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Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.

Found in 3038 Collections and/or Records:

Travel and London expenses., 1683-1715, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14655
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts, 1685-1686, of expenses at Paris including accounts for Lord John Hay (folio 1);(ii) Receipt, June 1702, by Thomas Gibb of payment for coach hire from London to Edinburgh (folio 10);(iii) Accounts for journeys: Pinkie to Dalgety, July 1702; London to Edinburgh, September 1715 (folio 11);(iv) Horse bills, October 1708, for the journey from Broxburn to London (folio 14);(v) Bills, 1688-1703,...
Dates: 1683-1715, undated.

Travel and London expenses., 1713-1764.

 File
Identifier: MS.14661
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts of expenses of journeys: Yester to Hamilton, May 1713; inn and horse bills, with abstract, for the journey from London to Yester, May 1755 (folio 1);(ii) Inn and horse bills, largely Scottish, 1722-1760 (folio 49);(iii) Freight bills, 1724-1761 (folio 79);(iv) Bills of exchange, 1753-1760 (folio 94);(v) Bill of fees at the Lord Chamberlain's office, 1758 (folio 98).(vi) Bills,...
Dates: 1713-1764.

Travel expenses., 1671-1709.

 File
Identifier: MS.14646
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Lists of expenses, bills and receipts, 1674-1675, for travel on the European mainland, chiefly France and Italy, including Italian booksellers' bills (folio 1);(ii) Lists of expenses, bills and receipts, 1678-1679, for travel to Holland, including a Dutch bookseller's bill (folio 31);(iii) Accounts, 1677-1681, for Lady Anne Hay on the European mainland, chiefly Holland (folio 44);(iv) Bills of exchange,...
Dates: 1671-1709.

Travel expenses, and expenses for residence in England., 1742-1784.

 File
Identifier: MS.14678
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Various inn and horse bills, including accounts of entertainment expenses, 1763-1782 (folio 1);(ii) Accounts, including tradesmen’s bills, of the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale at London, 1742-1780, and Bath, 1763 (folio 26);(iii) Freight bills, 1771-1784 (folios 47);(iv) London accounts, 1774-1779, being chiefly tradesmen’s bills, of Major William Hay (folio 54);(v) Accounts, 1776-1780, of Major William...
Dates: 1742-1784.

Travel journal of Alexander Carlyle., 1769, 1778.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23769
Scope and Contents

Contains 'Journals of Proceedings In London Spring 1769 (folio 1) Church Matters & 1778 Private Matters' (folio 10 verso). At folio 13 verso is an account of Alexander Carlyle expenses at Buxton on the return journey.

Dates: 1769, 1778.

"Treasurer's book for the Relief Church, Galashiels, 1844-1872."

 Item
Identifier: MS.8911
Scope and Contents

The accounts include disbursements for the minister's stipend, and miscellaneous salaries and expenses.

Dates: 1844-1872.

Two letters of Bruce, Shaw, & Company, wine-merchants, Leith, to Sir Walter Scott, presenting their account, 1822-1823, and other papers., 1818-[1831, or after].

 File
Identifier: MS.3109, folios 108-115
Scope and Contents

Includes a burlesque appreciation of ‘Who Killed Cock Robin?’ dated Lichfield Cathedral, 1818, but written on paper watermarked 1830 (folio 112); notes by David Laing on sources for the 'Good Devil of Woodstock', on paper watermarked 1831 (folio 114). In the 1832 edition of ‘Woodstock’ Walter Scott gives the whole of one tract cited by Laing, but makes no mention of Laing.

Dates: 1818-[1831, or after].

Various accounts relating to Fettercairn estate., 1843-1847.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13827/849
Scope and Contents

File includes:

Rent roll, 1843

Rentals and abstracts of Fettercairn estate crop, 1844-1847

Accounts between Sir John Stuart Forbes, 8th Bart. and James Falconer, and George Robertson, c.1840s.

Dates: 1843-1847.

Various estate accounts and bills., 1642-1696, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14641
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Various accounts, 1662-1695, concerning tenants (folio 1);(ii) Fowler's accounts, 1668-1694 (folio 16);(iii) Accounts, 1642-1687, undated, of timber brought to Yester (folio 59);(iv) Accounts, 1687-1696, of Yester timber (folio 87);(v) Accounts, 1669-1696, undated, of trees and tree seeds (folio 104);(vi) Bills for seeds and plants, 1662-1689, undated, with “A catalogue of new garden seeds...
Dates: 1642-1696, undated.