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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:

Colliers' and salters' accounts., 1705-1715.

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Identifier: MS.3086
Scope and Contents From the Series:

On the death of Sir John Wemyss, 2nd Baronet, in January 1719, the property is conducted for Sir James, 3rd Baronet, by tutors. Sir James first signs for himself, with his curators, in April 1726 (MS.3088, page 121).

Dates: 1705-1715.

Colliers' and salters' accounts., 1715-1719.

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Identifier: MS.3087
Scope and Contents From the Series:

On the death of Sir John Wemyss, 2nd Baronet, in January 1719, the property is conducted for Sir James, 3rd Baronet, by tutors. Sir James first signs for himself, with his curators, in April 1726 (MS.3088, page 121).

Dates: 1715-1719.

Colliers' and salters' accounts, of the family of Wemyss of Bogie., 1705-1719.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3086-3087
Scope and Contents From the Series:

On the death of Sir John Wemyss, 2nd Baronet, in January 1719, the property is conducted for Sir James, 3rd Baronet, by tutors. Sir James first signs for himself, with his curators, in April 1726 (MS.3088, page 121).

Dates: 1705-1719.

Colville in Pitcairn., 1646.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9663-9665
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: 1646.

Copies of letters and papers concerning the Commissioner for the Revenue Settlement of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces., 1808-1810.

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Identifier: MS.11625(i)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Richard Waite Cox and Henry St George Tucker, Commissioners, to the 1st Earl of Minto, 1808 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Cox and Tucker to the 1st Earl, 1808, with papers concerning the Etawah settlement (folio 5);(iii) Final report of the Commissioners, 1808 (folio 20);(iv) Minutes of Henry Thomas Colebrooke (folio 100) and John Lumsden (folio 120), Members of Council, 1808, concerning the final report of...
Dates: 1808-1810.

Copies of letters and papers concerning the Commissioner for the Revenue Settlement of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces., 1810.

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Identifier: MS.11625(ii)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Richard Waite Cox and Henry St George Tucker, Commissioners, to the 1st Earl of Minto, 1808 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Cox and Tucker to the 1st Earl, 1808, with papers concerning the Etawah settlement (folio 5);(iii) Final report of the Commissioners, 1808 (folio 20);(iv) Minutes of Henry Thomas Colebrooke (folio 100) and John Lumsden (folio 120), Members of Council, 1808, concerning the final report of...
Dates: 1810.

Copies of papers concerning the Commissioner for the Revenue Settlement of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces., 1808-1813.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11625-11626
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1808-1813.

Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows: (i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3); (ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4); (iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11); (iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates: 1546-Late 16th century.

Copyright receipts concerning payments made by John Murray, publishers, to the contributors to “A dictionary of the Bible” (London: John Murray, 1860-1863), edited by William Smith., 1860-1864.

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Identifier: MS.41125
Scope and Contents Receipts, 1860-1863, concerning work undertaken by William Smith both as the editor of, and as a contributor to, the dictionary. Folios 1-3.Receipts, 1860-1861, concerning payments made to the contributors to volume 1 of the dictionary.Alford, Henry. Folio 4.Bailey, Henry. Folio 5.Barry, Alfred. Folio 6.Bevan, William Latham. Folio 7.Brown, Thomas Edward. Folio 8.Browne, Robert William. Folio 9....
Dates: 1860-1864.

Corrected list of debts submitted by Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar, to be discharged by the executors of her husband's estate., Circa 1635.

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Identifier: MS.5103
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.

Dates: Circa 1635.

Correspondence, 1803, between John Murray II and Archibald Constable, publisher: and, correspondence, 1804-1805, between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and Co., publishers., 1803-1805.

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Identifier: MS.40238
Scope and Contents The correspondence concerns the business relations between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and his partners, and includes receipts, invoices and other business papers. The papers are arranged chronologically. 1803. Correspondence between John Murray II and Archibald Constable. Folios 1-14.1804. Letter, 19 October 1804, of Alexander Gibson Hunter to John Murray II. Folios 15-16. Fragment of a letter, 29 December 1804, of A. Constable and Co. to John...
Dates: 1803-1805.

Correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous papers of Alexander Turnbull Christie., 1825-1838, undated.

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Identifier: MS.9497
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Letters, 1827-1832, to Alexander Turnbull Christie, with a few copies of his own letters (folio 1);

(ii) Financial papers, 1825-1831, undated (folio 59);

(iii) Design for a house, circa 1830 (folio 69);

(iv) 'De membranae mucosae pathologia', circa 1828 (folio 71);

(v) Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1831, 1838, undated, of Christie and John Turnbull of Abbey St Bathans (folio 99).

Dates: 1825-1838, undated.

Correspondence, accounts, rentals, and other papers relating to the Murdostoun estate, Lanarkshire., 1831-1854.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2304-2308
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: 1831-1854.

Correspondence and financial papers between Martha Tryphena Louisa Elliot, with some letters of her son, William Elliot of Wells, and Anthony Chamier, chiefly concerning Chamier's curatorship of William Nassau Elliot's estate., 1775-1781.

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Identifier: MS.12929
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Nassau Elliot of Wells was Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany, 1761-173, and his son, William Elliot of Wells was Member of Parliament for Portarlington, 1801-1802, and for Peterborough, 1802-1818, and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the ‘Talents' Ministry, 1806-1807. The Elliots of Wells were only very distantly related to the Elliots of Minto, the common ancestor being Robin Elliot of Redheugh (florished 1582). However, William Elliot of Wells was a...
Dates: 1775-1781.

Correspondence and financial papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1817-1841.

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Identifier: MS.11956
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence and statements of account received from the Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1817, 1825-1829 (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and statements received from the British Linen Company's Jedburgh branch bank, 1824-1832, 1835, 1841 (folio 26); (iii) Letters and related papers, 1832-1834, relating to transactions with Schickler Brothers, Bankers, Berlin (folio 62).

Dates: 1817-1841.

Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9250-9307
Scope and Contents Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates: 1605-1952.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the family of MacLeod of Geanies.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19295-19308
Scope and Contents The correspondence and papers chiefly relate to Donald, 3rd of Geanies and his issue, including a series of letters from members of the family in America in the 1770s and on military and naval service during the Napoleonic wars. The MacLeods of Geanies are descended from the MacLeods of Assynt, a cadet branch of the MacLeods of Lewis. Assynt was lost to the family in the time of Neil, the 9th Baron, and the title but not the estate passed to his brother, John, the family fortunes being...
Dates: 1654-1874.

Correspondence and papers, 1739-1763, concerning Neil McVicar of Fergushill, and financial papers, 1735-1749, concerning Sir William Maxwell of Monreith and his trustees. , 1735-1763.

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Identifier: MS.17734
Scope and Contents

Neil McVicar, a writer in Edinburgh, was convicted in 1738 of professional misconduct and banished from Scotland; there were strong political overtones to the case.

Lord Milton's involvement with Sir William Maxwell is not clear; Sir William's mother was a Montgomerie (see MSS.17737-17740).

Dates: 1735-1763.