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Account books.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books in which financial accounts are kept.

Found in 1294 Collections and/or Records:

Regimental cash and account book and letter book of William Gavin, Quartermaster, 71st Foot.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9039
Scope and Contents

Account books contains brief account of the fighting in which the regiment engaged in 1810.

Dates: 1810-1814.

Rental, 1698, with various notes by Henry Fletcher, 1706, undated., 1698, 1706, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17185
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: 1698, 1706, undated.

Rental-books, 1758-1762, of the feuars of Airth, being accounts of feu duties paid, and a rental of the estates of Inchbelly, 1760., 1758-1762.

 File
Identifier: MS.10810
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1758-1762.

Rental-books of the feuars of Airth, being accounts of feu duties paid., 1756.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10809
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1756.

Rental-books of the feuars of Airth, being accounts of feu duties paid., 1762-1772.

 File
Identifier: MS.10811
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1762-1772.

Rental-books of the feuars of Airth, being accounts of feu duties paid., 1772-1782.

 File
Identifier: MS.10812
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1772-1782.

Rental-books of the feuars of the Airth estate, being accounts of feu duties paid., 1756-1782.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10809-10812
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1756-1782.

Rentals and accounts with tenants of Saltoun estate., 1798.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17212
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: 1798.

Rentals and related accounts concerning Saltoun estate., 1731-1738.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17186
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: 1731-1738.

Rutherford of Edgerston papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7778
Scope and Contents

Including:

military account book, 1755-1765, for the 25th Foot

estate account book, 1767-1799, of John Rutherford of Edgerston

weather journal, 1807-1809.

Dates: 1755-1809.

'Ship Accompts'., 1820-1824.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2493-2494
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: 1820-1824.

'Ship Accompts'., 1820-1822.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2493
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: 1820-1822.

'Ship Accompts'., 1823-1824.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2494
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: 1823-1824.

Smiths' bills, and bills and accounts for building and structural repairs., 1670-1713.

 File
Identifier: MS.14651
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Bills, 1670-1713, of smiths, Edinburgh, Musselburgh and Gifford (folio 1);(ii) Bills of tradesmen, Edinburgh, Haddington and Gifford: wrights, 1680-1711 (folio 45); masons, 1686-1711 (folio 73); slaters, 1710-1711 (folio 100); plasterers, 1710 (folio 103); coopers, 1708-1709 (folio 105); glaziers, 1710 (folio 106); painters, 1680, 1710 (folio 108); quarriers, 1708-1710 (folio 110);(iii) Account, 1685, for the building of a...
Dates: 1670-1713.

Soldier`s pay-book of Edward Fraser, Sergeant, 3rd Bengal European Infantry.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10026
Scope and Contents

With two letters, 1972, concerning the pay-book and a copied extract from a muster roll of 1860.

Dates: 1855-1860.

Southern Light Drama archive

 ...
Identifier: Acc.13586
Scope and Contents

The archive of Southern Light Drama, a sub-group of the Southern Light Opera Company, Edinburgh, for which see Acc.12682. Southern Light Drama was in existence from 1946 to 2012, and was originally named the Southern Light Opera Company - Drama Section. The archive contains:

Minute books, 1946-2012; account books, 1970-2012; newsletters nos. 1-52, 1984-2006; and year books, 1946-1979.

Dates: 1946-2012

Specification of American timber bought., [Circa 1818.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.17220
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: [Circa 1818.]