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Accounts of tradesmen’s wages and tradesmen’s accounts and vouchers concerning work undertaken in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/3
Dates:
1817-1819
Business records of R and R Clark Ltd, printers, including six boxes of George Bernard Shaw's letters to the firm, and related printed material by Shaw.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.229
Dates:
1900-1965.
Correspondence and papers of Mark Sprot of Garnkirk and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10309-10323
Dates:
1827-1895.
'Journal of the Management of the Coall and Salt Works of Prestongrange', 2 April 1748-24 November 1750.
Item
Identifier: MS.3720
Scope and Contents
The journal is preceded by a 'narrative of some part of the management of the said works' from 15 May 1745, a few days before the works were bought by William Grant, until 2 April 1748; with weekly coal bills from 9 August 1745 to 2 April 1748. Weekly salt bills for the same period are not given (see folio 16).The journal from 2 April 1748 (folio 16 verso) contains, in its earlier stages, a considerable amount of technical matter relating to mining. On the financial side, the...
Dates:
1745-1750.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Minutes and other records of the Conference of Scottish Medieval Historians.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.287
Dates:
1958-1996.
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: MS.500
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Ordinance of the Committee of War of the Sheriffdom of Fife on the arming of heritors within the Presbytery of Cupar, 1644 (folio 1);(ii) Information for John Balfour, probably Portioner of Kinloch (died 1651), regarding the succession to certain lands of Christian Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Helen Balfour, 1644 (folio 2);(iii) Breakfast bill of ‘Langshaw’ [? David Montgomery of Lainshaw], receipted by Thomas...
Dates:
1644-1760, undated.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the purchase of German books.
Series
Identifier: F.R.337-F.R.338
Dates:
1817-1824.
Records of the Saltire Society.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13562
Scope and Contents
The Society was founded in 1936 and its aims are to preserve all that is best in Scottish tradition and to encourage every new development which can strengthen and enrich Scottish cultural life.
Dates:
1967-2013
Tradesmen’s accounts and vouchers concerning works completed in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/2
Dates:
1769-1818.
Tradesmen’s bills and receipts for work done in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.345/7-F.R.345/8
Dates:
1816-1821