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:
Cancelled bond of corroboration by Archibald McAlister, captain of Tarbet, to Cuthbert Campbell for £470 Scots., 1 March 1686.
Item
Identifier: Ch.325
Dates:
1 March 1686.
Cancelled obligation of Ronald McAlister, captain of Tarbet, to Cuthbert Campbell, merchant, burgess of Glasgow, for £140 Scots., 18 August 1669.
Item
Identifier: Ch.299
Dates:
18 August 1669.
Charters relating to members of the Ellice family., 1804-1873, undated.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12711-12751
Dates:
1804-1873, undated.
Composition and discharge by King James IV for the relief of the fourth part of the earldom of Lennox pertaining to Sir James Haldane of Gleneagles (d 1503)., 5 September 1502.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15448
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, 1603, of extract of discharge, 18 June 1603, by Mr John Skene, clerk register to John, Lord Saltoun. Registered, 23 June 1603., 1603.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13317
Dates:
1603.
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 John Skene of Curriehill, Alexander Peirson, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, Sir Alexander Hay of Fosterseat, and William Kellie, W.S. Their claims were transferred to Forbes of Craigievar.
Copy, 1623, of discharge, 1623, by Alexander, Earl of Galloway, Sir William Cunningham of Caprington and Mr William Forbes of Craigievar to James, Lord Ochiltree, of all contracts and lands., 1623.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13472
Dates:
1623.
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.
Copy, undated, of discharge, 1620, by Mr William Forbes of Craigievar, Nicholas Edwart, James Arnot elder and William Dick, merchant, burgesses of Edinburgh, to James, Lord Ochiltree concerning Saltoun., 1620.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13417
Dates:
1620.
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.
Correspondence and papers of Cecilia Mackenzie, née Renton, wife of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, 1746-1797, undated, and of children of John Mackenzie, Advocate: Christian, 1728-1741, Janet, 1739-1773, Jean, 1741-1776, and Katherine, 1739., 1728-1797, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1208
Dates:
1728-1797, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
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Letters and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
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Letters and papers of, to and concerning John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, son of John Mackenzie, Advocate.
David Stewart, merchant, Inverness, discharge to John Forbes for house-rent, etc, of John McLeod, vintner there., 1717.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1814
Deed of covenants and release of Simon McGillivray in favour of John Fraser., 1828.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12760
Discharge, 3 August 1627, registered in Books of Council and Session 9 January 1628, John Young, maltman in Edinburgh, executor of James Colthird, tailor there, to Sir Robert Halket for £50., 3 August 1627.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6808
Discharge, 9 August 1571, of Richard Strang, burgess of Edinburgh, to John Wardlaw in Leith for £100, conform to contract, 6 June 1571, of John Strang of Balcasky and Richard Strang, advocate., 9 August 1571.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6168
Discharge, 13 November 1600, by Humphrey Lundie to Robert Halket of Pitfirrane, of bond, 26 February 1585, George Halket of Pitfirrane to Andrew Lundie for 1000 merks., 13 November 1600.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6783
Discharge, 15 August 1615, Mr James Schaw of Knokhill and Helen Bruce, his spouse, to Sir Robert Halkheid for 3100 merks (borrowed on 10 November 1614)., 15 August 1615.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6479
Discharge, 25 [ ] 1577, John Dik, junior, to George Halkheid of Pitfirrane, of an annual-rent of £10 from the lands of Southir Lumfynnanes., 1577.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6245
Discharge, 1622, of Edward Raban, printer, to the Senate and Council of St Andrews for his rent, paid by them for the Martinmas term, 1620, and the Whitsun term, 1621.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2044
Dates:
1622.
Discharge, 1778, by John Sked, minister of Abbey St Bathan's, in favour of the Honourable Francis Charteris for his share of £10 allowed for a manse for the year until Whitsunday, and a bill, 1788, of James Mitchel, Charteris's factor, claiming expenses for travelling on estate business., 1778, 1788.
File
Identifier: MS.6295, folios 82-83
Dates:
1778, 1788.
Discharge, 1843, by the Dean and Faculty of Advocates in favour of the Trustees and Executors of the late George Chalmers, referring to the fund left by Chalmers to found a hospital., 1843, 1848.
File
Identifier: MS.187
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1848, of Alexander Gifford, relating to the building of the hospital, and an abstract, 1843, of the trust fund, amounting to £31,242 : 13 : 4.
Dates:
1843, 1848.
Discharge, Adame Brand in Leith to James Merschell, bookbinder in Edinburgh, of action of reduction of his disposition in minority to John Dewar of his lands of northsyde of Steilend., 10 October 1636.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6552
Discharge, Alexander Young, merchant in Edinburgh, to Sir Charles Halket for £100 as price of coals to have been delivered and £200 damages., 29 June 1676.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6630
Discharge, Allan Cowttis, chamberlain of Dunfermline, to Patrick Halkheid of Pitfirrane for 500 merks in part of the sum of 600 merks for the alienation of the half of Pitconnoquhy., 20 January 1556/1557.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6737
Discharge and renunciation by David Wardlaw Brown to Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun of bond and disposition to the trustees of Lieutenant Colonel John MacDougall., 19 May 1842.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14687