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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 900 Collections and/or Records:

Receipts of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes., 1827-1837.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/89
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1827-1837.

Receipts of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes., 1832-1848.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/90
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1832-1848.

Receipts of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes., 1834.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/91
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1834.

Receipts of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes., 1834.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/92
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1834.

Receipts of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes., 1834-1835.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/93
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1834-1835.

Receipts of Sir John Stuart, relating to Fettercairn., 1808.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/755
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1808.

Receipts of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1800-1821.

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Identifier: MS.5323
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers consist of miscellaneous legal documents, estate papers, letters, account-books and legal volumes, not only concerning the Stuarts of Castlemilk and Torrance, but also the Crawfurds of Milton; this family was linked to the Stuarts of Castlemilk when Margaret Crawfurd, heiress to the entailed estate of Milton, married Sir William Stuart, 2nd Baronet, of Castlemilk.

Dates: 1800-1821.

Receipts of the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath., 1830-1918, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27546-27555
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Lockharts held the barony of Lee in Lanarkshire from the 14th century at least, but apart from a few charters this collection dates from the 17th to the early 20th century. The direct line of lairds of Lee, from Sir James, Lord Justice Clerk, and Sir William, Cromwell's ambassador, died out in 1777. Lee then came into the possession of the descendants of Sir James's younger son, Sir George Lockhart, Lord President, who had acquired large holdings of land consolidated into the baronies of...
Dates: 1830-1918, undated.

Receipts of William Stirling, April 1809-1815, 1821-1822., 1809-1815, 1821-1822.

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Identifier: MS.10904
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: 1809-1815, 1821-1822.

Receipts sent to Sir John Stuart Forbes, 8th Bart., regarding Fettercairn., 1856-1857.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/763
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1856-1857.

Record book., 14 March 1761-9 June 1873.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4702/1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The 'Book of Records' contains an unbroken run of minutes, and records of receipts and expenditure; a record of the deaths of members, 1763-1863, and membership lists, 1800-1872 are at the rear of the main volume, and there is a separate series of folios of reocrd, 1764-1772, probably removed at some time from the volume.

Dates: 14 March 1761-9 June 1873.

Record of deposit receipts for various funds and associations, etc., 1887-1901.

 Item
Identifier: MS.18370
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: 1887-1901.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.