| Custodial History | Some of the items listed in this bundle were extracted and transferred to the National Records of Scotland, by the Diocese in 1983. See lower section of description list. |
| Description | File of deeds and settlements by members of the Panton family of Fraserburgh, 1810-1824, with other papers, 1681-1939, including:
Copy of the trust disposition and settlement by Miss Catherine Panton, Fraserburgh, daughter of the late George Panton, in favour of the Reverend John Skinner, minister of the Scottish Episcopal Communion in Aberdeen, and others, being "the senior pastors or ministers of the said communion commonly called bishops" of all the lands and heritages which pertained to her at her death [undated];
Petition to the Lords of Council and Session by Mr George Sinclair (son of Sir George Sinclair of Stevenson) to be an advocate, Edinburgh, 25th November, 1723. (Original and transcript);
Letter by William Harper to Lord Pitsligo, thanking him for spiritual comfort. Reports that more troops had come to town. Comments on a riot which took place on the 7th, the "worst thing best executed which has been known for a long time". "It's said they had a word "Hanover" and a counter-sign like regular troops by which they distinguished their accomplices from others. Every part of their design went like clockwork, and all was finished in about two hours". More troops had been ordered into the town and the castle re-enforced. "Lord Isla and General Wade are on their way hither. Whether this will come out a patriot plot as is surmised, time must discover, but I dare say it is no Jacobite one, or it would not have been kept so close nor succeeded so well". A previous Jacobite attempt at the same place not 21 years before had "miscarried by want of equal secrecy", Edinburgh, 25th September, 1736 (Original and transcript);
Affirmation by the principal members and masters of King's College, Old Aberdeen, that they "own and sincerely profess the true Protestant religion contained in the Confession of Faith recorded in the first Parliament of King James VI", appended to which is a copy of the Act of Council explanatory of the Test, Edinburgh, 3rd November, 1682. The signatories acknowledged that they have taken the test in terms of the Act. Subscribed by Alexander Middleton, Principal, P. Urquhart, Professor of medicine, Robert Forbes, Canonist, and others, Aberdeen, 7th December 1681 (Original and transcript);
Copies of correspondence between F.L. Watt, rectory, Strichen, and Canon Foster, April 1939, concerning the transcription of the above 18th century documents, [all marked "Houison Papers,1"];
Testament of the Reverend Andrew Gerard, with an earlier draft of a will made jointly by his wife, 1767 and 1756;
Factory by Charles Farquharson, Writer to the Signet, assignee of Alexander, Lord Saltoun, constituting James Dounie as his procurator for uplifting certain rents due from Lord Saltoun's lands, 1730;
Scroll contract between Alexander, Lord Saltoun, superior of the burgh of regality of Fraserburgh and John Dalrymple, James Grey, James Reid and others, feuars in the burgh of Fraserburgh, whereby Lord Saltoun agreed to dispone to these feuars the teinds, parsonage and vicarage of their several feu lands, on sundry conditions, 1792.
TRANSFERRED to the National Records of Scotland, 1983:
Copy of the collation of the Reverend A. Jolly to Fraserburgh by Bishop J. Skinner, 3rd April, 1788;
Copies (3) of the testament of Bishop Jolly, 1806-1837;
Copy of a will (specimen) sent to Bishop Jolly from Bishop Lowe, undated;
Inventory of Alexander, Bishop Jolly's effects, and confirmation of his will following his death at Fraserburgh on 29th June 1838, with related vouchers; |