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Financial records.

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

Found in 1246 Collections and/or Records:

Various papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1326-1807, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1498
Scope and Contents

Contains the papers of the following: Jacobites, 1715-1745; Keithhall, Kinkell and Kintore, 1753; Kildonan, 1763; Kilmonivaig, 1768; Leith Incorporation of Carters, 1807; Liberton Poor's Funds, 1759-1761; Medical prescriptions, receipts, etc., 1727, undated; Midlothian roads, undated; Montrose bridge, 1770; Oaths of Allegiance etc., 1691, 1754; Parliament of Scotland, 1326, circa 1703-1704; Peers (Scots), 1708-1709, 1770.

Dates: 1326-1807, undated.

Volume, labelled 'Individuals', containing correspondence concerning civil servants and other civilians who have already served or lived in India., 1785-1828.

 File
Identifier: MS.1072
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.

Dates: 1785-1828.

Volume lettered on the front cover in the 1st Earl of Minto's hand, 'Papers Relative to the mode of Computing the Revenues of the Carnatic and Tanjore payable to the Nabob and Rajah. Furnished to me by the India House'., 1805-1806.

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Identifier: MS.11609
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: 1805-1806.

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.

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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.