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MACKENZIE-WHARNCLIFFE DEEDS
XI. — Act anent Stipends.
The tenants who pay minister's stipend or school-master's salary are
to produce receipts.
XII. — Act anent Biggings.
Tenants are ordained to leave their houses in order at their removal,
' and that all their freed houses be sighted by the birleymen, and if the
incomer will pay to the outgoer the price ye birleyman setts on them,
then they are not to be taken down.'
Note. — Birleymen or Byrlawmen. These are men in a country district who decide
local questions. Derived from ' Baur, 1 a husbandman, and law.
XIII. — Act anent the Tenants.
Tenants must attend courts under a penalty, and when they meet
the factor, bring with them books containing their receipts.
XIV. — Act anent Sowing of Pease.
This Act enjoins the sowing of pease, ' and that no tenant adventure
on sowing of pease after oats. '
XV. — Act anent Complaints and Arrestments.
The tenants are ordered to bring their disputes before the baron
court ; to pay the clerk's dues ; and ' that none cite one anoyr before any
oyr judicatory under the pain of twenty pounds toties quoties.'
XVI. — Act anent the disposal of Corns.
Tenants are forbidden to sell their corns ' if any bygone duty resting "
unless caution be found.
XVII. — Act anent Millers.
Millers are ordered to grind the corns of cottars as well as of tenants.
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XI. — Act anent Stipends.
The tenants who pay minister's stipend or school-master's salary are
to produce receipts.
XII. — Act anent Biggings.
Tenants are ordained to leave their houses in order at their removal,
' and that all their freed houses be sighted by the birleymen, and if the
incomer will pay to the outgoer the price ye birleyman setts on them,
then they are not to be taken down.'
Note. — Birleymen or Byrlawmen. These are men in a country district who decide
local questions. Derived from ' Baur, 1 a husbandman, and law.
XIII. — Act anent the Tenants.
Tenants must attend courts under a penalty, and when they meet
the factor, bring with them books containing their receipts.
XIV. — Act anent Sowing of Pease.
This Act enjoins the sowing of pease, ' and that no tenant adventure
on sowing of pease after oats. '
XV. — Act anent Complaints and Arrestments.
The tenants are ordered to bring their disputes before the baron
court ; to pay the clerk's dues ; and ' that none cite one anoyr before any
oyr judicatory under the pain of twenty pounds toties quoties.'
XVI. — Act anent the disposal of Corns.
Tenants are forbidden to sell their corns ' if any bygone duty resting "
unless caution be found.
XVII. — Act anent Millers.
Millers are ordered to grind the corns of cottars as well as of tenants.
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| Histories of Scottish families > Ancient deeds and other writs in the Mackenzie-Wharncliffe charter-chest > (117) Page 89 |
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| Description | With short notices of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh; the first earls of Cromarty; the right honourable James Stewart Mackenzie, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland; and others Prepared on the instructions of the right hon. Earl of Wharncliffe by J.W. Barty. Various pagings. |
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| Shelfmark | S.121.a |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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