| Description | Bundle of marriage contracts, testaments, and other legal papers, including petition on entail to take account of the position of George Keith, late Earl Marischal (the titular 5th Earl of Kintore).:
1. Contract of marriage between William Lord Inverury and Miss Mary Bannerman (2 copies) 17 June 1793
2. Petition by John, Earl of Kintore, to King George II narrating that the petitioner's grandfather, John Earl of Kintore, and the petitioner's father, William Lord Inverury, had by deed of entail left the estate of Kintore to the said John for life and to the said William and his heirs male through a prescribed line of succession which would have included George Keith Earl Marischal. Said deed of entail was subject to certain conditions including the provision that if any potential heir should commit treason then any transfer to him would ipso facto be null and void. George Earl Marischal had been attainted with high treason with effect from 13 November 1715. The petition asks that if the Petitioner and his brother William should both die without male issue then the lands and estate be allowed to pass to all heirs of the entail other than the said George Earl Marischal. Undated, c. 1750
3. Petition in identical terms to item 2, but addressed to Parliament and asking that a bill to the effect petitioned be brought in. Undated.
4. Abstract of deed of settlement executed by the Earl of Kintore, deposited with Dr Alexander Dauney 1804
5. Copy last will of Christina Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Kintore 1806
6. Liferent disposition by William, Earl of Kintore, to his wife Mary, Countess of Kintore 1808
7. Assignation by Anthony Adrian, Earl of Kintore, in favour of James Blaikie whom failing Patrick Bannerman as trustees for the creditors of the deceased William Earl of Kintore 1828
8. Extract back bond and deed of conditional restriction by Anthony Adrian, Earl of Kintore, and others in favour of Andrew Leith Hay younger of Rannes 1830
9. Extract last will and testament of Anthony Adrian Earl of Kintore, 24 January 1843
10. Copy of above will
11. Oath of abjuration and of allegiance to Queen Victoria by the Earl of Kintore
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