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Legal documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents having legal relevance in general. For documents that give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, use ""legal instruments"".

Found in 2019 Collections and/or Records:

2nd and 3rd Marquesses of Tweeddale papers., 1677-1726.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10928-10950
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous financial and legal papers, mostly family, and including material concerning Susan, Marchioness of Tweeddale.

Dates: 1677-1726.

28 letters of Richard Holden, merchant, Bristol, to his father, Richard Holden, of Baldovie, Dundee, and his brothers, John and Abraham.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10765-is now MS.50266
Scope and Contents

Some letters concern the slave trade.

With two legal documents of the Holden family, Baldovie.

Dates: 1747-1771.

A collection of formal papers, relating to the surgeon, Robert Liston.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.5832-5846
Scope and Contents

Comprises: instruments of sasine, 1626-1756, mostly relating to properties in Culross (Ch.5832-5838), papers, mostly passports, 1794-1818, of his uncle, Sir Robert Liston (Ch.5839-5842), and four formal documents of his own, 1814, 1818 (Ch.5943-5946). An inventory has been placed with the collection.

Dates: 1626-1818.

A miscellaneous collection of documents.

 File
Identifier: Ch.5901-5910
Scope and Contents

Ch.5902-5903 and Ch.5905 refer to members of the Pitcairn family of Forthar; the remainder concern transactions between John Mowat and James Fullarton, burgesses in Edinburgh. Ch.5901 is an abstract of the documents.

Dates: 1653-1661.

`A Perfect Inventor of all the Pious Donations Given to the Kirks and Hospitals in Scotland since the days of K. Iames 1 To the Regne of King Iames the vi. With Additions. Edenburgh Writen 12 novr i702 by R:M:` (i.e. Robert Mylne).

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.7
Scope and Contents The title is recorded on folio 1.The volume consists of a copy of a list of summaries of formal or legal documents relating to bequests of money and property to various religious institutions from the early fifteenth century (undated, but before 1425) to 1592, followed by summaries of bequests made at various times between 1613 and 1652 (folio 51) and `Additions` (folio 59 verso) consisting of further summaries of bequests made both before and after the Reformation, down to...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1703.

`A perfyte inventar of all the pious donations gevin to kirks and hospitalls since the dayes of king James the first to the reigne of king James the sixt`.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.25
Scope and Contents The title is taken from folio 1.The volume consists of a copy in a late seventeenth-century hand of a list of summaries of formal or legal documents relating to bequests of money and property to various religious institutions, from the early fifteenth century (undated, but before 1425) to 1592, followed by summaries of bequests made at various times between 1613 and 1652 (folio 60). The entries do not appear to have been written in any order, although a roughly...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1652.

Accounts and miscellaneous papers concerning the ‘Royal Charlotte’., 1797-1826.

 File
Identifier: MS.9645
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Pay-bills, 1816, 1818-1820. Those for 1816 are for Thomas Robertson's salary only. (Folio 1.) (ii) Boatswain's, carpenter's, and gunner's demands and accounts, 1816-1820. (Folio 21.) (iii) Lists of defects to be made good, 1817-1819 (Folio 62.) (iv) Certificates of pilotage, 1817-1820. (Folio 74.) (v) Miscellaneous accounts and papers, 1804, 1815-1820, including a leaf from a log-book, a record of ships boarded, and abstracts of wages and beer-money. (Folio...
Dates: 1797-1826.

Accounts and vouchers of the Faculty of Advocates.

 Series
Identifier: F.R.339r/22(i)-(F.R.339r/22ii)

Accounts, correspondence and other papers., 1640-19th century, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2936
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Account between George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh, and his factor in respect of the rental of Holyroodhouse and New Abbey, 1662-1667. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence of Sir James Livingston of Kilsyth (afterwards Viscount Kilsyth), chiefly on his private business, 1640-1661, preceded by an inventory, 1682. From the appearance of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's name on a leaf enclosed with these papers (folio 35), they appear to have been...
Dates: 1640-19th century, undated.