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Minute books.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 570 Collections and/or Records:

Account and minute book, apparently of a Perth Wright, 1660-1661, 1667-1670, undated, with minutes of the Incorporation of Perth Wrights for 1664-1666 when Alexander Wilson was Deacon, intermingled., 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19289
Scope and Contents

It is possible that the accounts are Alexander Wilson's also. In addition there are 17th-century accounts of a French merchant (folios 1 and 2), and records of baptisms and marriage at Kennoway and Kilconquhar, Fife, 1659-1660 (folio l).

Dates: 17th century.

Administrative papers of the Trustees of Neil Munro., 1930-1952.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26935-26937
Scope and Contents

The Trust was established on Neil Munro's death, for the benefit of his wife and family.

Dates: 1930-1952.

Annual Reports, accounts and minutes of North Berwick Golf Club.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13228
Scope and Contents North Berwick Golf Club was formed on 8th May 1832 to play over the links there. The original course of 6/7 holes was extended to 12 in 1869-70 taking over the Park to the west. In 1877, the Club acquired the right to play over part of the Dirleton estate. This became known as the Private Golf Links or Greens. From the earliest days, the members of the Club dined together after their matches and, in 1879, it was resolved to build a Clubhouse by the links. The committee formed to oversee this...
Dates: 1984 to 2005.

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

'Book belonging to the chapmen in Fif for the East Nevck'., 1706-1764.

 Item
Identifier: MS.198
Scope and Contents

Contains ‘The Acts to the Chapman Cowrt of Fife’, 1706-1751 (folio 23-32), i.e., the rules of the Incorporation, records of election of officials, admission of new members, and occasional payments.

Dates: 1706-1764.

Book of sederunt of the administrators of the charitable Contributions for the relief of the indigent Episcopal clergy and their widows.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.1
Scope and Contents

The volume contains minutes of meetings, which were held at the Exchange Coffee House, Edinburgh, and the decisions of the administrators about requests for assistance, and lists (in three categories) the names of those to be assisted. The entries as far as 17 March 1758 (folio 16) are in the hand of William Gordon, bookseller, Edinburgh, who appears to have presented the volume to the Charity (folio 1).

Dates: 1754-1788.

Correspondence and papers of John Addison Birkbeck; with items relating to Dundee Typographical Society, including a volume, September 1879-January 1897, of the Courier and Argus Chapel of the Dundee Typographical Society.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5277
Scope and Contents

Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1879-1897, circa 1940-1971.

Draft minute book for the Council of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., 1935-1938.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21592
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: 1935-1938.

Draft minute book of the Committee on the Equal Dividend Platform of the Free Church of Scotland., 1864-1871.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19081
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1864-1871.

Draft minute book of the Committee on the Equal Dividend Platform of the Free Church of Scotland., 1871-1877.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19082
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1871-1877.

Facsimile of the minute-book, 1771-1792, of the Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonian), and related papers.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1843
Scope and Contents

Also included are accounts, 1771-1785 (folio 72, inverted), and the first three pages of the second minute book, 1793-1794, 1824.

This is one of several facsimile copies made in 1893 to the order of the Society, for distribution to members.

Dates: 1771-1794, 1824.

Fettercairn & district nursing association minute book., 1926-1948.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/947
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1926-1948.

Financial and business papers of Neil Munro., 1899-1952.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26931-26937
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

Dates: 1899-1952.

Foreign mission records of the United Presbyterian Church (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland)., 1846-1936.

 Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7638-7744
Scope and Contents The United Presbyterian Church, formed in 1847 by the union of the United Secession and Relief Churches, inherited from its Secession part missions in the West Indies (see also MS.8020) and in Calabar, Nigeria; soon after the union it took over the work in Jamaica of the Scottish Missionary Society (see MSS.8014, 8984-5) and that in Kaffraria of the Glasgow South African Missionary Society. Missions were later established in Rajputana (1860), Manchuria (1872), and Japan (1873). In addition...
Dates: 1846-1936.