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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:

Volume of rules, accounts and other papers of the Society of Stentmasters of Edinburgh., 1721-1833.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1992
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: rules of the Society of Stentmasters of Edinburgh, 1721, 1833 (two copies) (folios 1, 33 verso); lists of members and payments, 1761-1765 (folio 3); and treasurer's accounts, 1761-1767 (folio 27 verso).

Dates: 1721-1833.

Vouchers of John Home's accounts with the trustees of General Fletcher., 1806-1811.

 File
Identifier: MS.16791 (part 1)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1806-1811.

Vouchers of John Home's accounts with the trustees of General Fletcher., 1806-1811.

 File
Identifier: MS.16791 (part 2)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1806-1811.

Vouchers of John Home's accounts with the trustees of General Fletcher (numbers 1-227, wanting 45, 100, 192, 222)., 1806-1811.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.16791
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1806-1811.

Warrant, issued by the Commissioners of the Treasury, confirming the award of a yearly pension of £100 to Anna Jameson, and naming William Makepeace Thackeray and John Murray III as trustees of the pension., 1851-1852.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42319
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: 1851-1852.

Whyte of Easter Conland., 1673-1702.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9975-9999A
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: 1673-1702.

William Mitchelson, merchant burgess of Edinburgh, and later Henry Stewart, merchant there, George Fullartoune, merchant burgess thereof, and Andrew, Lord Fraser., 1662-1668.

 File
Identifier: Ch.1974-1981
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: 1662-1668.

William Rig of Carberry., 1671-1672.

 File
Identifier: Ch.11945-11946

Williams Thoirs, nephew of Sir David, of Inverkeithing., 1726-1735.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9972-9974
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: 1726-1735.

Yeaman of Pittencrieff., 1692-1698, 1742.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9843-9853
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: 1692-1698, 1742.