# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Also appeared Charles MacGlashan Steward or Factor over the
Estate of Grandtully belonging to Sir John Stewart Baronet lying
in the County of Perth and in the Neighbourhood of the Lordship and
Estate of Nairn, and maketh Oath that in the course of trans-
acting Business in the Neighbourhood he has had occasion to know
the condition of the Lands and Estates belonging to the Duke of Athol
other of the Rentals are engrossed in the first eleven preceding pages
And that he has examind the said Rentals And in his Opinion and
Judgement the said Lands and Estates are set at moderate Rents And
this also the Deponents Opinion and Judgement that the Lands and
Estates whereof the Rentals are prefixed are worth and would sell
one with another at the several numbers of years purchase mentioned
in the Estimate on the preceding page prefixed to Alexander Woods Oath
amounting the total prices to seventy thousand and twenty eight pound
seven shillings two pence sterling and that he has known Lands &
Estates lying in the Neighbourhood of the Estates which compose the
foregoing Rentals and of no better quality or more capable of Improve
ment, sold at as high and even higher prices than those sett down
in the foregoing Estimate And the Deponent is of opinion that if
the said Estates were sold to him or to any other person at the
said prices to which they are estimated, the purchaser would have
a very profitable Bargain.
(signed) Cha Mackglashan

Sworn before me
this 24^th day of May 1765
(signed) Ja: Balfour

Likewise appeared Thomas Belsches Esquire of Greenyards
and made Oath that he has known several Sales of Land in the
same Countys in which those belonging to the Duke of Atholl and men-
tioned in the foregoing Rentals do locally lie And particularly he has
had occasion to enquire into the Circumstances and Condition of the Estate
of Nairn which is the largest of them And it is his Opinion and Judge
ment, that as Lands holden of the Crown are now sold in Scotland the
foregoing Estimate or Value putt on the said Estates taken in cumulo
is moderate and reasonable and that any person purchasing
the whole at seventy thousand pounds sterling would have no ground
to complain of the price According to the current Rates And that
he has known and heard with Certainty of many Estates in Scotland
under no greater Accomodation or Advantages than these whereof
the Rentals are prefixed yield of late years higher prices both at
auctions and private Sales (signed) Tho. Belsches

Sworn before me
this 24.^th day of May 1765
(signed) Ja: Balfour

I John Duke of Atholl in further Assurance of what the
aforenamed Thomas Bisset one of my Stewards has before deposed
with