Customs records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records tracking the goods passing through and fees collected at customs, which is the area at a seaport, airport, etc., where goods, luggage, and other incoming items are examined and customs duties levied.
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
`Alexander`, Robert Dunbar master., 1685.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1577
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The receipts, which have been cancelled by cutting, were strung on leather laces in bundles according to the ship. They were found in the Abbey Strand, Edinburgh, in the course of architectural restoration.
Dates:
1685.
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company., 1725-1743.
File
Identifier: MS.17560
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.
Dates:
1725-1743.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
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Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company.
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company., 1744-1748.
File
Identifier: MS.17561
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.
Dates:
1744-1748.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
/
Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
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Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company.
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company., 1749-1752.
File
Identifier: MS.17562
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.
Dates:
1749-1752.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
/
Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
/
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company.
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company., 1753-1755.
File
Identifier: MS.17563
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.
Dates:
1753-1755.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
/
Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
/
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company.
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company., 1756-1761.
File
Identifier: MS.17564
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.
Dates:
1756-1761.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
/
Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
/
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company.
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company., 1762-1765.
File
Identifier: MS.17565
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.
Dates:
1762-1765.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
/
Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
/
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company.
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers, undated, concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company., [1725-1765.]
File
Identifier: MS.17566
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.
Dates:
[1725-1765.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
/
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
/
Papers concerning the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland (later, for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland), appointed in 1727.
/
Correspondence, petitions, reports and papers concerning manufactures, especially linen and wool, relating principally to techniques and organisation, to duties on foreign goods, and to the British Linen Company.
'Extract of the collection of Custome and Excyse by James Tarbet'., 1662-1665.
File
Identifier: MS.7039
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
MSS.7003-7022, Letters to the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale, with a few letters concerning them, 1661-1713, forms a separate sequence but because of the way some of the manuscripts have been bound this distinction could not be represented exactly in the hierarchy of the descriptions.Of the letters written before 1697 (the year of his death), by far the greater number are addressed to the 1st Marquess; but occasionally it is not certain whether the addressee is the 1st...
Dates:
1662-1665.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Tweeddale; and correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Public accounts, presumably connected with the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale's period of office as Commissioner of the Treasury.
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Public accounts, presumably connected with the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale's period of office as Commissioner of the Treasury.
`James`, James Law master., 1682, undated.
File
Identifier: Ch.1571-1573
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The receipts, which have been cancelled by cutting, were strung on leather laces in bundles according to the ship. They were found in the Abbey Strand, Edinburgh, in the course of architectural restoration.
Dates:
1682, undated.
`James`, Thomas Weir master., 1683.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1574-1576
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The receipts, which have been cancelled by cutting, were strung on leather laces in bundles according to the ship. They were found in the Abbey Strand, Edinburgh, in the course of architectural restoration.
Dates:
1683.
Letters and papers relating to taxation, salt-duty and fisheries., 1785-1820, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.640
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters and papers relating chiefly to taxation 1786-1820. The correspondents and subjects dealt with include duties on soap and candles, 1786-1787; surveyors of windows, etc., in North Britain, 1787; malt-tax in Scotland, 1788; Inspector General for Stamps for Scotland, 1790; accounts of the Receiver General for Scotland in respect of the land-tax, 1788-90; window, house, etc., taxes, 1878-1879; petition of the glasswork companies at Leith,...
Dates:
1785-1820, undated.
`Mary`, Thomas White master., 1688, undated.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1578-1589
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The receipts, which have been cancelled by cutting, were strung on leather laces in bundles according to the ship. They were found in the Abbey Strand, Edinburgh, in the course of architectural restoration.
Dates:
1688, undated.
Paper titled 'Copies of the tables of fees taken by the Officers of the Customs in Scotland in...May, 1767'., 1767.
Item
Identifier: MS.1494
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...
Dates:
1767.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning a dispute with Edinburgh Town Council., 1681-1687.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/11(ii)
`Prosperous`, Walter Burnett master., 1690, undated.
File
Identifier: Ch.1593-1626
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The receipts, which have been cancelled by cutting, were strung on leather laces in bundles according to the ship. They were found in the Abbey Strand, Edinburgh, in the course of architectural restoration.
Dates:
1690, undated.
`Providence`, William Belford master., 1693.
File
Identifier: Ch.1627-1629
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The receipts, which have been cancelled by cutting, were strung on leather laces in bundles according to the ship. They were found in the Abbey Strand, Edinburgh, in the course of architectural restoration.
Dates:
1693.
Public accounts, presumably connected with the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale's period of office as Commissioner of the Treasury., 1662-1669.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7039-7043
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
MSS.7003-7022, Letters to the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale, with a few letters concerning them, 1661-1713, forms a separate sequence but because of the way some of the manuscripts have been bound this distinction could not be represented exactly in the hierarchy of the descriptions.Of the letters written before 1697 (the year of his death), by far the greater number are addressed to the 1st Marquess; but occasionally it is not certain whether the addressee is the 1st...
Dates:
1662-1669.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Tweeddale; and correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Public accounts, presumably connected with the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale's period of office as Commissioner of the Treasury.
`Red Lyon`, Robert Panton master., 1694.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1630
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The receipts, which have been cancelled by cutting, were strung on leather laces in bundles according to the ship. They were found in the Abbey Strand, Edinburgh, in the course of architectural restoration.
Dates:
1694.
`Sophia`, William Hopkirk master., 1689.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1590-1592
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The receipts, which have been cancelled by cutting, were strung on leather laces in bundles according to the ship. They were found in the Abbey Strand, Edinburgh, in the course of architectural restoration.
Dates:
1689.
`Speedwell`, James Fisher master., 1682.
File
Identifier: Ch.1569-1570
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The receipts, which have been cancelled by cutting, were strung on leather laces in bundles according to the ship. They were found in the Abbey Strand, Edinburgh, in the course of architectural restoration.
Dates:
1682.
'Value of all goods, wares and merchandize imported into and exported from Scotland compared with the excess of each country, commencing anno 1755 [to 1782].', [?1782.]
Item
Identifier: MS.60
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.
Dates:
[?1782.]