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:
Extract of contract between George, Earl Marischal (succeeded 1581) and George, 2nd Earl of Huntly concerning lands at Edgel, Kincardinshire., 23 January 1590.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17179
Dates:
23 January 1590.
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 Keith, Earl Marischal papers.
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Titles of the Keiths, Earls Marischal for their property in Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire and elsewhere in Scotland.
Extract of heads of contract, 31 May 1613, between Adam Gordon of Glenbuschet and Laurence Oliphant of Nether Turings. Registered, 8 December 1618., 31 May 1613.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14230
Extract of registered copy, 5 March 1585/1586, of contract, 4 March 1585/1586, between Alexander, Lord Saltoun and John Wardlaw, burgess of Edinburgh and Janet Hutton his wife, concerning lands in Easter Saltoun., 4 March 1585/1586.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13106
Dates:
4 March 1585/1586.
Family legal and financial papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1550-1764.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7105-7107
Scope and Contents
The papers include, in one chronological sequence, formal legal documents such as bonds and contracts (except those too large to be bound, which have been treated as charters), informal legal notes, personal accounts, and estate accounts and papers.
Dates:
1550-1764.
Family papers, including contracts, retours and sasines, some concerning Gilbert Skene., 1540-1661.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/3
Scope and Contents
Contains:39. Copy assedation Alexander, Bishop of Brechin, in favour of James Guthrie burgess of Edinburgh and Christiane Barron his spouse of the teinds of the lands of Bannabrioth and half of the mill-lands thereof in liferent and for three heirs lives and 90 years thereafter. Edinburgh, 27 January 1577.40. Contract at Edinburgh 16 September 1575 between Mr Gilbert Skene, doctor of medicine on one part and John Melros, writer burgess of Edinburgh on the other part...
Dates:
1540-1661.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Fragment of draft of contract between [Sir] Alexander Menzies of that ilk, [1st Baronet] and Alexander Menzies of Rotmell., ?23 September 1665.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10639
Dates:
?23 September 1665.
Fragments of the Kilbride collection, in Gaelic, consisting of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille, part of a tale of Caithréim Conghail Cláiringhnigh, and a contract between Duncan MacDougall and his servitor.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.31
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of three fragments from the Kilbride collection, but two of these (folios 1-5, Colum-cille poems, and folio 8, a MacDougall contract) are of very great independent value.Folios 1-5 (Mackechnie’s ‘A’, ‘B’).These fragments, ?15th century, contain an orderly sequence of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille. The hand is that which inscribes the Colum-cille poem “Aingeal Dé dom dhín” on the fly leaf of British Library MS. Egerton 2899...
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
General and East Lothian papers., 1541-1891, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14750-14756
Dates:
1541-1891, undated.
Heads of contract between Adam Gordon of Glenbucket and Patrick Oliphant of Over Turings., 28 May 1613.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14228
Heads of contract between Adam Gordon of Glenbuschet and Laurence Oliphant of Nether Turings., 31 May 1613.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14229
Heads of contract between John Livingston and Marion Muir his wife, and Patrick Livingston, their son, and Janet Abernethie, his wife., 27 March 1606.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13663
Dates:
27 March 1606.
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.
Instrument of contract between Thomas Pigot and James Kyninmond, tailor in Forfar., 7 July 1581.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15072
Lauderdale affairs., 1632-1729.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11313-11440
Leases, contracts and related correspondence and papers concerning the title to Barberfield Farm., 1883-1979.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11021/3-5
Dates:
1883-1979.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Diaries, financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian; with some personal correspondence and papers of the Blythe family.
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Diaries, legal documents and financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian.
Legal and property papers of James Thin, bookseller., 1882-2000.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/2-8
Legal documents of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1569-1814.
File
Identifier: MS.5320
Scope and Contents
The documents comprise the following:
(i) Resignations, 1643-1709 (number 1);
(ii) Copies of charters, 1656-1697 (number 5);
(iii) Sasines, 1569-1776 (number 16);
(iv) Marriage contracts, 1634-1781 (number 21);
(v) Other contracts and agreements, 1617-1814 (number 60);
(vi) Wills (number 77).
Dates:
1569-1814.
Legal documents relating to properties in the West Indies belonging to Alexander Ellice and his descendants., 1768-1862.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12633-12707
Dates:
1768-1862.
Legal papers concerning Hannagalla Coffee Plantation, Ceylon., 1844-1865.
File
Identifier: MS.19227
Scope and Contents
In 1844 Bruce Bremner, his brother Dugald, and Alexander Geddes, an Aberdeenshire farmer, entered into partnership to purchase and cultivate this plantation, Geddes being the resident partner. Included here are copies of the 1844 agreement (folios 1,6), and of the case between Bruce and Dugald Bremner v Mrs Bathurst Geddes, widow of Alexander, in 1854 (folio 9), there are also plans of the Hannagalla estate, 1854, 1856 (folios 6-19), and insurance policies for Hannagalla coffee shipped from...
Dates:
1844-1865.
Letter books and papers of the Lorn Furnace Company founded by Furness ironmasters, with works at Bunawe.
Series
Identifier: MSS.993-995
Dates:
1752-1813, undated.
Letters and papers of various correspondents., 1579-1844.
File
Identifier: MS.3134
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous letters. Among the writers are:
The Earl of Mar, to Sir George Bowes, Marshal of Berwick, 1579 (number 1);
Edward Kellie, Receiver and Director of Music of the Chapel Royal, on arrangements made by him for services in Holyrood, 1632 (number 3); printed in Charles Rogers, ‘History of the Chapel Royal of Scotland’ (Grampian Club, 1882), page clxvi;
Nicolas Briot, making recommendations regarding the copper coinage of Scotland, 1631...
Dates:
1579-1844.
Letters and papers relating chiefly to the City of Edinburgh., 1773, 1790-1837, 1849.
File
Identifier: MS.351
Scope and Contents
The correspondents and subjects dealt with include: Contract of Professor William Cullen, 1773;
Professor John Playfair, 1790;
Sir William Forbes and the proposed regulations regarding Bills of Exchange and Notes, 1790;
Sir John Sinclair and Scottish wool, 1791;
Mutiny of Highland troops at Linlithgow, 1794;
Report on the Friends of the People and on J Gerrald, 1794;
Printed circular letter to the Faculty of Advocates regarding the Deanship and Henry Erskine, with...
Dates:
1773, 1790-1837, 1849.
Letters, contracts, specifications and other papers to William Nassau Elliot from contractors, commissioners of transport and the municipal authorities of Osnabrück, Bentheim and Munster., 1761-1762.
File
Identifier: MS.12887
Dates:
1761-1762.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning William Nassau Elliot of Wells.
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Correspondence and papers of William Nassau Elliot of Wells as Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany.
Letters to George Smith from William M Thackeray and his daughters Anne, Lady Richmond Ritchie and Harriet Stephen., 1837-1865, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.23177
Dates:
1837-1865, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of George Smith (1824-1901), publisher, and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography, and his successors as heads of the firm of Smith, Elder and Company.
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Correspondence consisting chiefly of letters to George Smith and to members of the firm, to his wife Elizabeth, and to his son-in-law and successor as head of the firm Reginald J Smith.
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Letters and papers to George Smith from frequent correspondents.