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Informations. Legal instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Charges lodged with a magistrates court. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Legal documents and inventories of writs of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow., 1614-1696.

 File
Identifier: MS.9638
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Inventories of writs of Haining and Ballenbreich, circa 1648, of Dunipace and Seabegs, circa 1648, 1654, and of various other properties, 1642-1696 (folio 1);

(ii) Miscellaneous papers and information, 1651-1683, in the lawsuit between the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and the 1st and 2nd Earls of Callendar (folio 29);

(iii) Informations and legal memoranda, 1614-1696, undated (folio 73).

Dates: 1614-1696.

Miscellaneous 'antique papers'., 1626-1810, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1915
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Modern list of some of the papers and part of a printed sale catalogue (folio 1);(ii) Contemporary copies of the charges brought by John Selden against the Duke of Buckingham, and of the King's explanation delivered by Buckingham, 1626 (folio 5);(iii) Memorandum, circa 1635, arguing the complicity of the Marquess of Huntly, James Gordon of Letterfourie, and Lady Rothiemay (Katherine Gordon) in the harrying of the lands of...
Dates: 1626-1810, undated.