Linlithgow archive SALEROOM NOTICE: PLEASE SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A quantity of documents, including contemporary copies, relating to Linlithgow and political and legal matters
£875
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Including: A large collection of paperwork relating to enrolment to vote in the County of Linlithgow, 1860s; Printed lists of electors in the county; A couple of annotated electoral registers, detailing those who are allowed to vote, those who are abroad and those who have been disqualified; [Parliamentary Boundaries] Memorandum of Land within the Parliamentary Boundaries but outwith the Royalty...of the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow, 1866; Extract of Registered Petition by the Magistrates and Town Council of the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow to have the Boundaries of said Burgh extended to the Parliamentary Boundaries...1867; [Copy of] Statistical Tables prepared by the Magistrates of Linlithgow in their Petition for Extension of Police Boundaries, 1866; and a collection of similar documents; [Railways] [copy of] The Extract from Valuation Roll made up by the Railways Assessor of the Railways & Canal within the Burgh of Linlithgow..., 1866; [Copy of] Railway Valuation Roll of the Burgh of Linlithgow 1866-7; [Property] Particular Register of Sasines, Linlithgowshire, 18th June 1863 - 4th July 1864, 84 manuscript leaves; [Legal Agreements] A quantity of legal papers and dispositions relating to a Mr Michael Henderson; [The Roy Family Papers] Documents, mainly manuscript, relating to the affairs of the Roy family, predominantly William Roy, timber Merchant in Bo'ness, comprising notices of deaths, documents authorising the transfer of funds between accounts and other legal papers, and a copy of the Postnuptial Contract of Marriage between James Marshall...and Mrs Margaret Roy, 1869, in which Marshall waives inheritance rights to his wife's estate (several documents relating to William Roy can be found in the Falkirk Archives); and a large collection of other 19th century documents relating to Linlithgow, contained in two large metal deed boxes