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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:

Food bills., 1669-1696.

 File
Identifier: MS.14633
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Bills of Edinburgh bakers: James Craw, 1669-1685 (folio 1); Charles Hay, 1692-1696 (folio 32); James Cuthbertson, 1692-1696 (folio 68);(ii) Summary of baker's bills, 1692, for the Countess of Roxburghe at Broxmouth (folio 87);(iii) Bill, 1687-1696, for dairy produce and eggs, Yester and Edinburgh (folio 88);(iv) Bills of Edinburgh poulterers: James Fairgrieve, 1678-1679 (folio 121); William Flemming, for...
Dates: 1669-1696.

Food bills., 1661-1696.

 File
Identifier: MS.14634
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Bills, 1679-1696, for vegetables, herbs and fruit, chiefly to Holyrood (folio 1);(ii) Bills, 1667-1696, of confection, imported and dried fruit and vegetables, spices, sugar, oil and vinegar, Edinburgh and Haddington (folio 114);(iii) Bills of wine merchants and maltmen: William Hay, Leith, 1666-1676 (folio 153); Henry Hay, Leith, 1667-1681, (folio 162); various merchants, Edinburgh, Leith and Glasgow, 1667-1696 (folio...
Dates: 1661-1696.

Household, estate, legal and miscellaneous accounts., 1679-1713, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14653
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts and receipts, 1706-1713, of John Park, grieve (folio 1);(ii) Receipts by Alexander Douglas, 1705-1706 (folio 102), and George Harrower, 1705-1706 (folio 16) for monies for the use of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 116);(iii) Accounts, 1687-1688, relating to the death of Henry Linloffe, servant (folio 131);(iv) Farm accounts and receipts, 1687-1713 (folio 135);(v) Various accounts,...
Dates: 1679-1713, undated.

Invoice book of John Rennie concerning Albion Mill., 1784-1786.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19808
Scope and Contents From the Series: Though John Rennie's reputation is based on his civil engineering works, he continued throughout his life to be interested in and to construct mill machinery, both for mills powered by water, wind, and horses, and for those powered by steam. He had been briefly employed by Boulton and Watt in 1784, and it is thought agreed then not to construct steam engines himself. As a quid pro quo, Boulton and Watt regularly gave Rennie the task of providing the machinery to go with their engines. Thus...
Dates: 1784-1786.

Invoices and receipts of Tom Weir., 1948, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13059/489
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: 1948, undated.

Invoices of bookseller Peter Hill for James Skene.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14046
Content Description

Invoices for stationery, binding and books.

Dates: 1794-1796.

'Journal of the Management of the Coall and Salt Works of Prestongrange', 2 April 1748-24 November 1750.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3720
Scope and Contents The journal is preceded by a 'narrative of some part of the management of the said works' from 15 May 1745, a few days before the works were bought by William Grant, until 2 April 1748; with weekly coal bills from 9 August 1745 to 2 April 1748. Weekly salt bills for the same period are not given (see folio 16).The journal from 2 April 1748 (folio 16 verso) contains, in its earlier stages, a considerable amount of technical matter relating to mining. On the financial side, the...
Dates: 1745-1750.

Journals kept by William Scott, the sixth laird, in Penang and Scotland and on his voyages between them, 1794-1805, 1818-1819, with an account of a visit to Junk Ceylon, 1801., 1794-1819.

 File
Identifier: MS.2896
Scope and Contents From the Series:

To a great extent the papers have been examined by William Scott, the sixth laird (died 1855), whose notes, signed 'W.S.', appear throughout.

Dates: 1794-1819.

Legal and financial documents and correspondence related to pets, invoices, charities, employees, receipts., 1947-1948, circa 1980-1984, 1993-1997.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/205
Scope and Contents From the Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: 1947-1948, circa 1980-1984, 1993-1997.

Letter book, 1808-1819, of William Pattison.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7259
Scope and Contents

With:

two letters, 1835 and 1836, on behalf of the Duke of Sussex to George Home, on matters of patronage

hotel bill, early 19th century, from the Angel Inn, Alnwick.

Dates: circa 1800-1835.

Letter book containing copies of ‘private letters’ of and to the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1742-1745.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14427
Scope and Contents

On pages 71-76 there is a 'Copy of a bill delivered in by Messrs. Henry Williams and John Trotter for goods furnished for my Lord Marquis of Tweeddale’s office at Whitehall’.

Dates: 1742-1745.

Letters and accounts of and bills to and in favour of George Middleton, banker in London., 1712-1717, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.17716
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 1712-1717, undated.