Charters
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 754 Collections and/or Records:
Charters of John, 1st Earl Tullibardine, and William, Master of Tullibardine in favour of William Murray, 6th of Ochtertyre of Coig and Drummacharragan., 24 July 1608.
File
Identifier: Ch.16883-16884
Dates:
24 July 1608.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre and Keith, Earl Marischal papers.
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Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre papers.
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Titles of the Murrays of Ochtertyre for the Baronies of Ochtertyre, Monzievaird and Fowlis Easter.
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Barony of Ochtertyre.
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Drummacharragan and Coig.
Charters of the Erskines of Mar, many of them concerning Adam, Commendator of Cambuskenneth, and his family., 1501-1620.
Series
Identifier: Ch.4021-4058
Scope and Contents
The papers include several wills of Annabella, Countess of Mar, wife of Earl John (succeeded 1555), and a holograph will of Earl John (succeeded 1572). Ch.4057 is a decreet of the Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks, concerning the parishes of Alloa and Tillicoultry.
Dates:
1501-1620.
Charters, other formal documents, and plans, from the Richards and Ashburner papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15475-15500
Scope and Contents
These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.
Dates:
1777-1908, undated.
Charters relating to the Dundas estate and to the financial dealings of the Dundas family., 12th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.B.41-1311
Dates:
12th century-19th century.
Charters, writs and formal papers mainly concerning the Halketts of Pitfirrane and the Wedderburns of Gosford.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.6001-7360
Dates:
1230-1878.
Chartulary of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Soutra, written in 1399 by William de Cranstoun, notary public.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.1
Scope and Contents
The charters, which are not in chronological order, cover the period 1162-circa 1330. They are followed by a copy of Cranstoun`s notarial instrument concerning the making of the chartulary (folio 25) and copies of two charters of 1426 and 1440 in different hands (folio 26 verso).
Some of the initials have simple penwork decoration by the scribe, whose notarial sign is also given (folio 25 verso).
Dates:
1162-circa 1330.
Coldstream: charters and instruments of sasine., 1670, 1677
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.985-988
Scope and Contents
Latin, except Ch.986.
Dates:
1670, 1677
Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.9A.1.1-9A.1.20
Scope and Contents
Many of the transcripts are undated: apart from those in Adv.MS.9A.1.17, which were made in 1800, few appear from the watermarks in the leaves to have been made before 1813. From the watermarks of the endpapers the volumes appear to have been bound about 1818 or later.Several of the transcripts were made from original manuscripts or eighteenth-century copies then in possession of the Honourable William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: others were made from...
Dates:
1164-1639.
Compendium of charters, concerning the Principality of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3698
Dates:
circa 1600-1627.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Extracts, 1797, in the hand of the chief clerk, Robert Lemon, from the `Rotuli Scotiae` kept in the Tower of London (cf. folio 282). The extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. The manuscripts were published, in two volumes, in 1814 and 1819. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies by Hutton of charters of Newbattle Abbey (folio 32). The source is unidentified: they are in a different order from those of the cartulary...
Dates:
?1789-?1797.
Copies, 1725-1726, of Great Seal charters of the 14th and early 15th centuries, made by John Corss, Keeper of the Records.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.6.1-35.6.2
Scope and Contents
Each volume has an elaborate title-page and an index of personal names.
Dates:
14th century-early 15th century.
Copies, 1725, of charters of Robert I, II and III and of Robert Duke of Albany as Governor, 14th and early 15th centuries., 14th century-early 15th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.1
Scope and Contents
The charters were copied from the 12 rolls which then as now were all that had survived. Corss`s numbering differs in some respects from that now current: his 2nd and 3rd rolls are now 3 and 2, his 7th and 8th are now 8 and 7, his 9th and 10th are now 9, consequently his 11th and 12th are 10 and 11, and his second for Albany is now 12. He omits the damaged deeds at the beginnings of his numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11 and 12. The index is to each roll separately.
Dates:
14th century-early 15th century.
Copies, 1726, of charters of David II, 14th century., 14th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.2
Scope and Contents
The charters were copied from the surviving volume. Corss does not include the early charters of Robert II which are in the same volume.
Dates:
14th century.
Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of the lesser Aberdeen Cartulary, 1st half of 16th century, made from Adv.MS.34.4.4 (folio 1).(ii) Copy of charters concerning Banffshire (folio 69).(iii) Copy of the tax-rolls of Aberdeenshire for 1554 and 1613, the latter made from Adv.MS.49.7.19, folios 32-35 (folio 81).(iv) Copy of the rentals of Aberdeenshire for 1674 and 1740, made from Adv.MS.49.7.18 (folio 88).(v) Copy...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century-1740.
