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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:

Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3411
Scope and Contents According to a note on folio 2, the book was purchased by the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith in 1669, and it contains records of transactions from the Acts and Statutes, 1525 to 1754. These records, which are not continuous, are chiefly of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They include: a note of entry-fees to be paid by freemen and their sons, with the Oath of Admission (folio 22 verso); minutes of the admission of freemen from 1601 to 1754, with their marks...
Dates: 1525-1754.

Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross., 1612-1793.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3577
Scope and Contents

The main series of minutes, 1691-1793 (folios 11 verso-110, 114-176, 178 verso-188), is preceded and interrupted by records of entries of apprentices, 1612-1677 (folios 1 verso-7), of elections of Deacons and Boxmasters, 1679-1682 (folios 8-10), of the Mortcloth from 1737 to 1793 (folio 187), of payments into the Box, etc.

Dates: 1612-1793.

Business and personal correspondence with related financial records of W A L Marr, tea planter, India.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.5025/1-9
Scope and Contents

Most of the papers concern his work on the Malayalam, Chembra and Arrapetta tea plantations, but there is also material for the social life of the British in India at the time particularly the Arbuckle Trophy Football Tournament, the Ootacomund Club and the Wynaad Golf Club in the 1960s.

Dates: 1929-1970.

Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.8971-10633
Scope and Contents The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates: 12th century-1910, undated.

Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.15
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i)-(ix) Accounts compiled by Sir John Skene.(i) ‘Ane tabill and repertour of the Cheker Rollis [...] collectit and put in ordour conforme to the number and ordour of Kingis [...] be Mr Jhone Skene [...] 1595.’ (ii) ‘Ane particular and perfyte rentall ... collectit be Maister Johne Skene Clerk of the Register. 1595.’ (iii) ‘The rentall buik of the propertis.’ (iv) ‘Computa et libri thesaurariorum.’ (v) ‘Libri responsionum.’ (vi) ‘Libri...
Dates: Late 16th century-17th century.