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Letters by Queen Mary granting to James Schaw of Sauchy the ward of all lands and others which belonged to the late Alexander Schaw of Sauchy, 22nd July 1554
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Identifier: GB 237 Coll-1/5/3013
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Letters by Queen Mary granting to James Schaw of Sauchy the ward of all lands and others which belonged to the late Alexander Schaw of Sauchy, of which Elizabeth Cunningham, his relict, was conjunct fiar, who held the same till her death in July instant, and which are now in the queen's hands by reason of ward, until the entry of the righteous heir, with the marriage of John Schaw, son of the said late Alexander and Elizabeth, or of any other heir. Given under the privy seal at Jedburgh,...
Dates:
22nd July 1554
Letters by Rankyn of Fowlartoun, lord of Corsby, granting to his sons, Adam and Wilzhame of Fowlartoun, 15th December 1426
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Identifier: GB 237 Coll-1/5/1264
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Letters by Rankyn (Reginald) of Fowlartoun, lord of Corsby, granting to his 'lufid sonnis Adam of Fowlartoun, and Wilzhame of Fowlartoun, his brothir', power to receive forty merks of annualrent to be uplifted yearly from the granter's lands of ' Corsby, Crakislande, Galis, Fowlartoun, Marras, Lathis, Newhil, Dregarne,' and others, as they like best, 'ay and a qwilast at thare be made to thaim Adam and Wilzham or to thair ayris be me or be myn ayris twenty markis worth of my said landis in...
Dates:
15th December 1426
Letters by Thomas Balmanno in favour of William Spettaill of Luquhyt, 19th May 1534
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Identifier: La.V/78
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Letters by Thomas Balmanno in favour of William Spettaill of Luquhyt, assigning to him a letter of reversion made or to be made to the said Thomas by Dene John Elliot, late abbot of St. Colmis Inche, on the sum of forty merks Scots for the redemption of the one half of the lands of Knoksodrum, lying in the barony of Beith and sheriffdom of Fife. Dated at Luquhyt, 19th May 1534. Witnesses, Henry Stewart of Rossyth, Robert Orrok of that Ilk, John Scott of Spenserfield, Sir John Moris, John...
Dates:
19th May 1534
Letters by William Young renouncing his right to the three oxgangs of land of Walterstoun, 13th June 1509
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Identifier: GB 237 Coll-1/5/2632
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Letters by William Young, son and heir of the late Richard Young, and also heir to James Young of Duddingston, Richard's brother, renouncing, discharging, and overgiving all his right or claim to the three oxgangs of land of Walterstoun, which belonged to the said late James Young, the granter's uncle, and after his decease to his daughters, Margaret, Ellen, Christian, and Janet Young, especially the fourth part belonging to the said Margaret, to and in favour of William Dundas, son and heir...
Dates:
13th June 1509
Letters of assignation by David Macgill, having a lease from Robert, commendator of Holyrood House, of the teindsheaves of Gorgie and Gorgie mill, 6th November 1575
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Identifier: GB 237 Coll-1/5/2487
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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...
Dates:
6th November 1575
Letters of Assignation by William Cuninghame, knight, Master of Glencairn, making his son and apparent heir, Alexander Cunninghame, his cessioner and assignee to a number of reversions, 23rd October 1531
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Identifier: GB 237 Coll-1/5/1774
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Letters of Assignation by William Cuninghame, knight, Master of Glencairn, making his son and apparent heir, Alexander Cunninghame, his cessioner and assignee to the following reversions: (1) a reversion by Hew Douglas, burgess of Edinburgh, and Marion Brown, his spouse, of 800 merks Scots on the redemption of the lands of Dreghorn, with an acre of land and a meadow on the north of Bonaly, as described, in the barony of Redhall and shire of Edinburgh; (2) a reversion by Mr. James Foulis and...
Dates:
23rd October 1531
Letters of Discharge by George [Durie], archdean of St. Andrews and commendator of Dunfermline for Mr. Hew Rig and Jonet Hoppar, his spouse, concerning a tack of the lands of Carberry, 22nd May 1543
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Identifier: GB 237 Coll-1/5/1008
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Letters of Discharge by George [Durie], archdean of St. Andrews and commendator of Dunfermline, with consent of the convent, narrating that Mr. Hew Rig and Jonet Hoppar, his spouse, formerly had a tack of the lands of Carberry for nineteen years from Whitsunday 1541, and had paid large profits and had now obtained the lands in feu-farm, as in preceding charter. For which reasons the abbey discharges the grantees of the £5, 8s. yearly, until the end of the remaining seventeen years of the...
Dates:
22nd May 1543
Letters of Discharge by Patrick of Hepburn, lord of Halys, in favour of John Thomson of North Halis, 10th June 1448
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Identifier: La.V/499
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Letters of Discharge by Patrick of Hepburn, lord of Halys, in favour of John Thomson of North Halis, acknowledging payment of all rents taken by the said John or claimed by the granter from a cotland in Beinston since the decease of John's father, William Thomson, who died last seised in the cotland; and discharging all further claim. Dated at Halys, 10th June 1448.
Dates:
10th June 1448
Letters of Lease of lands by by James Hoppar, prior of the Carmelite friars of Linlithgow, 1550-1559
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Identifier: GB 237 Coll-1/5/2540
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Letters of Lease of same lands as those described on 11th January 1545 in a previous letter by "Freir Johnne Scott", to same lessees for same period and rent, by 'James Hoppar, priour of the freris carmelitis beside the towne of Linlythgow.' Signed by the prior and by John Blyth. Seal, larger than in that writ, Virgin, with Child on right arm. Legend: ' S. Commune monasterij de . . . el.' Dated at Linlithgow, — day of 155—. Testing clause incomplete.
Dates:
1550-1559
Letters of Obligation by John [Brown], abbot of the abbey of Sweetheart, concerning the lands of the abbey in Drum and Corbilly, 6th June 1565
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Identifier: GB 237 Coll-1/5/1786
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Letters of Obligation by John [Brown], abbot of the abbey of Sweetheart, with consent of Gilbert Browne, his successor, setting forth that the lands of the abbey had been let so exorbitantly high that the tenants could not pay, and, being willing to remedy this, that he and his chapter have for the sum of two thousand pounds paid by Cuthbert Browne of the Landis, given to him in feu-farm their eight-merk land of Drum and four-merk land of Corbilly, in their barony of Lochkindeloch, etc., and...
Dates:
6th June 1565