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Statements of accounts of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates.
Series
Identifier: F.R.44a-F.R.49
Dates:
1814-1902.
Student`s notes, circa 1590, on law, order of the Court of Session, practicles and styles copied by James Grant.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10375
Scope and Contents
Includes two Gaelic poems of James Grant.
Also with farm accounts, 1722-1748, of James Mackie.
Dates:
circa 1590-1748.
Summary of household expenditure of Patrick W Campbell, Writer to the Signet.
Item
Identifier: MS.15915
Dates:
1878-1885.
Three commissions, 1813, 1830, 1848, appointing William Thomson successively Deputy Assistant Commissary, Assistant Commissary, and Deputy Commissary-General of Stores, Provisions and Forage to the Forces; and a Treasury account, 1819, paying him for provisions for the Army at Stralsund, 1813-1814.
File
Identifier: Ch.5809-5812
Dates:
1813-1848.
Three small groups of private letters and related material.
Series
Identifier: MS.6294
Dates:
1795-1855, undated.
Tradesmen’s accounts and vouchers concerning works completed in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/2
Dates:
1769-1818.
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
Transcripts, 17th century, of accounts of the Scottish Exchequer, 1561, and of acts and other related documents, 1362-1638.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.5
Dates:
1362-1638.
Travel journals and household accounts of Peter MacDougal, a schoolmaster in Stirling, and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8935-8941
Dates:
1812-1858.
"Treasurer's book for the Relief Church, Galashiels, 1844-1872."
Item
Identifier: MS.8911
Scope and Contents
The accounts include disbursements for the minister's stipend, and miscellaneous salaries and expenses.
Dates:
1844-1872.
Trust account for the estate of William Rae including property in Jamaica.
File
Identifier: Acc.14304
Dates:
1841.
Two journal-letters, of Robert Michael Ballantyne from the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11962
Scope and Contents
Includes two watercolour paintings of the lighthouse, one showing the building from the reef, the other being an interior view; with two other letters of Ballantyne concerning lifeboats, and many later letters of R M Ballantyne, his family and friends.
Dates:
circa 1864-1865.
Two notebooks with notes and accounts concerning the family of Dunlop of Dunlop.
File
Identifier: Acc.8652
Dates:
1685-1812.
Two royalty accounts of Messrs George Bell and Sons Ltd in account with Dr Frank Fraser Darling concerning "Island Years".
File
Identifier: Acc.9541
Dates:
1954.
Typescipt and manuscript journals of William Bell, Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4865/1-34
Dates:
1907-1967.
Volume containing transcripts by Alexander Brown, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, of some early Scottish charters, with a few other writings.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.4
Scope and Contents
The volume appears to have been begun about 1780 and entries made until about 1787, but by far the greater part of the volume is blank. The contents are as follows:(i) transcript of instrument and protest of Sir Alexander Moray of Abercairnay, 7 December 1391 (page 1). Printed (from the original, then at Abercairney) in ‘Liber Insulae Missarum’, page xlix; see page xii.(ii) memorandum, 1781, concerning chapel in grounds of seat of Cockburn family at...
Dates:
Before 1172-1781.
Volume of copies and extracts apparently made for William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of the accounts of Robert Lord Boyd, Collector General of Thirds, for the year 1576, covering Kirklands in Inverness, Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, Fife, Strathearn, Nairn, Banff, Elgin, and Forres (folio 1).(ii) Minutes extracted from the Exchequer Register, covering the periods July 1630 to November 1634 (folio 73), January 1642 to June 1647 (folio 104 verso), and July 1661 to June 1674 (folio 116)....
Dates:
1576-1684.
Vouchers and accounts of the Faculty of Advocates Library chiefly concerning the purchase and shipment of books.
File
Identifier: F.R.343/8
Dates:
1844-1846, 1847-1848, 1880.
Vouchers of the Faculty of Advocates Curators' accounts
Series
Identifier: F.R.339e/2-F.R.339e/14
Scope and Contents
The vouchers are chiefly for books, manuscripts and binding.
Dates:
1727-1742.