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12 Charters, 1648-1847, of Stonecroft, Queensferry.
With photocopies of letters, accounts and papers, 1666-1768, of John Weir, Auchengillan.
12 documents concerning the family of Naesmyth of Posso, with two charters, 1308-1309 and 1315, of Robert the Bruce.
The two charters of Robert I are issued to Adam the Marshall. They are printed in 'Regesta Regum Scottorum, vol. 5: The acts of Robert I, 1306-1329', edited by A.A.M. Duncan (Edinburgh 1987), no. 5 (page 60) and no. 60 (pages 344-345).
14 charters.
Including:
charter, 1357, of David II
confirmation, 1404, of Robert, Duke of Albany
document, circa 1547-circa 1571, in fine italic hand issued by John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews.
18 charters concerning the lands of Bendochy, Perthshire.
64 charters and documents, 1513-1773, of the Flemings of Wigtown.
With, 16 charters, 1592-1693, of the Earls Marischal
petition, 1746, of David Carmichael of Maudsley to sell entailed lands
four deeds, 1813-1860, concerning property in Sierra Leone.
A collection of charters and writs, with two catalogues.
A collection of formal documents relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire.
A collection of five formal documents, 1544-1607, relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire (Ch.8486-8490), together with an extract, 1711, of an acknowledgement of payment, 1710, by Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (Ch.8491), and a burgess ticket of Campbeltown, 1764, granted to John Walker, botanist (Ch.8492). An inventory is available.
‘Abbreviated charters 1425-1508’, a selection in the hand of Walter Macfarlane of 446 charters for illustrating Scottish genealogies.
At the beginning of the manuscript is an alphabetical index to the charters, and at the end are collections also by Walter Macfarlane, regarding the families of Myretoun, Orrock, Balram and Duff.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.4.26.
Abridgement, mid 18th century, of great seal charters, 1538-1540, in the hand of Walter Macfarlane.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.5.29.
Balcarres Papers.
Calligraphic transcript, 7 August 1782, by John McOmie of the copy made by James Scott, minister of East church, Perth, of the charter granted 14 April 1498 to the Carthusian monastery, Perth, by James Stewart, Earl of Buchan (created 1469), of his garden or orchard without the Spey (folio 4).
The main transcript is preceded by transcripts by McOmie of Scott`s account of the circumstances of the donation (folio 1) and Scott`s presentation note, 19 July 1782, to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767) (folio ii).
Cartularies of the Sligo family of Inzievar and Carmyle
Cartulary of the Earls of Winton, in a seventeenth century hand.
The charters are arranged in four books dealing with the lands of Elphinstone (folio 6), Tranent (folio 49), Hartsheid (folio 176), and Kirkliston and Winchburgh (folio 184). At the end (folio 219 verso) is a humorous quatrain by the copyist.
Charter, before 1172, of William, King of Scotland, confirming a charter, before 1172, of the lands of Monorgan in Longforgan, granted by his brother David, Earl of Huntingdon in favour of Gilbert, nephew of Andrew, bishop of Caithness.
The document, which is undated, was granted before 2 April, 1172, being witnessed by Matthew, bishop-elect of Aberdeen, and seven others.
Charter by Alexis Mikhailovitch, Tsar of Russia, attesting that Captain Vilirres [probably Villiers] from Scotland, who had served in his army and now wished to return home, was a skilled soldier.
A transcript, a translation into Modern Russian (with notes), and a translation into English, all by Father John Sotnikow, are placed with the charter.
Charter by Archibald, 4th Earl of Douglas, to his esquire James de Dundas of a wadset of the lands of Dunbarny, Perthshire.
Charter by David Scott in favour of James Douglas.
Concerning lands in Johnshaven.
Charter by John, Earl of Carrick, later Robert III, in favour of Alan de Cathcart.
Refers to the lands in Carrick formerly belonging to Alan de Cathcart`s uncle, Sir Duncan Wallace.
Charter by King Robert II to Sir James Douglas of Strabrock of a tenement in Linlithgow, formerly owned by Hugh Gadyrsie.
Witnessed by the Bishops of St Andrews and Dunkeld, the Earls of Carrick, Fife and Menteith, and Douglas, Sir Archibald Douglas, and Sir Thomas Erskine.
Charter by Mary, prioress of Coldstream Abbey, to Roger, son of Martin the weaver, of land in the Longate, Haddington
Includes seal.