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Invoices.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents showing items supplied, together with the prices charged for each; also, itemized bills or accounts.

Found in 249 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts of the Keith family., 1601-1761, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21176-21177
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates: 1601-1761, undated.

Accounts, receipts and related papers concerning lands, feus and teinds in the regality of Dunfermline., 1639-1781.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14730-14740
Scope and Contents

The papers are chiefly of transactions through factors, and include tradesmen's bills for personal and household expenses and accounts for repairs to Dunfermline Abbey.

MSS.14734-14735 and MS.14736, folios 1-82 are chiefly accounts of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale during his residence at Dalgety; and MS.14736, folios 83-228 and MSS.14737-14738 are chiefly accounts of the 3rd Marquess of Tweeddale at Dalgety.

Dates: 1639-1781.

Administrative and personal papers of James Stuart., 1781-1783.

 File
Identifier: MS.8430
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of:

(i) Returns and inventories of stores and provisions, 1781-1783, undated. (folio 1);

(ii) James Stuart's household accounts, etc., 1781-1783 (folio 25);

(iii) Miscellaneous receipts and invoices, 1782-1783 (folio 64).

Dates: 1781-1783.

Assorted business papers and correspondence., 1754-1982, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12235/31-58
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates: 1754-1982, undated.

Bill for stationery and maps, in the hand of Alexander Kincaid, pasted in his ‘History of Edinburgh’ (Edinburgh, 1787)., 1785.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6532 [L.C.159]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.

Dates: 1785.

Bills and accounts for household goods and provisions., 1657-1696.

 File
Identifier: MS.14632
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts with merchants: George Smailholm ['Smellum'], Edinburgh, for sums expended by him, and accounts of goods, largely cloth, bought from him, 1657-1681 (folio 1); Henry and John Sleith, Haddington, for various goods, 1668-1689 (folio 48); Robert Forrest, Haddington, for various goods, 1670-1673 (folio 54); Thomas Crichton, Edinburgh, for various goods, 1669-1677 (folio 39); John Russell, Edinburgh, for soap and starch, 1680-1683 (folio 64);...
Dates: 1657-1696.

Bills and receipts of Jean Elliot, great aunt of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1787, 1790-1791, 1797-1804.

 File
Identifier: MS.11172
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: 1787, 1790-1791, 1797-1804.

Bills and related papers concerning building and structural repairs, chiefly at Yester House, Newhall House and Tweeddale House, from Edinburgh and East Lothian merchants and tradesmen, including smiths' bills., 1750-1784.

 File
Identifier: MS.14680
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Merchants' bills: Brown and Croumbie, Haddington, for tools and materials, 1770-1780 (folio 1); Robert Bull and Sons, Edinburgh, for nails, 1765-1766 (folio 12); William Cadell and Sons, Haddington, for materials, 1762-1768 (folio 15);(ii) Smiths' bills, 1762-1784 (folio 22);(iii) Wrights' bills, 1763-1783 (folio 66);(iv) Masons' bills, 1763-1784 (folio 106);(v) Slaters' bills, 1763-1782 (folio...
Dates: 1750-1784.

Bills for various goods and provisions from merchants and tradesmen in Edinburgh, Leith and East Lothian., 1785-1801.

 File
Identifier: MS.14690
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Bills, 1785-1786, for various goods for Lady Hannah Hay [Marchioness of Tweeddale] at Edinburgh (folio 1);(ii) Bills for various goods from John Croumbie, Haddington, 1788-1799 (folio 13); Robert Paterson, Gifford, 1788-1800, including the gardener's and fowler's orders (folio 20); Midlemas Hay and Co., Dunbar, 1795 (folio 61); James Simpson, Haddington, 1797 (folio 63);(iii) Bills for provisions from Edinburgh shopkeepers,...
Dates: 1785-1801.

Bills for various goods, provisions and household goods., 1720-1764.

 File
Identifier: MS.14662
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains bills for the following:(i) Various goods: William Watt, Gifford, 1722-1727 (folio 1); John Bodie, Edinburgh, 1734-1744 (folio 5); John Yule, Gifford, 1743-1762 (folio 12); John Schaw, Edinburgh, 1747-1752 (folio 46); other merchants, Edinburgh, Leith and East Lothian, 1722-1761 (folio 56);(ii) Provisions: Charles Aytoun, baker and brewer, Gifford, 1752-1761 (folio 81); John Inglis, wine merchant, Edinburgh, 1752-1757 (folio 95); other...
Dates: 1720-1764.

Bills of inn-keepers, chiefly in Moray, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire, but also in other parts of Scotland and in England, most before 1800, with newspaper-cuttings on the subject., 1750-1827, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1921-1923
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: 1750-1827, undated.

Bills, with some receipts and related papers, from merchants and tradesmen in Edinburgh and East Lothian, with other Yester and Edinburgh accounts, including accounts for the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale at Newhall House, Gifford., 1743-1784.

 File
Identifier: MS.14679
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains bills for the following:(i) Various goods: John Yule, Gifford, 1762-1784 (folio 1); John Brown, Gifford, 1779-1780 (folio 41); Alexander Brown, Dunbar, 1780-1781 (folio 45);(ii) Provisions: various merchants and shopkeepers, 1749-1785, including an account, 1779, for Edinburgh Castle (folio 44);(iii) James Veitch, Haddington, for wines, spirits, confection, and imported and dried fruit, 1761-1780 (folio 87);(iv)...
Dates: 1743-1784.

Bills, with some receipts and related papers, from Scottish merchants and tradesmen., 1671-1713, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14649
Scope and Contents The manuscript consists of bills for the following items:(i) Various provisions, 1671-1713, undated (folio 1);(ii) Coal and candles, 1678-1710 (folio 17);(iii) Cloth goods, chiefly from Edinburgh merchants and tradesmen: George Drummond, 1671-1677 (folio 23); George Smailholm, 1672-1687 (folio 36); Robert Blackwood, 1677-1697 (folio 64); various merchants and shopkeepers, 1670-1709, undated (folio 81);(vi) Clothing bills, 1687-1712, undated,...
Dates: 1671-1713, undated.