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Receipts. Financial records

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 187 Collections and/or Records:

Receipt given by David Hume, the philosopher, to John Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, for interest on a bond., 1751.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.1568
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Ch.1492-1539 relate to a family of Spottiswood (most often spelt Spottiswod; also other variants) in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1751.

Receipt of Sir William Scot of Balwery to Henry Hakket of Petfurane for £16, the balance of £60 due for the composition of the lands of Petfurane held of him., 7 April 1512.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.6057
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).

Dates: 7 April 1512.

Receipt of the Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Company.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4556
Scope and Contents

For shipment of a box from London to Leith to Messrs J Smith and Son.

Dates: 1809.

Receipts for ammunition, notes of scores, notes of rifles issued, and other papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion concerning equipment, 1861-1865, and undated (folio 1), together with various printed papers, mainly Company and Battalion Orders, 1859-1866, 1870, and undated (folio 225)., 1859-1870.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.

Dates: 1859-1870.

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.