Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

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Additional estate papers of the Dundases of Dundas consisting mostly of correspondence, legal processes, and miscellaneous management papers, 1741-1890. Correspondence filed with legal processes has not been removed. The original within the bundles of miscellaneous management papers has been retained.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Titles, policy papers, leases, rentals, registers of demands, specifications for building works and other papers, largely 1772-1923, of the Sutherland Estates.The papers described here form the second deposit of Sutherland Estates papers for the years 1861-1921, although there is some later material. The main series of estates papers for these years have been deposited as Acc.10225. Included here are the Rentals for the Dunrobin Management previously thought to have been lost....

Scope and Contents From the Series: The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Rentals of the barony of Minto and associated lands, 1678-1900. These include a note of the feuduties paid to the archbishop of Glasgow from the baronies of Lilliesleaf, Ancrum, and Ashkirk, 1688, 1706, and rentals of the lands of Chapel in Lilliesleaf, 1729, 1735-1736, 1750-1752, 1756 (folio 1);(ii) Rentals of estates not forming part of Minto: Langton, 18th century, Nether Ancrum, 1714, 1720, 1733, Stewartfield, 1769-1772, and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Lockharts held the barony of Lee in Lanarkshire from the 14th century at least, but apart from a few charters this collection dates from the 17th to the early 20th century. The direct line of lairds of Lee, from Sir James, Lord Justice Clerk, and Sir William, Cromwell's ambassador, died out in 1777. Lee then came into the possession of the descendants of Sir James's younger son, Sir George Lockhart, Lord President, who had acquired large holdings of land consolidated into the baronies of...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Rentals, with related notes, memoranda and correspondence, 1698-1786, undated, of lands in East Lothian, Berwickshire, Roxburghshire and Fife, being papers relating to the purchase of lands by the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 1);(ii) Rentals, with related papers, 1761-1883, of the Marquess of Tweeddale's estates in East Lothian, Berwickshire and Roxburghshire, including accounts, 1840-1842, of the collection of arrears of rent and...

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The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

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The contents are as follows.

(i) 'The Raid off the kirks off Coldingham', 1582, i.e., the teinds assigned to them (folio 1);

(ii) 'Ane old Rentall of the Abbacy of Coldinghame' (folio 20). An eighteenth-century transcript of 'The Rentall of Coldinghame as eftir followis, maid be Sir Androw Strethchenry, then Chamerlane for the tyme'. In a note the transcriber places the rental in the sixteenth century.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

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File includes:

Rent roll, 1843

Rentals and abstracts of Fettercairn estate crop, 1844-1847

Accounts between Sir John Stuart Forbes, 8th Bart. and James Falconer, and George Robertson, c.1840s.

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Contains papers of the following: Emperor's Resident at British Court (de Palm), 1727; Episcopal Church in Scotland, 1691-1708, with erection of a chapel in Edinburgh, 1765-1778, undated; Forfeited Estates, 1763-1773, undated; Forth and Clyde Canal, 1767-1773, undated; Great Seal and other fees, etc., 1754-1766, undated; Inchtuthill, rental and sale of the Barony, 1754-1755.