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Financial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents pertaining to money matters.

Found in 1516 Collections and/or Records:

Factors' and lawyers' accounts., 1788-1800.

 File
Identifier: MS.14688
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Accounts, receipts and other papers, 1788-1800, of transactions through James Hay, Writer to the Signet (folio 1);.

(ii) Legal accounts with John Hay and George Donaldson, Haddington, 1791-1800 (folio 104), and James Ferrier, Writer to the Signet, 1797-1799 (folio 111);

(iii) Accounts, receipts and other papers, 1789-1800, of transactions through John Hay of Hopes (folio 112).

Dates: 1788-1800.

Family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith, including correspondence, financial papers and bound estate papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.231- is now Acc.7043.
Scope and Contents

Also included are general and literary correspondence, 1863-1933, and some literary manuscripts of Sir Herbert Maxwell, seventh baronet.

Dates: 1673-circa 1947.

Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16

Family and genealogical papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1715-1763.

 File
Identifier: MS.14500
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1715-1763, being largely financial papers of transactions between the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale and his children (folio 1);(ii) Financial and legal papers, 1728-1764, of John Hay of Belton (folio 92);(iii) Financial papers, 1736-1743, between the 4th and 6th Marquesses of Tweeddale concerning the lands of Newhall (folio 106);(iv) Genealogy of the Hays of Yester, 970-circa 1730, written in the hand of John...
Dates: 1715-1763.

Family and general correspondence and the diplomatic papers of Hugh Elliot (1752-1830), younger brother of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1771-1820, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.12952-13059
Scope and Contents Hugh Elliot was British ambassador successively in Munich and Ratisbon, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Dresden and Naples, then governor of the Leeward Islands, and finally of Madras. Elliot was partly educated in France, and from 1770 until his withdrawal from Naples in 1806 he was almost permanently on the Continent. His diplomatic papers, especially those relating to the Copenhagen and Naples embassies, are rich in material for the general political history of Europe. He also enjoyed wide...
Dates: 1771-1820, undated.

Family legal and financial papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1550-1764.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7105-7107
Scope and Contents

The papers include, in one chronological sequence, formal legal documents such as bonds and contracts (except those too large to be bound, which have been treated as charters), informal legal notes, personal accounts, and estate accounts and papers.

Dates: 1550-1764.

Family of Tweedie of Drumelzier., 1426-1636.

 File
Identifier: Ch.12210-12311
Scope and Contents

Largely documents concerning their debts, and including a charter, 1426, by Walter Tweeddie of Drumelzier to his son and heir, James Tweedie (Ch.12210.)

Dates: 1426-1636.

Family papers of the 1st Earl of Tweeddale., 1622-1658, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14476
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Genealogical account of the 1st Earl of Dunfermline's children, 1622 (folio 1);(ii) Account of the teinds of Denovan, Broomage and Lochlan belonging to the 2nd Earl of Linlithgow, 1622-1623, 1625 (folios 5);(iii) Financial papers, 1622-1627, including accounts, concerning Sir William Hay of Linplum (folio 5);(iv) Financial papers, 1626-1635, undated, concerning the 1st Earl of Seaforth (folio 17);(v)...
Dates: 1622-1658, undated.

Family papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale., 1643-1697, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14481
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1643-1666, of transactions between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and his mother, the Countess of Glencairn (folio 1);(ii) Papers, 1648-1659, undated, concerning the executry of the 1st Earl of Tweeddale’s will by William Hay of Aberlady (see also Ch.10858-10864) (folio 90);(iii) Commission, 1654, of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale to his wife, Jean, Countess of Tweeddale (folio 125);(iv) Papers, 1654-1697,...
Dates: 1643-1697, undated.