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Financial and executory papers of Archibald Skirving, painter.
File
Identifier: Acc.10102
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of his effects, paintings, accounts for frames and valuations of pictures.
Dates:
1800-1819.
Financial papers of the Incorporation of St Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh, including vouchers, accounts and legal papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8617/1-20
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1601-1803, 1818, 1853, 1869.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates:
1822-1936.
Letters and accounts concerning the lease of the Upper Library Room in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/9
Dates:
1823-1835.
Letters and papers of John Baird, shipmaster in Leith.
File
Identifier: MS.107
Scope and Contents
Consists of ships’ accounts, bills of lading, receipts for lighthouse dues, commercial correspondence, and legal documents. There are only 5 documents for 1720-1726.
Dates:
1720-1733.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates:
1750-1802.
Minute books and other records of the United Incorporation of Mary`s Chapel, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.302
Dates:
1755-1949.
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: MS.500
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Ordinance of the Committee of War of the Sheriffdom of Fife on the arming of heritors within the Presbytery of Cupar, 1644 (folio 1);(ii) Information for John Balfour, probably Portioner of Kinloch (died 1651), regarding the succession to certain lands of Christian Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Helen Balfour, 1644 (folio 2);(iii) Breakfast bill of ‘Langshaw’ [? David Montgomery of Lainshaw], receipted by Thomas...
Dates:
1644-1760, undated.
Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/1
Dates:
1687-1738.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10283-10286
Dates:
1653-1804.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Notebook of Thomas Ruddiman, containing mainly details of his personal expenditure.
Item
Identifier: MS.5047
Scope and Contents
The notebook also includes accounts of money disbursed by Thomas Ruddiman as Assistant Librarian of the Advocates' Library.
Dates:
1702-1713.
Notebook signed 'John Halkerston', kept, apparently, by Lord Colvill of Ochiltree's factor.
Item
Identifier: MS.5290
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains notes of financial transactions, 1709-1719, and a separate account of 1768.
Dates:
1709-1719, 1768.
Papers, accounts, receipts and correspondence relating to the financial affairs of James Ballantyne and Co, and to Sir Walter Scott as partner in the firm, most being connected with John Gibson W.S., as solicitor to the Trustees.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12952
Dates:
circa 1825-1827.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.291
Dates:
1554-19th century.
Papers of and concerning Margaret Macpherson Grant.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8054
Scope and Contents
Comprising cash books, accounts, legal documents, and correspondence, including letters concerning sugar estates in Jamaica owned by her.
Dates:
1848-1878.
Papers of John Skene of Hallyards.
File
Identifier: Acc.5770
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. account, 1679, of expenses paid by John Skene
2. receipts, 1688, for pay by Skene to the Midlothian Militia
3. two lists, 1678 and circa 1680, of Scottish militia.
Dates:
1678-1688.
Papers of Pocketbooks, publishers, and financial papers of Morning Star Publications.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12109
Dates:
1999-2002.
Papers of the Stewart and Christie families, and concerning the Murdostoun estate.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.164- is now Acc.5058.
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.
Item
Identifier: MS.1812
Scope and Contents
From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.
Dates:
1819-1821.