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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:

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, house¬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.

Documents concerning the Duke of Douglas, with notes of the Reverend Dr John Struthers, Minister of Prestonpans., 1755-1758.

 File
Identifier: MS.2126
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: 'Scheme of ... the Duke of Douglas his real and personal Estate, containing also an accompt of the family debts paid ... and of money laid out on purchases or lent out on bonds', 1755 (folio 3); "Rental of ... his Grace's whole estates in the shires of Lanerk and Renfrew for the cropt and year 1757 &c. and of the lands ... in the shire of Air for cropt 1758 &c." (folio 11); with some notes by Dr Struthers.

Dates: 1755-1758.

Documents concerning the estates of Castlemilk and Torrance., 1662-1907.

 File
Identifier: MS.5335
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, 1673-1907 (folio 1);(ii) Rentals of the estates of Glassford, 1662-1682, Fossoway, 1756-1757, and Torrance, 1796-1799 (folio 18);(iii) Inventory of Torrance papers, 1799 (folio 53);(iv) Accounts, 1670-1680, 1712, undated (folio 61), and other financial papers, 1672-1734, undated (folio 78), chiefly concerning the estates of Glassford (of which James Stuart of Torrance was chamberlain) and Torrance;...
Dates: 1662-1907.