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Estate records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Documents relating to the management of all aspects of a landed estate, which is to be considered property of notable extent which may include, as general examples, any of the following: dwellings; outbuildings; grounds; pasturage; arable land; woodland; water courses. For papers concerning the administration of personal estates, in the narrow legal sense, on death see 'Estate inventories', 'Probate records'' and 'Probate accounts'.

Found in 1259 Collections and/or Records:

Papers concerning the debts of the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline., 1632-1684.

 File
Identifier: MS.14540
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1653, concerning the division of the Dunfermline debts between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and the 1st Earl of Callendar (folio 1);(ii) Rental, undated, of the Earl of Dunfermline’s estate enfeoffed, gifted or set in tack to the Earl of Leven (folio 33);(iii) Estate accounts, 1650-1651, of James Esplin for the Earl of Dunfermline’s lands in the parish of Newburn (folio 37);(iv) Account, 1651, of James...
Dates: 1632-1684.

Papers concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6943
Scope and Contents

Including 17th century copies of four charters, 1353-1412, and other estate papers, 1558-1950.

Dates: 1353-1950.

Papers concerning the Monboddo estate., 1683-1890, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24625-24628
Scope and Contents

The material is chiefly accounts, tacks and papers concerning grass sales.

Dates: 1683-1890, undated.