Tranent is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony in the county of Haddington. The earliest record identified so far is dated 1449.
The historical record
References identified
Register of the Great Seal
RMS ii, no.401, p.92: royal confirmation, 26 October 1450, of John Haliburton’s charter of 17 October 1449 charging an annual rent on Tranent barony. .
Retours and Lyon records
Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatarum Abbreviatio, vol. III (1816), county index Haddington: baronia, nos. 5, 41, 84, 101, 232, 246, 309, 362, 398, 420.
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