Discharges. Legal Documents.
Found in 431 Collections and/or Records:
Papers and some related correspondence concerning private acts of parliament relating to exchanges of entail on the lands of Balgowan, to consequent sales of land, and to the Annadale executry., 1786-1815.
Some letters, particularly in the first section of correspondence (MSS. 16198-215), also refer to more general political, military and social events.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers chiefly of the Kininmond family., 1607-1765.
The papers consist of discharges, legal papers and some correspondence concerning the teinds and stipends of lands and parishes in Fife, in particular, Urquhart, Dunfermline, 1607-1765 (folio 1), Inverkeithing, 1629-1667 (folio 92), Auchterderran, 1633-1764 (folio 129), and Ballingry, 1648-1694 (folio 230).
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Papers concerning James Stuart of Torrance's chamberlainship of the barony of Glassford., 1673-1681, undated.
The papers include:
Accounts with attached discharges for the years 1676, 1677, and 1678 (folio 1);
Miscellaneous accounts, rentals, and memoranda, 1673-1678, undated (folio 69);
Miscellaneous discharges, 1674-1680 (folio 92).
Papers concerning lead mining in Scotland in the late 16th century, and political papers of the 17th century., 1584-1686, and undated.
Papers concerning Lord Milton’s sisters, Martha and Margaret Fletcher and Mary Hepburn of Monkrig., 1728-1771, undated.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers of and concerning Martha and Margaret Fletcher, sisters of Lord Milton, 1728-1771 (folio 1);
(ii) Letters to and papers concerning Mary Hepburn of Monkrig, sister of Lord Milton, 1739-1771, undated, including lists of deeds, legal papers, household accounts, and discharges for taxes (folio 10).
Papers concerning the Chisholme family estates in Hobkirk and Roberton, Roxburghshire., 1774-1803.
Papers concerning the Chisholme family estates in Hobkirk and Roberton, Roxburghshire., 1804-1807.
Papers concerning the Chisholme family estates in Hobkirk and Roberton, Roxburghshire., 1799-1812, undated.
Included (folio 168) are discharges, 1799-1812, for the payment of rates and taxes for a house in Portland Place, London.
Papers concerning the Chisholme family estates in Hobkirk and Roberton, Roxburghshire, consisting chiefly of discharges for the payment of estate work and estate burdens, with some correspondence., 1774-1812, undated.
Papers concerning the debts of the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline., 1639-1681, undated.
Papers concerning the debts of the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline., 1632-1684.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1741-1751.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1751-1753.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1753-1755.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1756-1762.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1763-1774.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1775-1803, and undated.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask, including claims on it after the forfeiture, decreets of the Court of Session on these claims, its purchase by Laurence Oliphant of Condie, the sale of Williamston and Cowgask, a pension for Lady Gask, the transfer of the estate back to the family, the affairs of Alexander MacGregor of Balhaldie, and some discharges., 1741-1803.
Papers concerning the estate of Hoddam and to the Sharpe family.
Papers concerning the Lauderdale and Tweeddale families., 1663-early 18th century, undated.
Papers concerning the Tweeddale and Lauderdale families., 1632-1683, undated.
Papers concerning the wreck and salvaging of the Dutch East India Company's ship 'Adelaar'., 1728-1736, undated.
The principal persons involved are Alexander Mackenzie of Dellvine, Writer to the Signet, Captain Jacob Rowe, Eugene Fothringham, Leith, and William Evans, Deptford.