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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 406 Collections and/or Records:

Discharge, Thomas Mitchell, merchant in Edinburgh, and others to Sir Charles Halket of bond for £2000., 27 August 1674.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6625
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).

Dates: 27 August 1674.

Discharge to Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of his account as sheriff depute of Roxburghshire., 1754.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.10475
Scope and Contents From the Series: The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates: 1754.

Discharge to Sir James Haldane of Gleneagles (d 1547) of the tenants of Ardewnen., 18 February 1540.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15452
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Almost all of these papers were used in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up [but not brought to the House of Lords] by George Cockburn, Haldane of Gleneagles. An inventory of these documents and papers is available.

Dates: 18 February 1540.

Discharge, William Cleghorn, one of His Majesty’s servitors, to Issobell Habroun, lady of Pitfirrane, for the Whitsunday’s term maills of Burnmouth and Wester Silletoun., 28 July 1591.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6324
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).

Dates: 28 July 1591.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1585-1802.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.3.1-82.3.10
Scope and Contents

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: 1585-1802.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1585-1680.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.1
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: 1585-1680.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1681-1719.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.2
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: 1681-1719.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1720-1729.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.3
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: 1720-1729.

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1730-1735.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.3.4
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: 1730-1735.

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.