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Scope and Contents Assignation by Mr. David Macgill, advocate, having right in terms of a letter of pension for life, dated 9th December 1558, from Robert [Stewart], commendator of Holyrood, to the teindsheaves of Gorgie and Gorgie mill as described, assigning and transferring the said teinds, etc., with his liferent right, to Thomas Otterburn of Reidhall. Edinburgh, 6th November 1575. Witnesses, John Fynlasoun of Killeyth, William Young in Reidhewis, John Henryson, writer, notary public, Mungo Naper, burgess...

Scope and Contents Letters of Assignation by Mr. David Macgill having a lease from Robert, commendator of Holyrood House, of the teindsheaves of Gorgie and Gorgie mill, in the sheriffdom of Edinburgh, for nineteen years from 25th September 1568, at a yearly rent of four bolls bear, four bolls wheat, and a chalder of oats from the lands, and four bolls bear from the mill, with 20s. of silver rent; assigning to Thomas Otterburn of Reidhall all his right to the said teindsheaves for the years of the lease yet to...