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 194 Collections and/or Records:
Annual accounts, statements and rentals of the resident estate factor for crop years 1832-1835., 1831-1835.
File
Identifier: MS.16308
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Some letters, particularly in the first section of correspondence (MSS. 16198-215), also refer to more general political, military and social events.
Dates:
1831-1835.
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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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Factors’ statements of estate accounts and related papers.
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Annual accounts, statements and rentals, arranged in crop years, of the resident estate factor.
Annual accounts, statements and rentals of the resident estate factor for crop years 1836-1839., 1836-1839.
File
Identifier: MS.16309
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Some letters, particularly in the first section of correspondence (MSS. 16198-215), also refer to more general political, military and social events.
Dates:
1836-1839.
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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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Factors’ statements of estate accounts and related papers.
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Annual accounts, statements and rentals, arranged in crop years, of the resident estate factor.
Annual accounts, statements and rentals of the resident estate factor for crop years 1840-1842., 1839-1842.
File
Identifier: MS.16310
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Some letters, particularly in the first section of correspondence (MSS. 16198-215), also refer to more general political, military and social events.
Dates:
1839-1842.
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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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Factors’ statements of estate accounts and related papers.
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Annual accounts, statements and rentals, arranged in crop years, of the resident estate factor.
Annual accounts, statements and rentals of the resident estate factor for crop years 1850-1853., 1849-1853.
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Identifier: MS.16311
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Some letters, particularly in the first section of correspondence (MSS. 16198-215), also refer to more general political, military and social events.
Dates:
1849-1853.
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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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Factors’ statements of estate accounts and related papers.
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Annual accounts, statements and rentals, arranged in crop years, of the resident estate factor.
Antiquarian and genealogical papers and correspondence of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 18th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15471-15481
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:
18th century-19th century.
Antiquarian papers of Patrick Chalmers (died 1854)., 1st quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.15471
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers on field antiquities, especially sculptured stones. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Papers concerning documentary research. The papers are chiefly transcripts of charters and writs concerning Angus. Included in this section is an essay by Patrick Chalmers entitled 'Remarks on the law of the burghs' (folio 26); a list of churches within the Deanery of Angus and the Diocese of St Andrews (folio 40); a note on the public library in Montrose (folio 78); transcripts of...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 19th century.
'Book of Intromissions with the rents of Rosline by a factory for Generall Sinclair' of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, concerning the family of St Clair of Sinclair., 1746-1757.
Item
Identifier: MS.1463
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...
Dates:
1746-1757.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
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Letters and papers of families and individuals, the clients or correspondents of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
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Letters and papers of clients or correspondents of the Mackenzies of Delvine, with the surname St Clair of Sinclair.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i)-(ix) Accounts compiled by Sir John Skene.(i) ‘Ane tabill and repertour of the Cheker Rollis [...] collectit and put in ordour conforme to the number and ordour of Kingis [...] be Mr Jhone Skene [...] 1595.’
(ii) ‘Ane particular and perfyte rentall ... collectit be Maister Johne Skene Clerk of the Register. 1595.’
(iii) ‘The rentall buik of the propertis.’
(iv) ‘Computa et libri thesaurariorum.’
(v) ‘Libri responsionum.’
(vi) ‘Libri...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume first'., 1748-1753.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.4A
Scope and Contents
At page 135 is the Scotch civil list establishment, 1728.
Dates:
1748-1753.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.16
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: a.1.22.Some of the items in this manuscript may have been copied from Adv.MS.34.2.17: Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rent.The contents are as follows:
1. Rentals of benefices, 1561;
2. Kings Rents & Casualties, 1628;
3. The contributions to the Lords of Session;
4. Compt of taxation of £100,000, 1593;
5. The rent paid to the king out of the...
Dates:
16th century-1628.
Copies of rentals of Roxburghshire, some imperfect.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.7
Dates:
17th century.
Copy of the rental of Kintyre for the year 1678, attested by Archibald Campbell, Notary Public, at Inveraray, 10 March 1719.
