Digitised copy of Receipts for salaries, stipends etc, 1765. Contains receipts for sums paid and received by various individuals including: Ferqd McIlmun (ground officer, Tiree), Donald Campbell (bailie), Mr Thomas Kerr (schoolmaster, Tiree), Archibald Campbell (Heylipol), Hector McLean (minister, Coll), Donald Campbell (factor), Cha[rles] Campbell (minister, Tiree), Hugh McDonald (under officer, Tiree), Walter Nicoll (collector [of] tax), Jo[hn] Campbell (factor for the Synod of Argyll), Donald Campbell (Chamberlain, Tiree), Mr Campbell (Succoch), Murich McVurrich (Tiergan, Ross of Mull). One receipt references window tax for the Duke’s house in Tiree.
Digitised copy of Instructions for the chamberlain of Tiree, 1758. These instructions were sent from the Duke of Argyll and include: employing ditchers, cutting peat, building works at the Duke’s house in Tiree, payment of rents, building a harbour in Tiree.
Digitised copy of State of the difference between the Tiree rental 1757 and the Tiree rental 1758. This record contains a table showing the differences in rent for farms at Kilmoluaig and Beist, Balivilline [Balevullin], Cornaigmore, Cornaigbeg, Ruaig, Kirkapol, Hianish, Vaul, ¾ of Kelis [Caolas], Baugh, Heylipol, Balinoe and Quiyeish [Hynish].
Digitised copy of Instructions for the chamberlain of Tiree, 1756. These instructions were sent from the Duke of Argyll and include: a steel mill, ditchers, cutting of peats, planting of flaxseed, the mill of Crossapol, encouragement of spinning on the island, repairs to the roof of the Duke’s house in Tiree, tacks, horses.
Digitised copy of a Memorial by Donald Campbell, factor in Tiree, 1754. In this memorial proposes to take a nineteen years tack of the two ends of the Isle of Icolmkill [Iona] and of the farm of Ardfinaig [Ardfenaig] in Ross of Mull.
Digitised copy of a Proposal to His Grace the Duke of Argyll by John Campbell in Balinoe in Tiree, 1755. In this letter Campbell proposes to take a tack of Kilchenichmore with his sons.
Digitised copy of a document regarding the State of the farms on Tiree, and “the two ends of Coll”, by Balineary, 1748-1749. Compiled by the Factor, each entry provides the tenants name, the length of their tenancy, their present rent/tack duty and a comment on their present circumstances and the Factor’s opinions on the tenants’ ability to pay their rent/tack duty.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of a Memorial by Stonefield concerning Tiree, 1748, recording the ‘State of the rents of Tyree [Tiree] from 1706 [and] Downwards’.
This document records sums paid alongside notes on tacksmen, the appointment of a factor, collection of rent, amounts in arrears, and the activities of Ballimore and Barnacarry (factors on Tiree). The document goes on to make further comments on how to more effectively manage the island, including lowering rent to attract new tenants.
