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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:

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.

Art work, budgets, schedules, reviews, publicity and other material relating to 'Men should weep'., 1983, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10893/112
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Containing papers on the following Scottish plays: 'Gold in his boots' by George Munro; 'U.A.B. - Scotland' by Harry Trott; 'Johnny Noble' by Ewan MacColl; "In time o' strife" by Joe Corrie; and 'Men should weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart.

Dates: 1983, undated.

Assignment by the Lands Improvement Company to the Scottish Union Insurance Company of the charge of yearly repayments by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun., 26 April 1867.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14711
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 26 April 1867.

Assignment by the Lands Improvement Company to the Scottish Widows Fund of the charge upon Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun., 1 October 1868.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14713
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 1 October 1868.

Assorted administrative papers relating to the establishment of Engender., 1992-1994.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13806/26
Scope and Contents

The file contains the Engender Development Plan; draft business plan; financial statements for the year ending 31 December 1993; Engender leaflets; and a photograph of Esther Breitenbach, Leslie Hills, and Helen Adair at an early Engender board meeting, Scottish Women's Aid, Bank Street, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1992-1994.

Assorted papers of and concerning the family of Erskine of Alva., 1634-[1904, or before].

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5158-5164
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Although with the Paul Papers through the family connection with the Erskine Murrays these papers are to be considered complementary to the Erskine Murray Papers.

Dates: 1634-[1904, or before].

Auditors' reports., 1882-1900.

 File
Identifier: MS.18103
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: 1882-1900.

Balcarres Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates: 1231-1686, and undated.

Bank accounts of William Chisholme., 1790-1800.

 File
Identifier: MS.5491
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers presumably came into the possession of Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, after his marriage to James Chisholme’s daughter in 1802. Charles Chisholme was captain of the East India ship 'Gatton'; James and William Chisholme, his brothers, owned sugar plantations in Jamaica.William Chisholme became the owner of Thomas's River, North Hall, Health Crawl and Breadland Pen in Clarendon, Jamaica, as well as owning a quarter share of Trout Hall, Green River, Troys and...
Dates: 1790-1800.

Bank statements, 1885-1894, and papers concerning investments, 1852-1894, of the Free Church of Scotland., 1852-1894.

 File
Identifier: MS.18401
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: 1852-1894.

Banking records of the Free Church of Scotland., 1849-1901.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.18368-18401
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: 1849-1901.

Beatson of Kilrie., 1687-1702.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9889-9902
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir David Thoirs became the principal creditor of the Kinninmond family through his acquisition of many heritable bonds granted by the Kinninmonds in the late 17th century.

Dates: 1687-1702.

Berwickshire and Roxburghshire., 1631-1711.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11842-11858B
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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

Dates: 1631-1711.

Bills and receipts of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion, 1859-1867, and undated (folio 1), together with lists of subscriptions and other financial papers, 1859-1866, and undated (folio 85)., 1859-1867.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.19
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: 1859-1867.

Bills of exchange and related documents of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1647-1826, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16831-16832
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: 1647-1826, undated.

Bills of exchange and related documents of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1647-1745.

 File
Identifier: MS.16831
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: 1647-1745.

Bills of exchange and related documents of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1746-1826, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.16832
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: 1746-1826, undated.