Contracts. Agreements.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents, enforceable by law, embodying agreements between two or more competent parties to do or not to do something, and specifying the terms and conditions of the agreement.
Found in 485 Collections and/or Records:
Extract of contract, 30 October 1713, between Colonel Francis Charteris and Andrew Barclay, wright in Abbeyhill. Registered, 30 January 1716., 30 October 1713.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14946
Extract of contract, 31 December 1608, registered, 9 August 1611, between John, Lord Saltoun and Walter, Lord Blantyre and James Master of Blantyre concerning the marriage of Lord Saltoun and Anna Stewart., 31 December 1608.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13183
Dates:
31 December 1608.
Extract of contract between George, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1581) and George, 2nd Earl of Huntly concerning lands at Edgel, Kincardinshire., 23 January 1590.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17179
Dates:
23 January 1590.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre and Keith, Earl Marischal papers.
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Charters and formal documents from the Keith, Earl Marischal papers.
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Titles of the Keiths, Earls Marischal for their property in Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire and elsewhere in Scotland.
Extract of heads of contract, 31 May 1613, between Adam Gordon of Glenbuschet and Laurence Oliphant of Nether Turings. Registered, 8 December 1618., 31 May 1613.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14230
Extract of registered copy, 5 March 1585/1586, of contract, 4 March 1585/1586, between Alexander, Lord Saltoun and John Wardlaw, burgess of Edinburgh and Janet Hutton his wife, concerning lands in Easter Saltoun., 4 March 1585/1586.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13106
Dates:
4 March 1585/1586.
Family legal and financial papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1550-1764.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7105-7107
Scope and Contents
The papers include, in one chronological sequence, formal legal documents such as bonds and contracts (except those too large to be bound, which have been treated as charters), informal legal notes, personal accounts, and estate accounts and papers.
Dates:
1550-1764.
Family papers, including contracts, retours and sasines, some concerning Gilbert Skene., 1540-1661.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/3
Scope and Contents
Contains:39. Copy assedation Alexander, Bishop of Brechin, in favour of James Guthrie burgess of Edinburgh and Christiane Barron his spouse of the teinds of the lands of Bannabrioth and half of the mill-lands thereof in liferent and for three heirs lives and 90 years thereafter. Edinburgh, 27 January 1577.40. Contract at Edinburgh 16 September 1575 between Mr Gilbert Skene, doctor of medicine on one part and John Melros, writer burgess of Edinburgh on the other part...
Dates:
1540-1661.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Fragment of draft of contract between [Sir] Alexander Menzies of that ilk, [1st Baronet] and Alexander Menzies of Rotmell., ?23 September 1665.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10639
Dates:
?23 September 1665.
Fragments of the Kilbride collection, in Gaelic, consisting of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille, part of a tale of Caithréim Conghail Cláiringhnigh, and a contract between Duncan MacDougall and his servitor.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.31
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of three fragments from the Kilbride collection, but two of these (folios 1-5, Colum-cille poems, and folio 8, a MacDougall contract) are of very great independent value.Folios 1-5 (Mackechnie’s ‘A’, ‘B’).These fragments, ?15th century, contain an orderly sequence of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille. The hand is that which inscribes the Colum-cille poem “Aingeal Dé dom dhín” on the fly leaf of British Library MS. Egerton 2899...
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
General and East Lothian papers., 1541-1891, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14750-14756
Dates:
1541-1891, undated.
Heads of contract between Adam Gordon of Glenbucket and Patrick Oliphant of Over Turings., 28 May 1613.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14228
Heads of contract between Adam Gordon of Glenbuschet and Laurence Oliphant of Nether Turings., 31 May 1613.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14229
Heads of contract between John Livingston and Marion Muir his wife, and Patrick Livingston, their son, and Janet Abernethie, his wife., 27 March 1606.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13663
Dates:
27 March 1606.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
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Early Saltoun documents.
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Documents relating to various Livingston(e)s, especially Patrick of Dalderse and Inchcorsie, his brother William, chamberlain of the 8th Lord Saltoun, and Alexander, advocate.
Instrument of contract between Thomas Pigot and James Kyninmond, tailor in Forfar., 7 July 1581.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15072
Lauderdale affairs., 1632-1729.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11313-11440
Leases, contracts and related correspondence and papers concerning the title to Barberfield Farm., 1883-1979.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11021/3-5
Dates:
1883-1979.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Diaries, financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian; with some personal correspondence and papers of the Blythe family.
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Diaries, legal documents and financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian.
Legal and property papers of James Thin, bookseller., 1882-2000.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/2-8
Legal documents of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1569-1814.
File
Identifier: MS.5320
Scope and Contents
The documents comprise the following:
(i) Resignations, 1643-1709 (number 1);
(ii) Copies of charters, 1656-1697 (number 5);
(iii) Sasines, 1569-1776 (number 16);
(iv) Marriage contracts, 1634-1781 (number 21);
(v) Other contracts and agreements, 1617-1814 (number 60);
(vi) Wills (number 77).
Dates:
1569-1814.
Legal documents relating to properties in the West Indies belonging to Alexander Ellice and his descendants., 1768-1862.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12633-12707
Dates:
1768-1862.
Legal papers concerning Hannagalla Coffee Plantation, Ceylon., 1844-1865.
File
Identifier: MS.19227
Scope and Contents
In 1844 Bruce Bremner, his brother Dugald, and Alexander Geddes, an Aberdeenshire farmer, entered into partnership to purchase and cultivate this plantation, Geddes being the resident partner. Included here are copies of the 1844 agreement (folios 1,6), and of the case between Bruce and Dugald Bremner v Mrs Bathurst Geddes, widow of Alexander, in 1854 (folio 9), there are also plans of the Hannagalla estate, 1854, 1856 (folios 6-19), and insurance policies for Hannagalla coffee shipped from...
Dates:
1844-1865.
Legal papers relating to the Dunbar of Mochrum family., 1781-1817, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.14581/25
Scope and Contents
This folder contains the following legal documents:Ratification of George Dunbar in favour of Sir James Dunbars’ Trustees, 1781;Commission of James Montgomery to be Keeper of the Great Seal of the Principality of Scotland, 1784;Power of attorney of Elizabeth Dunbar, 1787;Power of attorney by Mrs Caroline Brodie, 1788;Copy of the will of William Rowe of Liverpool, 1799;Copy of Interlocutor in process of minutes for Sir...
Dates:
1781-1817, undated.
Legal papers relating to various members of the Dunbar family., 1619-1687.
File
Identifier: Acc.14581/24
Scope and Contents
This box contains four scolls containing the following legal documents:
disposition of property, 1619;
disposition of property of David Kennedy to Frederick Cunninghame, 1626;
contract between Robert Hanny and John ?Flemyng, 1630;
will of Isabel Nicholson, wife of Sir James Dunbar, 1st Bart, 1687.
Dates:
1619-1687.