Rentals. Records (documents).
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A type of manuscript ledger or register used to list a person's lands and properties and the rents paid on each of them by specified tenants. Source: Beal, Peter. 'Dictionary of English manuscript terminology, 1450-2000'. (2008).
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.2
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland, containing accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews from October 1539 to May 1549. The entries provide information on the different kinds of grain delivered and expended as rendered by the 'Granitarius', and on the more general cash accounts rendered by the 'Camerarius'.Borland suggests that the work is written by one hand. A section from folios 46r-65r, however, exhibits a different character of writing with distinctive pen-strokes, although...
Dates:
Circa 1549.