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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:

Harie Dow, writer in Edinburgh., 1698-1734.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9671-9686
Scope and Contents

Harie Dow was, for a time, factor for the Kinninmond estates during the minority of Grizel, daughter of Patrick, the last laird.

Dates: 1698-1734.

`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.15
Scope and Contents

At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.

Dates: 1832-1853.

Household account book concerning the family of Sir Peter Halkett, Baronet, of Pitfirrane (succeeded 1746)., 1744-1795.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6457
Scope and Contents

The volume also contains a small number of miscellaneous financial papers (folios 150-192), such as banking accounts of Sir John Halkett, Baronet, of Pitfirrane (succeeded 1779), formerly Wedderburn.

Dates: 1744-1795.

Household account-book of Jane, second wife of General Sir John Meyrick, and widow of Sir Peter Wyche., 1650-1678.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1880
Scope and Contents The cover bears the words, 'In the name of God. My houshould book begun the 26 Aprill 1650. J. Meyrick'. Each page is headed, 'The blessing of God'. Payments are entered at the beginning, and receipts at the end, which has accordingly been foliated inversely. The writer comments on her losses (folios 10 verso, 14, 31 verso), and concludes a series of complaints that her husband has failed to pay her house-keeping allowance with the words, 'God forgive him, for I doe' (inverted folios 3-4, 5...
Dates: 1650-1678.

Household accounts of the Earl of Angus, and other miscellaneous papers., 1608, 18th century-19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2200
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Household accounts of the Earl of Angus, June-November 1608, signed by the Earl, 'V. D. Erll Anguss'. See A O Curle, "The kitchen and buttery accounts of the Earl of Angus's Household, &c.", in ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume xlii, page 191, where a transcript is given of the accounts for a week in July. (Folio 1.)(ii) Papers regarding the state of the Highlands in relation to Jacobitism: part of a...
Dates: 1608, 18th century-19th century.