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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:

Papers concerning Kelso racecourse.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9399
Scope and Contents

Includes race notices, 1834-1844 and 1883-1886, photographs, circa 1900-1920, and financial and historial memoranda.

Dates: 1834-1920.

Papers concerning Scottish revenue., 1792-1829, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1058
Scope and Contents

Included are papers concerning customs, excise and other taxation, with some material about general finance and banks. The subjects include the duties on coal and salt, the laws governing distilling, the land-tax, the issue of notes and coin, and the administration of the Revenue offices.

Dates: 1792-1829, undated.

Papers concerning the copyright in works written in part or in whole or edited by William Smith (1813-1893) and published by John Murray, publishers., 1876-? 1878, 1943.

 File
Identifier: MS.41126
Scope and Contents “Dr Smith’s List of Copyrights” as of the 2 August 1876. The copyrights are recorded in an exercise book annotated by William Smith (folio 1 recto): “My copy Wm. Smith, LL.D. August 3 1876”. Folios 1-28.Note, [WM 1878], of the titles of several works with which William Smith was associated. The note was loosely inserted into Smith’s list of copyrights. Folios 29-30. Formal documents, December 1943, relating to the transfer of the rights and the entitlements in the...
Dates: 1876-? 1878, 1943.

Papers concerning the debts of the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline., 1632-1684.

 File
Identifier: MS.14540
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1653, concerning the division of the Dunfermline debts between the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and the 1st Earl of Callendar (folio 1);(ii) Rental, undated, of the Earl of Dunfermline’s estate enfeoffed, gifted or set in tack to the Earl of Leven (folio 33);(iii) Estate accounts, 1650-1651, of James Esplin for the Earl of Dunfermline’s lands in the parish of Newburn (folio 37);(iv) Account, 1651, of James...
Dates: 1632-1684.

Papers concerning the Earl of Errol’s affairs., 1624-1688.

 File
Identifier: MS.14486
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of the following:

(i) Inventory, 1636, of the 10th Earl of Errol's debts at the time of his death (folio 1);

(ii) Papers, 1669, concerning the claims of the 3rd Earl of Kinghorne (folio 33);

(iii) Legal and financial papers, 1624-1688, including papers of transactions between the 1st Earl of Tweeddale and the tenants of Aithmuir and Powgavie (folio 41);

(iv) Inventory of the writs of Errol, 1653 (folio 161).

Dates: 1624-1688.

Papers concerning the establishment, publication and demise of "The Representative" newspaper., 1824-1829, late 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42625-42631
Scope and Contents

Correspondence;

legal and financial papers;

a history of the newspaper; and,

some miscellaneous papers concerning the newspaper.

Dates: 1824-1829, late 20th century.