Maknakill, John, fl 1530s (notary)

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Discharge by Walter, lord of St. John, knight, preceptor of Torphichen, etc., in favour of his kinsman and servitor James Dundas of Cragtoune, and Elizabeth Hamilton, his spouse, acquitting them of the sum of £500 Scots paid for the composition of the feu-farm grants to them of the lands of Newliston. At Torphichen, 18th April 1536. Witnesses, Nicholl Dundas, Andrew Lindsay, Thomas Ewing, and Sir John Maknakill, notary.

Scope and Contents Instrument of Sasine following on a precept (dated Edinburgh, 20th June 1534) by Walter [Lindesay], lord of St. John, preceptor of Torphichen, knight, etc., directed to Thomas Ewin, templar-bailie in the sheriffdom of Berwick, narrating that by an inquest made at the command of George Dundas, the granter's predecessor, Patrick Cockburn of Newbigging, was retoured heir of his father, the late Thomas Cockburn, in the templar-land and 'Cramil' (? Crawmill) of the same, as described of date 18th...

Scope and Contents Instrument of Sasine proceeding on a precept, dated at Edinburgh, 15th April 1532, by Walter [Lindsay], lord of St. John, preceptor of Torphichen, etc., directed to Thomas Ewine, his templar-bailie in the constabulary of Haddington, for infefting Henry Congiltoun of that Ilk in an oxgang of templar­land in the territory of Haddington on the north side of the town, having the lands of John Aytoun on the east, and the lands of the friars-minor and the lands of Peddarcrag on the east [sic - ?...