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GB |
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234 |
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NAS |
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National Records of Scotland |
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GD86/410 |
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Letters of Transumpt narrating that the provost and bailies of the burgh of Air, at the instance of John Knicht, procurator fiscal of said burgh, cited the citizens and inhabitants of the burgh to compear in the tolbooth on 31 March 1630 to see and hear the protocol books of the late John Masoun, notary public, common and principal clerk of the burgh, and all instruments inserted therein, copied, transcribed and reduced to public form of transumpt or to allege a reasonable cause why it should not be done; that on the said day no one compearing to oppose the same, and the protocol books having been produced, certain faithful witnesses after inspection deponed that they were the protocol books of the said John Masoun, that all the instruments therein were written and signed by him, that he was common and principal clerk of said burgh and that he was reputed to be a lawful notary: The provost and bailies therefore commanded George Masoun, common and principal clerk of said burgh, to reduce the instruments in said protocol books to public form of transumpt, from which protocol books the following protocol or instrument is taken:- Instrument of Resignation and Sasine narrating that on 22 August 1614 James Blair, one of the bailies of the burgh of Air, following upon the resignation made into his hands by James Johnestoun, burgess of Air, on 20th [? December] last, gave sasine to Archibald Johnestoun, lawful son of the resigner, and to the heirs to be lawfully procreated of his body whom failing, to Adam [? Alan] Johnestoun, his immediately younger brother-german, and the heirs to be lawfully procreated of his body, whom failing, to the resigner and his heirs and assignees whomsoever, of (1) 4 acres of land of Garrot-rodding lying in the territory of said burgh, between the lands formerly the property of Thomas Cochrane on the north, the lands of Spittellbog on the south, the [lands] formerly the property of John Jamesoun on the cast, and the lands of William Rysyd on the west; (2) two acres of land lying contiguous in that portion of the lands of the Sands of said burgh called the Mure and Commoun, towards the chapel of St. Leonards, between the lands formerly the property of James Bannatyne now of Adam ............ on the ...... and the lands of the late John Jamesoun and the common king's highway on the north; (3) an acre of land (occupied by Patrick Gemmill and Joseph Smyth) lying in the Mid Sandis near the Round Know, between the lands of Robert Rankene on the south and the lands of John Purvyance on the north; (4) subjects (extent indecipherable) occupied as in No.3 supra and lying in the Mid Sandis near the said Round Know, between the lands of the late David Fergushill, now of Mr. John Fergushill, his son, on the south and north; (5) that piece of land formerly the property of John McKerrell, extending to five roods or thereabouts (occupied by the said Joseph Smyth), lying within the burgh roods of Air, between the lands formerly the property of Thomas Broun now of David Ingram on the north, the lands formerly the property of Robert Mirrie now of Thomas Mirrie and John [............] in Smythtistoun on the west, the yards commonly called the Leikzardis on the east, and the lands formerly the property of John Reid and the late John Jamesoun on the south; (6) the barn, formerly the property of William Wallace in Quhythous, with yard lying between the barns of the said burgh on the east side of the High Street, between the barn of William Roger on the north and the barn of John Purviance on the south; (7) the lands called Supplinshill with yard, lying between the burgh barns on the west side of the High Street between the lands and barn of John Osburne on the south and the lands formerly the property of Henry Preston and the late William Campbell above the Old Tower on the north; and (8) the back tenement of land formerly the property of Bartholomew Broun with yard, lying on the east side of the High Street of Air near the Tolbooth, between the tenement formerly the property of Robert Twnno now of Thomas Garven on the south and the tenement formerly the property of John Wilsoun, fuller, now of William [.....gean], bailie, on the north: To be held Nos. 1 to 5 and 7 of the provost, bailies, council and community of Air in feu-farm for payment annually of the ferms specified in the ancient infeftments and Nos. 6 and 8 of the king in free burgage for service of burgh used and wont: Reserving to the resigner and Issobell George, his spouse, and to the longer liver, their liferent of said subjects, and also to the resigner the reversion specified in the said resignation. Done in the Tolbooth of the burgh of Air on 31 March 1630 |
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Dates |
22 Aug 1614 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Description |
Transumed 31 March 1630.
Witnesses to the Instrument of Sasine, Archibald Johnestoun, uncle of the said Archibald, James Fergushill and David Chalmer, co-burgesses of Air, and Golya [? Eolya = Ely] Cochren, cf. GD86/395 sergeand of Air. Witnesses to the Transumpt; [ ], provost of Air, James Chalmer, Alexander Purviance, John Kennedy and William Kessane, notaries, co-burgesses of Air, and John Howstoun, messenger.
The common seal of the burgh which was attached is awanting. |
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