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Bonds. Legal instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Moveable bonds for the repayment of borrowed money where the borrower, his heirs, executors and successors are bound to repay the debt to the lender, his executors or assignees at a definite period with interest and, in case of failure, with additional payment.

Found in 278 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Hollond to Hompesch., 1813-1922.

 File
Identifier: MS.40569
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Hollond, Spencer Edmund.Letter, 1902, of Spencer Edmund Hollond to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Holloway, Marseille Middleton.Letters, 1846, 1873 and 1887, of Marseille Middleton Holloway to John Murray III. Folios 3-7.Holloway Blount and Duke.Letters, 1909, of Holloway Blount and Duke to John Murray IV. Folios 8-10....
Dates: 1813-1922.

Miscellaneous charters.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.A.1-46

Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Urquhart family of Burdsyards.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.8437-8442
Scope and Contents

An inventory is available.

Dates: 1666-1827.

Miscellaneous legal papers of, and concerning, members of the Keith family., 1546-1833.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21178-21179
Scope and Contents

The papers include a minute, 1599, of the Barony Court of Keith Marischal; bond, 1642, concerning Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh; and papers concerning the claim of the Keiths of Dunnottar and Ravelston as heirs of the Earls Marischal.

Dates: 1546-1833.

Miscellaneous papers concerning Sir Walter Scott's partnership with John and James Ballantyne., 1807-[circa 1834].

 File
Identifier: MS.864
Scope and Contents The contents include: letters of John and James Ballantyne to Sir Walter Scott; statement of the accounts of James Ballantyne & Company 1809 (folio 7); a bond of that firm to Scott, 1809 (folio 21); statements of the concerns of John Ballantyne & Company 1810 (folio 23), of their stock, with the advances made by Scott and James Ballantyne, 1809-1810 (folio 25), and of their balance, 1811 (folio 31); Scott's missive letter to James Ballantyne and the latter's acceptance of its terms,...
Dates: 1807-[circa 1834].

Miscellaneous papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745., 1745-1747.

 File
Identifier: MS.17525
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Papers, 1745-1746, concerning shipping during the Rising (folio 1);

(ii) Permits to ships and bonds by their masters or owners, 1745-1746 (folio 48);

(iii) Passes and certificates, 1745-1747 (folio 53);

(iv) Reports of prisoners held by the City Guard in Edinburgh, February-September 1746 (folio 139);

(v) Papers concerning the Edinburgh Volunteer Regiment, 1746 (folio 172).

Dates: 1745-1747.

Miscellaneous papers which belonged to Sir William Fraser, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

 File
Identifier: MS.90
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i-iv) Four printed proclamations, etc., 1708, 1710, 1714 (folio 1);(v) Obligation by Patrick Hamilton and other inhabitants of Arran to provide levies, etc., for the defence of the religion, laws, and liberties of the Kirk and Kingdom whenever desired by the Earl of Argyll, 1639 (folio 6);(vi) Extract registered bond by Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum to the Committee of Estates to observe the National Covenant, 1641 (folio 8);...
Dates: 1590-1838.

Notebook of James Home of Greenlawdean, brother of John Home of Blackadder.

 Item
Identifier: MS.118
Scope and Contents

The notebook consists chiefly of notes of bonds and their repayment.

Dates: 1664-1676.