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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Includes authorizations granting the power to perform a task or duty and documents appointing or hiring someone to perform a task.

Found in 221 Collections and/or Records:

Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 12th century-1553.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Confirmation by William I of gift by Hugh and William Giffard to the church of St. Andrews of the church of Tealing. Kincardine, 1189x1195. (Hugh de Roxburgh, chancellor; no date). Printed in ‘Regesta regum Scotorum’, volume ii, number 358.(ii) Confirmation, [1173-1178], by William I of gift by Walter, son of Philip to the church of St. Andrews of the land of Adhebrecces. Kinghorn, 1173x1178. (D.G.: Richard, Bishop of Dunkeld). Printed...
Dates: 12th century-1553.

Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates: 1554-1720.

Commission by Prince Charles Edward to Sir William Gordon of Park, as Lieut-Colonel in Lord Pitsligo’s Horse., 1745.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15(xi), f. 39
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The manuscript has been compiled from various sources. See the particular descriptions. Letters of presentation by or on behalf of the donors are included.

Dates: 1745.

Commission by the Commissioners of Customs to John Erskine, tidesman at Kirkcaldy, to be their agent., 26 October 1743.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15196
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 26 October 1743.

Commission by the magistrates and council of Inverbervie to Provost James Allardice of Allardice to represent them at the Convention of Burghs., 28 June 1727.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15191
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 28 June 1727.

Commission, Charles, Earl of Dunfermline, to Sir James Halket to be one of the bailies of the regality of Dunfermline., April 1638.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6836
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).

Dates: April 1638.

Commission, Charles, Earl of Dunfermline, to Sir Robert Colville of Cleisch and Sir James Halkheid of Pitfirrane, to inspect coals, etc., in the parish of Dunfermline., 19 August 1642.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6575
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).

Dates: 19 August 1642.

Commission from the Earl of Airlie, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Forfar, to Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar, M.P., antiquary, as a Deputy Lieutenant., 1828.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12804
Scope and Contents From the Series:

As well as charters relating to the Chalmers family itself, there are other items which are apparently unrelated but which came with the bulk of the papers. Only one document (Ch.12806) is of 15th century date, and only one (Ch.12776) is of the 16th century. The rest of the collection dates largely from the 17th and 18th centuries. A detailed list is available.

Dates: 1828.

Commission in favour of Sir Thomas Hislop as Governor of Fort St George., 1816.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.10428
Scope and Contents From the Series: 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: 1816.