Item
Identifier: MS.3367
Dates:
1678.
Correspondence, accounts, rentals, and other papers relating to the Murdostoun estate, Lanarkshire., 1831-1854.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2304-2308
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1831-1854.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers, of the personal affairs of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
Correspondence and other papers relating to the Murdostoun estate, Lanarkshire., 1831-1841.
File
Identifier: MS.2304
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1831-1841.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers, of the personal affairs of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
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Correspondence, accounts, rentals, and other papers relating to the Murdostoun estate, Lanarkshire.
Correspondence and papers concerning church affairs in the parish of Ashkirk., 1627-1891.
File
Identifier: MS.13326
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1627-1891.
Correspondence and papers of James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), the artist and antiquary; including some earlier material concerning the Skene family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20465-20476
Dates:
16th century-20th century, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Campbell family of Inverneill.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14395
Content Description
The archive of the Campbell family of Inverneill formerly kept in Canna House, Isle of Canna. It comprises correspondence and papers mainly of the 18th century, including he the business correspondence of various family members in military or government positions. There is also a component of estate papers concerning estates around Kintyre.
Dates:
18th-19th century, the bulk dating from the 18th century.
Documents concerning the Duke of Douglas, with notes of the Reverend Dr John Struthers, Minister of Prestonpans., 1755-1758.
File
Identifier: MS.2126
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: 'Scheme of ... the Duke of Douglas his real and personal Estate, containing also an accompt of the family debts paid ... and of money laid out on purchases or lent out on bonds', 1755 (folio 3); "Rental of ... his Grace's whole estates in the shires of Lanerk and Renfrew for the cropt and year 1757 &c. and of the lands ... in the shire of Air for cropt 1758 &c." (folio 11); with some notes by Dr Struthers.
Dates:
1755-1758.
Documents concerning the estates of Castlemilk and Torrance., 1662-1907.
File
Identifier: MS.5335
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, 1673-1907 (folio 1);(ii) Rentals of the estates of Glassford, 1662-1682, Fossoway, 1756-1757, and Torrance, 1796-1799 (folio 18);(iii) Inventory of Torrance papers, 1799 (folio 53);(iv) Accounts, 1670-1680, 1712, undated (folio 61), and other financial papers, 1672-1734, undated (folio 78), chiefly concerning the estates of Glassford (of which James Stuart of Torrance was chamberlain) and Torrance;...
Dates:
1662-1907.
Draughtsmen's and surveyor's bills, various accounts, and rent receipts concerning Thomas Telford., 1814-1834.
File
Identifier: MS.19973
Scope and Contents
The conents are as follows. (i) Draughtsmen's and surveyor's bills, 1819-1833. These cover all the works on which Thomas Telford was engaged in the last fifteen years of his life. (Folio 1.) (ii) Booksellers' accounts, 1826-1834. (Folio 73.) (iii) Bankers', lawyer’s and stabler’s accounts, and rent receipts, 1814-1834. (Folio 135.)
Dates:
1814-1834.
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.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland in the early 17th century, before 1637, for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. The volume consists of copies and extracts of various historical and legal works.The full contents are listed below, primarily taken from Dolezalek's census and the 'Historical Catalogue' record. Any gaps in the foliation refer to blank sheets or sheets used for titles and headings.Extracts of the rental book of the Abbey of Dunfermline. This is printed...
Dates:
Early 17th century, before 1637.
Estate account books., 1810-1913.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8468/146-168
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes charters and other formal documents, cash books, ledgers, estate papers and letters.
Dates:
1810-1913.
Estate accounts and rentals principally concerning the lands held by the Earls Marischal and their successors, but including a rental, 1664, of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch's estates in Scotland., 16th century-1774.
File
Identifier: MS.21189
Scope and Contents
Most of the estate papers concern the Keith lands in Kincardineshire.
Dates:
16th century-1774.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Estate papers of the Earls Marischal.
Estate accounts of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1643-1917.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8218-8221