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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:

Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows: (i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3); (ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4); (iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11); (iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates: 1546-Late 16th century.

Copy in the hand of Andrew Chalmer, writer in Edinburgh, of a volume of estate accounts concerning the family of Murray of Melgund., 1681-1707.

 Item
Identifier: MS.13285
Scope and Contents

The estate accounts relate to intromissions in the running of Melgund by Janet Rocheard, wife of Alexander Murray of Priestfield and Melgund (died 1681), and then of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, on behalf of her son Sir Alexander Murray, 1st Baronet of Melgund, from his birth in 1681 until his marriage in 1707.

Dates: 1681-1707.

Copy of "Shaw's Diary for 1864" containing various accounts of William Green, bookseller, Edinburgh (who became macer to the Court of Justiciary in 1871).

 Item
Identifier: MS.8918
Scope and Contents

The accounts consist chiefly of a list of books supplied to Dundee Free Library, July-December 1869 (folios 1-7), and accounts rendered (chiefly for law books), 1869-1871 (folios 1-45 inverted).

Dates: 1869-1871.

Correspondence, 1803, between John Murray II and Archibald Constable, publisher: and, correspondence, 1804-1805, between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and Co., publishers., 1803-1805.

 File
Identifier: MS.40238
Scope and Contents The correspondence concerns the business relations between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and his partners, and includes receipts, invoices and other business papers. The papers are arranged chronologically. 1803. Correspondence between John Murray II and Archibald Constable. Folios 1-14.1804. Letter, 19 October 1804, of Alexander Gibson Hunter to John Murray II. Folios 15-16. Fragment of a letter, 29 December 1804, of A. Constable and Co. to John...
Dates: 1803-1805.

Correspondence, accounts and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn., 1698-1853, undated.

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Identifier: MS.2890
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence, 1823-1853, undated, of William Scott, the sixth laird. Many of the letters are written by or relate to Sir Walter Scott, and they include several of John Gibson Lockhart. (Folio i.) (ii) Accounts, 1698-1747. (Folio 202.)(iii) Miscellaneous material, apparently collected by the sixth laird, including a song, '"Eh", quo the tod, "It's a braw light night"', being a version of 'The fox jumped up on a moonlight...
Dates: 1698-1853, undated.

Correspondence, accounts and petitions of and concerning Hugh Elliot., 1803-1806.

 File
Identifier: MS.13052
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence and accounts of Hugh Elliot with Vallin, Routh and Company, bankers in Naples, 1804-1806, concerning British subsidies to the Neapolitan government (folio 1); (ii) Petitions addressed to Elliot, 1803-1804, chiefly from French and Corsican emigrés (folio 115).

Dates: 1803-1806.

Correspondence and accounts of and concerning the Earl of Gifford., 1839-1856.

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Identifier: MS.14455
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Letters and accounts, 1839-1841, of and concerning Richard Elwood, tutor to the Earl of Gifford, including letters of Richard Burgess (folio 1);(ii) Letters, January 1849, of the Earl of Gifford in India to Henry M Davidson concerning business affairs and the military campaign in the Punjab (folio 68);(iii) Letters, 1849-1856, of Henry M Davidson, George Dalziel, Writer to the Signet, and John Mackenzie Lindsay of Messrs...
Dates: 1839-1856.