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Receipts. Financial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written acknowledgment of the receiving or taking of goods or money delivered or paid.

Found in 939 Collections and/or Records:

Rentals, plans, and lawyers' accounts, 1805-1834, for the estates of Strowan, Cowgask, and Cultybraggan, and legal papers, 1786-1883, and miscellaneous estate receipts, 1808-1835, undated, for Strowan estate., 1786-1883, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10913
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1786-1883, undated.

Share records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch', containing certificates, letters and receipts., 1905-1940.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11812/7-11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates: 1905-1940.

Small discharges of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1608-1737.

 File
Identifier: MS.1530
Scope and Contents

The discharges of the Mackenzies of Delvine, include, receipts for household purchases, work done on the estate, chaise duty, window tax, etc., 1686-1737. The discharges of Robertson of Faskally include, receipts from tenants, etsc., 1608-1691. Similar receipts are to be found among the papers of these families.

Dates: 1608-1737.

Small estate accounts and receipts., 1658-1911.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13241-13242
Scope and Contents

Included are stipend and cess receipts, receipts for building work, and miscellaneous domestic payments. There is a reeipt for cess to the government of Prince Charles in 1745 (MS.13241, folio 126), and a receipt and note by William Adam (MS.13241, folios 121-122). They have not been indexed in detail.

Dates: 1658-1911.

Small estate accounts and receipts., 1658-1792.

 File
Identifier: MS.13241
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included are stipend and cess receipts, receipts for building work, and miscellaneous domestic payments. There is a reeipt for cess to the government of Prince Charles in 1745 (MS.13241, folio 126), and a receipt and note by William Adam (MS.13241, folios 121-122). They have not been indexed in detail.

Dates: 1658-1792.

Small estate accounts and receipts., 1793-1911.

 File
Identifier: MS.13242
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included are stipend and cess receipts, receipts for building work, and miscellaneous domestic payments. There is a reeipt for cess to the government of Prince Charles in 1745 (MS.13241, folio 126), and a receipt and note by William Adam (MS.13241, folios 121-122). They have not been indexed in detail.

Dates: 1793-1911.

Speeches delivered by Lord Rutherfurd, pamphlets containing obituary tributes to various friends, 1841-1859, and miscellaneous papers and pamphlets, 1746-1930, undated., 1746-1930, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9720
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) ‘Substance of a speech delivered by the Lord Advocate at a dinner given to him by his constituents at Leith, on Friday 8th January, 1841’ (Edinburgh, 1841) (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript of a speech by Lord Rutherfurd, probably his address of congratulation on behalf of the Faculty of Advocates to David Boyle on his elevation to the Lord Presidency of the Court of Session, 1841 (folio 9); (iii) ‘Inaugural address by Andrew Rutherfurd Esq., M.P., on his...
Dates: 1746-1930, undated.

Strowan estate papers., 1786-1883, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10913-10917
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1786-1883, undated.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS’, a collection of copies of Scottish historical documents, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts A’., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.18
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains copies of the following: (i) ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation of the tendes for union in one commonwealth, discussed’; (ii) Part of a paper respecting the controversy between Resolutioners & Protesters; (iii) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 11); (iv) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 20); (v) Reasons...
Dates: 17th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

Tradesmen's and lawyers' accounts and receipts of the Ker family., 1635-1703, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.5414
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.

Dates: 1635-1703, undated.

Travel and London expenses., 1683-1715, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14655
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts, 1685-1686, of expenses at Paris including accounts for Lord John Hay (folio 1);(ii) Receipt, June 1702, by Thomas Gibb of payment for coach hire from London to Edinburgh (folio 10);(iii) Accounts for journeys: Pinkie to Dalgety, July 1702; London to Edinburgh, September 1715 (folio 11);(iv) Horse bills, October 1708, for the journey from Broxburn to London (folio 14);(v) Bills, 1688-1703,...
Dates: 1683-1715, undated.

Various papers, containing bills, receipts and photographs., 1920-1962, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/210(1)-211(3)
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1920-1962, undated.

Various papers of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland., 1849-1894, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19103
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1849-1894, undated.

Various papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1326-1807, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1498
Scope and Contents

Contains the papers of the following: Jacobites, 1715-1745; Keithhall, Kinkell and Kintore, 1753; Kildonan, 1763; Kilmonivaig, 1768; Leith Incorporation of Carters, 1807; Liberton Poor's Funds, 1759-1761; Medical prescriptions, receipts, etc., 1727, undated; Midlothian roads, undated; Montrose bridge, 1770; Oaths of Allegiance etc., 1691, 1754; Parliament of Scotland, 1326, circa 1703-1704; Peers (Scots), 1708-1709, 1770.

Dates: 1326-1807, undated.

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.

Volume of financial records of the Incorporation of Seamen of Prestonpans., 1668-1712.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1993
Scope and Contents

The volume contains boxmaster’s accounts of expenditure (folio 1) and receipts (at the end, inverted), with relevant decisions.

Dates: 1668-1712.