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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:

Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3411
Scope and Contents According to a note on folio 2, the book was purchased by the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith in 1669, and it contains records of transactions from the Acts and Statutes, 1525 to 1754. These records, which are not continuous, are chiefly of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They include: a note of entry-fees to be paid by freemen and their sons, with the Oath of Admission (folio 22 verso); minutes of the admission of freemen from 1601 to 1754, with their marks...
Dates: 1525-1754.

Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross., 1612-1793.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3577
Scope and Contents

The main series of minutes, 1691-1793 (folios 11 verso-110, 114-176, 178 verso-188), is preceded and interrupted by records of entries of apprentices, 1612-1677 (folios 1 verso-7), of elections of Deacons and Boxmasters, 1679-1682 (folios 8-10), of the Mortcloth from 1737 to 1793 (folio 187), of payments into the Box, etc.

Dates: 1612-1793.

Books and papers of the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate, including copies of the earlier documents., 1438-1878.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1957-1990
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: 1438-1878.

Boswell of Easter Lochgelly and Boswell of Craigincat., 1620-1647.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9568-9611
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: 1620-1647.

Brugh or Burgh in Kirkcaldy and then of Tinmouth., 1695-1702.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9903-9906
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: 1695-1702.

Business and financial notebook of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1804-1817.

 Item
Identifier: MS.13112
Scope and Contents From the Series: General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates: 1804-1817.

Business and personal correspondence with related financial records of W A L Marr, tea planter, India.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.5025/1-9
Scope and Contents

Most of the papers concern his work on the Malayalam, Chembra and Arrapetta tea plantations, but there is also material for the social life of the British in India at the time particularly the Arbuckle Trophy Football Tournament, the Ootacomund Club and the Wynaad Golf Club in the 1960s.

Dates: 1929-1970.

Business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'., 1832-1972, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11812/1-164
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates: 1832-1972, undated.

Cash book of George Combe., 1809-1810.

 Item
Identifier: MS.7494
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The bulk of these papers comprise household accounts, which fall into two divisions: loose receipts and accounts (MSS.7475-7492), and bound volumes of general expenses (MSS.7493-7508). MSS.7509-7512 are concerned with legal and publishing finances.

Dates: 1809-1810.

Charters and other formal documents relating to lands and affairs in Angus., 1632-1729.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.10040-10174
Scope and Contents From the Series: The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates: 1632-1729.

Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.8971-10633
Scope and Contents The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates: 12th century-1910, undated.

Colieraw Mill of Dunfermline., 1587, 1610, undated.

 File
Identifier: Ch.12357-12359
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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

Dates: 1587, 1610, undated.

Collection of 19 formal documents (mostly financial), relating to the will of the deceased John Moresone, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh., 1615-1628, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.

Dates: 1615-1628, and undated.

Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.15
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i)-(ix) Accounts compiled by Sir John Skene.(i) ‘Ane tabill and repertour of the Cheker Rollis [...] collectit and put in ordour conforme to the number and ordour of Kingis [...] be Mr Jhone Skene [...] 1595.’ (ii) ‘Ane particular and perfyte rentall ... collectit be Maister Johne Skene Clerk of the Register. 1595.’ (iii) ‘The rentall buik of the propertis.’ (iv) ‘Computa et libri thesaurariorum.’ (v) ‘Libri responsionum.’ (vi) ‘Libri...
Dates: Late 16th century-17th century.