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Account book of a Scottish merchant.
The owner probably had a business near Newburgh in Fife, and appears to have traded in fish, especially salmon. Details of both expenditure and income are given.
Account book of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register.
The account book includes accounts of income from and expenditure on the Killermont, Clathick and Garscadden estates, and the office of the Lord Clerk Register. There are also accounts of personal and household expenditure.
Account-book of examination fees of the Faculty of Advocates
Account book of income and expenditure for the estate and family of Hugh Miller.
Some of the entries concern Hugh Miller's publications, but most are domestic and personal.
Account book of Magdalen Nicolson, wife of Sir Gilbert Eliott, 1st Baronet, of Stobs.
The accounts relate to household expenses in the country and in Edinburgh and to estate expenses on the Border.
Account book of Mary Dudgeon, housekeeper to the family of James Erskine, Lord Alva, Senator of the College of Justice.
The entries cover kitchen and general household expenditure in both the town and country houses. These are followed by separate accounts for wine (folio 112), laundry (folio 124) and other incidental expenses (folio 129).
Account book of the Board of Ordnance, 1747-1752, for building and repairs at military establishments in Scotland, and particularly at Fort Augustus and Fort William.
Many of the entries are copies of tradesmen's accounts, and include a number from John Adam, then master mason to the Board.
Account book of the Church Treasurer of St Brice, Second Charge, Kirkcaldy.
Account book of the executors of Alexander McCrae, Kingston, Jamaica, who died in 1796, containing extracts from McCrae's will concerning a trust for his children, and abstracts of the trustees' accounts.
Account book of the Trustees of James Dundas of Dundas (died 1780).
The accounts are between the Trustees and tenants, employees, tradesmen, etc. A loose sheet, containing draft accounts relating to 1794-1796 has been placed at the beginning of the volume (folio i).
Account book of William Grant, Lord Prestongrange.
The accounts, which consist of the main items of his personal income and expenditure for 1757-1763, are contained in a copy of the Edinburgh Almanack for 1757.
Account book of William Tough, a general merchant in the Stirling area.
The account book contains notes of William Tough’s dealings with tradespeople, mostly in St Ninians, Sauchie and Stirling. There are also notes, undated, of expenditure on and income from a mill (folio 62).
Account books and a ledger of Alexander Houston and Company, merchants, bankers, and shipowners in Glasgow, together with a letter-book concerning the business.
Account, intended for publication and heavily corrected, of a voyage from Southampton to St Lucia in the West Indies and of subsequent travels in the United States.
The paper is watermarked 1851 but reference to the destruction of Point à Pître by an earthquake (folio 104) suggest that some of the journeys described took place in 1843.
The author, an Anglican clergyman, served on St Lucia (the scenery, fauna and religious beliefs of which he describes at some length) for 18 months before travelling with his wife to North Carolina and thence to New York.
Account of charge and discharge, 1759-1768, between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate, with account of final balance signed in 1770.
Account of charge and discharge between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate.
With account of final balance signed in 1780.
Account of disbursement and work bills for workmen employed at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Account of the battle of Waterloo 1815 by Sergeant Clark of the Second Regiment of Dragoons (the Royal Scots Greys).
The manuscript is headed "extracts from a Journal by Sergeant Clark Scotch Greys" (folio 1), but it appears to be a continuous narrative. It appears to be complete, but it is not known how long after the events described or in whose hand this manuscript was written.
‘Account of the Ecclesiastical Benefices ... and the number of people in Scotland’, ‘prepared for the information of Government by the late Doctor Alexander Webster’, and dedicated by his son, John Webster, to Pitt.
Account of the execution of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, [?1747], written by his agent, William Fraser, junior, Writer to the Signet, on the fly-leaves of a printed volume of ‘Heures’ (Paris, 1710).
The book had belonged to Lord Lovat, and was given by him to William Fraser on the 8 April 1747, the day before his execution, which the latter witnessed.