Inventories.
Subject
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Found in 392 Collections and/or Records:
Deeds, 1677-1736, relating to the lands of Fallahill in Raperlaw; with an inventory, 1736., 1677-1736.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9208-9216
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates:
1677-1736.
Deeds, 1683-1688, relating to the barony of Minto; with inventories, 1673 and 1683, of earlier papers not now in the collection., 1673, 1683-1688.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.8971-8980
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates:
1673, 1683-1688.
Deeds, 1697-1749, relating to the lands of Langhope; with an inventory, 1793., 1697-1749, 1793.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9150-9164
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates:
1697-1749, 1793.
Deeds relating to parcels of land in Easter Lochgelly: Shaddow`s Feu, 1695, 1735; Fordsfauld or Steedman`s Feu, 1709, 1735; Goodwillie`s Feu, 1686, 1700, 1719, 1738; and Hutton`s Feu in Over Lochgelly, 1696, 1738; with an inventory, 1742., 1686-1738, 1742.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9433-9458
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates:
1686-1738, 1742.
Diskette copy of inventory of the Clan Gregor Centre archive, compiled by Sheila McGregor., 1999.
File
Identifier: Acc.11713/85
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Material concerning the history and genealogy of the McGregors, including printed items and a full set of the journal "The Quaich", 1989-1997.The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information...
Dates:
1999.
Documents concerning the estates of Castlemilk and Torrance., 1662-1907.
File
Identifier: MS.5335
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, 1673-1907 (folio 1);(ii) Rentals of the estates of Glassford, 1662-1682, Fossoway, 1756-1757, and Torrance, 1796-1799 (folio 18);(iii) Inventory of Torrance papers, 1799 (folio 53);(iv) Accounts, 1670-1680, 1712, undated (folio 61), and other financial papers, 1672-1734, undated (folio 78), chiefly concerning the estates of Glassford (of which James Stuart of Torrance was chamberlain) and Torrance;...
Dates:
1662-1907.
Documents, including accounts, petitions and memorandums, of George Skene and John Skene of Halyards., 1666-1752.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/6
Scope and Contents
Contains:144. Account between John Skene of Halyeards and Mr Thomas Skene, 1690-99. 1700.145. Testament dative of Mr Thomas Skein, advocat who deceased November 1700. Inventory given up by Beatrix Hepburne his relict. [part torn away] after 16 August 1701.146. Copy disposition by Elisabeth Ker, relict of Mr Christopher Irvein, Dr of medicine in. Edinburgh to her son, John Irveine of a bond for 1200 merks granted by Sir William Ker of Greenhead, Kt, Bt...
Dates:
1666-1752.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Documents, including bonds and discharges, mainly relating to John Skeyne of Halyards., 1636-1704.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/9
Scope and Contents
Contains:256. Exchequer receipt to Mr John Skene for the fueduty of the lands and barony of Halzairdis, July 1636,
257. Contract of wodset at Bowdoun 20 December 1639 between Robert Ker called of Mersingtoune, portioner of Bowdoun and Archibald Ruther notary public whereby for £40 Scots Robert Ker wadsets certain lands in Bowdoun to the said Archibald. Witnesses: Adam Hoge servitor to James Wallace, smith in Bowdoun and Nicoll Rem[ield]sone, eldest son to William Rem[ield]sone,...
Dates:
1636-1704.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Documents, mostly discharges, mainly relating to Sir James and Sir James Skene of Curriehill and John, of Halyards., 1630-1657.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/8
Scope and Contents
Contains:228. Extract registered discharge Robert Richartsoun of Pencaitland to Sir John Skene of Curriehill for 1000 merks due as tocher for Eupham Skene his daughter due by marriage contract dated 14 December 1609. Written by William Young servitor to Alexander Dunlope, writer. At Edinburgh, 23 November 1610. Witnesses: James Curle, merchant burgess of Edinburgh, James Skene, and Laurence Skene servitor to the said Sir John. Registered Edinburgh, 26 November 1610.
229. Double...
Dates:
1630-1657.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Domestic inventories of Peter MacDougal, taken in 1812 and 1824, and checked in 1828 and 1833., 1812-1833.
File
Identifier: MS.8935
Draft inventory of furniture of Bowland House compiled in May 1850., 1850.
Item
Identifier: MS.14052A
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1850.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of Alexander Walker and his family concerning family and estate affairs.
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Inventories of items at Bowland House.
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Draft inventory of furniture of Bowland House; with additions.
Draft inventory of furniture of Bowland House; with additions., 1850, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.14052
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1850, undated.
Drafts and notes for `The History of the Life and Reign of James the Third, the King of Scots, 1460-1488: with An Appendix of Documents; ascertaining its dates; and illustrating its obscurities.`, ?1st quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.20
Scope and Contents
Included is the preface, contents list, and first 24 pages of ‘A Collection of Inventories and Other Records of the Royal Wardrobe and Jewelhouse...’ by Thomas Thomson (Edinburgh, 1815) (folio 51).
Dates:
?1st quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary, comprising drafts and notes for `The History of the Life and Reign of James the Third, the King of Scots, 1460-1488`; and, ‘An Historical Account of Printing in Scotland from 1507 to 1707.`
Estate memoranda, including inventories of plenishing, inventories of writs, statements of financial affairs, recommendations for improvements, etc., 1684-1910, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13235-13236
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates:
1684-1910, undated.
