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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:

Legal and financial papers of the regality of Dunfermline., 1567-1730, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14770
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Localities, stipends and gifts of pension, 1567-1698, undated (folio 1);(ii) Precentorship and church affairs of Dunfermline, 1640-1730 (folio 48);(iii) Teinds, 1675-1701, of Pittencrieff disponed by the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline to Alexander Clerk of Pittencrieff (folio 97);(iv) Teinds, 1693, of Cluny and Lugton (folio 118);(v) Answers and memorials, 1738-1742, in relation to a reddendo claimed to be...
Dates: 1567-1730, undated.

Legal and financial papers of various Fife estates and the regality of Dunfermline., 1587-1759, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14772
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1651-1687, concerning the Parish of Burntisland (folio 1);(ii) Notes and extracts of charters, 1694-1697 (folio 9);(iii) Household inventory, 1707, of Dalgety House (folio 47);(iv) Measurements, 1711, of enclosures at Dalgety (folio 55);(v) Process, 1731-1736, undated, between the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale and the town of Kirkcaldy (folio 57);(vi) Process, 1732-1737, between the...
Dates: 1587-1759, undated.

Legal, financial, and miscellaneous literary papers of Christian Dalrymple., 1793-1838, undated.

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Identifier: MS.25498
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Legal and financial papers of and concerning Christian Dalrymple, 1793-1838 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous literary papers and notes, undated. Included are a story by Christian Dalrymple in Lord Hailes's hand beginning ‘Mambrino the Hero of this History was son of Mambrino Gulliver, Merchant of London', undated (folio 60), notes of places visited in England, 1816, 1819 (folio 75).

Dates: 1793-1838, undated.

Legal, financial and miscellaneous papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale., 1669-1712, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14496
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Financial papers, 1669-1712, being chiefly bonds and discharges of and to the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 1);(ii) Papers, 1700-1712, of financial transactions between the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale and his children (folio 56);(iii) Papers, 1705-1707, of the executry of Andrew Hay, son of Sir John Hay, Lord Clerk Register (folio 74);(iv) Cypher tables, 1707-1711 (folio 105);(v) Miscellaneous...
Dates: 1669-1712, undated.

Legal, financial and other papers concerning James Augustus Grant., 1827-1913, undated.

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Identifier: MS.17933
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers concerning James Augustus Grant's service in India, 1853-1884, undated, supplementary to MS.17908, folios 50-108, including a list of property lost during the Mutiny and general statements of his service (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning Africa, undated, supplementary to MS.17922, including a list of the contents of John Hanning Speke's cases at Zanzibar and a copy of an agreement between Alexander Low Bruce and James Augustus Grant junior concerning...
Dates: 1827-1913, undated.

Letter-book of John Ewing, Writer to the Signet, legal agent for the Earls of Morton, concerning the Earls` affairs in Orkney and Shetland.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.9
Scope and Contents

The correspondence is mostly legal and financial in nature, dealing with the running of the estate, the tenants` accounts, and the supply of butter, beer and malt, but there are some references to contemporary events such as the South Sea Bubble and the threat of a Spanish invasion. There is a break in the correspondence from 1721 to 1730, and some of the later letters are signed R E.

Dates: 1715-1736.

Letter-book of John Russell of Braidshaw, Writer to the Signet (adrnitted 1711), started in 1700 and continued until 1712, with an almost complete gap between December 1704 and January 1707, and another between November 1707 and May 1709.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.9
Scope and Contents

The volume contains copies, drafts and summaries of his outgoing letters, and copies of legal and financial documents concerning himself and his sisters. Several letters are addressed to merchants and officials in Rotterdam (where his father had been a merchant) and in other parts of Holland.

Dates: 1700-1712.

Letterbook of Dugald Bremner's Trust compiled by Dr Bruce Allan Bremner as Trustee to his dead brother., 1863-1880.

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Identifier: MS.19232
Scope and Contents

A copy of the text of Dugald Bremner's marriage settlement with Miss Maria Louisa Redd of the Breach, Bombay, appears on folios 7-10 and accounts of the Trust on folios 22-29. Much of the correspondence is with legal and financial advisors, but there are some letters to and from Maria Louisa Bremner and her son Bruce G L Bremner in Ceylon.

Dates: 1863-1880.