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Instruments of sasine. Legal instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Scottish law. The deed or document recording the transfer of property. Source: Concise Scottish Dictionary (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987).

Found in 729 Collections and/or Records:

Duplicate, 1482/1483, of instrument of sasine, 17 January 1482/1483, to William, Lord Abernethy, of Glencorse., 17 January 1482/1483.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.13011
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.

Dates: 17 January 1482/1483.

Duplicate, 1482/1483, of instrument of sasine, 17 January 1482/1483, to William, Lord Abernethy, of Saltoun., 17 January 1482/1483.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.13013
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.

Dates: 17 January 1482/1483.

Edinbellie Napier Barony: charter and instrument of sasine., 1669, 1685.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.1205-1206
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The deeds are arranged under country, county, and smaller unit, the smaller unit being either the subject of the conveyance or a covering unit mentioned in the document. They are indexed under the names of the smaller units and also, in the case of Scotland, under the names of the parties.

Dates: 1669, 1685.

Extract, 1832, from the protocol book of Alexander Guthrie, recording sasine, 3 December 1633, of the Crosshouse and other properties, given by Alexander Makartney, procurator for the Provost of Edinburgh and others, Governors of Heriot`s Hospital, to Robert Meiklejohn, Dean of the Skinners` Gild. (29)., 3 December 1633.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.5970
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: 3 December 1633.

Extract instrument of sasine in favour of William, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1635) of the patronage of the former Abbey of Deer., 16 December 1637.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.17241
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: 16 December 1637.

Extract of instrument of sasine, 4 March 1686, to George, Earl of Dumbarton, of Saltoun. Registered 1 May 1686., 4 March 1686.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14548
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: 4 March 1686.

Extract of instrument of sasine, 29 August 1684, to Barbara Gledstanes, relict of Mr William Ogilvy, minister of Newburn, of a tenement in Brechin. Registered, 30 August 1684., 29 August 1684.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15173
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 29 August 1684.

Falkirk Parish: instrument of sasine., 1785.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.1207
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The deeds are arranged under country, county, and smaller unit, the smaller unit being either the subject of the conveyance or a covering unit mentioned in the document. They are indexed under the names of the smaller units and also, in the case of Scotland, under the names of the parties.

Dates: 1785.

Gigha Parish and North Knapdale Parish: instruments of sasine., 1776.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.974-975
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The deeds are arranged under country, county, and smaller unit, the smaller unit being either the subject of the conveyance or a covering unit mentioned in the document. They are indexed under the names of the smaller units and also, in the case of Scotland, under the names of the parties.

Dates: 1776.

Gigha Parish: instrument of sasine, 1769, and precept of clare constat, 1796., 1769, 1796.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.976-977
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The deeds are arranged under country, county, and smaller unit, the smaller unit being either the subject of the conveyance or a covering unit mentioned in the document. They are indexed under the names of the smaller units and also, in the case of Scotland, under the names of the parties.

Dates: 1769, 1796.

Incomplete translation, late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, of Adam Blackwood's ‘Martyre de Marie Stuart’, being the manuscript edited for the Maitland Club as ‘History of Mary, Queen of Scots’, by Alexander Macdonald., Late 16th century-early 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3148
Scope and Contents

At the end are copies of an instrument of sasine following on a charter of Queen Mary to William Livingstone of Kilsyth, 1564 (folio 66), and of papers relating to Susanna Bruce and Barbara Livingstone, sister-in-law and daughter of William Livingstone of Easter Greenyards, 1629 (folios 67-67 verso), besides another fragmentary legal note, 1629 (folio 68 verso).

Dates: Late 16th century-early 17th century.

Innerwick Parish: instrument of sasine., 1673.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.1006
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The deeds are arranged under country, county, and smaller unit, the smaller unit being either the subject of the conveyance or a covering unit mentioned in the document. They are indexed under the names of the smaller units and also, in the case of Scotland, under the names of the parties.

Dates: 1673.

Instrument and precept of sasine of two chaplaincies in the parish church of Haddington, in favour of William Wilson and Archibald Borthwick, priests of St Mary`s Church, Haddington., 1533.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.5855
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

A miscellany of charters and other formal documents from the collection of John Smith, Edinburgh. Most of the documents are deeds relating to land tenure in East Lothian, particularly to lands and properties in Dunbar.

Dates: 1533.

Instrument of resignation and sasine in favour of John Rutherford, nephew (nepos) of Sir William Rutherfurd, vicar of Gyrnlaw, of the four merklands of old extent lying on the east side of the town of Scraisburgh; following on the resignation made by Sir William into the hands of John Rutherfurd of Hunthyll, superior thereof., 22 December 1542.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7750/57
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: Contains 71 writs and three detached seals, with Cairncross Charters of the Regality of Melrose (listed in "Selections from the Regality of Melrose", volume III, (1917), pp 373-382).Please note that the Rutherford name is represented variously throughout the charters, including Ruderfurde, Ruthirfurde, and Rutherfurde.This collection consists of material transferred from the Scottish Record Office to the National Library, and is supplementary to the main body of...
Dates: 22 December 1542.