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Discharges. Legal Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents effecting the release of a right or obligation from its binding force; used especially in military and legal contexts.

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.

 File
Identifier: MS.19986
Scope and Contents

These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.

Dates: 1825-1838.

Discharge under the privy seal by James III, King of Scotland, to Alexander Napier of Merchiston, comptroller of the royal household, for all farms, customs, etc, to date.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.B.13
Scope and Contents

Signature of James III reproduced, with comments, in `Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston`. With the discharge is a translation into English.

Dates: 1461.

Disposition and discharge to George and Elizabeth Dalglish.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7031
Scope and Contents

Concerning property in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1902, 1906.

Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents

These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.

Dates: 1645-1897, undated.

Military testimonial in favour of Lieutenant Thomas Patrick Ballingall, MC, Machine Gun Corps, and his discharge papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12902
Scope and Contents

Includes a copy of "Peary: In Memoriam" an elegy on the death in action of James Pearson, late of George Watson`s [Boys] College. Edinburgh, [by G. N. Ballingall].

Dates: 1915.

Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Urquhart family of Burdsyards.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.8437-8442
Scope and Contents

An inventory is available.

Dates: 1666-1827.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 Series
Identifier: MS.13500

Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).

 File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates: 17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.

Papers of and concerning John Mackinnon.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7428
Scope and Contents

Seven documents:

will, 1807, of Roderick Mackinnon

two letters, 1838, of Major Macdonald, 93rd Highlanders, in Halifax, Nova Scotia

furlough, 1835, containing physical description of John Mackinnon

pay list, 1839, of a recruiting party at Stornoway

discharge certificate, 1842, of John Mackinnon

certificate of pledge, 1849, of the Marine Temperance Society of New York.

Dates: 1807-1849.

Papers of Charles Baxter, Writer to the Signet, relating to his role as executor of members of the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9977/1-63
Scope and Contents

Concerning Baxter's work as executor of Thomas Stevenson, his wife Margaret, and their son, Robert Louis Stevenson, with additional material relating to the literary estate of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1830-1983.

Two discharge certificates of seamen.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4817
Scope and Contents

Concerning voyages made by Dundee ships.

Dates: 1860-1861.