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Cashbooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books of original entry in which a record is kept of all cash receipts, disbursements, or both.

Found in 571 Collections and/or Records:

Cashbook, 1766-1783, of William McNeil, carpenter in Loanhead.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10977
Scope and Contents

The cashbook gives a detailed day-by-day account of William McNeil's income from his work, and his expenditure on raw materials and on the upkeep of his family. The entries for each year are followed by an annual abstract, and throughout the volume are occasional notes on payments to employees and apprentices.

McNeil appears also to have been treasurer of the Reformed Presbyterian meeting house at Pentland, of which the accounts for 1767-1786 appear on folios 220-233 verso.

Dates: 1766-1786.

Cashbook, 1811-1812, of J B [James Bogle?], Glasgow., 1811-1812, 1817, 1825.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2806
Scope and Contents

There is one entry of 1817 and another of 1825. The entries are partly business and partly personal. There are some memoranda relating mainly to the erection of pumps, with details of costing, and to other mechanical devices, with some medical recipes. Internal evidence suggests that J B may be interpreted as James Bogle.

Dates: 1811-1812, 1817, 1825.

Cashbook of Dr William Eccles of Kildonan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10976
Scope and Contents The cashbook contains receipts from fees, 1714-1718, (folios 1-23), miscellaneous expenses, 1718, (folios 23 verso-31), "Accompt of what I have receiv'd of the rents of Kildonand", 1714-1718 (folio 36), and miscellaneous expenses, 1714-1717 (folios 41-72). The volume is assigned to William Eccles on the grounds that it belonged to a doctor practising in Edinburgh, and that according to Sir Robert Douglas in ‘The Baronage of Scotland’, volume i, page 437, the estate of Kildonan...
Dates: 1714-1718.