Precepts of sasine. Legal Instruments
Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:
A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
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.
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.
Bond, 1773, and precept of sasine, 1774, by John Wiseman of Neitherys Wyne in favour of George Chalmers in Darklen, relating to two of the Aughteen Part Lands of Elgin., 1773-1774.
Bothwell Barony: precept of sasine., 1525.
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.
Buccleuch affairs., 1543-1691.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Copies of instrument of resignation by John Ross of Craigie to John Charters of Kinfauns, of Craigton and of precept and instrument of sasine to him., 3-5 March 1557.
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.
Copy, 1531, of precept of sasine, 28 July 1531, by James V to William, Lord Abernethy, of Abernethy in Rothiemay, Corncary, Rethe, Dalgetty, Glencorse, Saltoun, Lielstoun and Ugstoun, Plenderleith, etc., 28 July 1531.
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.
Copy, 1603, of precept of sasine, 23 March 1603, by James VI to Sir Walter Lyndsay of Balgayis., 23 March 1603.
Their lands were acquired by Sir Andrew Fletcher in 1631.
Copy, 1624, of precept of sasine, 22 January 1624, to William Lyon, burgess of Forfar, of Finevin and Carrestoun., 22 January 1624.
More detailed lists of contents are available on request.
Copy, February 1622, of precept of sasine, 28 February 1621, to Anne, Elizabeth and Helen Rae, daughters of deceased Adam Rae of Pitsindie, of Finevin., 28 February 1621.
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Copy, undated, of precept of sasine, c 1563-1646, to Alexander, Lord Spynie of Finevin., c 1563-1646.
Incomplete.
Crown precept of sasine, 30 January 1662, following Crown charter of resignation, 30 January 1662, in favour of William Murray 1st Baronet of Ochtertyre, of the lands in Ochtertyre, Carroglen, Coig, Clogie, Dry Isle, Drummacharragan, Dollerie, Fowlis Wester and Croft Weit., 30 January 1662.
More detailed lists are available on request.
Crown precept of sasine following on a charter of confirmation in favour of Margaret Hay, wife of David Murray of Coig in liferent, and their daughter, Janet in fee, of Coig., 11 May 1557.
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Crown precept of sasine following on crown feu charter in favour of Margaret Pitcairn, widow of David Murray, 2nd of Ochtertyre in liferent and Patrick Murray, her son, in fee of Ochtertyre and Carroglen., 4 February 1509.
More detailed lists are available on request.
Crown precept of sasine for infefting Sir John Murray of Tullibardie in Coig., 20 December 1576.
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Crown precept of sasine in favour of Anne, Countess Marischal, of an annuity from Inverugie., 17 December 1669.
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.
Crown precept of sasine in favour of George, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1581), of lands in Caithness, Mearns, Banff and Aberdeen., 20 June 1589.
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.
Crown precept of sasine in favour of Gilbert, Earl of Errol in the Barony of Logy., 6 September 1638.
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Crown precept of sasine of five sevenths of the lands of Eastbarns alias Grainge in favour of James Bennet of Grainge son of the late Captain James Bennet of Grainge., 7 May 1693.
Four of these are signed by James VI and Anne of Denmark.
Crown precept of sasine on the charter of erection of the lands and Abbey of Deer into the Lordship of Altrie., 29 July 1587.
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.
Duplicate, 1543/1544, of precept of sasine, 12 February 1543/1544, by Robert Leis to Abraham Crichton provost of Dunglass of two farms in Saltoun., 12 February 1543/1544.
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.
Garden Barony: precept of sasine., 1619.
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.
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.
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.
Kelso: precepts and instruments of sasine, etc., 1757-1805.
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.
Lands of Hassandean: precept of sasine in favour of the 4th Lord Hay of Yester., 1543.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.