Accounts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.
Found in 3038 Collections and/or Records:
Transcripts, 17th century, of accounts of the Scottish Exchequer, 1561, and of acts and other related documents, 1362-1638.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.5
Dates:
1362-1638.
Travel and London expenses., 1683-1715, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14655
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts, 1685-1686, of expenses at Paris including accounts for Lord John Hay (folio 1);(ii) Receipt, June 1702, by Thomas Gibb of payment for coach hire from London to Edinburgh (folio 10);(iii) Accounts for journeys: Pinkie to Dalgety, July 1702; London to Edinburgh, September 1715 (folio 11);(iv) Horse bills, October 1708, for the journey from Broxburn to London (folio 14);(v) Bills, 1688-1703,...
Dates:
1683-1715, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts chiefly of, to or concerning the 3rd Marquess of Tweeddale or his wife Susan, Marchioness of Tweeddale, formerly Countess of Dundonald.
Travel and London expenses., 1713-1764.
File
Identifier: MS.14661
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts of expenses of journeys: Yester to Hamilton, May 1713; inn and horse bills, with abstract, for the journey from London to Yester, May 1755 (folio 1);(ii) Inn and horse bills, largely Scottish, 1722-1760 (folio 49);(iii) Freight bills, 1724-1761 (folio 79);(iv) Bills of exchange, 1753-1760 (folio 94);(v) Bill of fees at the Lord Chamberlain's office, 1758 (folio 98).(vi) Bills,...
Dates:
1713-1764.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts chiefly of, to or concerning the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, or Frances, Marchioness of Tweeddale.
Travel diaries, journal letters and papers chiefly of Robert Graham., 1781-1849.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16045-16057
Dates:
1781-1849.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
Travel expenses., 1671-1709.
File
Identifier: MS.14646
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Lists of expenses, bills and receipts, 1674-1675, for travel on the European mainland, chiefly France and Italy, including Italian booksellers' bills (folio 1);(ii) Lists of expenses, bills and receipts, 1678-1679, for travel to Holland, including a Dutch bookseller's bill (folio 31);(iii) Accounts, 1677-1681, for Lady Anne Hay on the European mainland, chiefly Holland (folio 44);(iv) Bills of exchange,...
Dates:
1671-1709.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts chiefly of, to or concerning the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale, or Mary, Marchioness of Tweeddale.
Travel expenses, and expenses for residence in England., 1742-1784.
File
Identifier: MS.14678
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Various inn and horse bills, including accounts of entertainment expenses, 1763-1782 (folio 1);(ii) Accounts, including tradesmen’s bills, of the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale at London, 1742-1780, and Bath, 1763 (folio 26);(iii) Freight bills, 1771-1784 (folios 47);(iv) London accounts, 1774-1779, being chiefly tradesmen’s bills, of Major William Hay (folio 54);(v) Accounts, 1776-1780, of Major William...
Dates:
1742-1784.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts chiefly of, to or concerning the 5th Marquess of Tweddale (died 1770), the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale, and Major William Hay.
Travel journal of Alexander Carlyle., 1769, 1778.
Item
Identifier: MS.23769
Scope and Contents
Contains 'Journals of Proceedings In London Spring 1769 (folio 1) Church Matters & 1778 Private Matters' (folio 10 verso). At folio 13 verso is an account of Alexander Carlyle expenses at Buxton on the return journey.
Dates:
1769, 1778.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations.
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Journals of Alexander Carlyle, consisting chiefly of daily diaries, together with some journals of private tours in Scotland and of activities in London, both on official business and private affairs.
Travel journals and household accounts of Peter MacDougal, a schoolmaster in Stirling, and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8935-8941
Dates:
1812-1858.
Travel papers of Lord Lynedoch and Robert Graham collected by the former during their extensive tours in Europe., 1817, 1819-1820.
File
Identifier: MS.16056
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of passports, hotel bills and other accounts, visiting cards of prominent persons met by the travellers, some letters, and printed ephemera in various languages.
Dates:
1817, 1819-1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Travel diaries, journal letters and papers chiefly of Robert Graham.
Treasurers' accounts of the Abbotsford Club, signed by William Barclay Turnbull, John Whitefoord McKenzie, James Maidment, David Irving, and James MacKnight., 1834-1858.
File
Identifier: MS.1865
Dates:
1834-1858.
Treasurer's accounts of the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate., 1821-1878.
File
Identifier: MS.1973
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:
1821-1878.
Treasurer’s accounts of the Knights Companions of the Most Sovereign and Social Order of the Cape and of C.F.D., 1788-1797.