Estate memoranda, including inventories of plenishing, inventories of writs, statements of financial affairs, recommendations for improvements, etc., 1684-1847.
File
Identifier: MS.13235
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates:
1684-1847.
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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Estate papers and correspondence of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Minto estate papers.
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Estate memoranda, including inventories of plenishing, inventories of writs, statements of financial affairs, recommendations for improvements, etc.
Estate memoranda, including inventories of plenishing, inventories of writs, statements of financial affairs, recommendations for improvements, etc., 1851-1910, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.13236
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates:
1851-1910, undated.
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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Estate papers and correspondence of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Minto estate papers.
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Estate memoranda, including inventories of plenishing, inventories of writs, statements of financial affairs, recommendations for improvements, etc.
Estate papers concerning General Fletcher's Trust., 1682-1865, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16798-16802
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.
Dates:
1682-1865, undated.
Estate papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1656-1912, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8195-8208
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1., 1686-1689.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)
Scope and Contents
The volume contains transcripts of documents from various sources, including: the cartulary of St Mary`s Abbey, Newbattle (Adv.MS.34.4.13), in a different arrangement (folio 15); charters of Holyroodhouse, apparently from an unknown source (folio 152); these transcripts were used in ‘Liber Cartarum Sancte Crucis’, those at folios 154 verso-162 verso being printed (in a different order) at pages xvi-xli (passim) of the preface. Some (folios 158-159) are also printed in...
Dates:
1686-1689.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
Family papers, including contracts, retours and sasines, some concerning Gilbert Skene., 1540-1661.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/3
Scope and Contents
Contains:39. Copy assedation Alexander, Bishop of Brechin, in favour of James Guthrie burgess of Edinburgh and Christiane Barron his spouse of the teinds of the lands of Bannabrioth and half of the mill-lands thereof in liferent and for three heirs lives and 90 years thereafter. Edinburgh, 27 January 1577.40. Contract at Edinburgh 16 September 1575 between Mr Gilbert Skene, doctor of medicine on one part and John Melros, writer burgess of Edinburgh on the other part...
Dates:
1540-1661.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Family papers, including correspondence, genealogies and inventories of documents, some concerning business of George Skene in Danzig, Poland., 1597-1709.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/5
Scope and Contents
Contains:
85. Summons at the instance of James Murray of Halzardis against his tenants of Halkernis and Toddis hauch for nonpayment of rent - Joseph Dowglas in Halkernis and Elizabeth Thomesoun his spouse, Alexander Mathy there, John Wilsoun there, James Sammell there, John Bell in Halbernis, Marioun Dicksoun, Thomas Tait in Halbernis, James Zoung in Toddishauch and Margaret Polwarth, James Wast her son and James Zoung her spouse. Edinburgh, 24 March 1597.[On an attached sheet is...
Dates:
1597-1709.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Family papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies., 1690-1915, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9968-9977
Family papers of the Robertsons of Faskally., 1451-1772, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1433
Scope and Contents
Includes inventories of writs, 1675-1754, which have been placed together at 1675, and several discharges of the Marquess of Atholl, circa 1682.
Dates:
1451-1772, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
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Letters and papers of families and individuals, the clients or correspondents of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
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Letters and papers of clients or correspondents of the Mackenzies of Delvine, with surnames from Re-Robertson.
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Letters and papers of clients or correspondents of the Mackenzies of Delvine, with the surname Robertson of Faskally.
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Family papers of the Robertsons of Faskally.
Financial and legal papers of the Fleming family concerning the estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie., 1634-1783, undated.
Series
Identifier: MS.20787 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Financial papers, 1634-1783, undated. (Folio 1.) This is VIII A in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770).
(ii) Accounts, 1671-1672, for estate work at Cumbernauld. (Folio 78.) This is XV A 1 in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770).
(iii) Accounts, 1672-1673, for building work at Cumbernauld House. (Folio 111.) This is XV A 2 in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770).
(iv) Colliers' accounts, 1673. (Folio 142.)
(v) Papers, 1660-1771, of the Baron Court of Lenzie. (Folio 143). This is XIV B in...
Dates:
1634-1783, undated.
Financial and legal papers of the Fleming family concerning the estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie., 1559-1681, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20787 (Part 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The contents are as follows:
(i) Financial papers, 1634-1783, undated. (Folio 1.) This is VIII A in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770).
(ii) Accounts, 1671-1672, for estate work at Cumbernauld. (Folio 78.) This is XV A 1 in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770).
(iii) Accounts, 1672-1673, for building work at Cumbernauld House. (Folio 111.) This is XV A 2 in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770).
(iv) Colliers' accounts, 1673. (Folio 142.)
(v) Papers, 1660-1771, of the Baron Court of Lenzie. (Folio 143). This is XIV B in...
Dates:
1559-1681, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the family of Fleming of Cumbernauld and Biggar, Lords Fleming, and Earls of Wigtown.
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Papers of the Fleming family concerning the estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie.
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Financial and legal papers of the Fleming family concerning the estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie.