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Financial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents pertaining to money matters.

Found in 1516 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts, receipts and related papers concerning the Errol estates (Aithmuir, Powgavie and Seaside) of the Hays of Yester., 1637-1668, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14742
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Account, 1657-1662, of charge and discharge of the lands of Aithmuir (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts, receipts and related papers, 1637-1668, undated, concerning the Errol estates, being chiefly papers of transactions with tenants (folio 13).

Dates: 1637-1668, undated.

Accounts, receipts and related papers from minor estates of the Hays of Yester., 1631-1798, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14741-14744
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 1631-1798, undated.

Accounts, rentals, and other papers relating to the Murdostoun estate, Lanarkshire., 1832-1853.

 File
Identifier: MS.2308
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: 1832-1853.

Accounts, with related papers, between Lord Milton and John Watson, Writer to the Signet (his cousin), and papers concerning Watson's settlement, under which Lord Milton was a trustee., 1750-1765.

 File
Identifier: MS.17743
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 1750-1765.

Administration papers of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)., 1971-1991, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/281-412
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.

Dates: 1971-1991, undated.

Administrative and financial papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties., 1971-1997.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12971/3-91
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties including administrative and financial papers of the executive committee and various sub committees, local groups, annual reports and publications.

Dates: 1971-1997.

Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates: 1518-1965, undated.

Aithmuir (Errol) and Powgavie (Inchture)., 1626-1662.

 File
Identifier: Ch.12512-12529
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: 1626-1662.

Alexander, 1st Earl of Linlithgow., 1584-1620.

 File
Identifier: Ch.8501-8513
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.

Dates: 1584-1620.

Alexander, 2nd Earl of Callendar., 1670-1682.

 File
Identifier: Ch.8544-8551
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.

Dates: 1670-1682.

Alexander, 2nd Earl of Linlithgow., 1621-1633.

 File
Identifier: Ch.8514-8525
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.

Dates: 1621-1633.

Alexander, 3rd Earl of Callendar., 1686-1691.

 File
Identifier: Ch.8552-8558
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.

Dates: 1686-1691.

Alexander Fraser, merchant, burgess of Inverness., 1669-1670.

 File
Identifier: Ch.1949-1953
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These papers relate to particular debts and other affairs, chiefly of Simon Fraser, 3rd of Inverallochie, with a few of his father Simon, 2nd of that family, and business ensuing therefrom. Unless it is otherwise stated, the papers refer to a debt to the person mentioned.

Dates: 1669-1670.

Alexander Meek, skipper, burgess of Kirkcaldy, and Henry Oswald, provost of Kirkcaldy., 1687-1716.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9727-9742
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers relate in particular to the difficulties of Patrick Kinninmond (d 1701), the last laird of that name.

Dates: 1687-1716.

Andrew Phinny, Bailie of Peterhead, then his son Andrew and Adam Nisbet, writer, Edinburgh., 1645-1672.

 File
Identifier: Ch.1989-1996
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These papers relate to particular debts and other affairs, chiefly of Simon Fraser, 3rd of Inverallochie, with a few of his father Simon, 2nd of that family, and business ensuing therefrom. Unless it is otherwise stated, the papers refer to a debt to the person mentioned.

Dates: 1645-1672.

Anna, Countess of Callendar., 1692, 1697.

 File
Identifier: Ch.8559-8560
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.

Dates: 1692, 1697.

Appointment of sum of money in trust by Robert Ellice and his wife Eliza., 29 May 1846.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12734
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 29 May 1846.

Archbishop of Glasgow., 1666-1671.

 File
Identifier: Ch.11886-11887

Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12384/1-285
Dates: Majority of material found within 1741-1753, 1788-1798, 1801, 1807, 1825-1826, 1836-2004, undated.