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Notarial Instrument narrating the resignation by William Gibson of all his claims or rights over a tenement in the town of Leith to William Logan and his spouse, 28th April 1554

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Identifier: GB 237 Coll-1/5/1148

Scope and Contents

Notarial Instrument narrating an agreement made betwixt Mr. William Logan, burgess of Glasgow, and Jonet Gibson, his spouse, on one side, and William Gibson, her brother-uterine, on the other side, by which William Gibson resigns to Logan and his spouse all his claims or rights over a tenement in the town of Leith, on the south side of the water of the same, in the barony of Restalrig and shire of Edinburgh, bounded between the lands of the late William Brownehill on the south, and those of the late Walter Blak on the north, and the common street on east and west; with six acres field land lying in the bounds of the New Haven; for which Mr. William and his wife are to pay him yearly eight merks Scots, from Martinmas 1554, with a linen shirt ('ane lynning sark') yearly, or 8s. in money. The parties discharge all further questions betwixt them. Done at Glasgow, in the house ('domo pensionaria') of Mr. William Logan, 28th April 1554. Witnesses, Patrick Millar, merchant, burgess of Glasgow, and Archibald his son, James Stewin, burgess of said burgh, and Peter Laing, residing there. Notary to instrument, David Wyle, clerk of Glasgow diocese, by apostolic authority.

Dates

  • Creation: 28th April 1554

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Latin Scots

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1 document

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Archivist's Note

Margaret Forrest 8th November 2012

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