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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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GD86/960 |
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Title |
Instrument of Sasine under the hand of James Miller, clerk, of the diocese of St. Andrews, notary public, following upon the precept of sasine in a contract of marriage (dated 21 October 1768) between Sir William Augustus Cunynghame of Livingston, Baronet, and Mrs. Frances Myrton daughter and only child in life of Sir Robert Myrton of Gogar, Baronet, whereby Sir William bound and obliged himself to infeft his spouse in an annuity of £550 sterling (restricted to £350 in the event of there being an heir-male alive at the dissolution of the marriage by the death of Sir William, and to £450 if there is an heir female alive) furth of (1) the lands and barony of Livingstone and the temple lands of Newyear-field as described in No. GD86/815; (2) the lands of Nether Dechmont lying within the barony of Calderclear, regality of Dalkeith and sheriffdom of Edinburgh; (3) the town and lands of Wester Whitburn extending to a 50 shilling land as well property as superiority, (4) one-half of the lands and barony of Easter Whitburn and of the lands of Little Blackburn, in the parish of Whitburn and sheriffdom of Linlithgow; (4) the proportion of the lands of Little Blackburn purchased lately from the trustees of John Carmichael of Whitehill, with the mansionhouse and yards adjacent thereto (sometime possessed by the said John Carmichael and John Beugo yr. of Cowhill and afterwards by William Hamilton and others) and with liberty of casting and winning peats for the use of the tenants of said lands within the Moss of Meikle Blackburn lying in the parish of Whitburn, barony of Blackburn and sheriffdom of Linlithgow; and (5) the lands of Sir William in the sheriffdom of Ayr. Sasine given by Sir William ex propriis suis manibus, on 23 January 1769, to John Gray, his factor, as attorney for Mrs. Frances Myrton |
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Dates |
23 Jan 1769 |
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Open |
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Description |
Witnesses, James Hay, writer in Edinburgh, and William Daes, servant to Sir William. Sir William "in token of the verity of all and sundry the premisses" signs the instrument.
Registered P.R.S.Edinburgh 24 February 1769 - Vol. 183, fol. 85. |
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