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Rentals. Records (documents).

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A type of manuscript ledger or register used to list a person's lands and properties and the rents paid on each of them by specified tenants. Source: Beal, Peter. 'Dictionary of English manuscript terminology, 1450-2000'. (2008).

Found in 194 Collections and/or Records:

Rental of the estate of Whytbank, Selkirkshire, for 1748.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9365
Scope and Contents

The rental is in the hand of Alexander Pringle, the owner of the estate (cf. MS.9239).

Dates: 1748.

'Rentall of my Lord Semple his whole estait both of stok and teynd as the lands now presentlie payeis as follows', 1644.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3934
Scope and Contents

The statement, which may have been drawn up on the succession of Francis, 6th Lord Sempill, to his father Hugh, gives the rentals of the Barony of Glassford in Lanarkshire and lands in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, with the names of the tenants.

On folio 8 verso is an authority given by the Earl of Winton and other friends of the house to William ?Houie to uplift the rents, 7 March, 1645.

Dates: 1644-1645.

Rentals concerning property in the region of Melrose, Roxburghshire.

 File
Identifier: MS.8488
Scope and Contents

The rentals concern property in:

(i) Longnewton, 1696-1713 (folio 1); (ii) Ancrum, 1712-1715 (folio 158); (iii) Dryburgh Abbey, 1696, 1699 (folio 9, inverted). (iv) Longnewton, 1675, 1695; abbreviated for comparing the two years (folio 1, inverted).

Dates: 1675, 1696-1715.

Rentals of, and accounts concerning, estates of the Fleming family., 16th century-1746.

 File
Identifier: MS.20796
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Rentals of, and accounts concerning, 1618-1746, the Wigtown estates, in whole or in part. (Folio 1.) This is IX D in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770). (ii) Rentals, 16th century, 1621, of Loudoun, Cardross and Caldwell (Folio 133.) This is XV B in the ‘Inventory’ (MS.20770).

Dates: 16th century-1746.

Rentals of lands owned by the Hays of Yester., 1609-1838, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14745
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains rentals of the following:(i) Lands of Lord Hay of Yester, 1609-1617 (folio 1);(ii) Parish of Bara, 1649 (folio 11);(iii) Parish of Oldhamstocks [circa 1650]-1670 (folio 13);(iv) The Steads, 1650-1685 (folio 20);(v) Baronies of Yester and Duncanlaw, 1653-1690 (folio 44);(vi) Steads, Yester and Duncanlaw, [circa 1700] (folio 69);(vii) Linplum and Bara, 1711 (folio 70);(viii)...
Dates: 1609-1838, undated.