Decrees
Found in 208 Collections and/or Records:
Decreets, and other documents chiefly relating to the wadset of Pairnie and Beldhill, Perthshire., 1680-1734.
Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.
Decreit and summons by Sir Andrew Fletcher against Sir William Gray of Pittindrum concerning Saltoun., 23 February 1643.
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.
Decreit by Sheriff of Haddington in case James Gray of Ballegarnoch against Sir Robert Fletcher., 4 July 1653.
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.
`Decreit of nichtbourheid`, given by the Dean of Guild, Edinburgh, to Thomas Broun, merchant, against Alexander Ousteane, merchant tailor., 1590.
A decreet had already been given in Thomas Broun`s favour against John Couper, tailor, in 1582, with regard to structural alterations made by Couper to a land in Dickson`s Close. The present decreet transfers the obligation imposed on Couper to Alexander Ousteane, the new proprietor of the land.
Decreit possibly of Sir Henry Hay, advocate, against his tenants., 1667.
Most of the documents are drafts and cancelled charters which concern the 1st Marquess.
Deeds of the Murrays of Woodend., 1541-1710.
Duncan Forbes, 3rd of Culloden, decreet against James Dunbar of Dalcross., 1701.
Extract of decreet in favour of the presbytery of Glasgow against William Houston., 1692.
The documents are mostly marriage-contracts, burgess-tickets, and similar documents concerning members of the Dunlop family in the 17th and 18th centuries. Three items concern William Dunlop`s affairs in South Carolina, 1688-1689 (Ch.8456-8458). An inventory is available.
Firman granted by the Mogul Emperor Shāh `Ālam, in 1802, conferring the dignity of Khān on Robert Wilson, surgeon in the service of the East India Company (1762-1822).
Glasgow: instruments of sasine, 1581-1801; decreet, 1666; charter of confirmation, 1821., 1581-1821.
Latin, except Ch.1087, Ch.1092-1096.
Govan: decreet., 1728.
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.
Incomplete collection (lacking original pages 1-2) of fair copies, with frequent calligraphic embellishments, of royal decreets and other formal documents relating to the administration of teinds (tithes) in Scotland.
The documents are copies of originals mostly from the period 1626 to 1643, but they include a commission, January 1678, granted by Charles II, and the copyist`s hand is characteristic of the late 17th century.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1758-1785.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
Miscellaneous decreets of apprising, relating to the financial affairs of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount Kingston., 1644-1680.
Miscellaneous deeds relating to the Lords Oliphant and to the Oliphants of Gask., 1548-1798.
Papers, 1818, in the claim of the Marquess of Abercorn to certain dignities and honours of the House of Hamilton, consisting of statements and opinions thereanent, and copies of a decreet of the Duchess of Hamilton against the Earl of Abercorn, 1658, and of a reported case of the Duke of Hamilton, 1747., 1658, 1747, 1818.
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).