Dispositions. Legal Instruments.
Found in 287 Collections and/or Records:
Registered disposition by the Provost of Edinburgh as Governors of Heriot`s Hospital, in favour of Robert Meiklejohn, deacon, and the brethren of the Skinners` Craft Gild, for 2,300 merks. (28)., 4 December 1633.
Comprised of:
Ch.5946-5975: a group of thirty deeds and notarial extracts formerly part of a larger collection of documents, numbered between 1 and at least 33 (but originally not chronologically arranged), relating to properties in the High Street, Edinburgh;
Ch.5976-5990: a group of mostly unrelated documents of a miscellaneous nature arranged in a separate chronological sequence.
An inventory is available.
Scroll disposition, Alan Bell to James Meik., 1676.
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Strathmartine Parish: instruments of sasine, 1677-1678, precept of clare constat, 1692, and disposition, 1697., 1677-1697.
Ch.969 and 971 in Latin.
Testamentary disposition of Juliana Anne Harriett Saunderson, of the family of Castle Saunderson, in favour of General Sir George Brown., 1857.
Three legal documents, 1687-1760, relating to St Monance, Fife; and one, 1739, to Aberdeen.
Translation and disposition by David, Lord Boyle, in favour of Dougall Lamont of Steilage., 8 May 1700.
Translation and disposition, George Grahame to James Carmichael., 1677.
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Typescript copy of the depositions of witnesses made before the Commissioners appointed by the Court of Session, concerning the commonties of Ecclefechan and Hoddam., 1743.
Unexecuted disposition by William, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1635) in favour of Charles II of Dunnottar Castle., 1662.
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.
Will, disposition and settlement of John Willison (died 1889), including account to Morrison and Smith, writers, for drawing up, 1883, 1885., 1883, 1885, 1889.
Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.