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 3 Collections and/or Records:
Customs book, to which has been added historical material relating to contemporary affairs in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.2263
Scope and Contents
The customs book comprises:(i) Accounts of the Salt Custom on the North and South of the Firth of Forth, 1618-1630 (folio 1);(ii) 'Ane Memorandum of all the declarations, petitions, protestations ... informations to the shires with the names of ther Commissioners and Collonelis from 1637 to 1648', followed by a table of contents (folio 49);(iii) History of events, 1635-1662; at folio 93 has been inserted an account of 'The Generall Assemlie Holdin in...
Dates:
17th century.
Customs receipts given at the port of London in respect of goods consigned to Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Ch.1569-1631
Scope and Contents
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:
1682-1694.
Opinions of English and Scotch lawyers on the Customs.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.6
Scope and Contents
Included is a 'memorial concerning the coast bonds taken in the custom houses in scotland' and a 'Copy of act of Parliament for furthering of Kings commodity by the mines and metals, made in 1592'.
Dates:
1592, 1671-1713, 1730.