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Accounts concerning Sir John and Sir Charles Gilmour.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Apothecary's account for 1666-1667, presented by James Borthwick to Sir John Gilmour (folio 1);
(ii) Account of the household expenditure of Sir Charles Gilmour in 1742 (folio 7);
(iii) Account of expenditure in London during the winters of 1745-1746 and 1747-1748, kept, apparently, by a Scots official at the Board of Trade (folio 56).
Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
Accounts for joiner's, plumber's and plasterer's work at Edmonstone House, Midlothian, the property of John Wauchope.
The volume originally included accounts for mason's work as well, but these have been torn out.
Accounts for the St Vincent plantation of Allan Macdowall.
Monthly statistical account of the Park hill plantation on St Vincent months before the abolition of slavery, including information on enslaved people.
Accounts, including pay bills and work bills for workmen employed at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.
These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.
Accounts of James Maule and Alexander Symmer to John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown for the sale of books, pictures and other goods.
Accounts of John Aitkin, 1780-1792.
With two farm account books, 1781-1795, 1793-1826, for farms near Brechin.
Accounts of or relating to the family of Dun of Tarty in Aberdeenshire.
The accounts refer mostly to loans, rents, and bonds, but give a few instances of prices. Some appear to be the accounts of a factor or agent.
They start at both ends of a vellum-bound volume. Several leaves after folio 20 have been torn out. A modern note on the family is pasted on folio 21.
Accounts of the collieries and salt-works of the family of Wemyss of Bogie.
On the death of Sir John Wemyss, 2nd Baronet, in January 1719, the property is conducted for Sir James, 3rd Baronet, by tutors. Sir James first signs for himself, with his curators, in April 1726 (MS.3088, page 121).
Accounts of the Receiver General of Customs in Scotland, and of the Commissioners of Excise.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.5.3.
Accounts of tradesmen’s wages and tradesmen’s accounts and vouchers concerning work undertaken in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
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).
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.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
With commonplace book, 1729-circa 1750, compiled probably by William Bell.