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Memorandums. Legal documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Legal document embodying the terms of a contract or other agreement; or the formal attestation clause signed by witnesses to a deed. Source: Beal, Peter. 'Dictionary of English manuscript terminology, 1450-2000'. (2008).

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs., 1541-1687, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14751
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Relief, 1541, of the castleward of Belton (folio 1);(ii) Copy of the instrument of sasine, 1603, of Lady (Margaret) Hay of Yester of the lands of Belton, Killpallet, Byrecleuch, Yester Park and 'Hedinghill' (folio 2);(iii) Papers, 1629-1648, concerning tacks of teinds to East Lothian lairds (folio 4);(iv) Papers, 1647-1653, of a dispute between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and Patrick Hepburn of Nunraw...
Dates: 1541-1687, undated.

Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs., 1660-[circa 1834].

 File
Identifier: MS.14754
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Note, 1660, of the conditions agreed between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and William Knowles for draining the moss of Crombieside in the barony of Duncanlaw (folio 1);(ii) Papers, 1681-1826, being chiefly contracts, memorials and petitions concerning Gifford village, including material relating to Gifford paper mill (folio 3);(iii) Timber contracts and articles of roup, 1703-1773 (folio 47);(iv) Articles of...
Dates: 1660-[circa 1834].

Papers relating to sedition, formerly part of the papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

 File
Identifier: MS.3011
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Notes of the speeches and opinions of the Court at the trial of Charles Sinclair for sedition at Edinburgh, 1794; see ‘State trials’, edited by T J Howell, volume xxiii (London, 1817), page 778 (folio i);(ii) Memorandum for Dundas on the trial of Thomas Muir for sedition at Edinburgh, 1793; see ‘State trials’, edited by T J Howell, volume xxiii (London, 1817), page 118 (folio 49);(iii) List of papers on treasonable...
Dates: 1793-1799.