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63 deeds mostly concerning tenure of lands in North and South Kinkell.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4802
Dates:
1505-1668.
64 charters and documents, 1513-1773, of the Flemings of Wigtown.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10539
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1513-1860.
A collection of deeds concerning members of the family of Buchanan of Auchentoshan [subsequently Cross-Buchanan].
File
Identifier: Ch.5911-5945
Scope and Contents
Ch.5911 is a charter, 1484, of William, 3rd Lord Graham [subsequently 1st Earl of Montrose] to Thomas Buchanan of Drummikill.
Dates:
1484, 1627-1834.
A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.12871-13000
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.
Dates:
1436-1820.
Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents
Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates:
1518-1965, undated.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2955-2956
Dates:
1589-1881.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Charters and other formal documents from the collection of William Rose.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.49-97
Dates:
1060, 1306-1792.
Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8971-10633
Scope and Contents
The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates:
12th century-1910, undated.
Chartulary of the bishopric of Moray, 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.9
Scope and Contents
Chartulary compiled in Scotland containing a selection of transcripts of charters, deeds, and acts of the Bishopric of Moray, covering the 13th to the 16th centuries. The manuscript is also known as the 'Red Book of the Church of Moray'. Davis dates the manuscript to the 16th century. Borland suggests that the manuscript can be dated to circa 1540, with later 16th-century additions. This suggestion is certaninly true of the later portion of the chartulary, but the first 94 folios were...
Dates:
16th century.
‘Collectanea Juridica’, containing a collection of styles of deeds, writs, and forms of proceeding in various Courts of England.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.1
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.7
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages;
(ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).
Dates:
17th century.
Deed, 1697, of sale of a tenement in Leith to James Balfour, Director of the Darien Company, and Adolphus Murray, and will, ?1699, of James Balfour.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2523-2524
Dates:
1697, ?1699.
Deeds and other formal documents of the family of Erskine Murray.
Series
Identifier: Ch.5654-5756
Dates:
1426-1811.
Deeds and printed petitions concerning the Crawford family.
File
Identifier: Acc.11351
Dates:
1586-1830.
Deeds and printed petitions concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11350
Dates:
1619-1845.
Deeds and printed petitions concerning the Minto family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11349
Dates:
1745-1922.
Deeds, charters and formal papers from Nisbet House, Berwickshire, relating to the Nisbet, Ker, and Chisholme families.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.4775-5653
Dates:
1442-1790.
Deeds, charters and formal papers relating to the family of Erskine of Alva.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.4021-4537
Dates:
1501-1899, undated.
Deeds, judicial papers, and other documents, mostly legal, from the Hay of Yester papers.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.10685-12590
Scope and Contents
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1426-1959.
Deeds of, or connected with, the Lamonts of Lamont.
Series
Identifier: Ch.7361-7565
Dates:
1410-1891.
Deeds of, or connected with, the Lamonts of that Ilk.
Series
Identifier: Ch.263-410
Dates:
1622-1784.
Deeds, printed petitions, vouchers and accounts concerning the families of Lockhart of Lee and of Hay of Tweeddale.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11348
Dates:
1599-1819.