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Scope and Contents Charter by James, Earl of Morton, granting to William Calderwood and Margaret Portus, his spouse, the same tenement as in a previous precept [on the north side of the High Street of Dalkeith], resigned by William in favour of his wife : To be held for a yearly feu-duty of 13s. 4d., and a common suit at the granter's court of Dalkeith. At the castle of Dalkeith, 20th April 1552. Signed by the earl before the same witnesses as in the writ cited. Seal attached—Quarterly, first and fourth, two...

Scope and Contents Instrument of Sasine following on a precept (dated at Dalkeith, 17th August 1557, and directed to John Zule, as bailie) by Sir Ninian Douglas, chaplain of the chaplainry of the crucifix in the threshold ('in solio') of the collegiate church of St. Nicholas of Dalkeith, which was founded by the late Mr. Alexander Gyfhart, rector of Newlands, with consent of James, Earl of Morton, as patron of the chaplainry, for infefting, in terms of a charter of feu-farm, Robert Litill in Gulane, his heirs...

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Instrument of Sasine proceeding on a previous precept, in favour of William Calderwood and Margaret Portus (or Porteous), his spouse. Sasine given on the lands at Dalkeith, 24th May 1551. Witnesses, Thomas Portus, younger, William Gyffhert, John Harve, Alexander Curte, Sir Thomas Cristesone, Robert Cuthbertsone, and Andrew Bynning, serjeant. John Rolland, presbyter of Glasgow diocese, notary public.

Scope and Contents Precept of Sasine by James, fourth Earl of Morton (after­wards Regent), directed to William Trumbull, as bailie, for infefting William Calderwood and Margaret Porteous, his spouse, in conjunct fee, upon William's resignation, in a cottage tenement or holding and garden on the north side of the High Street of Dalkeith, bounded between the land of John Veche on the west and the land of William Gyffhert on the east. Dalkeith, 19th May 1551. Witnesses, John Home, Andrew Murray, Peter Trumbull,...