Discharges. Legal Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents effecting the release of a right or obligation from its binding force; used especially in military and legal contexts.
Found in 431 Collections and/or Records:
Letters and papers of and concerning James Douglas, Earl of Angus., 1683-1698
File
Identifier: MS.974
Scope and Contents
The papers consist chiefly of accounts of the Earl of Angus' expenditure while in Holland, kept by his ‘governour’, Captain James Cranstoun of the Glen, 1683-1692 (folio 1), including vouchers for payments by Cranstoun and by William Lawrie, Tutor of Blackwood, the Marquess of Douglas's factor, reports on the accounts by Sir Francis Scott of Thirlestane and Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, 1693 (folios 35 verso, 41), and the Marquess's discharges, with his remarks, 1693 (folios 36, 110)....
Dates:
1683-1698
Letters and papers on various subjects., 1575-1824, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3135
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Discharge of Andro Hart, printer, to Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, 1592 (folio 1);(ii) Discharge of Robert Brysone, printer and bookseller, and Evan Tyler, printer, to Mr George Halyburton for liturgies delivered to the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, 1637 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of the Earl of Mar to Thomas Kennedy, Lord Advocate of Scotland, demanding an immediate report on the presence of a French ship near Inverkeithing, 1714...
Dates:
1575-1824, undated.
Lord Lovat, discharge to John Forbes, for feu-duty., 1663.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1727
Maybole Parish: discharges., 1818.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.982-983
Military testimonial in favour of Lieutenant Thomas Patrick Ballingall, MC, Machine Gun Corps, and his discharge papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.12902
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of "Peary: In Memoriam" an elegy on the death in action of James Pearson, late of George Watson`s [Boys] College. Edinburgh, [by G. N. Ballingall].
Dates:
1915.
Minutes, letters, and accounts concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library regarding the proposal to build a new corridor.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/3
Dates:
1826-1831.
Miscellaneous deeds, being bonds, discharges and other legal agreements, chiefly concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1540-1945, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8214-8216
Dates:
1540-1945, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Legal documents of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Miscellaneous deeds, being bonds, discharges and other legal agreements, chiefly concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1540-1699.
File
Identifier: MS.8214
Dates:
1540-1699.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Legal documents of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous deeds, being bonds, discharges and other legal agreements, chiefly concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Miscellaneous deeds, being bonds, discharges and other legal agreements, chiefly concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1700-1765.
File
Identifier: MS.8215
Dates:
1700-1765.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Legal documents of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous deeds, being bonds, discharges and other legal agreements, chiefly concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Miscellaneous deeds, being bonds, discharges and other legal agreements, chiefly concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1766-1945, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8216
Dates:
1766-1945, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Legal documents of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous deeds, being bonds, discharges and other legal agreements, chiefly concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Miscellaneous estate accounts, bills, discharges and rentals of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1658-1917.
File
Identifier: MS.8220
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Miscellaneous estate accounts, 1658-1883, undated, of Torrance and Castlemilk (folio 1);
(ii) Miscellaneous bills and discharges, 1692-1859 (folio 45);
(iii) Rentals, 1731-1917, of the estates of Torrance, Castlemilk, Glassford, and Milton (folio 62).
Dates:
1658-1917.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Estate accounts of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Urquhart family of Burdsyards.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8437-8442
Scope and Contents
An inventory is available.
Dates:
1666-1827.
Miscellaneous Lathallan family papers, including grants, contracts and related papers., 1521-1812.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/1
Scope and Contents
Contains:
1. Obligation by Thos Forsyth, Isbel Knox and William Fulles to pay Colonel Archibald Spens of Lathallan Lodge £8:1 :- for corn. Kelso, 21 August 1813.2. Letters of excommunication by the official Principal of St Andrews at the instance of Margaret Dunbar, relict of the deceased William Forbes against William Ruthwane of Bandane for nonfulfilment of an order under the sign of Patrick Ross priest of St Andrews diocese, notary, dated 10 July 1537 to him through his...
