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Dispositions. Legal Instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Scottish Law. A deed of conveyance, an assignation of property. Source: Concise Scots dictionary (Aberdeen: Aberdeen Univeristy Press, 1987).

Found in 287 Collections and/or Records:

A. Edinburgh - High Street., 1511-1832.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.5946-5975
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprised of:

Ch.5946-5975: a group of thirty deeds and notarial extracts formerly part of a larger collection of documents, numbered between 1 and at least 33 (but originally not chronologically arranged), relating to properties in the High Street, Edinburgh;

Ch.5976-5990: a group of mostly unrelated documents of a miscellaneous nature arranged in a separate chronological sequence.

An inventory is available.

Dates: 1511-1832.

Bond and disposition by Andrew Fletcher of Saitoun to John Carfrae of Craiger, coachmaker in Edinburgh, for £6600., 9 June 1830.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14678
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 9 June 1830.

Bond and disposition by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun to the trustees of Lieutenant Colonel John MacDougall of Polquhairn for £6000., 14 May 1828.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14676
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 14 May 1828.

Bond and disposition by George Ramsay, baker in West Saltoun, to Agnes Aitchison resident at Gimmersmills for £100., 25 February 1848.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14692
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 25 February 1848.

Bond and disposition by George Ramsay, baker in West Saltoun, to Agnes Aitchison, resident at Gimmersmills near Haddington for £200., 1 September 1843.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14688
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 1 September 1843.

‘Collections’ made by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, containing a number of genealogical papers and copies of military documents which he probably used when engaged on compiling ‘Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783’.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.21
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume include:(i) Genealogical accounts in a variety of hands of a number of British peers, collected while Beatson was gathering material for his work on the English Peerage. (See also Adv.MSS.33.5.9-33.5.10). For another copy of the account of the family of Calder (folio 29), see MS.9982.(ii) An account, in Beatson`s hand, of the Parish of Dysart, his birthplace, undated (folio 57).(iii) Description of a Tour of Scotland made by...
Dates: 1785-1803, and undated.

Copies of miscellaneous legal documents., 1614-1619.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.13487
Scope and Contents Comprised of: charter by James VI to Robert, Lord Lindsay, Sir Harie Lindsay and Sir John Lindsay of Finevin, 7 May 1614; comprising by James, Lord Ochiltree of Finevin and Carestoun, 15 August 1616; charter by James VI to James, Lord Ochiltree of Finevin and Carestoun, 11 January 1617; disposition by James, Lord Ochiltree to Mr William Forbes of Finevin and Carestoun, 20 March 1618; contract between Sir Harie Lindsay and Mr William Forbes concerning Finevin and Carestoun, 27 March 1618;...
Dates: 1614-1619.

Copy, 1650, of disposition, 11 March 1650, by Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer to George, Lord of Spynie, of Phinevin and Forrest of Platon., 11 March 1650.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.13855
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The family acquired various properties in Angus which were consolidated into the baronies of Innerpeffer and Turin; after Sir Andrew`s purchase of Saltoun the Angus property was sold, some to Col Sir Francis Ruthven in 1648, some to George, Lord Spynie in 1650, and some to George, Earl of Panmure in 1663; current titles will have passed to the purchasers.

Dates: 11 March 1650.

Copy, 1873, disposition, 1825, by Sir Patrick Keith Murray in favour of Alexander Innes of Dunnottar., 8 November 1825.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.17304
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included are charters of Deer Abbey which passed to the family on the Reformation as the lordship of Altrie. Notes on these charters appear in Patrick Keith Murray`s `Inventory of Marischal Papers, 1905`, MS.21114.

Dates: 8 November 1825.

Copy, undated, of disposition, 26 April 1647, by Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer to Alexander Bothwell of Glencorse, of Glencorse., 26 April 1647.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14483
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 26 April 1647.

Disposition, 9 January 1573/1574, by Robert, commendator of Dunfermline, to George Halkheid of Pitfirrane of the gift of his marriage, 15 August 1573., 9 January 1573/1574.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6200
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: 9 January 1573/1574.

Disposition, 19 August 1697, registered in books of Session 29 June 1699, James Cleland of Pitdinnies, with consent therein mentioned, to Sir Patrick Murray, Dame Elizabeth Murray, Dame Janet Murray, in liferent, and to James Halket, eldest son of Sir Charles Halket, in fee, of the lands of Pitdinnies, and in warrandice thereof the lands of Blairhall, etc., 19 August 1697.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6683
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: 19 August 1697.

Disposition, 25 June 1578, upon which proceeds the sasine, 25 June 1578, John Lowdoun, burgess of Kirkcaldy, and spouse, an annual-rent of three bolls bear and three bolls meal from Over Grange of Kinghorne Wester, from Robert Stewart, portioner thereof., 25 June 1578.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6249
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: 25 June 1578.