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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:

Indenture between George Inglis and Henry Mackenzie., 18 November 1761.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.A.243
Scope and Contents

Bears signatures and seals of both parties and of Joshua Mackenzie, the author`s father.

Dates: 18 November 1761.

Indenture between the tenants and the tutors of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, concerning claims for damages by the former.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.8499
Scope and Contents

With a schedule of the tenants and monies involved.

Dates: 1825.

Indenture between Thomas, Earl of Kellie and John Coventrie, Cassington, Oxfordshire., 21 April 1620.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14338
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir George Fletcher, advocate, a younger son of Robert of Innerpeffer, was one of his commissioners and acquired the lands of Restennet in 1627. The first two documents, the earliest in the collection, are the foundation charter of the Priory by Malcolm IV and its confirmation by the Bishop of St Andrews.

Dates: 21 April 1620.

Indenture between William, 1st Earl of Caithness and his son, and Sir Gilbert Keith of Inverugie and Mary his daughter., 26 July 1477.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.17098
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: 26 July 1477.

Indenture contract binding John Spottiswoode, the Keeper, apprentice to James Hay, W.S., 1686.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.1566
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Ch.1492-1539 relate to a family of Spottiswood (most often spelt Spottiswod; also other variants) in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1686.

Indenture for the Camden Estate, Trinidad, between William Lushington, and John Stewart and Alexander Fraser.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14555
Scope and Contents Document is an indenture of release between Lushington, and Stewart and Fraser of Inchcoulter. The indenture provides a legal description of the plantation and outlines the ownership rights of both the physical plantation and the enslaved workers.There are four schedules providing details on the names, ages, employment, sex, colour, stature, country, marks [distinguishing features] and relations of the enslaved workers. The Scottish connection is clear as...
Dates: 1807-1819.

Indenture of apprenticeship between John Mitchell and John Taylor, clockmaker, Shoreditch., 10 November 1772.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.5978
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: 10 November 1772.

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

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12665
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.

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

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12664
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.

Indenture of Elizabeth Aytoun, relict of Henry Bothwill of Vrquhart, with consent of John Halkhed of Petfurane, her spouse, and William Cokburn, tutor of law to David Bothwill, son and heir of said Henry, concerning the board of David and the rest of the children who are to remain with their mother., 11 July 1516.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6069
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: 11 July 1516.