a chronological list of every case file currently published. each entry links to a longer write-up with notes on ink, margins, layout and small changes.

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  Glenfinnan Charter Set (1641)added 2026-05-02

  charters

  three-charter set with overlapping later additions in the margins and a probable seventeenth-century reissue of one parchment.

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  Drummond Tack (1672)added 2026-04-18

  tacks

  single-sheet tack with a clean main hand and a later, slightly different hand inserting a renewal clause in the lower third.

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  Munro Sasine (1623)added 2026-04-05

  sasines

  early seventeenth-century sasine with a later annotation that re-attributes the property to a second branch of the family.

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  Mackenzie Marriage Contract (1657)added 2026-03-22

  estate papers

  marriage contract with two signatures over an erased patch and a small set of substituted figures in the tocher clause.

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  Lochaber Tutor's Letter (1689)added 2026-03-08

  manuscripts

  late seventeenth-century letter from a tutor, with a postscript in a second hand and a small drawing in the lower margin.

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  Argyll Land Grants (1698)added 2026-02-25

  charters

  two land grants tied to the same argyll estate, one with replaced wax and one with an apparently untouched seal tag.

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  Skye Sasine Investigation (1612)added 2026-02-11

  sasines

  early sasine from skye, reviewed for re-dating after the family produced two slightly different transcripts.

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  Cromartie Forfeited Estate Files (1715)added 2026-01-29

  estate papers

  forfeited estate paperwork from 1715, with a bundle of rentals and tacks reassembled in the wrong order at some later point.

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  Dunbar Charter Reissue (1583)added 2026-01-14

  charters

  sixteenth-century charter reissue with two visible erasure patches and a small replaced witness name.

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  Glengarry Land Charter (1605)added 2025-12-19

  charters

  early seventeenth-century charter from glengarry with extensive marginal cross-references added later.

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  Sutherland Wadset Papers (1664)added 2025-12-04

  estate papers

  wadset bundle from a sutherland estate, with one sheet showing a clear substitution in the redemption clause.

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  Caithness Tack Forgery Check (1681)added 2025-11-20

  forgery checks

  tack from a caithness estate, brought in after a private buyer questioned whether the document was a nineteenth-century assembly.

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