Legal document - discharge of rent - between Mrs. Eleonora Russell and Mr William Robertson

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1761
• Dates of Creation:1796
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
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• Scope and Content

  Ms document on stamped paper, 'For Receipts. Fourpence' and 'Halfpenny sheet', 'writtem by William Murray Jun'r writer in Edn'r...'. The document concludes:
  '...and of which years annual rent I hereby discharge the said Mr. William Robertson...'.

  The document is signed by Eleonora Russell in Edinburgh 21 September 1796. It was witnessed by: John Russell, apprentice to Mr. James Dundas, Clerk to the Signet; and, William Murray.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Mrs Eleanora Russell was the daughter of Dr. William Robertson (1721-1793), Principal of Edinburgh University, and widow of John Russell (1753-1792), Clerk to the Signet.

• Access Information

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• Archivist's Note

  Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie, 29 July 2016.

• Subjects

  Law (Scotland)