Copies by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of manuscripts and documents of and relating to people and places in Aberdeen., Late 12th century-1567.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.3.2
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of:(i) copies on sheets watermarked between 1818 and 1824 of ‘Necrologia Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis’, which had been presented to the library of King`s College, Aberdeen in 1727. The original is briefly described (volume i, page lxxi) and extracts printed in ‘Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis’, 2 volumes, edited by C Innes (Spalding and Maitland Clubs, 1845) (folio 1); (ii) copy, circa 1821, of the foundation charter of the Franciscan...
Dates:
Late 12th century-1567.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Copies, mostly by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of charters and other formal documents relating to religious houses in the counties of Banff and of Aberdeen., 1242-1661.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.3.5
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) copies, 1816, 1819, of documents, 1499-1569, then in possession of Sir George Abercromby, 4th Baronet of Birkenbog, at Forglen House (folio 1) and copies, 1796, of documents, 1324, 1544, then in possession of William Rose of Montcoffer (folio 48), relating to the house of Carmelite friars at Banff; (ii) a letter, 1789, of the minister of Cullen with a copy (in another hand), circa 1804, of a document, 1455, relating to St Mary`s parish...
Dates:
1242-1661.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Copies of charters and other formal documents mostly of and relating to churches and religious houses in and near Edinburgh. Most are written by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, on leaves watermarked 1821, from originals then in possession of Thomas Thomson, or at the General Register House, Edinburgh., 12th century-1569.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.3.4
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) copies, some dated 1818 and 1819, of original charters then at Panmure relating to Holyroodhouse, 12th century-1429 (folios 1-98, 116-117);(ii) copies, 1816, of documents mostly relating to the church at Kinnell, 1509, 1512 (folio 99);(iii) copies of charters relating to St Giles`s, Edinburgh, 1395-1551 (folio 118); (iv) copy relating to the collegiate church of St Mary of the Fields, 1523 (folio 162); ...
Dates:
12th century-1569.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Retours in Kirkcudbrightshire, extracted from the Chancery records, 1542-1682; in two series (folios 1, 15).(ii) Copy of an extract (certified by Thomas Gibson, Principal Clerk of Session) of the tax-roll of Kirkcudbrightshire in 1613 (folio 44).(iii) Copy, from the Exchequer records, of the rental of the Bishopric of Galloway in 1685 (folio 46).(iv) Copy of the tax-roll of the Lordship of Galloway,...
Dates:
1542-1685, 1741.
Copy, 18th-19th century, of a charter, 1232, by Alexander II in favour of Ivo de Kirkpatrick of the lands of Closeburn., 1232.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.46
Dates:
1232.
Copy, 1579, of charter, 18 April 1579, by Matthew Home of Clocktow to William Rynd of Cars and Margaret Ogilvy his wife, of Clocktow [Myreside]., 18 April 1579.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13957
Copy, 1587, of charter, 16 April 1587, by David, Earl of Crawford to Mariot Crichton, relict of Mr George Crichton, of husbandlands in Nether Saltoun., 16 April 1587.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13109
Dates:
16 April 1587.
Copy, 1593, of charter, 3 April 1593, by John Livingston in Dalderss to Janet Abernethie his daughter-in-law, and Patrick Livingston his son, of Mongall Mill [West Kerss, Stirlingshire], 3 April 1593.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13648
Dates:
3 April 1593.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
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Early Saltoun documents.
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Documents relating to various Livingston(e)s, especially Patrick of Dalderse and Inchcorsie, his brother William, chamberlain of the 8th Lord Saltoun, and Alexander, advocate.
Copy, 1595, of charter, 23 May 1595, by William Rynd of Cars and Margaret Ogilvy his wife to John Rynd their son, of West Cars., 23 May 1595.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13973
Copy, 1610, of charter, 13 January 1610, by Isobel Ogilvie, Lady McKenzie, to George Hay of Netherliff of an annualrent from Fofartie., 13 January 1610.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14062
Copy, 1613, of charter, 11 November 1613, by Patrick Yeaman, merchant, burgess of Dundee, to John Yeaman and Elizabeth Fletcher his wife, of part of Blackness., 11 November 1613.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13806
Dates:
11 November 1613.