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 343 Collections and/or Records:
Documents, accounts, memorials and other estate papers, mostly 18th-19th century, relating to the lands of Monreith and the Maxwell family; also some papers relating to property in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1643-circa 1700.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.299
Dates:
1643-19th century.
Documents from the papers of Andrew, 1st Lord Rutherford and Earl of Teviot.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15526-15527
Dates:
1663-1664, 1691.
Domestic accounts and menus of the household of the Countess of Eglinton.
File
Identifier: MS.15913
Dates:
1733-1735, 1741-1742.
Early 16th-century manuscript of the accounts of the Bishopric of Dunkeld, covering the years 1506-1517.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.1
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland containing the accounts of the Bishopric of Dunkeld for the years 1506-1517. The manuscript is the work of one hand and was probably written contemporaneously with the record.The work is not complete and there are leaves wanting at the end of the volume, as well as in places throughout. Many of the folios are damaged with loss of text, particularly at the beginning and end of the volume, and these have been repaired and mounted on paper. The...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Estate accounts in the hand of Henry Fletcher of Saltoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17883-17884
Dates:
1716-1728.
Estate accounts written on the blank leaves, now separated, of the protocol books, late 16th century, of George Abernethy and James Drummond, notaries in Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17885-17886
Dates:
1652-1757.
Estate and personal accounts, 1893-1933, possibly of Perthshire provenance.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7392
Scope and Contents
With draft deeds drawn up by Russell and Dunlop, "Drafts 1917 A-E".
Dates:
1893-1933.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9174/1-46
Scope and Contents
Thepapers comprise letters of and to members of the Cameron of Fassifern family (chiefly John Cameron of Fassifern, Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassifern and Sir Duncan Cameron of Fassifern, and, to a lesser extent, Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel and Donald Cameron of Lochiel), estate and household papers, legal deeds and accounts and other papers concerning Lieutenant Colonel John Cameron and his regiment, the 92nd Foot. A miscellaneous section includes inventories of furniture and books at Fassifern...
Dates:
1643-1901, undated.
Exercise-book of James Duff, the Perthshire poet, containing copies of twenty-four poems, apparently in the author's hand.
File
Identifier: MS.2881
Scope and Contents
The poems were written chiefly between 1801-1816. At the end are a few accounts, 1816-1821.
Dates:
1801-1821.
Expenses of going from Edinburgh to Dunblane and returning again, 28 July to 10 August 1824.
File
Identifier: Acc.4414
Scope and Contents
With handbill, 1851, advertising a ferry.
Dates:
1824, 1851.
Facsimile of the minute-book, 1771-1792, of the Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonian), and related papers.
Item
Identifier: MS.1843
Scope and Contents
Also included are accounts, 1771-1785 (folio 72, inverted), and the first three pages of the second minute book, 1793-1794, 1824.
This is one of several facsimile copies made in 1893 to the order of the Society, for distribution to members.
Dates:
1771-1794, 1824.
Factor`s accounts for William Murray of Touchadam, with his tenants crops.
File
Identifier: Acc.6045
Dates:
1738-1739.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
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:
1608-1913, undated.
Financial and executory papers of Archibald Skirving, painter.
File
Identifier: Acc.10102
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of his effects, paintings, accounts for frames and valuations of pictures.
Dates:
1800-1819.
Financial papers of the Incorporation of St Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh, including vouchers, accounts and legal papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8617/1-20
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1601-1803, 1818, 1853, 1869.
Formal documents from the Banff Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7677-7697
Scope and Contents
The 17th century documents relate to members of the Fordyce family, in Auchencrieff; most of those of the 18th century concern persons dwelling in Banff and its neighbourhood; and most of those of the 19th century are accounts of the Banff Town Council.
Dates:
1614-1825.
Four documents, 1711, 1724, 1741, concerning Islay.
File
Identifier: Acc.6696
Scope and Contents
Including a rental, 1741.
With notes on the family of Campbell of Otter, 19th century.
Dates:
1711-circa 1899.
Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13843/1-13
Content Description
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers
Dates:
1712-1947, undated.
Genealogical and legal papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.13
Scope and Contents
(i) Copy of `Appeal to the House of Lords, George Udny v. John Henry Allat or Udny and William Skinner: Supplemental Joint Appendix [list of interlocutors in the case and genealogical tree of the family of Udny of Udny]’, London, 1866. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) Printed list of witnesses in the trial of Thomas Hardy, indicted for High Treason, 1794. The names of the witnesses are annotated, e.g. `L.C.S.` [London Corresponding Society], `informer`, etc. (Folios 12-15.)(iii)...
Dates:
1794-1866.
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th century.
Haberdashery account of Allan Ramsay to Sir Robert Menzies.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12369
Dates:
1717-1718.
Household account relating to Mary Queen of Scots at Amboise, framed and glazed.
Item
Identifier: Dep.338
Dates:
4 February 1552.
Household accounts of James Bertram, brewer in Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.6.1
Dates:
1787-1834.
Household and personal accounts of an Edinburgh resident.
Item
Identifier: MS.9480
Scope and Contents
Expenditure is arranged by headings such as Clothing, Fuel, Food, Presents, etc. The compiler was probably a schoolmaster as the volume contains a list of boarding and miscellaneous charges for Master Peter Gordon, 1812-1813.
Dates:
1807-1814.