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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 431 Collections and/or Records:

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1736-1739.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers cover financial transactions and personal, house¬hold, and estate expenditure (but for estate accounts after 1745 and all accounts after 1802 see Adv.MSS.82.3.11-82.3.14, 82.6.1-82.8.9; cf. also Adv.MS.82.4.11). The amount of material preserved varies greatly from year to year.

Dates: 1736-1739.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1740-1749.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers cover financial transactions and personal, house¬hold, and estate expenditure (but for estate accounts after 1745 and all accounts after 1802 see Adv.MSS.82.3.11-82.3.14, 82.6.1-82.8.9; cf. also Adv.MS.82.4.11). The amount of material preserved varies greatly from year to year.

Dates: 1740-1749.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1750-1759.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.7
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers cover financial transactions and personal, house¬hold, and estate expenditure (but for estate accounts after 1745 and all accounts after 1802 see Adv.MSS.82.3.11-82.3.14, 82.6.1-82.8.9; cf. also Adv.MS.82.4.11). The amount of material preserved varies greatly from year to year.

Dates: 1750-1759.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1760-1788.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.8
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers cover financial transactions and personal, house¬hold, and estate expenditure (but for estate accounts after 1745 and all accounts after 1802 see Adv.MSS.82.3.11-82.3.14, 82.6.1-82.8.9; cf. also Adv.MS.82.4.11). The amount of material preserved varies greatly from year to year.

Dates: 1760-1788.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1790-1792.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers cover financial transactions and personal, house¬hold, and estate expenditure (but for estate accounts after 1745 and all accounts after 1802 see Adv.MSS.82.3.11-82.3.14, 82.6.1-82.8.9; cf. also Adv.MS.82.4.11). The amount of material preserved varies greatly from year to year.

Dates: 1790-1792.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1793-1802.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers cover financial transactions and personal, house¬hold, and estate expenditure (but for estate accounts after 1745 and all accounts after 1802 see Adv.MSS.82.3.11-82.3.14, 82.6.1-82.8.9; cf. also Adv.MS.82.4.11). The amount of material preserved varies greatly from year to year.

Dates: 1793-1802.

Discharges and compts from and to members of the Wardrop family., 1700-1723.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9843/34
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.

Dates: 1700-1723.

Discharges and deeds., 1843-1856.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3521/44
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Including legal and financial papers.

Dates: 1843-1856.

Discharges and other papers relating to Bethea Johnston, widow of Thomas Sandilands., 1731-1756.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9843/51
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.

Dates: 1731-1756.

Discharges concerning the lands of Covington., 1502-1678.

 File
Identifier: MS.27544
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Lockharts held the barony of Lee in Lanarkshire from the 14th century at least, but apart from a few charters this collection dates from the 17th to the early 20th century. The direct line of lairds of Lee, from Sir James, Lord Justice Clerk, and Sir William, Cromwell's ambassador, died out in 1777. Lee then came into the possession of the descendants of Sir James's younger son, Sir George Lockhart, Lord President, who had acquired large holdings of land consolidated into the baronies of...
Dates: 1502-1678.

Discharges, financial papers and correspondence concerning the Douglas family., 1649-1675.

 File
Identifier: MS.5370
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Discharges, 1649-1670, of William, Marquess of Douglas, and his son William, 3rd Duke of Hamilton (folio 1);(ii) Financial papers, 1667-1674, of Mary, Marchioness of Douglas, including precepts and discharges to her son (folio 60), tradesmen's discharges arranged in chronological order (folio 89), and undischarged accounts arranged according to a contemporary list (folio 116);(iii) Papers and correspondence, 1675, concerning...
Dates: 1649-1675.

Discharges of annualrents, taxes, stipends, etc., chiefly relating to the Fletchers of Innerpeffer and of Saltoun., 1547-1765, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16822-16830
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: 1547-1765, undated.

Discharges of bonds and interest on bonds of the Airth estate., 1721-1759.

 File
Identifier: MS.10852
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1721-1759.

Discharges of bonds and interest on bonds of the Airth estate, and papers relating to debts and annuities., 1721-1824.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10852-10853
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1721-1824.