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Cashbooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books of original entry in which a record is kept of all cash receipts, disbursements, or both.

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Cash-book for Woodhouselee, Midlothian, 1827-1834, 1844-1855, containing detailed accounts of expenditure by the gardeners, with a journal, January 1827-May 1834, on inverted pages, giving brief particulars of the daily work of the two permanent gardeners.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8915
Scope and Contents

Many of the entries in the cash-book relate to transport tolls and the employment of occasional labour. Some are concerned with minor repairs to the mansion house.

Dates: 1827-1855.

Cash-books of Sir Walter Scott.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1740-1744

Cashbook, 1766-1783, of William McNeil, carpenter in Loanhead.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10977
Scope and Contents

The cashbook gives a detailed day-by-day account of William McNeil's income from his work, and his expenditure on raw materials and on the upkeep of his family. The entries for each year are followed by an annual abstract, and throughout the volume are occasional notes on payments to employees and apprentices.

McNeil appears also to have been treasurer of the Reformed Presbyterian meeting house at Pentland, of which the accounts for 1767-1786 appear on folios 220-233 verso.

Dates: 1766-1786.

Cashbook of Dr William Eccles of Kildonan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10976
Scope and Contents The cashbook contains receipts from fees, 1714-1718, (folios 1-23), miscellaneous expenses, 1718, (folios 23 verso-31), "Accompt of what I have receiv'd of the rents of Kildonand", 1714-1718 (folio 36), and miscellaneous expenses, 1714-1717 (folios 41-72). The volume is assigned to William Eccles on the grounds that it belonged to a doctor practising in Edinburgh, and that according to Sir Robert Douglas in ‘The Baronage of Scotland’, volume i, page 437, the estate of Kildonan...
Dates: 1714-1718.

Further records of the Edinburgh Booksellers' Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14473
Scope and Contents

Includes:

Annual Reports 1945-52, 1953-62.

Cash books 1884-1921, 1940-1966.

Correspondence 1967-1983.

Investment register, 1923-1958.

EBS Social Fund, 1922-1940.

Expedition to Grasmere, 1933.

Laws and regulations, 1792, 1959, 1975, 1984.

Dates: 1884-1989

Minutes, letter book and cash books of the Mortonhall Curling Club.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.24652-24655
Scope and Contents

Formed in 1868, the membership of the Mortonhall Curling Club was drawn largely from local landed families and the legal profession. For most of the Club's exsistence curling took place upon a constructed 'deep water pond' flooded annually in the winter months, but in the early 20th century two adjacent 'artificial ice rinks' were added. The Club was dissolved in 1916.

Dates: 1868-1917.

Papers concerning the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16435-16436
Dates: Late 16th century-19th century.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents

Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

Records of the firm of M J Brown, Son and Co, WS, consisting of letterbooks, ledgers and journals, with eight bundles of loose papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.212
Scope and Contents

The collection also includes some earlier documents.

Dates: Circa 1880-1964.