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Auction: 13050 - Postal History and Historical documents
Lot: 2019

(x) Historical Documents
1485 (23 Apr.) a Scottish indenture written in a Scottish dialect on sheepskin, folded over at foot but the seal is missing; some aging but still in a good state of preservation. A land document issued by James Keyne, bailie of Selkirk to Walter Turnbyll of Gargnerok and witnesses include Adam Turnbyll of Philophauch. A wonderful historic document of this royal burgh. From the Gerald E. Wellburn collection. Photo

James Keyne, the bailie of Selkirk was murdered in July 1541 along with the provast, John Mutha.

This is an early document, before the Burgh Court Book of Selkirk, 1503-45

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£260