Burgh of Jedburgh Archive

Reference:GB 1097 BJ
Dates of Creation:about 1600-about 1984
Name of Creator:
Language of Material:Scots English
Physical Description:

Scope and Content
The archive comprises the minute books of Jedburgh town council and committees, the police commissioners and library, as well as a volume of acts and bills relating to the convention of royal burghs, Jedburgh accounts, ledgers and cash books, and registers of burgesses, the police court, licence applications, societies and fixed penalty parking tickets. It also contains a volume of petitions from prisoners held in Jedburgh Castle, property and building records, including a thirlage lease and registers of grants and bonds, assessment rolls, a volume of newspaper cuttings concerning the burgh and a map of the area.
Items with an alternative reference number are marked with this reference, rather than the new BJ reference number.
Administrative / Biographical History
Jedburgh is thought to have first gained the status of royal burgh in the twelfth century. In 1320 King Robert I granted it to Sir James Douglas, but by 1424 it was once again a royal burgh. From 1469 it sent representatives to Parliament and was granted a charter of novodamus by Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1556. Jedburgh became a police burgh in 1847 and in 1930 a small burgh, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929. When burghs were abolished in 1975 Jedburgh became part of Roxburgh District Council in the Borders Region and from 1996 part of the Scottish Borders council area.
Sources:
Historic Jedburgh: the archaeological implications of development by Anne Turner Simpson and Sylvia Stevenson (1981), p. 1-2.
Scottish Burgh & County Heraldry by R. M Urquhart (1973), p. 236.
Arrangement
BJ/1 Council Minute Books
BJ/2 Council Committee Minute Books
BJ/3 Police Commissioners' Minute Books and Acts
BJ/4 Public Reading Room and Library Minute Books
BJ/5 Convention of Royal Burghs
BJ/6 Accounts, Ledgers and Cash Books
BJ/7 Register of Burgesses
BJ/8 Police Court Registers
BJ/9 Registers of Licence Applications, Societies and Fixed Penalties
BJ/10 Prisoners' Petitions
BJ/11 Property and Building Records
BJ/12 Assessment Rolls
BJ/13 Newspaper Cuttings
BJ/14 Map
Access Information
Open
Scottish Borders Archives operates within Local Authority, Freedom of Information and Data Protection Legislation, whereby some limitations on access may apply.
Alternative Form Available
No known copies. The material is original.
Conditions Governing Use
Applications for permission to quote should be sent to the Archive Manager. Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational or private use & condition of documents.
Custodial History
Transferred from Scottish Borders Council Hawick Area Office and Hawick Town Hall.
Accruals
None expected.
Related Material
The archive of Roxburgh County Council also contains records relating to Jedburgh, indeed, it is often unclear to which archive items belong.