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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:

Administrative and personal papers of James Stuart., 1781-1783.

 File
Identifier: MS.8430
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of:

(i) Returns and inventories of stores and provisions, 1781-1783, undated. (folio 1);

(ii) James Stuart's household accounts, etc., 1781-1783 (folio 25);

(iii) Miscellaneous receipts and invoices, 1782-1783 (folio 64).

Dates: 1781-1783.

Airth household papers., 1706-1897, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10899-10912
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: 1706-1897, undated.

Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.

 File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates: 1696-1891, undated.

Assorted business papers and correspondence., 1754-1982, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12235/31-58
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: 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: 1754-1982, undated.

Berwickshire receipts., 1733-1784.

 File
Identifier: MS.14717
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 1733-1784.

Berwickshire receipts., 1785-1801, 1839.

 File
Identifier: MS.14718
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 1785-1801, 1839.

Berwickshire receipts, being chiefly ministers', schoolmasters' and tax collectors' receipts in the parishes of Lauder, Channelkirk and Legerwood., 1733-1839.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14717-14718
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 1733-1839.

Bills and receipts of Jean Elliot, great aunt of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1787, 1790-1791, 1797-1804.

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Identifier: MS.11172
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1787, 1790-1791, 1797-1804.

Bills for various goods and provisions from merchants and tradesmen in Edinburgh, Leith and East Lothian., 1785-1801.

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Identifier: MS.14690
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Bills, 1785-1786, for various goods for Lady Hannah Hay [Marchioness of Tweeddale] at Edinburgh (folio 1);(ii) Bills for various goods from John Croumbie, Haddington, 1788-1799 (folio 13); Robert Paterson, Gifford, 1788-1800, including the gardener's and fowler's orders (folio 20); Midlemas Hay and Co., Dunbar, 1795 (folio 61); James Simpson, Haddington, 1797 (folio 63);(iii) Bills for provisions from Edinburgh shopkeepers,...
Dates: 1785-1801.

Bills, with some receipts and related papers, from Scottish merchants and tradesmen., 1670-1713, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14650
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Bills of Edinburgh tailors: Alexander Home, 1673-1687 (folio 1); various tailors, shirtmakers, sempstresses, etc., 1670-1697, undated (folio 27);(ii) Bills of Edinburgh and Haddington shoemakers, 1670-1687 (folio 58), with bills for Lady Anne Hay, 1681-1688 (folio 89), William and Lady Jean Hay, 1685-1686 (folio 93);(iii) Bills of Edinburgh tradesmen: James Brome, hatter, 1671-1678 (folio 95); William Ferrier, beltmaker,...
Dates: 1670-1713, undated.

Bills, with some receipts and related papers, from Scottish merchants and tradesmen, chiefly in Edinburgh and East Lothian., 1717-1764.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14662-14666
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 1717-1764.

Bonds, receipts, and other papers relating to encumbrances on the estate of Kinnimonth., 1511-1746.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13276-13279
Scope and Contents From the Series: The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates: 1511-1746.

Bonds, receipts, and other papers relating to encumbrances on the estate of Kinnimonth., 1511-1696.

 File
Identifier: MS.13276
Scope and Contents From the Series: The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates: 1511-1696.

Bonds, receipts, and other papers relating to encumbrances on the estate of Kinnimonth., 1697-1733.

 File
Identifier: MS.13277
Scope and Contents From the Series: The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates: 1697-1733.

Bonds, receipts, and other papers relating to encumbrances on the estate of Kinnimonth., 1734-1741.

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Identifier: MS.13278
Scope and Contents From the Series: The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates: 1734-1741.

Bonds, receipts, and other papers relating to encumbrances on the estate of Kinnimonth., 1742-1746.

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Identifier: MS.13279
Scope and Contents From the Series: The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates: 1742-1746.