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SCOTT (WALTER)
Document countersigned ("W Scott"), at the foot of each page, Edinburgh, 20 January 1817

14 October 2020, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

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SCOTT (WALTER)

Document countersigned ("W Scott"), at the foot of each page, fourteen signatures in all, pertaining to the Stewart Trust, providing for the children and grandchildren of James Stewart of Stewartfield, docketed ("Reg. Discharge James Stewart to Adolphus Sceales and Robert Liddell Trustees of the late Baillie Stewart"), with annotations in other hands, four blind duty stamps and four in ink, eight leaves, stitched, some tears along folds and wear at edges, folded for filing, browning on portion where exposed, Edinburgh, 20 January 1817

Footnotes

In order to sustain his fledgling career as a writer and with a growing family to support, Walter Scott took on the salaried post of one of the Principal Clerks to the Court of Session in 1806, in addition to his roles as Advocate and Sherrif-Depute for Selkirkshire, a post he held for the rest of his life. It allowed him to embark on a prolific and highly successful literary career; later in 1817, the date of our document, he was to publish Rob Roy.

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