Deeds. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A formal written instrument setting forth the terms of an agreement, contract, or obligation, whether in relation to persons or things, including the voluntary constitution, transmission, or discharge of rights or obligations relating to either movable or heritable property. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'.
Found in 454 Collections and/or Records:
Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8971-10633
Scope and Contents
The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates:
12th century-1910, undated.
Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family concerning lands and affairs in Roxburghshire., 1448-1858.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.8971-9321
Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family concerning lands in Fife., Circa 1189-1781.
Series
Identifier: Ch.9322-9559
Dates:
Circa 1189-1781.
Charters relating to members of the Ellice family., 1804-1873, undated.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12711-12751
Dates:
1804-1873, undated.
Chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey and a selection of deeds of Coldingham priory transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane., 15th century, 16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Registrum Coenobii de Dryburgh Impensis Walteri MacFarlan de Eodem Transcriptum, Anno MDCCXL` (folio 1), copied from Adv.MS.34.4.7, 15th century, with an extract from Hay on Dryburgh, 1700-1707, or after (folio 127 verso; from Adv.MS.34.1.8, pages 301-302) and a list of the charters (folio 129).(ii) ‘Chartae Prioratus de Coldingham Impensis Walteri MacFarlan de Eodem Transcriptae Anno MDCCXLIV` (folio 135), a...
Dates:
15th century, 16th century, 1700-1707, or after.
Chartulary of the bishopric of Moray, 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.9
Scope and Contents
Chartulary compiled in Scotland containing a selection of transcripts of charters, deeds, and acts of the Bishopric of Moray, covering the 13th to the 16th centuries. The manuscript is also known as the 'Red Book of the Church of Moray'. Davis dates the manuscript to the 16th century. Borland suggests that the manuscript can be dated to circa 1540, with later 16th-century additions. This suggestion is certaninly true of the later portion of the chartulary, but the first 94 folios were...
Dates:
16th century.
Church of Whittinghame., 1593-1595.
File
Identifier: Ch.11669-11671
‘Collectanea Juridica’, containing a collection of styles of deeds, writs, and forms of proceeding in various Courts of England.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.1
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Conveyance of plantation in Tobago by Sir William Forbes, Baronet, and Lady Jean Hunter Blair to John Balfour., 3 April 1799.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12676
Conveyance of plantation in Tobago by Sir William Forbes, Baronet, Lady Jean Hunter Blair and John Buchan to John Balfour., 3 April 1799.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12677
Scope and Contents
With associated documents.
Dates:
3 April 1799.
Conveyance of plantation on Tobago by Barclay Farquharson, John McPherson and Louis Perras to John Balfour., 23 May 1800.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12684
Conveyance of plantations in Grenada by William Law and William Ellice to Theophilus Law., 5 May 1862.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12704
Copies of deeds and accounts relating to the McLaren Fund., 1849-1895.
File
Identifier: MS.18075
Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.7
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages;
(ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).
Dates:
17th century.
Copies of protested bills, discharges, factories, and other deeds registered in the court books of the barony of Airth., 1712, 1725-1746.
File
Identifier: MS.10855
Scope and Contents
The protested bills are mainly for small debts incurred in trade, though they include some fines imposed by the kirk session. The discharges chiefly relate to rents or feu duties paid in cash or kind.
Dates:
1712, 1725-1746.
Copy, 16th century, of a transumpt taken in 1395 of eleven deeds, circa 1172-1178 and circa 1266-1270, concerning grants of land to members of the Kinninmond family., Circa 1172-1178, circa 1266-1270.
Item
Identifier: Ch.9323
Dates:
Circa 1172-1178, circa 1266-1270.
Copy, 17th century, of Kinneil, 1428., 1428
Item
Identifier: Ch.8814
Dates:
1428
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents of the Livingstons, Earls of Linlithgow and Callendar.
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Deeds relating to the tenure of lands belonging to members of the Livingston family.
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Deeds concerning other properties mostly in Stirlingshire and West Lothian, but including properties in Aberdeenshire, East Lothian, Forfarshire Fife, Lanarkshire and Perthshire.
'Copy for trustees of the Free Church. Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library Catalogue (printed) and deed of gift', 1875, with papers concerning it, 1876-1888, undated., 1875-1888, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.18079
'Copy of original writings containing the rights and priveldges belonging to the Incorporation of the Tailors of Canongate', 1438-1796; with related material., 1438-1796.
File
Identifier: MS.1958
Scope and Contents
The copy was made in the 18th century. It is followed by copies of a contract of union, 1709, between the trades and incorporations of Canongate, and other deeds (folio 27), and an extract from William Maitland's 'History of Edinburgh' (Edinburgh, 1753), regarding the Canongate (folio 37).
Dates:
1438-1796.
Correspondence and papers concerning private entail acts obtained by the 1st Earl of Minto., 1775-1792, 1806-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.11175
Dates:
1775-1792, 1806-1807.
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 of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Financial and legal correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and family.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the marriage contract of the 2nd Earl of Minto, and private entail acts obtained by the 1st Earl of Minto.
Correspondence and papers of James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde, concerning the Grant trust., 1929-1944.
File
Identifier: MS.24722
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Further Grant Trust correspondence and papers, 1940-1944 (folio 1);
(ii) Copy, agreement and deed of trust between the trustees of the National Library, and Sir Alexander Grant and his trustees, January 1929 (folio 93);
(iii) Copies of supplementary agreements (2) between the same parties, March-April 1933 and August-September 1935 (folio 103);
(iv) Copy, memorandum by Lord Clyde on the Grant Trust, 24 June 1939 (folio 121);
(v) Manuscript draft and...
Dates:
1929-1944.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchanan, 'Glasguensis', and papers collected by him, dealing almost exclusively with the history of Glasgow and district., 1759-1899.
File
Identifier: MS.2675
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of John Buchanan to Joseph Irving, author and journalist, 1856-1859, 1875 (folio 1);(ii) Letters, 1852, 1855-1856, 1859-1863, 1865, of Robert Reid, 'Senex' of the Glasgow Herald, to Buchanan; and a copy of an autobiographical memoir of Reid, 1855, with comments by Buchanan (folio 47);(iii) Letters, 1856, of Hugh James Rollo, Writer to the Signet, the Younger, to Buchanan, with genealogies of the family of Paterson of...
Dates:
1759-1899.
Correspondence and Trust Deed, David Thin Trust., 1936-1937.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/150
Scope and Contents
Contains 70 items.
Dates:
1936-1937.
Correspondence of John Sharpe of Hoddam, Sheriff-clerk of Dumfries, on business affairs, with Sir Robert Grierson of Lag, Baronet (the Laird of Lag of Covenanting tradition), and Sir Patrick Maxwell, 1st Baronet of Springkell, with a few deeds., 1652-1736, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.211
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, titled 'Papers and letters of Lag and Sir P Maxwell', are bound with notes on the Laird of Lag and Maxwell, and a sketch of John Sharpe’s house in Dumfries, by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, to whom the manuscript once belonged.
Dates:
1652-1736, undated.