Inventories.
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Found in 496 Collections and/or Records:
Inventories of writs of the estates of Lee and Carnwath., 1613-1895, 1928, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27534
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From the Fonds:
Lockharts held the barony of Lee in Lanarkshire from the 14th century at least, but apart from a few charters this collection dates from the 17th to the early 20th century. The direct line of lairds of Lee, from Sir James, Lord Justice Clerk, and Sir William, Cromwell's ambassador, died out in 1777. Lee then came into the possession of the descendants of Sir James's younger son, Sir George Lockhart, Lord President, who had acquired large holdings of land consolidated into the baronies of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1613-1895, 1928, undated.
Inventories of writs pertaining to lands in Angus or to Lord Innerpeffer., 1st half of 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.16771
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From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Inventories, undated, of the effects of suspected persons, all or most in Brechin., [1745, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.3731
Inventories, with valuations of Charles Herries' property, made after his death in 1819., [1819, or after.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15365-15366
Dates:
[1819, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, papers and personal account-books of Charles Herries, a merchant in London who was Colonel of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster, and correspondence and papers of his younger son, Lieutenant-General Sir William Lewis Herries and of, and concerning, other members of the family.
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Correspondence, papers and personal account books of Charles Herries.
Inventory, 6 April 1549, of the goods etc of John Hakat of Pytferran, who died intestate in the battle of Fawsyde, by Elizabeth Aytoun, his spouse, and Patrick Hacheid, his son and heir, with notarial copy of his will, undated., 6 April 1549.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6120
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From the Series:
The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).
Dates:
6 April 1549.
Inventory, 17th century, of charters, 1424-1546, in the ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli, books 3-22 by Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.4
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.2.22.
Dates:
17th century.
Inventory, 20 November 1548, of the goods etc of John Hached of Petfyrrane who died intestate in the battle of Fawsyde, by Elizabeth Aytoun, his spouse, and Patrick Hacheid, his son and heir, confirmed 24 March 1549., 20 November 1548.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6117
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From the Series:
The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).
Dates:
20 November 1548.
Inventory and testament dative of Robert Fletcher of Easter Innerpeffer, merchant, burgess of Dundee., 3 March 1646.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13847
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From the Sub-Series:
The family acquired various properties in Angus which were consolidated into the baronies of Innerpeffer and Turin; after Sir Andrew`s purchase of Saltoun the Angus property was sold, some to Col Sir Francis Ruthven in 1648, some to George, Lord Spynie in 1650, and some to George, Earl of Panmure in 1663; current titles will have passed to the purchasers.
Dates:
3 March 1646.
Inventory and testament dative of Robert Fletcher of Innerpeffer., 31 January 1624.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13818
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The family acquired various properties in Angus which were consolidated into the baronies of Innerpeffer and Turin; after Sir Andrew`s purchase of Saltoun the Angus property was sold, some to Col Sir Francis Ruthven in 1648, some to George, Lord Spynie in 1650, and some to George, Earl of Panmure in 1663; current titles will have passed to the purchasers.
Dates:
31 January 1624.
Inventory and valuation of goods at Castle Menzies., 1800.
File
Identifier: MS.9971
Inventory and valuation of the effects of Mrs J A L Chalmers at Hanbury Hall., June 1840.
File
Identifier: MS.15506
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From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
June 1840.
Inventory, compiled 19 Aug 1712, of writs belonging to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, received by Ronald Campbell, Writer to the Signet, 31 December 1712 (folio 1), together with a printed Petition for Colonel John Erskin of Carnock against John Corss, 21 Feb 1709 (folio 29) and printed Answers for John Corss, Writer in Edinburgh [to the foregoing 1709] (folio 31)., 1709, 1712.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.15
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From the Sub-Series:
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
1709, 1712.
Inventory for MS.10780 [Mf.MSS.270-283, 288]: Microfilms obtained from various agents of letters and documents of and concerning David Livingstone for inclusion in the ‘David Livingstone Documentation Project. (1979)., [1979?]