File
Identifier: MS.2045
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
With these papers were some of David Herd (see MSS.1924-1928).
Dates:
1788-1797.
"Treasurer's book for the Relief Church, Galashiels, 1844-1872."
Item
Identifier: MS.8911
Scope and Contents
The accounts include disbursements for the minister's stipend, and miscellaneous salaries and expenses.
Dates:
1844-1872.
Treasurer's reports of Joseph Gordon, W.S., 1821-1832.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13898/8
Content Description
From the Collection:
The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.
The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.
Dates:
1821-1832.
'Treu copie of ... all his Maties money received and payed out ... by [Sir] W[illiam] Sharp, Cash Keeper, 1667-1669'., 1667-1669.
File
Identifier: MS.7043
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
MSS.7003-7022, Letters to the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale, with a few letters concerning them, 1661-1713, forms a separate sequence but because of the way some of the manuscripts have been bound this distinction could not be represented exactly in the hierarchy of the descriptions.Of the letters written before 1697 (the year of his death), by far the greater number are addressed to the 1st Marquess; but occasionally it is not certain whether the addressee is the 1st...
Dates:
1667-1669.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Tweeddale; and correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Public accounts, presumably connected with the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale's period of office as Commissioner of the Treasury.
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Public accounts, presumably connected with the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale's period of office as Commissioner of the Treasury.
Trust account for the estate of William Rae including property in Jamaica.
File
Identifier: Acc.14304
Dates:
1841.
Two Aberdeen and Inverness Defiance coach settlements., 1848.
File
Identifier: MS.6295, folios 98-102
Two letters of Bruce, Shaw, & Company, wine-merchants, Leith, to Sir Walter Scott, presenting their account, 1822-1823, and other papers., 1818-[1831, or after].
File
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 108-115
Scope and Contents
Includes a burlesque appreciation of ‘Who Killed Cock Robin?’ dated Lichfield Cathedral, 1818, but written on paper watermarked 1830 (folio 112); notes by David Laing on sources for the 'Good Devil of Woodstock', on paper watermarked 1831 (folio 114). In the 1832 edition of ‘Woodstock’ Walter Scott gives the whole of one tract cited by Laing, but makes no mention of Laing.
Dates:
1818-[1831, or after].
Two notebooks with notes and accounts concerning the family of Dunlop of Dunlop.
File
Identifier: Acc.8652
Dates:
1685-1812.
Two royalty accounts of Messrs George Bell and Sons Ltd in account with Dr Frank Fraser Darling concerning "Island Years".
File
Identifier: Acc.9541
Dates:
1954.
Typescript memorandum, 1942, on the historical background of the Clyde Training Ship Empress' Trust submitted by Gilbert J Innes, chairman of the Trustees, together with a photostat of the audited abstract of accounts of the intromissions of the factors to the Trustees, 1954, and a letter, 1959, of Innes., 1942, 1954, 1959.
File
Identifier: MS.20765, folios 237-243
Dates:
1942, 1954, 1959.
Urquhart coal accounts., 1728, 1732-1733, 1739-1742, 1744-1746.
File
Identifier: MS.13303
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates:
1728, 1732-1733, 1739-1742, 1744-1746.
Various accounts relating to Fettercairn estate., 1843-1847.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/849
Scope and Contents
File includes:
Rent roll, 1843
Rentals and abstracts of Fettercairn estate crop, 1844-1847
Accounts between Sir John Stuart Forbes, 8th Bart. and James Falconer, and George Robertson, c.1840s.
Dates:
1843-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Estate rentals.
Various administrative and financial records of the St Andrew Order of Ancient Free Gardeners' Friendly Society, Holyrood Lodge., 1894-1976.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10217/41-54
Dates:
1894-1976.
Various estate accounts and bills., 1642-1696, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14641
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Various accounts, 1662-1695, concerning tenants (folio 1);(ii) Fowler's accounts, 1668-1694 (folio 16);(iii) Accounts, 1642-1687, undated, of timber brought to Yester (folio 59);(iv) Accounts, 1687-1696, of Yester timber (folio 87);(v) Accounts, 1669-1696, undated, of trees and tree seeds (folio 104);(vi) Bills for seeds and plants, 1662-1689, undated, with “A catalogue of new garden seeds...
Dates:
1642-1696, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts and related papers of, to or concerning the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, or Jean, Countess of Tweeddale.
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Particular and classified accounts.
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Classified accounts.
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Wage, household, estate, legal and miscellaneous accounts.