Dates:
1521-1812.
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.
Miscellaneous legal and financial papers, including bonds, discharges, and personal and estate accounts of the family of Fleming., 1534-1837, undated.
Series
Identifier: MS.20778 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Miscellaneous legal documents of the Drummonds of Balhaldie concerning various persons, chiefly resident in and about Dunblane., 1604-1779, undated.
Series
Identifier: Ch.2160-2202
Scope and Contents
Included with the documents is a lease, 1758, 1763, of houses to William MacGregor in France.
Dates:
1604-1779, undated.
Miscellaneous letters and documents., 1585-1901.
File
Identifier: MS.150
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Lord Justice Clerk Bellenden to James VI, relating his interview with Queen Elizabeth, London, 1 March, 1584/1585. See 'Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, 1584-1585', pages 560, 564, 565. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter of Francis Stewart, titular Earl of Bothwell, to Colonel William Urie, relating to an attack upon a sentinel, Dumfries, 1670. (Folio 3.)(iii) ‘Mr. Gidean Guthry his aco.ͭͭ of letters’,...
Dates:
1585-1901.
Miscellaneous papers concerning entail., [?1805.]
File
Identifier: MS.16252
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Act of 1805, disposition and deed of entail (folio 1); (ii) Signatures of resignation relating to the exchange of entail (folio 89); (iii) Copies of discharges and renunciations executed by heirs of entail (folio 111); (iv) Various papers (folio 192).
Dates:
[?1805.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Papers and some related correspondence concerning private acts of parliament relating to exchanges of entail on the lands of Balgowan, to consequent sales of land, and to the Annadale executry.
Miscellaneous papers relating to Grahame of Gorthie., 1633, 1762.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.15367-15368
Mortgage of debt and conveyance of plantations in Grenada by Theophilus Law to Joseph Parkes and Thomas Fraser., 6 May 1862.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12705
Nisbet estate accounts, discharges for payment of annual rent, and miscellaneous accounts, of the Ker family., 1605-1649.
File
Identifier: MS.5412
Dates:
1605-1649.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers from Nisbet House, Berwickshire.
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Papers of the Ker family.
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Accounts of the Ker family concerning the Nisbet estate.
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Nisbet estate accounts (i.e. rentals, and discharges for payment of rent and of estate burdens), discharges for payment of annual rent, and miscellaneous accounts, of the Ker family.
Nisbet estate accounts, discharges for payment of annual rent, and miscellaneous accounts, of the Ker family., 1650-1732, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5413
Dates:
1650-1732, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers from Nisbet House, Berwickshire.
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Papers of the Ker family.
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Accounts of the Ker family concerning the Nisbet estate.
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Nisbet estate accounts (i.e. rentals, and discharges for payment of rent and of estate burdens), discharges for payment of annual rent, and miscellaneous accounts, of the Ker family.
Nisbet estate accounts (i.e. rentals, and discharges for payment of rent and of estate burdens), discharges for payment of annual rent, and miscellaneous accounts, of the Ker family., 1605-1732, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5412-5413
Dates:
1605-1732, undated.
Note-book of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, containing copies of documents relating to the claimants of the estate of Stow., [?1850-?1855.]
Item
Identifier: MS.628
Dates:
[?1850-?1855.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
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Note-books of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, containing correspondence and copies of documents relating to the claimants to the estate of Innes of Stow.
Obligation, 1712, by Jean Johnston to her children Christian and Janet; and discharge, 1716, by Jean Johnstone to Christian Wardrop., 1712, 1716.
File
Identifier: Acc.9843/40
Dates:
1712, 1716.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters, instruments and other formal and legal documents concerning the lands of Foulshields, in the parish of Livingston, the Wardrop family, and other related families.
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Formal and legal documents and papers relating to the Wardrop family.