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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:

Discharges and accounts, with a few other financial papers, of the Lords Oliphant and the Oliphants of Gask., 1585-1802.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.3.1-82.3.10
Scope and Contents

The papers cover financial transactions and personal, houseĀ¬hold, and estate expenditure (but for estate accounts after 1745 and all accounts after 1802 see Adv.MSS.82.3.11-82.3.14, 82.6.1-82.8.9; cf. also Adv.MS.82.4.11). The amount of material preserved varies greatly from year to year.

Dates: 1585-1802.

Discharges, financial papers and correspondence concerning the Douglas family., 1649-1675.

 File
Identifier: MS.5370
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Discharges, 1649-1670, of William, Marquess of Douglas, and his son William, 3rd Duke of Hamilton (folio 1);(ii) Financial papers, 1667-1674, of Mary, Marchioness of Douglas, including precepts and discharges to her son (folio 60), tradesmen's discharges arranged in chronological order (folio 89), and undischarged accounts arranged according to a contemporary list (folio 116);(iii) Papers and correspondence, 1675, concerning...
Dates: 1649-1675.