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Accounts and papers relating to the Scottish Mint.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.9
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the counter warden`s accounts of silver minted from February 1699 to November 1700; of orders for payment by the Generals and Masters of the Mint; and of receipts of various employees.
Dates:
1690-1705.
Accounts of tradesmen’s wages and tradesmen’s accounts and vouchers concerning work undertaken in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/3
Dates:
1817-1819
Bound volume entitled 'Trousseau of Elizabeth Brand Scott on her marriage to James Steuart W.S., on 27 February, 1827'; with a volume of Jacobite papers.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3411/1-2
Dates:
1827, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20752-20753
Dates:
1833-1883, undated.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9174/1-46
Scope and Contents
Thepapers comprise letters of and to members of the Cameron of Fassifern family (chiefly John Cameron of Fassifern, Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassifern and Sir Duncan Cameron of Fassifern, and, to a lesser extent, Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel and Donald Cameron of Lochiel), estate and household papers, legal deeds and accounts and other papers concerning Lieutenant Colonel John Cameron and his regiment, the 92nd Foot. A miscellaneous section includes inventories of furniture and books at Fassifern...
Dates:
1643-1901, undated.
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.
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.
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 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.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Dates:
1754-1759.
Receipts for payment of the first dividend by the Trustees of James Ballantyne and Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.12989
Scope and Contents
Includes other accounts and financial papers concerning the affairs of Scott, most being addressed to John Gibson, W.S.
Dates:
1827.
Records of the Saltire Society.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13562
Scope and Contents
The Society was founded in 1936 and its aims are to preserve all that is best in Scottish tradition and to encourage every new development which can strengthen and enrich Scottish cultural life.
Dates:
1967-2013
Tradesmen’s bills and receipts for work done in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.345/7-F.R.345/8
Dates:
1816-1821