Extracts. Legal documents.
Found in 310 Collections and/or Records:
Notarial extract, 24 March 1557/1558, by Alexander Guthrie (I), from a protocol book of Vincent Strathauchin recording sasines, 16 November 1529. (9)., 16 November 1529.
Recording: (a) given by Gavin Logie to William Nudry of half the Crosshouse (b) of the same half, given by William Nudry to John Barclay and Elizabeth Nudry his spouse
Notarial extract, 25 March 1557/1558, by Alexander Guthrie (I), from a protocol book by Henry Strathauchin, recording sasines, 18 September 1517. (3)., 18 September 1517.
Recording: (a) of half the Crosshouse to Marion Frog as heir to Michael Frog; (b) of the same half to James Makcalzean, given by Marion Frog.
Notarial extract, 25 March 1557/1558, by Alexander Guthrie (I), from a protocol book of Henry Strathauchin, notary public and clerk deputy of Edinburgh, recording sasine, 15 March 1511/1512, of a tenement in the High Street to Michael Frog, as heir to Janet, alias Dowy, Linton. (1)., 15 March 1511/1512.
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.
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Notarial extract, 25 March 1557/1558, by Alexander Guthrie (I), recording sasine (a), 23 February 1528/1529, of half the Cross House, given by Elizabeth Dunsyre to Robert Forester as her son and heir, and (b), 8 April 1530, of the same half, given by Robert Forester to John Barclay. (11)., 23 February 1528/1529, 8 April 1530.
From a protocol book of John Foulis, deputy clerk of Edinburgh.
Papers concerning the Queensferry Passage, being inventories of writs and papers, memorials, accounts and extracts from the court books of the regality of Dunfermline., 1598-1736.
Papers of the Douglas family used by the Hamilton lawyers in the Douglas Cause lawsuit, apparently to establish the principle of the Douglas succession., 1321-1707, 1712, 1761-1762.
Printed session papers, Kinloch v Rocheid, with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair., 1799-1800.
Registered extract of attorney by Patrick Douglas of Kilspindie to Mr William Douglas of Knytesrig, advocate, to resign Kilspindie in favour of Patrick Douglas his son., 24 October 1609.
There are also some documents relating to the lands of Butterdean and Wester Borthwick in Oldhamstocks which were held by the lairds of Aberlady.
Translation of notarial attestations of deeds by Roland Faulconnier, merchant in Middelburg, to William Goldman, merchant in Dundee., 4, 14 May 1599.
Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.
Transumpt, or notarial translation, 12 September 1432, of decreet arbitral, 12 September 1432, on submission of the abbot of Dunfermline and David Hacat `twychand the debatis of the marchis betwixt Petfurane and Abercrumby`., 12 September 1432.
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).