Account books.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books in which financial accounts are kept.
Found in 1294 Collections and/or Records:
Account-book of Lord Rutherfurd with the Royal Bank of Scotland., 1847-1851.
Item
Identifier: MS.9726
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Andrew Rutherfurd was Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1837-1839, and Lord Advocate, 1839-1841 and 1846-1851. The correspondence largely reflects his political and legal concerns, but also shows his interest in literature and the arts.
Dates:
1847-1851.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice, and other members of the Rutherfurd family.
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Miscellaneous papers and notebooks of Lord Rutherfurd and members of the Rutherfurd family.
Account book of Louisa Jane, widow of Archibald Trotter of Dreghorn, containing personal, household and family accounts., 1845-1846.
Item
Identifier: MS.20266
Scope and Contents
Leaves have been torn out between folios 53-54, 67-68 and 86-87.
Dates:
1845-1846.
Account book of Magdalen Nicolson, wife of Sir Gilbert Eliott, 1st Baronet, of Stobs.
Item
Identifier: MS.2987
Scope and Contents
The accounts relate to household expenses in the country and in Edinburgh and to estate expenses on the Border.
Dates:
1671-1693.
Account book of Mary Dudgeon, housekeeper to the family of James Erskine, Lord Alva, Senator of the College of Justice.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.9
Scope and Contents
The entries cover kitchen and general household expenditure in both the town and country houses. These are followed by separate accounts for wine (folio 112), laundry (folio 124) and other incidental expenses (folio 129).
Dates:
1752-1758.
Account book of Messrs Lindsay, Jamieson and Haldane, later used as a scrap book., 1928-1945, 1957.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6444/14
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1928-1945, 1957.
Account book of Milton printworks including details of cloth received, wages paid, and materials bought for rebuilding the corn and flour mill., 1840, 1855-1861.
Item
Identifier: MS.17961
Dates:
1840, 1855-1861.
Account book of Mr Harie Scott as chamberlain to the Earl of Wigtown., 1648-1650.
Item
Identifier: MS.20781B
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The family estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie in East Dunbartonshire extended into the neighbouring parishes of Monkland in Lanarkshire and Dunipace in Stirlingshire. That of Biggar in Lanarkshire included also some lands in Peeblesshire, where the Flemings were in conflict with the Tweedies of Drumelzier. Members of the family were prominent in public affairs in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the later Earls took little part in them. The male line failed in 1747, and the estates passed to...
Dates:
1648-1650.
Account book of Mr Williams' secular school., 1848-1853.
Item
Identifier: MS.7506
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The bulk of these papers comprise household accounts, which fall into two divisions: loose receipts and accounts (MSS.7475-7492), and bound volumes of general expenses (MSS.7493-7508). MSS.7509-7512 are concerned with legal and publishing finances.
Dates:
1848-1853.
Account-book of Mrs Margaret Fletcher, 1733-1745, with additions by Lord Milton, 1747., 1733-1747.
Item
Identifier: MS.17188
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:
1733-1747.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Estate papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning Saltoun estate.
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Account-books concerning Saltoun estate.
Account book of Patrick Chalmers (died 1854), containing accounts with members of his family, and with his father's executors; accounts of investments and accounts relating to the estate of his wife's first husband, Thomas Taylor Vernon of Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire., 1830-1848.
Item
Identifier: MS.15450
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
1830-1848.
Account book of Patrick Chalmers (died 1854), containing miscellaneous household and personal expenses at Auldbar and in London., 1832-1835.
Item
Identifier: MS.15448
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
1832-1835.
Account book of Patrick Chalmers (died 1854), containing miscellaneous personal and travelling expenses, and some household and estate accounts, including a payment to the architect William Burn., 1835-1836.
Item
Identifier: MS.15449
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
1835-1836.
Account book of pay to the militia men in Queensferry., 1715.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.7.10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1715.
Account-book of payments by the 1st Earl of Minto to his factors., 1804-1805.
Item
Identifier: MS.11191
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:
1804-1805.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Financial and legal correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and family.
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Bank and general account-books, with related papers, of the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto.
Account-book of payments made by the 1st Earl of Minto., 1791-1792.
Item
Identifier: MS.11189
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:
1791-1792.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Financial and legal correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and family.
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Bank and general account-books, with related papers, of the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto.
Account book of personal expenditure on a tour of Greece by William Mure of Caldwell (succeeded 1831)., 1838.
Item
Identifier: MS.4987
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.
Dates:
1838.
Account-book of Principal William Robertson., 1784-1788.
Item
Identifier: MS.3968
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1784-1788.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
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Account-books of Principal William Robertson.
Account-book of Principal William Robertson., 1790-1793.
Item
Identifier: MS.3969
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1790-1793.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
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Account-books of Principal William Robertson.
Account book of Robert Brisbaine, Lord Milton's steward., 1754-1758.
Item
Identifier: MS.17053
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:
1754-1758.
Account book of Robert Brisbaine, Lord Milton's steward., 1745-1747.
Item
Identifier: MS.17052
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:
1745-1747.
Account book of Robert Cadell for meat supplied to Sir Walter Scott., 1829-1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.21052
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1829-1830.
Account-book of Robert Cadell, labelled “Scott’s poetry”., 1829-1846.
Item
Identifier: MS.798
Scope and Contents
The account book contains, 'Sums expended on a/c of Scotts poetry', 1829-1846 (folio 1), and "Account sales of Scott's poetry", 1829-1846.
Dates:
1829-1846.
Account book of Robert McLellan with the Royal Bank of Scotland., 1936-July 1948.
Item
Identifier: MS.26453
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.
Dates:
1936-July 1948.
Account book of Robert McLellan with the Royal Bank of Scotland., July 1948-1955.
Item
Identifier: MS.26454
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.
Dates:
July 1948-1955.