Indentures. Legal Instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Legally binding agreements between two or more parties in two or more originals or copies. Also, contracts binding one person to work for another for a given period of time. (AAT) Index all examples under this heading. (NLS) .
Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:
Additional papers, correspondence, reports and drawings of Robert Stevenson and Sons., 1801-1886, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10706/655-665
Dates:
1801-1886, undated.
Apprenticeship indenture of Bruce Allan Bremner to Benjamin Williamson, senior surgeon at Aberdeen Infirmary., 1835.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15254
Apprenticeship indenture of Robert Omond, son of George, merchant, Kirkwall, to Messrs Bell, Russell, and Company, surgeon apothecaries, Edinburgh., 1823.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15371
Apprenticeship indenture of Thomas Omond, son of George, merchant, Kirkwall, to Messrs Bell, Russell, and Company, surgeon apothecaries, Edinburgh., 1825.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15372
Apprenticeship indentures and accounts of George Allan, printer, and Alexander Robertson, coachmaker.
File
Identifier: Acc.10014
Dates:
1811, 1825 and undated.
Apprenticeship indentures and related papers, chiefly of the early nineteenth century and drawn up in the office of Henry Davidson, sheriff-clerk of Haddington (and factor of Saltoun)., 1745-1824.
File
Identifier: MS.16775
B. Miscellaney. A group of mostly unrelated legal documents., 1759-1824.
Series
Identifier: Ch.5976-5990
Dates:
1759-1824.
Business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern, containing accompts, correspondence and a copy indenture., 1700, 1731-1777, 1796, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11137/15-24
Dates:
1700, 1731-1777, 1796, undated.
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 12th century-1553.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Confirmation by William I of gift by Hugh and William Giffard to the church of St. Andrews of the church of Tealing. Kincardine, 1189x1195. (Hugh de Roxburgh, chancellor; no date). Printed in ‘Regesta regum Scotorum’, volume ii, number 358.(ii) Confirmation, [1173-1178], by William I of gift by Walter, son of Philip to the church of St. Andrews of the land of Adhebrecces. Kinghorn, 1173x1178. (D.G.: Richard, Bishop of Dunkeld). Printed...
Dates:
12th century-1553.
Copy indenture for service in Jamaica., 1740.
File
Identifier: Acc.11137/19
Corrected proofs of 'Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, 1677-1720', edited by the Reverend Robert Paul, minister at Dollar., [1904, or before].
File
Identifier: MS.5162
Dates:
[1904, or before].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Correspondence and papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Assorted papers of and concerning the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Papers of and concerning Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great.
Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, volume VIII: papers on various topics., 1680-1725.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.1.2(VIII)
Scope and Contents
The contents include: papers on ‘Diplomata Scotiae’, especially Anderson`s attempts to obtain payment from Parliament; a proposal to give Anderson`s books to the Faculty of Advocates; a memorandum on the Leighton Library in Dunblane; notes on Sir Robert Sibbald`s Library (referring to ‘Bibliotheca Sibbaldiana’, pages 138-140); papers concerning Anderson`s wife, Jean Ellis, the widow and family of David Pringle, Surgeon Apothecary, and the Campbells of Calder; various household accounts;...
Dates:
1680-1725.
Correspondence and papers on various actual and projected lead or copper mines in Scotland., 1751-1774.
File
Identifier: MS.12875
Dates:
1751-1774.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of John Elliot (1732-1808), 4th son of Lord Minto, Lord Justice Clerk.
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Estate, financial and legal correspondence and papers of and concerning Admiral John Elliot.
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Correspondence and papers concerning Admiral John Elliot's mining ventures in Perthshire and southern Scotland for copper and lead deposits.
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Correspondence and papers on various actual and projected lead or copper mines in Scotland.
Documents of Walter Ferguson, candle-maker, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.4547-4548
Dates:
1772, 1783.
Documents relating to lands of Alexander Ellice in New York State., Circa 1790-circa 1800.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12708-12710
Dates:
Circa 1790-circa 1800.
Draft of indenture of David Parish with Alexander Ellice., Circa 1800.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12710
Duplicate of indenture of covenants by John James to Patrick Maxwell and John Balfour., 2 September 1785.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12663
Financial and legal documents concerning Herman Melville., 1845-1850.
File
Identifier: MS.42479
Scope and Contents
Includes an affidavit sworn in respect of the publication "Mahomet and his successors" by Washington Irving.
Dates:
1845-1850.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents
These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.
Formal documents from the Seton and Bremner papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15248-15257
Dates:
1764-1877.
Indenture, 23 December 1829, between Thomas Moore and John Murray II : the assignment of the copyright in the "Letters and journals of Lord Byron, with notices of his life" from Moore to Murray., 1829.
Item
Identifier: MS.42491
Dates:
1829.
Indenture, 1824, between John Franklin and John Murray II : the assignment to Murray of the entire copyright in Franklin`s, "Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819-20-21-22"., 1824.
Item
Identifier: MS.42238
Scope and Contents
The indenture was witnessed by Richard Glynn.
Dates:
1824.
Indenture and discharge concerning Alexander Gray, Brechin.
File
Identifier: Acc.10192
Dates:
1849-1852.