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12 Charters, 1648-1847, of Stonecroft, Queensferry.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9692
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of letters, accounts and papers, 1666-1768, of John Weir, Auchengillan.
Dates:
1648-1847.
14 letters and two discharges concerning the Scottish Church, Rotterdam, collected by Rev Dr William Steven.
File
Identifier: Acc.13027
Scope and Contents
Includes letter, 1844, of Bell and Bradfute, to William Steven concerning his "Memoir of George Heriot" with a copy of his reply and his account with the firm, 1848-1856.
Dates:
1632-1856.
21 documents relating to the lands of Curriehill near Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12778
Dates:
circa 1693-1721
"Accomptt of each Heretores frie Rent with in the Shyre of", Fife.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6197
Dates:
1695.
Account and letter books of W Green and Son Ltd, and of their predecessors, Bell and Bradfute, law publishers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.193
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Account of Alexander Lothian for executing Margaret Dowmane for witchcraft.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10286
Dates:
1649.
Account of expenses for presents sent to the King of Bambana by Lieutenant-Governor Charles Maxwell while searching for Mungo Park.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10653
Dates:
1810.
Account of Robert and Andrew Foulis to David Kennedy of Kirkmichael for books.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10296
Dates:
1749.
Accounts, 1719-1786, concerning Culross.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8981
Scope and Contents
With dictates, 1677, taken down as the University of Edinburgh by James Blaw.
Dates:
1677, 1719-1786.
Accounts and papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company).
Fonds
Identifier: Adv.MSS.83.1.1-83.9.3
Dates:
1694-1709.
Accounts and papers relating to the Scottish Mint.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.9
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the counter warden`s accounts of silver minted from February 1699 to November 1700; of orders for payment by the Generals and Masters of the Mint; and of receipts of various employees.
Dates:
1690-1705.
Accounts and vouchers of the Bristol Election of 1806 of Evan Baillie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14160
Dates:
1806.
Accounts for the St Vincent plantation of Allan Macdowall.
File
Identifier: Acc.14158
Scope and Contents
Monthly statistical account of the Park hill plantation on St Vincent months before the abolition of slavery, including information on enslaved people.
Dates:
1834.
Accounts of James Maule and Alexander Symmer to John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown for the sale of books, pictures and other goods.
File
Identifier: Acc.11554
Dates:
1719-1734.
Accounts of John Aitkin, 1780-1792.
File
Identifier: Acc.6548
Scope and Contents
With two farm account books, 1781-1795, 1793-1826, for farms near Brechin.
Dates:
1780-1826.
Accounts rendered to the Incorporation of Hammermen of Edinburgh by Alexander Harper, wright, 1655 (discharged, 1657), and by John Rodger, glazier, 1667-1668 (discharged by his widow Margaret, 1668).
File
Identifier: Ch.1485-1486
Dates:
1655-1668.
Accounts Roll of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, as envoy to Portugal, for grain and flour purchased for the use of the army in Portugal.
Item
Identifier: Dep.333
Dates:
1811.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents
Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates:
1518-1965, undated.
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.20
Scope and Contents
The copy is in Nimmo’s own hand, written up in the form of a journal, from the notes which he took in his pocket-book whilst engaged upon the survey. It is written on the rectos of the leaves, the versos being left for maps (folios 11 verso, 12 verso), notes, bearings, and additions to the text. It appears to be incomplete, for it ends rather abruptly (folio 50). It is followed by an explanatory letter to John Rickman, who at the time was secretary to the commissions for making roads and...
Dates:
1806.
"An Account of Collections and Distributions of Money for the Benefit of the Indigent Episcopal Clergy in Scotland and their Widows. Begun by Messrs William Bell and Abernethy...", 1758-1779.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7207
Scope and Contents
With commonplace book, 1729-circa 1750, compiled probably by William Bell.
Dates:
1729-1779.
Annual Reports, accounts and minutes of North Berwick Golf Club.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13228
Scope and Contents
North Berwick Golf Club was formed on 8th May 1832 to play over the links there. The original course of 6/7 holes was extended to 12 in 1869-70 taking over the Park to the west. In 1877, the Club acquired the right to play over part of the Dirleton estate. This became known as the Private Golf Links or Greens. From the earliest days, the members of the Club dined together after their matches and, in 1879, it was resolved to build a Clubhouse by the links. The committee formed to oversee this...
Dates:
1984 to 2005.