Atholl charters
Extract from MS249 The Atholl Experience
Atholl charters
The Atholl Experience lists details of charters, crown
charters, retours and instruments of sasine relating to the lands
in Atholl, held in a number of different archives.
Illustration: Extract of GB252/MS79/1/203 Calendar of
Baledmund Charters, 1328-1900. Reproduced with kind permission of
AF Ferguson |
"1721 Agreement between John,
Duke of Atholl, superior of the lands of Ballidmond, and Finlay
Ferguson of Balidmond, his vassal, whereby it was agreed that in
terms of an Act of Parliament for securing the peace of the
Highlands, the services called personal attendance, hosting,
hunting, watching and warding due by the second party to the first
party should be converted into an annual payment of £4 Scots
(being £2 Scots for each merk of the 2 merklands whereof the
said lands consist). At Logierait 14th April 1721.
Witnesses, John Stewart of Balnakilie, Mr Alexander Murray
secretary to the Duke, Thomas Bissat, clerk of the Regality of
Atholl and William Murray, writer, Perth. Signed by the
parties and witnesses." |
"[In] 1625, King Charles I signed a warrant for a charter in
favour of Sir Patrick Murray of the Earldom of Atholl, with the
Castle of Blair and Forest of Cluny, the lands and barony of Foss,
the lands of Glenericht, Kirktown of Strowan, mill and mill-lands
thereof, Forest of Glengarrie, right of patronage of the parish of
Strowan, lands of Fincastle, lands and barony of Garth, lands and
tennadry of Logierait, which had all been resigned in his favour by
the said William, Earl of Tullibardine, Thomas Edmiston, burgess of
Edinburgh, Sir Archibald Stewart of Finnart, Knight, and Sir John
Blair of Balgillo, Knight, to be held by him for rendering of a red
rose at the Castle of Blair on the feat-day of St John the Baptist
[and] for the Earldom of Atholl, one silver penny for the Forest of
Cluny, service used and wont for the other lands and £20
for the lands of
Fincastle."
Sources: John, Seventh Duke of Atholl, K.T.,
Chronicles of the Atholl and Tullibardine Families, (1908)
Vol 1, pp 96-97; The Atholl Experience, Volume 2 (2)
History of Atholl, Chapter 9, Selection of Atholl Charters
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