New Spalding Club > Records of Invercauld MDXLVII - MDCCCXXVIII [1547- 1828]

ESTATE PAPERS : MELGUM. 93
when purchased by the Invercauld family, were at a considerable dis-
tance from any other Invercauld property, and in the immediate vicinity
of Whitehouse, the proprietor of which, like many of his family, was a
very capable man of business. These may have been some of the reasons
that induced Invercauld and Whitehouse to conclude this agreement.
Some of the stipulations, as the following extracts show, are very
curious, and probably gave rise, in regard to carriages and other tenants'
obligations, to a custom that continued in a modified form to be imposed
on them, as part of their rents, for the next 1 50 years : — ■
" Att Aberdeen, nth June 1709 years, it is contracted and agreed
betwixt John Farquharson of Invercauld on the one part and Hary
Farqrson of Whitehouse and Francis Farquharson, younger therof, his
sone, on the other part, in manner and to the effect following — That IS
the said John Farquharson has sett and assedat &c. ALL AND Haill
his lands and Baronnie of Kinaldie and Melgum, with the &c. lying
within the parochin of Coldstone and Sheriffdome of Aberdeen, together
with &c. the lands of Pittentagart lying within the parochin of Migvie
&c., for the space of seven years and crops from and after the term of
Witsunday last bypast 1709 years, which is herby declared &c.
" And Sicklyke the said John Farquharson has made and constitute
the said Hary and Francis Farquharsons, the longest liver of them two
dureing the space forsaid &c., with full power to outputt and inputt
tenants &c, And Likeways to hold courts upon the said lands and put
in lawfull execution, therin, and generallie to doe the service that the
said John Farqrson might doe himself.
" For the which causes, and on the other part, the said Hary and
Francis Farqrsons bind and oblidge themselves their aires, &c. to thank-
fullie content, pay, and deliver to the said John Farqrson of Invercald
his heirs &c. yearly and ilk year during the seven years above written
the sum of Two Thousand four hundred sixty six (pounds) 13/4 Scots
money the one halfe therof at Candlemes after shearing of the crop, and
the other halfe at and upon the first day of September thereafter — with
a fifth part of the said sum in case of failzie &c., with two chaider good
and sufficient bear betwixt pesth and the reedday (Easter and the 3rd
day of May) and two chaider good and sufficient ferm meall at nine
stone weight the boll, betwixt yool and candlemes, all after shearing of
the crop, and to carry and transport the said victual upon their own
charges to Abdn. or any place of like distance with fourty four long
carriages from Pitalachie to Abdn. or from Invercauld to Pitalachie as
the said John Farqrson and his forsds shall have occasion, together with
eleven dozen of capons (castrated fowls) and seventeen dozen and four