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Indentures. Legal Instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Legally binding agreements between two or more parties in two or more originals or copies. Also, contracts binding one person to work for another for a given period of time. (AAT) Index all examples under this heading. (NLS) .

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

Additional papers, correspondence, reports and drawings of Robert Stevenson and Sons., 1801-1886, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10706/655-665
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates: 1801-1886, undated.

Apprenticeship indenture of Robert Omond, son of George, merchant, Kirkwall, to Messrs Bell, Russell, and Company, surgeon apothecaries, Edinburgh., 1823.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15371
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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: 1823.

Apprenticeship indenture of Thomas Omond, son of George, merchant, Kirkwall, to Messrs Bell, Russell, and Company, surgeon apothecaries, Edinburgh., 1825.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15372
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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: 1825.

Apprenticeship indentures and related papers, chiefly of the early nineteenth century and drawn up in the office of Henry Davidson, sheriff-clerk of Haddington (and factor of Saltoun)., 1745-1824.

 File
Identifier: MS.16775
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: 1745-1824.

B. Miscellaney. A group of mostly unrelated legal documents., 1759-1824.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.5976-5990
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: 1759-1824.

Business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern, containing accompts, correspondence and a copy indenture., 1700, 1731-1777, 1796, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11137/15-24
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.

The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.

Dates: 1700, 1731-1777, 1796, undated.

Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 12th century-1553.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Confirmation by William I of gift by Hugh and William Giffard to the church of St. Andrews of the church of Tealing. Kincardine, 1189x1195. (Hugh de Roxburgh, chancellor; no date). Printed in ‘Regesta regum Scotorum’, volume ii, number 358.(ii) Confirmation, [1173-1178], by William I of gift by Walter, son of Philip to the church of St. Andrews of the land of Adhebrecces. Kinghorn, 1173x1178. (D.G.: Richard, Bishop of Dunkeld). Printed...
Dates: 12th century-1553.

Copy, 14 June 1437, of indenture, or agreement, 14 June 1437, between the abbot of Dunfermline and Davy Hacate, `apon al debatis and contraversyis movit betwixt thaim apon the landis of Petfuran`, the abbot to have sufficient `third` part, and the said Davy a sufficient `twa` part., 14 June 1437.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6026
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: 14 June 1437.

Copy indenture for service in Jamaica., 1740.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11137/19
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.

The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.

Dates: 1740.

Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, volume VIII: papers on various topics., 1680-1725.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.1.2(VIII)
Scope and Contents The contents include: papers on ‘Diplomata Scotiae’, especially Anderson`s attempts to obtain payment from Parliament; a proposal to give Anderson`s books to the Faculty of Advocates; a memorandum on the Leighton Library in Dunblane; notes on Sir Robert Sibbald`s Library (referring to ‘Bibliotheca Sibbaldiana’, pages 138-140); papers concerning Anderson`s wife, Jean Ellis, the widow and family of David Pringle, Surgeon Apothecary, and the Campbells of Calder; various household accounts;...
Dates: 1680-1725.

Documents relating to lands of Alexander Ellice in New York State., Circa 1790-circa 1800.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.12708-12710
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: Circa 1790-circa 1800.

Draft of indenture of David Parish with Alexander Ellice., Circa 1800.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12710
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: Circa 1800.

Duplicate of indenture of covenants by John James to Patrick Maxwell and John Balfour., 2 September 1785.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12663
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 2 September 1785.

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.

Indenture, 23 December 1829, between Thomas Moore and John Murray II : the assignment of the copyright in the "Letters and journals of Lord Byron, with notices of his life" from Moore to Murray., 1829.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42491
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: 1829.