1672 Alexander Lockhart made a dispositon and assignation in favor of his wife Margaret Cunninghame. [1]
Disposition and assignation by Alexander Lockhart in favour of Margaret Cunninghame, dated 17 Apr 1672
Disposition and assignation by Alexander Lockhart in favour of Margaret Cunninghame, his spouse, (lawful daughter to unquhile John Cunninghame, procreat between him and unquhile Janet Lockhart) and the heirs to be procreat between them which failing Margaret, her own nearest and lawful heirs and assignees whomsoever of the foresaid lands reserving his own liferent
Dated at Wrightshouses near the burgh of Edinburgh
1681-1682 "Alexander Lockhart, notar" subscribed to the Test enacted by Parliament. He is mentioned in three lists of subscribers.
1681 "Alexr Lockhart, notar." was listed in the "Copy of the Test subscribed by the writers to the Signet" dated November 1681. [2]
1682 "Alexander Lockhart, notar" was listed among those "Subscryved by the advocats servants, clerks, servants, nottars and persones imployed in wryting and agenting" in a document described as "Edinburgh, the twenty fourth day of February, 1682. The whilk day the Lords of Councill and Sessioune haveing conforme to the act of Parliament ordained a report to be givin in to his Majesties Privy Councill under the hand of the Clerk of Register concerning their takeing the oath or Test appoynted by the said act, and their administering of the same to the rest of the members of the Colledge of Justice within the tyme prescryved therby, togither with extracts of the Tests taken by the saids Lords and of the Test taken by the remanent members of the Colledge of Justice, bearing the names of these who tooke and subscryved the same; followes the tennour of the Test taken befor the ?rst of January last, 1682, by the advocats, clerks, wrytters to the signet and maissers, being administered to them by the Lord Pressident in presence of the whole Lords; and by the servants of advocats and clerks, nottars and uther persones depending on the Colledge of Justice, imployed in wryting or agenting, some of them befor the whole Lords, and uthers befor two of the Lords impowered by the rest to that effect, who did all swear the said Test upon their knees, repeating and pronunceing the whole words therof as is appoynted by the act of his Majesties Privy Councill, and did lykewayes subscryve the same." [3]
1682 Alexandar Lockhart was listed among the "Names of the notaries who subscribed the Test in the presence of the Lords of Session" dated "28th February 1682" which states, "These are testifieing that the nottars underwritten have sworne
and signed the Test upon their knees in presence of the Lords of Session within the tyme prescryved be the act of Parliament, repeating and pronouncing the wholl words thereof, Sir Alexander Gibson being clerk and who gave in ane list of them subscribed with his hand to me, Laurence Oliphant, Writter to his Majesty's Signet, clerk to the admission of nottars." [4]
1682 Margaret Cunningham, spouse of Alexander Lockhart, elder, writer, Edinburgh, was the grantee on November 28 in a Bond of corrob. in the 1682 register of deeds (Mack, vol. 51, page 509). [5]
1684 Alexander Lockhart, writer, was buried on April 11 in the Greyfriars Buryinground, Edinburgh. [6]
1700 Margaret Cunningham died in April.
[1] National Archives of Scotland, GD3/1/9/20/8, [Scotland_Archives].
[2] P. Hume Brown, ed., The register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd series, Vol. 7, A.D. 1681-1682 (Edinburgh: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Morrison & Gibb, Tanfield, 1915), 721, [HathiTrust].
[3] P. Hume Brown, ed., The register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd series, Vol. 7, A.D. 1681-1682 (Edinburgh: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Morrison & Gibb, Tanfield, 1915), 805, [HathiTrust].
[4] P. Hume Brown, ed., The register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd series, Vol. 7, A.D. 1681-1682 (Edinburgh: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Morrison & Gibb, Tanfield, 1915), 809, [HathiTrust].
[5] Scottish Record Office, Index of Register of Deeds Preserved in H.M. General Register House, Vol. XXII 1682 (Edinburgh: Her Magesty's Stationery Office, 1956), 128, [GoogleBooks].
[6] Henry Paton, ed., Register of Interments in the Greyfriars Burying-Ground, Edinburgh, 1658-1700 (Edinburgh: 1902), 394, [GoogleBooks].