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)....

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...

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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.

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Leaves found loose (folios 11, 36-39, 52-54) have been placed conjecturally.

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The volume contains sheets watermarked 1818.

Several leaves have been torn out at both ends of the volume and many leaves are blank except for the year recorded upon them.

The beginnings of an index to the original account book, the rest of which has evidently been torn out, appear, inverted, on folio 1 (i.e. what was originally the back of the volume).

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The accounts of William Patrick are for shipping goods to Europe, China, Saint Petersburg and Smyrna. There are also lists of sailing charges and provisions.

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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).

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Major William Hay was heir presumptive to the Tweeddale title until his death in 1781. He took over the management of the Tweeddale estates in 1779-1780.

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