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Rentals. Records (documents).

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A type of manuscript ledger or register used to list a person's lands and properties and the rents paid on each of them by specified tenants. Source: Beal, Peter. 'Dictionary of English manuscript terminology, 1450-2000'. (2008).

Found in 194 Collections and/or Records:

16th-century manuscript containing a register of charters and leases of St Andrews Priory, Pittenweem Priory and the archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1553-1574.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.3
Scope and Contents 16th-century manuscript written in Scotland, containing a register of charters and leases covering the years 1553-1574.Davis has dated the manuscript to the second half of the 16th century. The volume is multi-scribal, containing entries in various contemporary hands.Affixed to the beginning of the volume, folio ii, is an analysis of the contents by James David Forbes, who at that time was principal of the United College at the University of St Andrews.The...
Dates: 2nd half of 16th century.

16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.2
Scope and Contents Manuscript written in Scotland, containing accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews from October 1539 to May 1549. The entries provide information on the different kinds of grain delivered and expended as rendered by the 'Granitarius', and on the more general cash accounts rendered by the 'Camerarius'.Borland suggests that the work is written by one hand. A section from folios 46r-65r, however, exhibits a different character of writing with distinctive pen-strokes, although...
Dates: Circa 1549.

Accounts of Lady Meade and of her son, Thomas Meade., 1764-1779, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12947
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Apothecaries’ bills, 1764-1779 (folio 1); (ii) Letter, 1772, of Francis Paynter to Thomas Meade, enclosing a rental of Thomas Meade's estates at Mitchell in Cornwall (folio 46); (iii) Extract copy of Lady Meade's will, 1772 (folio 48); (iv) Miscellaneous Meade family accounts, 1718-1779, undated chiefly of Thomas Meade at Bath (folio 50).

Dates: 1764-1779, undated.

Accounts of the family of Forbes of Culloden., 1649-1788.

 File
Identifier: MS.2971
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Ferintosh and Culloden estates: rentals, accounts, valuations, multure, 1671-1759 (folio 1);(ii) Household, shopkeepers, etc., 1714-1760, 1783-1788 (folio 53);(iii) Wine business, circa 1649 (folio 130);(iv) Salmon business, 1655-1659 (folio 131);(v) Legal business with George Dallas, 1670 (folio 132);(vi) Rent on bonds, 1739 (folio 134);(vii) Cess, tack of excise, feu,...
Dates: 1649-1788.