Renunciations. Legal instruments.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 12th century-1553.
Gaelic poetry and a Deed of Renunciation, apparently from the papers of Colonel Robert Bruce Aeneas McLeod Sutherland.
Judicial ratification and renunciation by John Ramsay, son of deceased Henry Ramsay, sheriff depute of Fiffe, in favour of William Scot of Balwery, kt, of lands of Redy and Langisvard., 21 May 1525.
Includes charters and other formal documents, cash books, ledgers, estate papers and letters.
Miscellaneous papers concerning entail., [?1805.]
The contents are as follows: (i) Act of 1805, disposition and deed of entail (folio 1); (ii) Signatures of resignation relating to the exchange of entail (folio 89); (iii) Copies of discharges and renunciations executed by heirs of entail (folio 111); (iv) Various papers (folio 192).
Miscellaneous papers, including charters and sasines, some concerning the Hope family., 1558-1665.
Renunciation and discharge of John Mitchell to Hugh Craig., 1698.
Renunciation by Patrick Dundas of Breistmylne of the thirlage of the corn of Todshaugh., 1656.
Renunciation, Marion Carmichael to William Wardrop., 1669.
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.