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Reference | Title | Date |
GD224 | Papers of the Montague-Douglas-Scott Family, Dukes of Buccleuch | 1165-1947 |
GD224/522 | Estate Reports | 1772-1872 |
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Country code |
GB |
Repository code |
234 |
Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
Reference |
GD224/522/3 |
Title |
Estate Reports |
Dates |
1778-1815 |
Access status |
Open |
Location |
On site |
Description |
1. 1809 July 8 List of persons convicted for poaching under the Game Laws, 1802-07.
2. 1814 January Letters (2) regarding poaching episode by a son of John Eliot of Flatt.
3. 1799 March 25 Printed circular (2 copies) to the Duke of Buccleuch's tenants and others on the estates against the keeping of game-dogs, and against moor burning.
4. 1802 May 8 Statement of farms to be let from Whitsunday, 1802; and printed blank forms of leases (2), subscribed by the Duke of Buccleuch but not filled up. (3 items)
5. 1809 November 1 Letter by the Duke of Buccleuch to William Keir, Milnholm, seeking his opinion on Mr Lomax's proposal to raise the price of coal and lime.
6. 1814 August 16 Letter by William Keir, Milnholm, to William Cuthill, as to various estate and house improvements.
7-9. 1809-11 Letters (2) and memorial regarding the effects of the late Robert Elliot's settlement with respect to the farm of Cleughhead (or Newlands) and his bequest to James Shortreed.
10. 1812 August 6 and 13 Minutes of meetings of Canonbie Mill Committee.
11. 1813 November 1 Copy estimate of the materials wanted by tenants for buildings proposed to be erected on their farms, summer 1814. ("Not acted upon".)
12. 1809-11 Correspondence and papers as to the letting of Irvine House, Canonbie, to Captain Pulteney Malcolm, HMS 'Donegal', including original letters by him.
13. 1778 September 4 Printed conditions of lease on the Buccleuch estates in Roxburgh, Selkirk and Dumfries.
14-22. 1810-15 Estate letters by tenants regarding their leases, arrears of rent, etc.
23. 1812 February 8 Printed lease forms and conditions of lease
24. 1813-14 Printed lease forms and conditions of lease.
25. 1811 February Draft advertisement offering reward for information leading to the conviction of those who fired a gun through a window on the north wing of Langholm Lodge.
26. 1772 December 5 Copies (2) of commission by the Duke of Buccleuch in favour of William Keir as his forester and overseer of woods, etc.
27. 1813 October 4 Copy memorandum for Mr Keir of the conditions of engagement of Mathew Jamieson, as joiner at Langholm Lodge.
28. 1814 Sketch plan of Kilngreen on the river Ewes near Langholm, showing ground in dispute. ("As copied from Mr Keir's".)
29. 1812 March List of labourers regularly employed in Eskdale.
30. 1815 August 16 Report of the work at Langholm Lodge, by John Smallwood.
31. No date Printed notice to the inhabitants of the village of the Newtown of Langholm by the Duke of Buccleuch as to penalties to be inflicted on disorderly tenants.
32. No date Printed notice intimating that to deter disorderly persons committing further depradations in the Duke of Buccleuch's woods near Langholm, spring guns and steel man traps will be placed in all the plantations.
33. 1792 and no date Notarial copy letter, and report, relating to the management and letting of the fishings on the River Esk near Langholm.
34. 1783 May 13 Copy of long letter by [William] Keir to Mr James at Netherby, as to the fishings on the Rivers Esk and Liddel.
35. 1799 September 12 Letter by Christopher Armstrong, Brockwoodlees, to the Duke of Buccleuch, intimating the despatch of two fish to Langholm Lodge; and drawing attention to improper fishing methods being used by others.
36. 1783 May 23 Copy letter by Thomas James to [blank] as to making a run for the fish.
37-40. 1804-06 Letters and copy letters between the Earl of Dalkeith and Sir James Graham of Netherby, and William Keir and Robert Mouncey, their factors, as to the fishing "bay" built at Netherby by Sir James. (6 items)
41. 1804 January 10 Print of open letter addressed to the proprietors and occupiers of salmon fisheries in Solway and rivers flowing into it. Subscribed by "A Fisherman".
42. 1804 June 14 Letter by John Little, provost of Annan, to the Duke of Buccleuch, seeking his assistance in opposing the Solway Fisheries Bill, which, if it is passed, would deprive the burgh of part of its revenue.
43. [1804] Print of proposed Heads of the Solway Fisheries Bill. (2 copies)
44. [1804] Print of a Solway Fisheries Bill to explain and amend an Act passed in 1563 by the Parliament of Scotland.
45. 1813 August 24, September 5 Letters (2) by Sir James Graham of Netherby to the Duke of Buccleuch, as to ways of dealing with illegal methods of fishing in the Solway.