Item
Identifier: MS.10780 [Inventory]
Dates:
[1979?]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photocopies and microfilms of letters and other documents of and concerning David Livingstone acquired in connection with the David Livingstone Documentation Project.
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Microfilms obtained from various agents of letters and documents of and concerning David Livingstone for inclusion in the ‘David Livingstone Documentation Project. (1979); with inventory.
Inventory, late seventeenth century with some eighteenth-century additions, of Pitfirrane writs, circa 1230-1746, undated., Late 17th century-18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6483
Scope and Contents
The inventory describes some of the same material which is more fully calendared in MS.6485.
Dates:
Late 17th century-18th century.
'Inventory of all the India Cabinets and China ...' by J Orchard., November 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.11930
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From the Series:
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
November 1818.
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 Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Executries and related papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the executry of William Elliot of Wells, the trustees of Wells estate, and the litigation of Sir William Francis Elliot, 7th Baronet of Stobs, with the latter (1819-1829).
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Inventories, made by J Orchard, of the household moveables in his London house pertaining to the English estate of William Elliot.
'Inventory of, and excerpts from, the Title Deeds of certain Heritors of Mearns to make appearance in a Process of Augmentation of Stipend at the instance of The Revd. Doctor McLatchie, Minister of the Parish of Mearns', Renfrewshire., 1814-1815.
File
Identifier: MS.2697
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From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
1814-1815.
Inventory of assets, debts, and financial transactions of Alexander Kinloch, controller of customs at Port Glasgow, 1 January-31 August 1763., 1763.
File
Identifier: MS.17609
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From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1763.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning various persons and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun.
Inventory of bonds delivered by Sir Gilbert Ramsay Baronet, to Mr George Fletcher of Restennet., 23 April 1629.
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Identifier: Ch.14376
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From the Sub-Series:
Sir George Fletcher, advocate, a younger son of Robert of Innerpeffer, was one of his commissioners and acquired the lands of Restennet in 1627. The first two documents, the earliest in the collection, are the foundation charter of the Priory by Malcolm IV and its confirmation by the Bishop of St Andrews.
Dates:
23 April 1629.
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 Fletcher documents.
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Documents relating to the Priory of Restennet and its temporalities, which were granted to Thomas, Viscount of Fentoun (later Earl of Kellie) in 1606.
‘Inventory of charters’, 1456-1552, in the ‘Registrum Magni Sigilli’, in the hand of Sir John Scott of Scotstarvit.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.4
Scope and Contents
At the end is a list of charters, 1587-1630, ‘The taxed lands’.
Dates:
1456-1552, 1587-1630.
Inventory of correspondence and papers concerning the affairs of Robert Graham and the estates of Redgorton and Bertha Park., 1844-1851.
File
Identifier: MS.16400
Scope and Contents
The volume spine is labelled ‘Redgorton and Bertha Park 1845-‘.
Dates:
1844-1851.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Miscellaneous papers chiefly of Robert Graham and Lord Lynedoch.
“Inventory of correspondence and papers relative to Col. Graham’s affairs and the estates of Balgowan and Lynedoch” by Robert Graham; with items of correspondence., 1805-1844.
File
Identifier: MS.16399
Scope and Contents
The volume spine is labelled ‘Balgowan and Lynedoch 1805-45’.
Dates:
1805-1844.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Miscellaneous papers chiefly of Robert Graham and Lord Lynedoch.
'Inventory of correspondence and papers relative to Perthshire politics vol 2d' by Robert Graham., 1812-1820.
Item
Identifier: MS.16402
Dates:
1812-1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Miscellaneous papers chiefly of Robert Graham and Lord Lynedoch.
Inventory of debts of the Earl of Dunfermline., Circa 1652.
Item
Identifier: Ch.11187
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From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
Circa 1652.
Inventory of debts on the estate of Saltoun, given up by James, Lord Ochiltree and James and William Livingston., 15 April 1618.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13399
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists of contents are available on request.
Dates:
15 April 1618.
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 Sir James Stewart of Killeith, later 4th Lord Ochiltree, who was the main claimant to Saltoun, and to his cautioners and creditors. He disposed of the estate to Forbes of Craigievar.