Contracts. Agreements.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents, enforceable by law, embodying agreements between two or more competent parties to do or not to do something, and specifying the terms and conditions of the agreement.
Found in 476 Collections and/or Records:
Contract, Sir Robert Halked of Pitfirrane, knight, and Sir James Halked, his eldest son, and Mr James Phin, portioner of Lymekills, by which he agrees to dispone to them his half of the lands of Lymekills., 12 April 1637.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6554
Contract, Sir Robert Halket and lady and John Walker, merchant, Dunfermline, an annual-rent of 400 merks from Knokhouse., 16 November 1622.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6803
Contract, Sir Robert Halket and lady and John Walker, merchant in Dunfermline, and his daughters, annual-rent of 180 merks from Knokhouse., 24 February 1632.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6809
Contract, Sir Robert Halket and Robert Stanehouse, portioner of Maistertoun, annual-rent of 300 merks from lands and mains of Pitfirrane., 17 December 1615.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6800
Contract, Sir Robert Halkheid of Pitfirrane and Dame Margaret Murray, his spouse, and Jonet Cunynghame, by which they dispone to her under reversion an annual-rent of 100 merks from lands of Knokhous., 8 September 1615.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6480
Contract to Captain John Brown, R N, concerning trade in Barbados., 1666.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7580
Contract, William, commendator of Pittenweem, and Sir Michael Balfour of Burley, who dispones to the commendator all tacks of teinds of Pittenweem and Anstruther for 1300 merks., 31 December 1593.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6340
Contract, William Wilson, portioner of Walkmyln of Burnemouth, and Robert Bruce in Lynmyln respecting annual-rent of 4½ bolls from the lands of Waulkmiln., 31 October 1586.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6758
Contracts and agreements made by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' with publishers, radio and television companies, and others., 1934-1977.
File
Identifier: MS.27161
Contracts and Cancelled Agreements for John Murray educational titles., 1939-1995
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13328/1476-1489
Dates:
1939-1995
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of John Murray, publishers.
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Editorial files and papers of John Murray, publishers, regarding its educational works.
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Correspondence, contracts, permissions, research, and promotion files relating to John Murray Educational Publishing.
Contracts and correspondence concerning foreign rights for John Murray educational titles., 1962-1984
File
Identifier: Acc.13328/1471
Scope and Contents
File contains original and copy memoranda of agreements with foreign publishers for the following titles: "Concept Geography" by Spencer Thomas (foreign publisher, Twinburn Ltd.); "Elementary Objective Tests in Chemistry (Teachers' Edition)" by M.A. Atherton (foreign publisher, Umschau Verlag); "Europe 1450-1815" by E.J. Knapton (foreign publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons); "Europe and the World since 1914", by E.J. Knapton and T.K. Derry...
Dates:
1962-1984
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of John Murray, publishers.
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Editorial files and papers of John Murray, publishers, regarding its educational works.
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Correspondence, contracts, permissions, research, and promotion files relating to John Murray Educational Publishing.
Contracts and invoices for broadcasts by the British Broadcasting Corporation relating to the literary estate of George Friel., 1979-1980.
File
Identifier: Acc.9248/18
Contracts and other work-related papers of Jan Struther., 1933-1995, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/36-38
Contracts between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and his mother., 1657.
File
Identifier: Ch.10869-10870
Contracts for John Murray educational titles., 1960-1989
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13328/1476
Scope and Contents
File contains a typed index noting authors and titles for which memoranda of agreements (original and copy) are included. Some brief correspondence also appears. Listed titles include: "O Level Revision Tests in Biology"; "A Basic Course of Practical Metalwork"; "A More Perfect Union: The Evolution of American Government"; "A New Scottish History"; "Adventure - Short Stories Series"; "Applied Chemistry"; ...
Dates:
1960-1989
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of John Murray, publishers.
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Editorial files and papers of John Murray, publishers, regarding its educational works.
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Correspondence, contracts, permissions, research, and promotion files relating to John Murray Educational Publishing.
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Contracts and Cancelled Agreements for John Murray educational titles.
Contracts of Richard and William Ford, Michael Knott, and James Backhouse, the ironmasters, with Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochnell and with the Earl of Breadalbane, regarding the working of their forests, 1752., 1752, 1759, 1773, 1782-1813, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.993
Scope and Contents
With registrations, 1773 (folio 1), and letters of the Company's agents at Bunawe, 1759, 1782-1813, undated, many of them to local landowners regarding the cutting of wood (folio 35).
Dates:
1752, 1759, 1773, 1782-1813, undated.
Contracts, royalties and other related papers., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11750/115
Contracts, schemes, and other papers concerning the estate of Ladykirk, Berwickshire., 1771-1775, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.999
Dates:
1771-1775, undated.
Copies of correspondence and papers chiefly concerning the financial affairs of Sir Walter Scott and the Ballantynes., 1802-1839, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21059-21060
Copies of miscellaneous legal documents., 1614-1619.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13487
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: charter by James VI to Robert, Lord Lindsay, Sir Harie Lindsay and Sir John Lindsay of Finevin, 7 May 1614; comprising by James, Lord Ochiltree of Finevin and Carestoun, 15 August 1616; charter by James VI to James, Lord Ochiltree of Finevin and Carestoun, 11 January 1617; disposition by James, Lord Ochiltree to Mr William Forbes of Finevin and Carestoun, 20 March 1618; contract between Sir Harie Lindsay and Mr William Forbes concerning Finevin and Carestoun, 27 March 1618;...
Dates:
1614-1619.
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 Sir James Stewart of Killeith, later 4th Lord Ochiltree, who was the main claimant to Saltoun, and to his cautioners and creditors. He disposed of the estate to Forbes of Craigievar.