Accounts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.
Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Dates:
1778-1961, undated.
Apprenticeship indentures and accounts of George Allan, printer, and Alexander Robertson, coachmaker.
File
Identifier: Acc.10014
Dates:
1811, 1825 and undated.
Archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13695
Scope and Contents
The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.
Dates:
1891-2009
Bill, 1720, of John McGill, surgeon to John, 6th Laird of Strichen; return of the Duke of Argyll`s potato crops, 1802-1804, for Lovat.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13222
Dates:
1720-1804.
Bills from Edinburgh tradesmen to Andrew Mauchope of Niddrie
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13479
Scope and Contents
The three bills are for groceries, nails, meal for the dogs, and for marble supplied and related work in Andrew Wauchope`s house.
Dates:
1703, 1739, 1746
Bound volume entitled 'Trousseau of Elizabeth Brand Scott on her marriage to James Steuart W.S., on 27 February, 1827'; with a volume of Jacobite papers.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3411/1-2
Dates:
1827, undated.
Business-book of William Patison Kennedy, bookseller and publisher, Edinburgh, showing costs for printing and binding.
Item
Identifier: MS.3927
Dates:
1843-1873.
Business correspondence and accounts of Oliver and Boyd, Ltd.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.156- is now Acc.5000.
Dates:
1815-1950.
Business correspondence and accounts of Oliver and Boyd, Ltd.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5000
Dates:
1815-1950.
Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents
The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates:
1752-2002, undated.
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.
Cash-book for Woodhouselee, Midlothian, 1827-1834, 1844-1855, containing detailed accounts of expenditure by the gardeners, with a journal, January 1827-May 1834, on inverted pages, giving brief particulars of the daily work of the two permanent gardeners.
Item
Identifier: MS.8915
Scope and Contents
Many of the entries in the cash-book relate to transport tolls and the employment of occasional labour. Some are concerned with minor repairs to the mansion house.
Dates:
1827-1855.
Cash book of Naomi Mitchison for Carradale House, Farm and Garden.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9054
Dates:
1941-1959.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i)-(ix) Accounts compiled by Sir John Skene.(i) ‘Ane tabill and repertour of the Cheker Rollis [...] collectit and put in ordour conforme to the number and ordour of Kingis [...] be Mr Jhone Skene [...] 1595.’
(ii) ‘Ane particular and perfyte rentall ... collectit be Maister Johne Skene Clerk of the Register. 1595.’
(iii) ‘The rentall buik of the propertis.’
(iv) ‘Computa et libri thesaurariorum.’
(v) ‘Libri responsionum.’
(vi) ‘Libri...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Hunting of the Hare` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 973) (folio 1), followed by a mock sermon in prose (folio 7 verso) and nonsense verses (folio 10 verso) (the latter ‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 3425, both printed in ‘Reliquiae Antiquae’, volume 1, pages 82-84). See ‘The “Hunting of the Hare” in the Heege Manuscript’. Written by Richard Heeg.(ii) `Sir Gowther` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’,...
Dates:
Circa 1480.
Copies of accounts of and documents connected with the English Mint.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.4
Dates:
1702-1710.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents
On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows:
(i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3);
(ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4);
(iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11);
(iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates:
1546-Late 16th century.
Copy of "Shaw's Diary for 1864" containing various accounts of William Green, bookseller, Edinburgh (who became macer to the Court of Justiciary in 1871).
Item
Identifier: MS.8918
Scope and Contents
The accounts consist chiefly of a list of books supplied to Dundee Free Library, July-December 1869 (folios 1-7), and accounts rendered (chiefly for law books), 1869-1871 (folios 1-45 inverted).
Dates:
1869-1871.
Correspondence, accounts and papers of Robert Macadam, baker.
File
Identifier: Acc.11127
Dates:
1836-1907 and undated.
Correspondence and accounts of the Faculty of Advocates concerning publication and sales of Faculty Decisions.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/14
Dates:
1809-1837 undated
Correspondence and legal papers concerning the Crinan Canal.
File
Identifier: MS.9500
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers concern the Canal proprietors' negotiations with the local landowners, at first to acquire land to build the Canal, and later in disputes about rights and ownership. There are also records of tolls paid, and accounts for damages to property.
Dates:
1795-1873.
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1154
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1660-1822, of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2889);
Correspondence, accounts and other papers, [?1698-?1853], chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2890).
Dates:
[1660-1853.]
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents
James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates:
1787-1835, undated.
Correspondence and papers concerning the administration of Kintail Estate.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8838
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from crofters and cottars on the estate.
Dates:
1887-1927.