Agreements. Legal instruments.
Found in 119 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts, chiefly relating to the household of Mary of Lorraine, but with a few items of the late 16th century., 1532-1600, and undated.
Agreement and contract between the Duchess of Lauderdale and the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale., 1709.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Agreement between Andrew Kinninmond of Kinninmonth and William Melville of Raith concerning a perpetual chaplainry at the altar of St Ninian in the parish church of Ceres., 1484.
Agreement between George and Alexander More, trustees of Agnes Aitchison, and Archibald Simpson, millmaster at Spilmersford, concerning George Ramsay and a house at West Saltoun., 7, 10 February, 1 May 1851.
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.
Agreement between George, Earl of Kinnoull and Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer concerning Reidmoss., 7 December 1641.
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.
Agreement between J S Haldane and Oliver and Boyd to publish a work on `Liquids and Gases`., 27 September 1926.
Agreement between John Bunch, son of Andrew, burgess, Perth, and Patrick Murray of Tibbermuir in favour of the latter, of an annualrent of property on the north side of North Street, Perth., 11 March 1567.
Agreement between John Murray II and John Gibson Lockhart appointing Lockhart to assist Murray in the publication both of a daily morning and of a daily evening newspaper., 1825.
The agreement has been amended and subsequently witnessed by Benjamin Disraeli and William Wright.
Agreement between Michael, abbot of the Monastery of St Columbus, with consent of his chapter and of William of Balmanach, his tenant, of the half of Kyrkveth, and William Haket, laird of Dumfulan, with consent of Henry Wardlaw, laird of Lochor, his superior, respecting the bounds of the lands of Lurgnok., 5 July 1468.
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).
Agreement between the 2nd Earl of Seaforth and Lord Lorne (later Marquess of Argyll).
Agreement between the Honorable Patrick Maxwell with John London, and Henry Hope, Henry Harman and Jeremiah Harman., 10 March 1772.
The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.
Agreement between William, Lord Keith and Michael Jaffray in Corthis over the lands of Corthis., 22 November 1613.
Included are charters of Deer Abbey which passed to the family on the Reformation as the lordship of Altrie. Notes on these charters appear in Patrick Keith Murray`s `Inventory of Marischal Papers, 1905`, MS.21114.
Agreement by Glasgow University in favour of James Durham and his wife., 1655.
The documents are mostly marriage-contracts, burgess-tickets, and similar documents concerning members of the Dunlop family in the 17th and 18th centuries. Three items concern William Dunlop`s affairs in South Carolina, 1688-1689 (Ch.8456-8458). An inventory is available.
Agreement by William Durham of Grange and Jean Ouchterlony his wife, to John Wood of Ballegno and Elizabeth Durham his future wife., 26 December 1629.
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.
Agreement by William Idington and Peter Hunter, indwellers in Aberlady, with Andrew Fletcher of Aberlady., 16 March 1703.
There are also some documents relating to the lands of Butterdean and Wester Borthwick in Oldhamstocks which were held by the lairds of Aberlady.
Agreement concerning plantations slaves and premises in Tobago between John Campbell and John Balfour., 16 July 1804.
The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.
Agreement in English form between the Earl of Seaforth, James Galloway, Master of Requests, and Nathaniel Udwart, Leith, for the supply of iron ordnance., 1628.
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Agreement of David Dunbar, Garmouth, John Forbes, 2nd of Culloden, and others regarding the importation of wine from Bordeaux., 1647.
Agreement to mortgage by Louise T G P C Papin to Messrs Phyn, Inglis and Comapny., 30 April 1798.
The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.
Agreements with publishers, chiefly Alexander MacLehose, made by Agnes Mure Mackenzie and by her sister Jean, concerning the publication of her historical and literary works., 1936-1957.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Articles concerning the depositation of papers [? title deeds] with Alexander Irvine of Drum by Master Robert Irvine of Cults, giving the terms and conditions of deposit., 1684.
As well as charters relating to the Chalmers family itself, there are other items which are apparently unrelated but which came with the bulk of the papers. Only one document (Ch.12806) is of 15th century date, and only one (Ch.12776) is of the 16th century. The rest of the collection dates largely from the 17th and 18th centuries. A detailed list is available.
Articles of agreement, 1797, previous to the marriage of Robert Nugent-Dunbar and Catherine Lister, with other family papers.
With:
1. four letters, 1844, to the Reverend John Oldershaw (brother-in-law of Catherine Lister)
2. papers, 1795-1796, concerning Machermore estate.
Articles of agreement between Sir John J Scott-Douglas, Arthur Byram Gowan, William Readman and William Denovan, concerning the sale of timber., 1828.
Formal documents from the papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park. They consist mostly of marriage-contracts, certificates and military commissions of members of the family, but also include a few documents relating to the family estates.