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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 3066 Collections and/or Records:

Vouchers of the Faculty of Advocates Curators' accounts

 Series
Identifier: F.R.339e/2-F.R.339e/14
Scope and Contents

The vouchers are chiefly for books, manuscripts and binding.

Dates: 1727-1742.

Wage accounts and receipts., 1755-1786.

 File
Identifier: MS.14681
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Accounts and receipts of servants' and workmen's wages, 1755-1784, including an account of servants' wages at Newhall in 1755-1756 (folio 1);

(ii) Ministers' and schoolmasters' receipts, 1764-1786 (folio 163).

Dates: 1755-1786.

Wage accounts, bills and receipts., 1726-1764.

 File
Identifier: MS.14668
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts and receipts, 1726-1764, of servants' and workmen's wages (folio 1);(ii) Accounts of John Yule, 1733-1761, and William Aytoun, 1759-1762, for farm work (folio 189);(iii) Bills of James Meek, 1736-1737, John Cochran, 1738-1739, and receipts by Robert Murdoch, 1751-1760, for maintaining the Marquess of Tweeddale's garden in Edinburgh (folio 208);(iv) Receipts, 1732-1754, by James Witherspoon, Minister of...
Dates: 1726-1764.

Wage and miscellaneous accounts., 1647-1697.

 File
Identifier: MS.14638
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Disbound account books, 1686-1696, of workmen's wages (folio 1);(ii) Various accounts, 1670-1695, undated, of servants' and workmen's wages (folio 59);(iii) Receipts and related papers by ministers and schoolmasters for payments: John Stirling, Minister of Lady Yester's Church, Edinburgh, 1647-1672 (folio 96); Andrew Bannatyne, Minister of Garvald, 1652-1655 (folio 108); James Tweeddie, Minister of Foulden, 1656 (folio 120);...
Dates: 1647-1697.

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.