46. 1791-1805 Miscellaneous papers relating to the maintenance of the poor in Langholm. (8 items)
47. 1805 December 23 Letter by Mrs S Siddons to [blank] regarding the condition of linen at Langholm Lodge.
48. 1804-5 Vouchers (3) for spinning materials, etc, at Langholm Lodge (Mrs Siddons).
49. 1813 April 7 Printed notice (2 copies) by the Police Association of Langholm to the inhabitants listing practices which they will use all means in their power to prevent (eg, breaking street lamps, trespassing on private property, etc). And some blank billet forms issued by Samuel Wolves, Billet Master, Langholm.
50. 1814 June 28 Printed notice (2 copies) by the Police Association of Langholm, offering a reward for the capture of William Fletcher, a native of Langholm, and Private in the 55th Regiment, from which he has deserted.
51. 1814 June 15 Printed notice (2 copies) by the Police Association of Langholm, offering premiums for the sale of potatoes, fowls, eggs and butter, to encourage the establishment of a regular market in Langholm.
52. 1811 August 30 Statement by William Little, occupier of the paper mill at Langholm, respecting the history of the caul at the mill since it was first built in 1801.
53. 1809 July 7 Memorial by the manufacturers in Old and New Langholm to the Duke of Buccleuch, to the effect that employees of theirs who trespass on the grounds of Langholm Lodge will be dismissed.
54. 1814 October 4 Copy circular letter by the Committee of Management of the Police Association of Langholm to each of the constables in the town, enjoining them to carry out their duties and particularly to prevent sturdy beggars and vagrants from travelling the country.
55. 1814 October 10 Print of circular letter by the Committee of Management of the Police Association of Langholm to the proprietors and principal farmers in Eskdale, seeking subscriptions in support of their association. [The notice intimates that total existing subscriptions amount to £65 annually, of which more than half is paid by the Duke of Buccleuch.]
56. 1803-7 Papers relating to the turnpike roads in Castleton parish, with particular reference to the Newcastleton-Hawick road and the raising of funds for the bridges over the Hermitage Water at Millburn and Leehaugh. (10 items)
57. 1806 Extract minute of Castleton heritors, and 3 related letters, regarding the proposed re-siting and enlargement of the parish church owing to the large increase in population in the parish. (4 items)
58. 1807 April 6 Long letter by William Keir, Milnholm, to William Cuthill [Dalkeith], commenting on the "irregular" actions of the Castleton heritors in building a new secondary school at Newcastleton without obtaining the Duke of Buccleuch's prior agreement to contribute his share of the cost. [By Keir's account, the heritors relied solely on an informal opinion expressed by Keir in conversation with them that the Duke would agree to be so liable.] The letter also mentions an alteration in the line of the Annan turnpike road proposed by Sir John Maxwell of Springkell; the proposed abandonment of Harelaw Mill in Canonbie owing to its disrepair; and his (Keir's) prosecuting "a set of vagabonds who have been committing depredations" in and about Langholm.
59. 1808 January 20 Letter by William Oliver, Liddal Bank, to the Duke of Buccleuch, seeking approval of his action in having a process brought by the building contractor for the lower district of Castleton school against the committee who concluded the contract, with Mr Keith made a party, to determine how far the Duke may be liable for any measure proposed at a public meeting and agreed by Mr Keir.
60. 1807 September 29 Letter by William Oliver, Liddal Bank, to the Duke of Buccleuch, proposing that a bridge be built over the Liddel Water at Laustown, instead of one at Penton as originally planned, and seeking the Duke's views. Also encloses a memorandum he has prepared regarding the state of the poor of Castleton parish. (2 items)
61. 1811-15 Legal papers in the case between the Duke of Buccleuch and John Elliot, banker in Carlisle, as to the site of a caul or weir over the Wauchop burn near Langholm for supplying water to the mills. William Yeoman, woollen manufacturer, Langholm, is also involved. (7 items) 62-3. 1810 April-September Reports of proceedings in Eskdale and Liddisdale, by William Keir.
64. 1810 Report of the value of the sheep farms belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch in the county of Dumfries.
65. 1810 Report respecting the improvements made and to make on the sheep farms in Eskdale.
66. 1811 September 26 Report respecting the Eskdale and Canonbie woods.
67. 1793 October Sketch of instructions intended for William Sansum, as overseer of the woods in the districts of Eskdale, Canonbie, and Liddesdale.
68-69. 1802 October 22 [Draft] regulations with respect to the tenantry - woods and plantations.
70. 1800 March 4 Instructions for Thomas Gaskill, forester of the Duke of Buccleuch's woods in the parishes of Langholm, Canonbie, Ewes, Westerkirk and Eskdalemoor, in the county of Dumfries.
71-72. 1811 January-February Copy letter by [William Cuthill] to Thomas Gaskell, forester, and reply thereto, respecting the plantations at Irvineburn, Byreburn and Mickleholm, and the supply of timber from them to the tenantry. Gaskell mentions disagreements between himself and William Keir (factor) on wood matters.
