Charters.
Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:
Notes and letters on the genealogy of the Douglas family of Springwood Park including transcripts of charters and notes on other families related by marriage to the Douglases., 1739-1875, undated.
Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart in Scotland., 4th quarter of 18th century.
Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, examined for genealogical purposes in the Register Office, the Advocates’ Library and other official repositories in Scotland by Andrew Stuart., 4th quarter of 18th century.
Transcripts of material examined in the Register office begin on folio 1; those of material in the Advocates' Library on folio 210), and other official repositories.
Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from charters, other legal documents, and books, in the possession of private families and individuals in Scotland, examined for genealogical purposes by Andrew Stuart., 4th quarter of 18th century.
Includes notes on material in the possession of the Stuarts of Castlemilk, the Dukes of Hamilton, and the Dukes of Queensberry.
Notes on, transcripts of, and excerpts from Scottish charters, other legal documents, and books, of which the ownership is not indicated, examined for genealogical purposes in Scotland by Andrew Stuart., 4th quarter of 18th century.
Notes from some printed sources are also included.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers collected by Sir Walter Scott concerning the Border district., 1326-1828, undated.
The papers consist of copies of charters and other documents, relating to families (Haig, Scott of Raeburn, Scott of Buccleuch, Haliburton, Dalgleish, etc.) and lands of the district.
Papers of and concerning Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great., 1690-[1904, or before].
Papers of the Douglas family used by the Hamilton lawyers in the Douglas Cause lawsuit, apparently to establish the principle of the Douglas succession., 1321-1707, 1712, 1761-1762.
Papers of the Edinburgh Branch of the British Deaf and Dumb Association., 1947-1996.
The British Deaf and Dumb Association was founded in Leeds in 1890. In 1971 it became known as the British Deaf Association.
Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
The contents are as follows: (i) Legal documents and correspondence, 1488-1789 (folio 1); (ii) Notes, ?1786-1821, on legal cases (folio 33); (iii) Genealogical papers, 1707-1731, undated (folio 65); (iv) Poetry, 18th century-19th century, including an early copy, dated 1734, of Allan Ramsay's poem, 'The Thimble' (folio 93); (v) Notes, undated, by George Crawfurd, the antiquary, and a translation of a charter, 1748, by Thomas Ruddiman (folio 107).
Sasines and charters of Easterseat of Foulshields in favour of the Carmichael family., 1671-1681.
Scrapbook whose contents include photographs of Borthwick castle, several family photographs, watercolour paintings of frescos at Pompeii, and engraved facsimiles of early charters., Late 19th century.
'Sibbaldi Fragmenta Historica.'
“Swinton’s kirk MSS’, a collection of copies of Scottish historical documents, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts C’., 17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
Transcript of Asser's ‘De rebus gestis Aelfredi’ and 'The appendix to the collection of the historie of England'., 11th century-1403.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732.
Transcripts, early nineteenth century, of charters of the Earls of Morton.
From the watermark, these transcripts appear to have been made in H M Register House early in the 19th century.
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.
Transcripts, mid 18th century, of miscellaneous charters, [circa 1174]-1755, made by copyists of Walter Macfarlane.
Among the transcripts are charters of the following:
Sinclair, Lauder, Stirling, Pitcairn, Lundin, Kenmore, Forlie, Mortoun, Churches of Crichtoun, Holyrood, Kynloss.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.4.29.