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Minutes. Administrative records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records of what was said and done at meetings or conferences.

Found in 965 Collections and/or Records:

Balance sheets of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'., 1855-1964.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11812/12-29
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates: 1855-1964.

Balgowan estate papers, 1770-1793, undated, including minutes, 1774-1790, of the Baron Baillie's court., 1700-1793, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.16411
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.

Dates: 1700-1793, undated.

'Book containing minutes of what passed in the Convention of Estates, 1648.'

 File
Identifier: MS.8482
Scope and Contents The text describes the proceedings of Parliament, 9 March to 18 April, 1648, including meetings of the committees of eighteen and twenty four, and, occasionally, of the separate estates. Two of the meetings were also attended by ministers delegated by the Commission of the General Assembly. The debates mainly concern the conflict between the Parliament and the Church over the terms of the Engagement.The record is, in some respects, fuller than that in the ‘Acts of the Parliament...
Dates: 1648.

Book containing miscellaneous records, 1596-1683, of the Weavers of Dunfermline., 1596-1683.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3576
Scope and Contents

The contents include minutes of various dates from 1596 to 1653, with one undated (folios 1-3, 7 verso, 23 verso-26 verso), agreements between masters and servants, 1638-1659 (folios 4-7), and elections of Deacons and Boxmasters, 1673-1681 (folio 15).

Dates: 1596-1683.

"Book of the Glovers and Skinners in Kelso, containing their Acts, Freemen's entrys, Prentices' and young men's booking, etc.", 1640-1851.

 File
Identifier: MS.3081
Scope and Contents The book was started about 1747, and all entries of earlier date are noted as being taken from an 'old book', which is the 'booke of the actis, statutis, and ordinances of the glovers of Kelso, anno 1631'-1746, presented to the National Library in 1927 (MS.70).The book contains the following:(i) Acts, 1679-1703 (page 3);(ii) Regulations for searching the butcher-market for skins and hides, 1776 (page 17);(iii) Elections, 1659-1738 (page 41);...
Dates: 1640-1851.

Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3411
Scope and Contents According to a note on folio 2, the book was purchased by the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith in 1669, and it contains records of transactions from the Acts and Statutes, 1525 to 1754. These records, which are not continuous, are chiefly of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They include: a note of entry-fees to be paid by freemen and their sons, with the Oath of Admission (folio 22 verso); minutes of the admission of freemen from 1601 to 1754, with their marks...
Dates: 1525-1754.

Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross., 1612-1793.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3577
Scope and Contents

The main series of minutes, 1691-1793 (folios 11 verso-110, 114-176, 178 verso-188), is preceded and interrupted by records of entries of apprentices, 1612-1677 (folios 1 verso-7), of elections of Deacons and Boxmasters, 1679-1682 (folios 8-10), of the Mortcloth from 1737 to 1793 (folio 187), of payments into the Box, etc.

Dates: 1612-1793.

Books of the Incorporation of Kelso Glovers and Skinners.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3081-3083
Dates: 18th century-19th century.

Business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'., 1832-1972, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11812/1-164
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates: 1832-1972, undated.