73. No date [c.1814] Notes of wood disposed of from the woods and plantations in Eskdale for the years ending 13 September 1802, and Martinmas, 1814.
74. No date [19th century] Draft notes about woods.
75. 1813 March 18 Letter by Sir James Graham of Netherby, Bt, to the Duke of Buccleuch, requesting continuation of his right of access along the old road on Shilling Moss Farm - "absolutely necessary for the convenience of the Lime Works ..." - but now impassable for reasons specified. Copy reply by the Duke, 19 March 1813, agreeing to pay half the expence of repairing the road, but not to maintain it. (2 items)
76-81. 1814 February-November Letters (6) by William Keir, Milnholm, to William Cuthill [Dalkeith House], on a variety of estate matters: expected arrival of marble for chimney pieces at Bowhill, and destruction by flooding of the caul below the paper mill at Langholm (no.76); furnishings of Newlands House (nos.77-78); preservation of fish on the Rivers Esk and Liddel (no.79) mistaken cutting of trees at Forge (nos.80-81).
82. 1813 September-October Exchange of letters between William Keir, factor, and [BS?] Lomax, as to complaints by tenants over the inefficiency of the Harlawhill Lime Works. (3 items)
83. 1812 September 3 Copy letter by the Duke of Buccleuch to G S Elliot, saying that he has no objection to the lease of Todhillwood to "Mrs Major Malcolm".
84. 1812 February 1 Letter by William Oliver, Liddal Bank, to the Duke of Buccleuch, suggesting the planting of larches and spruce firs in the Mare burn oak woods which were thinned in the previous spring.
85. 1812 January 5 Letter by Thomas Gaskell, woodforester, to William Cuthill, seeking confirmation of the Duke of Buccleuch's wishes as to which woods in Canonbie are to be thinned.
86. 1811 November 16 Letter by Thomas Goldie, Dumfries, to William Cuthill, as to the correct form of deputations or certificates to be issued to Thomas Gaskell (woodforester) and Andrew Little, assistant gamekeeper.
87. 1811 October 30 Letter by the Rev Thomas Waugh, Gingerhead, to the Duke of Buccleuch, soliciting patronage.
88. 1811 May 12 Letter by Walter Jardine, Thorlishop, to the Duke of Buccleuch, regarding his wish to purchase the superiority of Thorlishop and Fairlones; and assuring the Duke of his vote if his application is agreed to
89. 1808-9 Letters and copy by George Maxwell of Broomholm to William Cuthill, regarding the mill development which he wishes to establish on the estate of Broomholm, subject to the Duke of Buccleuch's approval.
90. 1809 January 4 Copy or draft letter by William Cuthill to Mr Maxwell of Broomholm, giving the Duke's opinion that the factories at Langholm have not advanced the rents of his lands there in the least degree; that the evils attending upon them have been prejudicial to his property; and that his residence there has been rendered very disagreeable ("if not disgusting" interlined). The Duke also believes that manufactories in general "have been pushed too far in Great Britain ..." for reasons specified. Nevertheless he offers no objection to any development proposed by Maxwell on his own property.
91. 1808 July 12 Letter by Lt General A Ross, Russell Farm, near Watford, to John Rutherford, MP, asking him to intercede with the Duke of Buccleuch on behalf of a Mr Irvine to obtain a lease of one of the Duke's farms.
92. 1808 March 26 Letter by George Maxwell of Broomholm to the Duke of Buccleuch, asking for a grant of the superiority of the estate of Broomholm.
93. 1808 February 8 Letter by William Oliver, Edinburgh, to the Duke of Buccleuch, rquesting him to sign a petition to the Postmaster to establish a post office at Forge.
94. 1806 December 8 Letter by William Oliver, Liddal Bank, to the Duke of Buccleuch, seeking the lease of a farm for [Colonel?] Richardson, who has the prospect of leaving India. [The terms of the letter suggest that Richardson was Oliver's son-in-law.]
95. [1806] November 29 Letter by William Oliver, Liddal Bank, to the Duke of Buccleuch recommending John Jarden for the office of gamekeeper in the district of Hermitage; and Oliver's plan for an association [apparently for the protection of game].
96. 1806 October 29, November 8 Letters (2) by Robert Grierson, Rock Hall, to Sir Charles Douglas, seeking the lease of the farm of Chaplehope for "Alick".
97. 1803 February 5 Letter by George Henderson, Langholm to William Oliver, in London, regarding the preliminary steps he has taken to have plans prepared of a proposed bridge over the Esk, and his lack of success in obtaining subscriptions for it.
98. 1793 Letters etc relating to excambion by the Duke of Buccleuch to John Maxwell of Broomholm, of a field in exchange for a piece of ground at Langholm called Kilngreen, for completing the enclosure round Langholm Lodge.
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