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Bills of sale. Sales records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Formal instruments attesting to the transfer of ownership of personal property.

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Bill of sale of a sixteenth share in the ship "Minerva" by John Anderson to Charles Chisholm., 25 May 1811.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12755
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 25 May 1811.

Bills of the family of Mure of Caldwell, mainly incurred by William Mure, classical scholar, during his visits to Italy., 1822-1851, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.4970
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

Dates: 1822-1851, undated.

German lawyer`s bill.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4856

Household accounts of the families of Mure of Caldwell and Mure of Glanderston, comprising personal accounts for clothing, food, etc., 1646-1899, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.4960-4970
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

Dates: 1646-1899, undated.

Legal documents concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1473-1825.

 File
Identifier: MS.5321
Scope and Contents

The legal documents comprise the following: (i) Bonds and obligations, 1473-1825 (number 1); (ii) Dispositions, 1641-1818 (number 69); (iii) Assignations, 1638-1796 (number 119); (iv) Bills, 1766 (number 139).

Dates: 1473-1825.

Miscellaneous papers, chiefly notes, drafts, printed bills and other papers, copies of memoranda, and dispatches, of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, concerning East India Company affairs., 1757-1776.

 File
Identifier: MS.11041
Scope and Contents From the Series: This section consists of the personal, political and official correspondence and papers of the Elliots of Minto up to and including the 3rd Baronet, but chiefly of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), and of his son Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet (1722-1777). The former was Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire and served as Lord Justice Clerk from 1763; the latter was Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire, 1753-1765, and for Roxburghshire, 1765-1777, and served as Lord of the...
Dates: 1757-1776.

Miscellaneous rough notes, 1877-1959, undated, and accounts, 1905-1956, undated of John Purves., 1877-1956, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.15887
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes: (i) Typescript, undated, of an address to Professor Herbert Grierson (folio 1); (ii) Address to Professor George Saintsbury with other related material, 1922-1923 (folio 17); (iii) Class lists, 1895-1915, undated, for rhetoric and English literature (folio 50); (iv) Material, 1920-1945, undated, concerning examinations in Italian (folio 102); (v) Miscellaneous bills and accounts, 1905-1956, undated, of John Purves (folio 218).

Dates: 1877-1956, undated.

Paper fragment which appears to be part of a tailor`s bill written in an English hand., 16th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.2.11
Scope and Contents

The fragment had been stuck in at the front of a copy (pressmark KK.6/1.7) of ‘A confession of Fayth, made by common consent of diuers reformed Churches beyonde the seas’ (London, [?1568]) by I O.

Dates: 16th century.

Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, as Lord of the Admiralty and Treasurer of the Navy., 1759-1801.

 File
Identifier: MS.11037
Scope and Contents

(i) Papers concerning the payment of marines, 1759-1760 (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning a bill for securing timber for the navy, [1772] (folio 25); (iii) Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot concerning his financial accounts as Treasurer of the Navy, 1769-1772, 1776-1781, 1801, including letters of Andrew Douglas, Paymaster and Accountatnt of the Navy (folio 45).

Dates: 1759-1801.

Records of the Edinburgh dining club, The Friday Club, formed in June 1803 and continued until 1850, prefaced by a long autograph memorandum by Lord Cockburn.

 File
Identifier: MS.15943
Scope and Contents

The volume contains accounts kept by John Richardson, original bills from taverns and hotels, and an incomplete series of the club's printed fixture-cards.

Dates: [?1803-?1850.]