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Country code |
GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Organisation |
NAS |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
GD86/930 |
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Title |
Contract between Captain John Stirling of Herbertshyre and Thomas Johnston of Holhouse and William Laing, eldest [son] of William Laing of Leys, whereby, in consideration of the sum of 2200 merks, the former sells to the latter his whole green wood and growing timber of Headswood, whether oak, ash, elm, plane, birch or others, with the bark and "beugh or bulk" thereof, all lying within the fences and bounds of said wood in the parish of Denny, barony of Herbertshyre and shire of Stirling, under reservation of the planted oak within or growing on the dikes of the wood, with the whole hazel therein and at the sellers choice, three of the spare trees or old maidens and twenty young oaks measuring nine inches in circumference five feet above the ground. The purchasers are to cut and dispose of the timber and clean and redd the wood between 15 April 1750 and 1st March 1753, and to draw and make a sufficient dike or fence between the first and second haggs before they begin to cut the second; and the seller is obliged to carry yearly for two years 120 bolls of bark at 10 stone per boll to Linlithgow or the like distance as directed by the purchasers, who are to "have the grass in said wood before the ax during their cutting and redding thereon, but that the stone or stool of the timber to be cut shall remain with the Captain and his heirs". It is also provided that the purchasers shall "cut said wood not hosing beneath the ax and shall leave each stone sufficiently cut smooth and tight that so no drop may stand thereon" at the sight of the burleymen of the barony. At Herbertshire 29 March 1750 |
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Dates |
29 Mar 1750 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Description |
Witnesses, James Hay, wright at Lairocks, and John Cuthill, writer in Denny.
There is put up therewith an account of the bark from the wood from the years 1750 and 1751. |
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