Deeds. Legal documents.
Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
Scotsman Buildings Chartulary
Copies of title deeds, legal documents and fire insurance policies relating to buildings on North Bridge, Edinburgh, occupied by 'The Scotsman' newspaper.
Scottish chartularies transcribed, 1738-1744, for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
The wording and ornament of the title pages suggest a division into three groups:
(i) Adv.MSS.35.2.5, 35.3.6, 35.3.7, 35.39: 1738-1739.
(ii) Adv.MSS.35.3.2, 35.3.4: 1740.
(iii) Adv.MSS.35.3.3, 35.3.5, 35.3.8: 1740-1744.
The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library, with notes taken from Richard Augustine Hay`s works. Only those documents the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.
Single manuscripts and small collections, presented at various times.
Sixty-three deeds, mostly relating to tenure of lands in North and South Kinkell.
The deeds, charters and formal papers relating to the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance, and the formal legal and personal papers of Andrew Stuart, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, W.S.
Three deeds concerning the lands of Auchry and the family of Gordon of Gordonstoun.
Title-deeds of the lands of Langlarg, called the fifty-shilling land of Nether Larg or Larglanglee, in the parish of Urr, with other documents, all relating to those lands.
Ch.2544-2553 are accompanied by modern summaries.
Typed transcripts, 1956-1957, concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose in the period 1455-1710.
Comprising typed transcripts of the town council minutes and burgh count books of the Burgh of the Chanonry of Ross, 1647-1658, and the Burgh of Fortrose, 1674-1710, and of charters and other deeds concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose, 1455-1661.