Ratifications.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: The action or an act of ratifying or confirming; (an act of) formal approval, sanction, endorsement. Source: Oxford English Dictionary.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Inventory of the Seals of Cause, with charters ratifying them, and of the acts and ordinances relative to the rights and privileges of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh., 1517-1695.
File
Identifier: MS.216
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of the Seal of Cause, 5 September 1517; ratification by James VI, 4 May 1597; ratification by William III, 17 July 1695.
Dates:
1517-1695.
Microfilm of notes, undated, of Lord Hailes on ‘Lives of the poets’ by Samuel Johnson; with an endorsement by James Boswell and notes on the manuscript in an unknown hand.
Item
Identifier: MS.15528 [Mf.MSS.35]
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Papers, including bonds and discharges, of the Skene family and others., 1630-1657.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/7
Scope and Contents
Contains:195. Draft obligation Mr John Skene of Halzardis to pay the teinds of Halbarnes and Halzairdis to the King if he be found liable. Edinburgh, 23 April 1630. Witnesses: Sir Thomas Hoip of Craighall and Mr William Maxwell his servitor.
196. Inventory of the writs delivered to Mr Robert Learmonthe, advocate, pertaining to Mr John Skene concerning the lands of Halzairdis and Halbarnes, 25 documents 1560 – 6 May 1630 listed.
197. Double of 196.
198. Exchequer receipt to Mr...
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.
Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents
The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.
Dates:
[1791, or after.]
Ratification by James Inglis of Ingliston, son of Alexander Inglis., 1663.
File
Identifier: Acc.6275/15
Dates:
1663.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
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Papers concerning the estates of Foxhall, containing titles, financial papers, and other related material.
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Papers concerning the estate of Foxhall, containing titles and other related material.
Ratification of a decreet arbitrall between Hugh Watt of Foulshields and Henry Weir., 1662.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9843/11
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:
1662.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters, instruments and other formal and legal documents concerning the lands of Foulshields, in the parish of Livingston, the Wardrop family, and other related families.
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Formal and legal documents relating to various families and the lands of Foulshields.
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Formal and legal documents relating to the Weir family and lands of Foulshields.