and his grand-son Francis Charteris (formerly Wemyss, later Earl of Wemyss), of whose tutors Lord Milton was one.
Extract of decreet of reduction and declarator in favour of Adam Bell of Belford and Robert Scott of Horsliehill, against Thomas Ker of Hownam., 1683.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7642
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Formal documents from the papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park. They consist mostly of marriage-contracts, certificates and military commissions of members of the family, but also include a few documents relating to the family estates.
Dates:
1683.