Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.

Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages; (ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.

Scope and Contents

The discharges are for for annualrent, teinds, various forms of taxation, ministers' stipends, schoolmasters' salaries, etc.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Scope and Contents

The documents are copies of originals mostly from the period 1626 to 1643, but they include a commission, January 1678, granted by Charles II, and the copyist`s hand is characteristic of the late 17th century.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Localities, stipends and gifts of pension, 1567-1698, undated (folio 1);(ii) Precentorship and church affairs of Dunfermline, 1640-1730 (folio 48);(iii) Teinds, 1675-1701, of Pittencrieff disponed by the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline to Alexander Clerk of Pittencrieff (folio 97);(iv) Teinds, 1693, of Cluny and Lugton (folio 118);(v) Answers and memorials, 1738-1742, in relation to a reddendo claimed to be...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

Scope and Contents

The papers concern property in Prestonpans, 1752-1831 (folio 1); a bond of credit by the trustees of the Stirling-Drymen road, 1795-1839 (folio 35); the Reverend Andrew Johnston, 1805-1808, 1822 (folio 151); the teinds of Harvieston and James Dewar of Vogrie, 1808-1817, 1836 (folio 24); and a bond to Cameron of Locheil, 1817-1818 (folio 310).

Scope and Contents From the File:

The papers concern property in Prestonpans, 1752-1831 (folio 1); a bond of credit by the trustees of the Stirling-Drymen road, 1795-1839 (folio 35); the Reverend Andrew Johnston, 1805-1808, 1822 (folio 151); the teinds of Harvieston and James Dewar of Vogrie, 1808-1817, 1836 (folio 24); and a bond to Cameron of Locheil, 1817-1818 (folio 310).

Scope and Contents From the File:

The papers concern property in Prestonpans, 1752-1831 (folio 1); a bond of credit by the trustees of the Stirling-Drymen road, 1795-1839 (folio 35); the Reverend Andrew Johnston, 1805-1808, 1822 (folio 151); the teinds of Harvieston and James Dewar of Vogrie, 1808-1817, 1836 (folio 24); and a bond to Cameron of Locheil, 1817-1818 (folio 310).

Scope and Contents

The papers consist of discharges, legal papers and some correspondence concerning the teinds and stipends of lands and parishes in Fife, in particular, Urquhart, Dunfermline, 1607-1765 (folio 1), Inverkeithing, 1629-1667 (folio 92), Auchterderran, 1633-1764 (folio 129), and Ballingry, 1648-1694 (folio 230).

Scope and Contents Most of the documents belonged to John Skene (died 1644), the second son of Lord Curriehill, and to his son John, 2nd of Hallyards (died before 1699).The subjects include estate matters (in particular, the teinds of Hallyards) and political matters such as the sequestration of goods in the second half of the 17th century, and the raising and quartering of troops. The elder Skene was a Clerk of Session, and a number of legal papers are included in the volume, one of which (folio...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows.

(i) 'The Raid off the kirks off Coldingham', 1582, i.e., the teinds assigned to them (folio 1);

(ii) 'Ane old Rentall of the Abbacy of Coldinghame' (folio 20). An eighteenth-century transcript of 'The Rentall of Coldinghame as eftir followis, maid be Sir Androw Strethchenry, then Chamerlane for the tyme'. In a note the transcriber places the rental in the sixteenth century.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.