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Inventories.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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Found in 496 Collections and/or Records:

Photocopy of a detailed inventory of the papers and documents of the family of Fleming of Cumbernauld and Biggar, Lords Fleming, and Earls of Wigtown presented to the National Library of Scotland in 1960; compiled at the time, with some corrections and additions, and the current references added., 1960.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20770
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The family estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie in East Dunbartonshire extended into the neighbouring parishes of Monkland in Lanarkshire and Dunipace in Stirlingshire. That of Biggar in Lanarkshire included also some lands in Peeblesshire, where the Flemings were in conflict with the Tweedies of Drumelzier. Members of the family were prominent in public affairs in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the later Earls took little part in them. The male line failed in 1747, and the estates passed to...
Dates: 1960.

Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5843-5896
Scope and Contents

A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.

Dates: 19th century-mid 20th century.

Registered inventory of the Kinninmonth estate., 1702.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.10486
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: 1702.

Registered inventory of writs of properties, including the Cross House, drawn up by Robert Meiklejohn for William Cochrane, Treasurer of Heriot`s Hospital. (32)., 31 January 1634.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.5972
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 31 January 1634.

Registrum de Pitsligo., 1419-1662

 File
Identifier: Acc.13827/188
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1419-1662

Rutherford of Edgerston papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7843
Dates: 17th century to 19th century.

Sederunt book of the curators of William Graham of Airth (died 1790), 1746-1749, 1751, including a detailed inventory of plenishing, 1746., 1746-1749, 1751.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10849
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1746-1749, 1751.

Sederunt book of the tutors and curators of Sir James Wemyss, 3rd Baronet, of Bogie, concerning the estate of the late Sir John Wemyss.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5723
Scope and Contents The book chiefly contains records of the tutors' transactions relating to the Bogie coal mines and salt pans, and to the debts of the estate; throughout them is scattered information concerning the education of Sir James Wemyss (folio 16). The transactions are preceded by lists of estate expenses (folio 2 verso), inventories of the estate (folio 3 verso), and reports on the Bogie coal mines (folio 12 verso); and are followed by the curators' advice to Sir James Wemyss concerning the...
Dates: 1719-1733.

Slips containing the material from which Patrick Rose made his inventory of William Rose`s Manuscripts (Adv.MS.49.7.7)., 1819.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.49.7.20
Scope and Contents

Collected here are the slips for items XVI-XXI, XXIII-XXIV, XXVI-XXVII, XXIX-XXXII, XXXIV-XLIII, XLV-XLVII, L-LXXIV, LXXVI-LXXIX, LXXXI, LXXXIV; others are bound into Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.7.

Dates: 1819.

Testament and inventory of John Scott in Seasyd., 1681.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9843/44
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

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.

Dates: 1681.

Testament dative and inventar of John Fletcher of Aberlady., 30 July 1683.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14835
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

There are also some documents relating to the lands of Butterdean and Wester Borthwick in Oldhamstocks which were held by the lairds of Aberlady.

Dates: 30 July 1683.

Testament-dative and inventory, dated 21 January 1575/1576, confirmed 21 December 1576, of the goods, geir, sums of money, etc., of umquhile Patrick Halket of Pitfirrane (who died June 1573)., 21 January 1575/1576.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6226
Scope and Contents 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: 21 January 1575/1576.

Testament dative and inventory of Jean Gray, daughter of Patrick Gray, of Ballegno., 15 January 1653.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14499
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 15 January 1653.

Testament testamentar and inventar of John Mortimer of Flemington., 10 March 1608.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15104
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.

Dates: 10 March 1608.