Precepts. Legal Instruments
Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:
Chancery precept in favour of Duncan Lamont of Inveryne of lands of Evenachan., 19 July 1569.
Copy, undated, of precept from charter, after 1531, by James, Earl of Moray concerning [inter alia] Essie., After 1531.
This document is dated 9 June.
Draft of precept of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to the Officers of the High Court of Admiralty., 1695.
Dundas estate accounts: discharges and some precepts concerning teinds and ministers` and schoolmasters` stipends., 1532-1662.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Abercorn, 1632-1662 (folio 1).
(ii) Dalmeny, 1583-1662 (folio 36).
(iii) Kirkliston, 1532-1635 (folio 115).
(iv) Linlithgow, 1638-1662 (folio 147).
(v) Livingston, 1577-1658 (folio 164).
Dundas estate accounts up to and including crop 1667., 1532-1669.
Financial papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1532-19th century.
Legal documents relating to properties in Glengarry., 1780-1864.
These documents srelate to the ownership of the estate by the MacDonells and later by the Marquess of Huntly, and by William, Baron Ward (subsequently created Earl of Dudley), prior to the purchase by Edward Ellice.
Papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate, and of his clients, and papers of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, and of his clients., 1658-1773.
Contains papers of the following: Baird, James, Writer to the Signet, 1707; Bourchier, Charles, Governor of Madras, 1773; Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald, 1658; Dempster of Pitliver, 1694-1703; Grant of Balindalloch, 1770-1771; Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton, 1758-1759.