Precepts of warning. Legal instruments
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Execution of warning to remove, to tenants to Caithness, in favour of Robert, Commendator of Deer., 8 April 1581.
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.
Precept of warning by Charles Erskine of Bandeth and Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall to William Gray of Pittindrum, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, to remove from Saltoun., 25 March 1640.
William Forbes of Many, afterwards of Craigievar, and his son Sir William, succeeded in acquiring all rights to Saltoun, which was ultimately sold, after being held briefly by Sir William Gray of Pittendrum and various relations of Forbes, to Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer.
Precept of warning by John Inglis, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, to James, Lord Ochiltree and others to remove from Saltoun., 29 March 1621.
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Precept of warning by John Skene, writer in Edinburgh [assignee of John Finlason, tacksman of Saltoun] to tenants., 16 April 1631.
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Precept of warning by Mr Andrew Skene of Auchtertule to tenants of Saltoun., 31 March 1635.
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Precept of warning by Walter, Earl of Buccleuch to Christian Leslie in Standingstane., 29 March 1624.
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.