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Account books.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books in which financial accounts are kept.

Found in 1294 Collections and/or Records:

State books of the Free Church of Scotland containing lists of contributions to missions (in the widest sense)., 1844-1900.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.18269-18323
Scope and Contents

MS.18269 has only congregational lists (arranged by presbyteries), the remainder congregational lists preceded by individual lists (arranged alphabetically).

Dates: 1844-1900.

Transcripts and translations (some abridged), 1778, of charters and other documents, 1241-1559, belonging to the Blackfriars, Carmelites and Carthusians at Perth, made by the Reverend James Scott., 1241-1559.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.1.2
Scope and Contents Pages 1-64 are more exact copies of charters to be found in Adv.MS.13.1.1. From page 110 the author has mostly stopped making exact transcripts and begun to translate and sometimes abridge instead.The contents are as follows:(i) sale receipt and sale catalogue for the Scott manuscripts, 1818 (folio i).(ii) transcripts and translations of charters relating to the Blackfriars of Perth, 1241-1557, some not from the cartulary (page 1)....
Dates: 1241-1559.

Various receipts concerning Saltoun estate., 1667-1674.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17183
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 1667-1674.

Videocassette recordings and a DVD produced by Jim Taylor of reminiscences of life and work in north-east Scotland and of World War II.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12939/1-26
Scope and Contents

Each of the videocassettes has a label on it. There are also labels on both the card sleeve and the plastic outer container. The label on the plastic container has been used to provide the descriptions as it has, generally, fuller information.

Included is an account book, 1918-1922, of George Riddle, shoemaker, Rosehearty.

Dates: Circa 1980-1994.

Volume containing accounts, 1762, and memoranda, undated, of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton., 1762, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.16991
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

No completely logical arrangement of these books is possible, due to multiple use of the same book, to the existence of the same accounts in draft and final form, and to the fact that in his old age Lord Milton repeatedly revised and extracted old accounts. The basic division into ledgers and other books (subdivided by size) goes back to him. Most are in his own hand, a few (in whole or in part) in those of his clerks. Personal, estate, and professional matters are all included.

Dates: 1762, undated.

Wage and miscellaneous accounts., 1670-1712, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14652
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Accounts and receipts, 1670-1712, undated, of servants’ and workmen's wages (folio 1);

(ii) Disbound account book, 1704-1705, of workmen's wages (folio 247);

(iii) Ministers' and schoolmasters’ receipts, 1705-1712 (folio 255).

Dates: 1670-1712, undated.

"William Wilson's Trust Estate", account book., 1865-1886.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9678
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group:

The papers, consisting of correspondence, account-books, and legal papers, form an addendum to the main Wilson collection (MSS.6660-7000).

Dates: 1865-1886.