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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:

Financial records of the Free Church of Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4994- is now MSS.18001-19198.
Scope and Contents

With some architectural drawings.

Dates: 1843-1910.

Five documents, bound in a volume, detailing the losses suffered on various parts of the Earl of Wigtown`s estates during the Civil War, 1643-1652.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.16
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(1) Statement by the Kirk Session of Denny, 1646, concerning the baronies of Temple Denny and Herbertshire, with the lands of Catscleuch, of losses in 1645 (£7,446);(2), (3) Two copies of statement by the Kirk Session of Lenzie, 1651, of losses since the Battle of Dunbar (£35,050-13-4);(4) Statement by the Commissioners for Lenzie, 1652, of losses since 10 October, 1650 (£2,510 sterling);(5) General statement of the...
Dates: 1646-1652.

Foreign mission records of the Church of Scotland., 1827-1933.

 Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-7637
Scope and Contents The Church of Scotland resolved in 1824 to enter the Foreign Mission field, and sent its first missionaries to Bombay in 1829 (later taking over the work of the Scottish Missionary Society, for which see MSS.8012-8013, 8986, 8988-8989), to Calcutta in 1830, to Poona in 1834, and to Madras in 1837. The Disruption of 1843 caused the loss of most of the missionaries and missionary spirit; but after a period of retrenchment advance began again, in the Punjab (1857), in Poona (1864), in the...
Dates: 1827-1933.

Foreign mission records of the Free Church of Scotland (after 1900, the United Free Church of Scotland)., 1856-1930.

 Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7745-8011
Scope and Contents

At the Disruption of 1843, the missionaries in India of the Church of Scotland and in Kaffraria of the Glasgow Missionary Society adhered, almost without exception, to the Free Church. New missions were later founded in Nagpur (1845), Jaina (1855), Santalia (1871), Livingstonia (1875), and Aden (1886). The union in 1876 with the Reformed Presbyterian Church brought with it the New Hebrides mission.

Dates: 1856-1930.

Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.

 Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates: 1822-1936.

Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland., 1846-1936.

 Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7638-8011
Scope and Contents

The United Free Church of Scotland was formed from the union of the United Presbyterian Church with the Free Church of Scotland in 1900. In 1919 the United Free Church took over the Gold Coast mission of the Basler Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft.

Dates: 1846-1936.

Formal and legal documents, financial records and correspondence of the Skene family of Pitlour.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8468/1-172
Scope and Contents

Includes charters and other formal documents, cash books, ledgers, estate papers and letters.

Dates: 1330-1915.

Further loose financial papers., 1821-1932, but mostly 1821-1875.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13898/9
Scope and Contents Contains a list of receipts (loose in folder, 1821) and list of receipts and disbursements (small volume in same folder, 1844). There are also bundles of correspondence and accounts concerning the Society's charitable Celtic Ball (1835, 1847 (with a list of patrons and stewards), 1864, 1869 and 1873); pipers' fees (1822-1838); the publication of 'The history of the Celtic place names of Scotland, 1916; correspondence concerning John Stuart Blackie, mainly 1874-1875; various receipts,...
Dates: 1821-1932, but mostly 1821-1875.